The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
IP @ the U
 
June 2022

Welcome to IP @ the U, a periodic newsletter for students, alumni, faculty and friends of the University of Utah College of Law's Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law. If you have news about IP events, accomplishments and milestones, please send them to our Program Director, Jorge Contreras.
UTAH LAW ADVISES 17 TEAMS IN BENCH 2 BEDSIDE COMPETITION
Utah Law’s B2B advisors (from left): Sam Tahmassebi, Dan Thomas, Jordan Cobabe (2L), Sam Noel and Jorge Contreras. Not pictured: Leslie Francis.
This year, Jordan Cobabe (2L) and adjunct faculty members Sam Noel, Sam Tahmassebi and Dan Thomas provided patent filing advice to seventeen interdisciplinary student teams from across Utah as part of the University of Utah Center for Medical Innovation’s annual Bench2Bedside competition. Twelve of these teams filed provisional patent applications with the help of the College of Law advisors, and three teams that we advised won prizes in the statewide competition. The college’s participation in the B2B event is organized through the Center for Law & Biomedicine (LABS) and the Program on IP and Technology Law.
NEW SIPLA OFFICERS ELECTED
Andres Cervantes-Morales (SIPLA president)
Deigen Villalobos (SIPLA vice president)
Jefferson Jensen (SIPLA treasurer)
FACULTY AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Prof. Contreras testifies before the Senate IP Subcommittee, Jun. 2021

In April, Professor Contreras was awarded the 2022 Faculty Scholarship Award by the College of Law in recognition of his substantial contributions to academic scholarship over the past year.
In addition, Professor Leslie Francis received one of the University’s 2022 Distinguished Mentor Awards for demonstrating exceptional commitment to the mentorship of graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and others across campus and beyond.
NEW ARTS, SPORTS, AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW COURSE
In Fall 2022, the College of Law and its IP Program are pleased to offer a new course, “Arts, Sports and Entertainment Law.” The course, which will be taught by adjunct professors Mike Anderson and Victoria Luman, will cover a range of timely and practical issues affecting film, music, arts, sports and social media. The instructors, who are experienced entertainment counsel in Salt Lake City, will introduce students to both the legal and business aspects of this growing market segment.
THE GENOME DEFENSE AT PENN, RICE AND UTAH LAW ALUMNI EVENTS

Professor Contreras’s NY Times-listed book The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA (Algonquin, 2021) continues to attract nationwide attention. This April, he spoke about the book at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Rice University Department of Humanities, as well as Utah Law’s alumni reunion CLE session.
NEW EDITED VOLUMES
This spring, two new IP-related volumes co-edited by Professor Contreras have been released: Injunctions In Patent Law: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues On Flexibility and Tailoring (Jorge L. Contreras & Martin Husovec, eds., Cambridge University Press: 2022) and Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and the Law (Jorge L. Contreras, A. James Cuticchia & Gregory Kirsch, eds., Edward Elgar: 2022). Check them out online or at the library.
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