Recent Major PublicationsContractual Solutions to Overcome Drug Scarcity During Pandemics and Epidemics, 40 Nature Biotech. 301-303 (March 2022)
Compulsory Licensing of Patents During Pandemics, 54 Conn. L. Rev. 57 (2022) Promoting Public Health Through State Sovereign Immunity, 4 J. L. & Innov. 1 (2021) Judging Patents, 62 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 871 (2021) Patent Law's Balance of Power, 104 Iowa L. Rev. 2511 (2019) Innovation Nationalism, 51 Conn. L. Rev. 205 (2019) 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 PublicationsWTO Global Health: Shifting away from a Punishment Mindset, PatentlyO (May 9, 2021)
Pandemic Drug Shortages: Is Compulsory Licensing the Answer?, PatentlyO (Jan. 28, 2021) Judge-Made Solutions to Patent Litigation, 18 Chi. Kent L. J. 508 (2019) (invited) 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) Recent PresentationsPanelist, Recent Trends in Granting Compulsory Licenses, 2021 International IP Court Conference (South Korea) (2021)
New Licensing Avenues to Promote Public Health (with Ana Santos Rutschman), Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures, Hong Kong U. Law & Georgetown Law Panelist, Vaccines, Intellectual Property, and Global Equity, 65th Annual IP Conference, U. Illinois Chicago Law |
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Order of Barons Professor of the Year (2021-2022)
Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant Recipient (2018-2019) University of Houston 50 in 5 Scholar German Academic Exchange Service Scholarship Recipient (2018) University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award (2013) InterestsI enjoy traveling and studying German.
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John Mixon Chair in Law
Co-Director, IPIL
Univ. of Houston Law Center
Professor Kumar has written extensively about administrative law and international law issues relating to patents. She is a 2018-2019 Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Grant recipient, under which she researched the use of technically-trained patent judges at the University of Strasbourg's Center for International Intellectual Property Studies in France and at the Max-Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Germany.
Professor Kumar received her J.D. at the University of Chicago, where she served as a staff member of the University of Chicago Law Review. She clerked for Judge Kenneth Ripple on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.