Emphasis Added

On this month’s episode of Emphasis Added, I spoke with internationally renowned death penalty attorney David R. Dow just 24 hours after Virginia, the state with the second most executions over the past fifty years, outlawed the death penalty. David R. Dow is a professor at the University of Houston Law Center and the founder of the Texas Innocence Network—an organization that uses UH law students to investigate claims of actual innocence brought by Texas prisoners. Professor Dow is also the author of seven books and numerous scholarly articles, to include his critically acclaimed book The Autobiography of an Executioner. Professor Dow’s areas of expertise include contracts, constitutional law and theory, and death penalty law. I spoke with Professor Dow about his 30 years of experience representing Texas Death Row inmates, and how the inaccuracies, inequalities, and expense of death row sentencing has led to a general decline of the death penalty over the past decade.
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On this month's episode of Emphasis Added, I spoke with Milbank's Firmwide Head of IP, David Gindler, and Senior Milbank IP Associate, Jasper Tran, about patent waiver of COVID vaccines and the complexities of being an IP attorney. David's background includes successfully representing clients in trials with verdicts in the hundreds of millions of dollars, negotiating complex IP license agreements, and frequently speaking on hot topics in IP law, mostly notably on topics in life-sciences and pharmaceuticals. Jasper's background includes a practice focusing on complex patent and trade secret litigation in federal courts, conducting due diligence on IP/IT agreement in multi-billion-dollar acquisitions, and authoring numerous scholarly articles on Intellectual Property for journals from law school’s such as Yale and Northwestern amongst others (link to his scholarship below). We discussed the many intricacies to researching, patenting, and manufacturing vaccines and other pharmaceuticals, why the patent waiver debate might be misguided, and the potential enforcement issues that may need to be addressed when the pandemic ends.
Jasper Tran SSRN Author Page – https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2357726
Season 3, Episode 10: Contents
00:00 – Intro
04:50 – What Makes IP Attorneys Different
12:30 – Patent Basics
22:25 – The Patent Waiver Debate
35:00 – Enforcement of COVID Vaccine Patents
45:45 – Open-Source IP During a Pandemic
52:00 – Closing Questions
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On this month's episode of Emphasis Added, future hosts Brock Jones and Matt Chelf joined me to speak with University of Texas School of Law Professor Joe Cosgrove, Jr. about the regulation of social media and privacy rights. Professor Cosgrove has over 35 years of legislative, regulatory, and legal experience including time spent as legal counsel for AT&T. Professor Cosgrove currently teaches Internet and Telecommunications Regulation at Texas Law, and has written on internet law topics like Section 230 and Net Neutrality. We discussed topics like what laws currently govern social media content and why some social media companies might be advocating for stricter regulation, what rights customers really have to their privacy, and what the future of the internet age looks like.
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This week we speak with Raj Salhotra. Raj is the Executive Director of Momentum Education, a non-profit in Houston, Texas helping low-income and first-generation students achieve their higher education goals. Raj earned his bachelor’s at Rice University and his J.D. at Harvard Law School. Raj shared how he developed an early passion for education and policy and how his experience interning at the White House and working for Teach for America shaped his desire to give back to students in the Houston community. Raj had great advice for young professionals interested in politics, as well as encouragement for law students pursuing a non-traditional career path.

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In this episode, we speak with Megan Daic, the owner of Daic Law, a Texas-based civil litigation law firm. She is an alumnus at the University of Houston Law Center, where she now serves as an adjunct professor. Earlier this year, Ms. Daic was one of the youngest candidates running for judge in Harris County.

We talk with Ms. Daic about her experiences as a first-generation college student and, subsequently, law student, what it’s been like starting her own practice, and what made her decide to run for Judge of the 165th District. Though she did not win the primary, Ms. Daic shares valuable insights about the process of running in an election and lessons she learned along the way.

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