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Jan. 19, 2012

International Business Professor To Write Column about Intellectual Property

SAN ANTONIO - Deli Yang, the Richard Burr and Don Clark Professor of International Business at Trinity University, has accepted an offer to write a column on intellectual property issues for the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (JIPR) during 2012.

A consultant to the United Nations on intellectual property, Yang will produce six debate columns under the heading "Global Intellectual Property (IP) Debates." She will encourage international readers to think and discuss or debate pertinent issues concerning intellectual property rights.

"This column focuses on contentious IP issues from global perspectives and is a forum to provoke thought and encourage arguments rather than (functioning as) a setting to decide what is right or wrong, as there are so many gray areas in IP, and the right or wrong is not easily justified," Yang wrote in a letter accompanying her first debate column, "Compulsory Licensing: For Better or For Worse, the Done Deal Lies in the Balance."    

Yang came to Trinity University in 2009 as the first recipient of the professorship endowment named in honor of two professors at Trinity, Richard Burr and Donald Clark.

In her consulting role for the U.N., she collaborates with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the highest authority for IP and global integration. She has also been a member of JIPR's editorial board since 2011.

Additionally, Yang encourages students at Trinity to study IP issues by offering six courses dealing with China and US IP businesses.

"No individuals are bigger than an institution," she said. "As an individual, my limited contributions center on 'internationalizing Trinity.' So my scholarly activity, teaching, and service focus on enhancing Trinity's reputation in the international arena."

Established in 1995, JIPR is a peer-reviewed journal that presents ideas and debates about IP to the research community, which include scientists, technologists, academicians, policy makers and managers.