Biography
Professor Cynthia Ho is the Director of the Intellectual Property Program, at Loyola University of Chicago. She teaches courses in Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Comparative Patent Law, Policy and Health Care, as well as Civil Procedure. Professor Ho has been teaching at Loyola since 1997 and recently taught at Emory School of Law during Spring 2005.

Professor Ho has written articles on various aspects of intellectual property law that have appeared in major law reviews, and been cited in several intellectual property and patent law case books. She has made particular contributions in the area of international intellectual property, as well as patent issues involving biotechnology or health policy. For example, she has served as a consultant to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on an issue at the interface of international patent law and biotechnology and has provided consultation to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In addition, she has authored articles on international intellectual property issues in biotechnology for an Encyclopedia on Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology.

In addition to her teaching and scholarship, Professor Ho is involved in mentoring students as they seek educational and employment opportunities in intellectual property law. For example, she works with the Career Resources office to prepare students for the Loyola Patent Interview Program, the largest national interview program for patent jobs. She is also a member of the executive board of the Chicago Intellectual Property Alliance (CIPA), an organization of law firms, corporations and law schools that provides educational opportunities. In addition, Professor Ho co-founded the Chicago Intellectual Property Colloquium, which exposes a select group of students from Loyola and Chicago-Kent to leading academic experts and prominent practitioners in the field. More information on this program is available at www.ipchicago.com.

Prior to joining the faculty at Loyola, Professor Ho was an associate at Fish & Neave (now the Fish & Neave IP group of Ropes & Gray). She handled a variety of matters including litigating high-technology cases involving patents, trade secrets and unfair competition. In addition, as a member of the Patent Bar, she drafted and prosecuted patent applications both domestically and internationally involving medical, immunological and mechanical inventions.

Education
B.A., Boston University, 1990
J.D., Duke, 1993

Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
25 E. Pearson Street
Room 1324
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312)915-7148
Fax: (312) 915-7201
Email: cho@luc.edu

Fall 2008 Teaching Schedule

Civil Procedure
Intellectual Property Law
Patent Law Seminar

Publications

Articles

A New World Order for Addressing Patent Rights and Public Health, 82 Chicago Kent L. Rev. 1469 (2007), [article]

Lessons from LabCorp v. Metabolite, 37 Santa Clara L & Tech L J (2007), [article]

Biopiracy and Beyond: A Consideration of Socio-Cultural Conflicts with Global Patent Policies, 39 U. of Mich. J. of Law Reform 433 (2006) [article] (Please note that the online version of this article is a page-proof, not the final version of the article)

Do Patents Promote the Progress of Justice?: Reflections on Varied Visions of Justice, 36 Loy.U.Chi. L.J. 469 (2005) [article]

Inoculation Inventions: The Interplay of Infringement and Immunity in the Development of Biodefense Vaccines, 8 J. Health Care Law & Pol. 111 (2005)

Attacking the Copyright Evildoers in Cyberspace, 54 SMU L. Rev. 1561 (2002)

Who Deserves the Patent Pot of Gold?: An Inquiry into the Proper Inventorship of Patient-Based Discoveries 2 Hous. J. Health L. & Pol'y 107 (2002)

Splicing Morality and Patent Law: Issues Arising from Mixing Mice and Men, 2 Wash.U.J.L. & Pol'y. 247 (2000)

Patents, Patients and Public Policy: An incomplete Intersection at 35 U.S.C. 287(c), 33 U.C. Davis L. Rev.601 (2000)

Other Publications

Patent Law - Questions & Answers Series (forthcoming 2008)

"Current Controversies Concerning Patent Rights and Public Health in a World of International Norms," in Patent Law and Theory: A Handbook of Contemporary Research (forthcoming 2008)

"Agricultural Biotechnology in a Post-TRIPS World and Beyond: Addressing Social Policies in a Pro-Patent Environment," in Agricultural Biotechnology and Intellectual Property: Seeds of Change, (2007, CABI Publishing of Oxford University Press)

"Patent Rights versus Public Health in a Post-TRIPS World," in Selected Papers On High Technology Law (2006)

"Disclosure of Origin and Informed Consent for Applications of Intellectual Property Rights Based on Genetic Resources: A Technical Study of Implementation Issues," an independent report prepared for and at the request of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, published as an information document to the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing, UNEP/CBD/WG-ABS/2/INF/2 (Sept. 29, 2003), available at: http://www.biodiv.org/doc/meetings/abs/abswg-02/information/abswg-02-inf-02-en.pdf; alternate web access at http://www.biodiv.org/doc/meeting.asp?wg=ABSWG-02&tab=1 (choose INF/2)

"International Intellectual Property Issues in Biotechnology" in Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology (2002)

"What's Unfair About Copying Music From Napster?: Examining Fair Use and Napster," Loyola E-Magazine, Spring-Summer 2001

"International Intellectual Property Issues in Biotechnology" in Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology (2000)

Recent Presentations

"On Breaking or Balancing Patents," Western Law Teachers of Color Conference, University of Denver, April 2008

"Inventorship and Ownership: Patent Implications of Genetic Research," One Origin, One Race, One Earth: Genetics, Human Rights and the Next Phase of Human Evolution, University of Calgary, November 17, 2007

"Patents and Public Health: Separating Strands of Fact from Fiction," Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Depaul College of Law, August 10, 2007

Panelist, From Infringement to Innovation: Counterfeiting and Enforcement in the BRICs, Of Brics and Mortar: Technology Drivers in Booming Economies, Northwestern University School of Law, April 13, 2007

"Towards a New World Order of Patents and Public Health," Conference on Patents and Progress: Reflections in the Midst of Change, Seventh Annual Center for Intellectual Property Law and information Technology Symposium, DePaul University College of Law, March 15, 2007

"Are Patent Thickets a Problem for Public Health?" Conference on the Future of Patent Reform, Ohio State School of Law, February 23, 2007

"Immoral Patents: An International Problem," Patenting People Conference, Cardozo School of Law, Nov. 12. 2006

"Predicting the Scope of Patentable Subject Matter After Metabolite," Conference on Patent Law: Recent Developments and Proposals for Reform, Santa Clara School of Law, October 27, 2006

"Unbounded Patent Liability: Infringement for Extraterritorial Activity," Intellectual Property Scholars Conference," Berkeley, CA, August 2006

"Unbounded Patent Infringement: Liability for Actions Beyond National Borders," AALS Conference on Intellectual Property Law, Vancouver, BC, June 16, 2006

Commentator at the 6th Annual Loyola Antitrust Colloquium, April 28, 2006

"Immoral Patents," Faculty Lecture Series, Capital University School of Law, April 10, 2006

"An Introduction to American Patent Law," and "Patent Rights versus Public Health in a post-TRIPS World," University of Gdansk, Poland, October 2005

"Immoral Inventions," Works in Progress IP Colloquium, Washington University School of Law, October, 2005

"Preserving Access to Medicine in a TRIPS-Plus World," High Technology Protection Summit, University of Washington School of Law, July 2005

"Promoting the Proper Progress of Science?: A Consideration of the Role of Morality for Controversial Biological Innovations," Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Minnesota, Summer 2005

"Innovation and Invention: A Tale of Biopiracy, Patents and International Law," Intellectual Property Speaker Series, Cardozo School of Law, New York, November 2003

Panelist on "AIDS Drugs, Cipro and National Emergencies," at Conference on Patent Law, Social Policy and Public Interest: The Search for a Balanced Global System, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, New York, November 2002

"Patent Law Issues in Biotechnology and Global Health," AALS Annual Conference, New Orleans, January 2002

"Use of Patented Research Tools Abroad: Loophole or Liability?," Bioinformatics Symposium at Boston University School of Law; transcript published at 8 B.U.J. Sci. & Tech.L. 218 (2002)

"Patentability of Biotechnology in Europe," paper and presentation at Third Annual Finnegan Memorial Lecture in Intellectual Property, George Washington University School of Law, September 1998

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