Sapna Kumar
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Law Foundation Professor of Law
Univ. of Houston Law Center
 

Professor Kumar is a 2018–2019 Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant recipient and an expert in U.S. patent law. She has written extensively about the international implications of U.S. patent law, as well as institutional design issues regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Patent & Trademark Office, and the International Trade Commission.

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Recent Major Publications

Patent Law's Balance of Power, Iowa L. Rev. (forthcoming)
Innovation Nationalism, Conn. L. Rev. (forthcoming)
​Patent Damages Without Borders, 25 Tex. Intell. Prop. L. J. 73 (2017) (invited)
Standing Against Bad Patents, 32 Berkeley Tech. L. J. 87 (2017)
Regulating Digital Trade, 67 Fla. L. Rev. 1909 (2015)

Other Publications

Amicus Brief of the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association in Support of Neither Party, WesternGeco LLC v. Ion Geophysical Corp., 16-1011 (with Ifti Ahmed) (2018)

Introduction, Patent Law and Progress, 55 Hous. L. Rev. 265 (2018)

Recent Presentations

Invited panelist, The Role of the Courts in Patent Law & Policy, U.C. Berkeley School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center (forthcoming, 2018)

Invited speaker, Administering Patent Law Symposium, U. of Iowa College of Law’s Innovation, Business, and Law Program (forthcoming, 2018)

Invited panelist, 2018 Supreme Court IP Review, WesternGeco v. ION Geophysical, Chicago-Kent College of Law (forthcoming, 2018)

Selected speaker, Innovation Nationalism, International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in IP 2018 Congress (2018)

Invited panelist, Administrative Law of Intellectual Property, Berkeley Law School’s Center for Law & Technology Symposium (2018)

Classes

  • Administrative Law
  • Patent Law
  • Property
  • Federal Courts

Academic Honors

Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant Recipient, Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program (2018-2019)
  • Awarded for Promoting Innovation Through Patent Unification: A Transatlantic Comparison
  • Residency to be divided between the University of Strasbourg’s Center for International Intellectual Property Studies and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition 

German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship Recipient (2018)

University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award (2013)

Interests

I enjoy traveling and studying German.

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