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| | Address | | 1800 West Loop South, Suite 1450 | | Houston, Texas 77027 | | (Ft. Bend, Harris & Montgomery Cos.) | | | |
| | Contact Information | | Phone: 713-550-5710 | | Fax: 713-550-5709 |  | | Send Us Email |  |
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| Shaper Iler, LLP practices in the following areas of law:
Intellectual Property Law, Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights. | | Year Established: 2007 | | Firm Size: 2 | | PARTNERS | | Sue Z. Shaper (Partner) born Dallas, Texas, 1939; admitted to bar, 1984, Texas; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: Rice University (B.A., Mathematics, Physics, cum laude, 1961; Ph.D., Philosophy, 1974); University of Houston (J.D., 1984; LL.M., Tax, 1993). Order of the Barons; Order of the Coif. Co-Author: Chapter 15: "Confronting Discovery Problems," Patent Litigation Strategies Handbook, ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law, BNA, 2000; "Copyright Basics," Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts, 1988; "The Financial and Tax Aspects of Intellectual Property," Plenary Session, American Intellectual Property Law Association, Spring 1987; "The Demise of the "Goods and Services" Texas—The Impact for Section 274," American Intellectual Property Law Association, 1984; "Fair Use and the Betamax Decision," University of Houston Law School, First Prize in the Nathan Burkam Memorial Competition, 1983. Co-author, "Apollo Navigation Ground and On-Board Capabilities," NASA Technical Report 1965. Speaker: "Technology Conflicts," to be presented to Patent Law/Corporate Practice/Licensing/Patent Litigation Joint Committee meeting at AIPLA Annual Meeting, October 2000; "U.S. Product Liability Law and Tax Law," presented to Chinese Delegation, Pavel, Hewitt, Kimball & Krieger, 1992 and 1993; "Copyright Workshop for Access Houston Producers, January 1988; "How the Tax Reform Act of 1986 Affects Advice to Our Clients," Arnold, White and Durkee, June 1987; Panel discussion on Performing Arts, Managing Your Art Seminar, Texas Law Center, Austin, Texas, 1987; "Legal and Business Aspects of the Music Industry," Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts and Houston Bar Association, November 1987; "Myths and Realities of the Copyright Laws," Katy Night Writers, October 1987. Previous Employment: Of Counsel, Felsman, Bradley, Vaden, Gunter & Dillon, 2000; Of Counsel and Partner, Butler & Binion, 1994-1999; Pravel, Gambrell, Hewitt, Kimball & Kreiger, 1988-1994; Weil, Gotshall, Manges, 1986-1988; Vaden, Eichenroht, Thompson, 1982-1986; NASA-Manned Spacecraft Center, Mission Control: aerospace engineer in fluid and flight mechanics; M.D. Anderson Hospital-Biomathematical Institute. Member: State Bar of Texas; Patent Bar; American Bar Association (Prior Council Member and Prior Chair of Various Committees, Intellectual Property Law Section); American Intellectual Property Law Association (Prior Member of Board of Directors; Prior Chair of various committees); Houston Intellectual Property Law Association. Practice Areas: Patents; Trademarks; Copyright Prosecution; Copyright Licensing. Email: Sue Z. Shaper | | Jay T. Iler (Partner) born Houston, Texas, 1963; admitted to bar, 1989, Texas and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas; U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Federal Circuits; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: Baylor University (B.B.A., Computer Information Systems, Quantitative Business Analysis, 1985; J.D., 1989); Essex University, Colchester, England (read under LLM, International Human Rights Law, 1986-1987). Rotary Scholar, Essex University, Colchester, England. Director of Application Development, Senior Product Manager, First Data Corp., 1997-2007. Member: State Bar of Texas; American Bar Association (Member, Intellectual Property Law Section); American Intellectual Property Law Association; Houston Intellectual Property Law Association. [USNR, 1989-1991]. Practice Areas: Patents; Trademarks; Copyright Prosecution; Copyright Licensing. Email: Jay T. Iler |
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