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21 UIC Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2021-2022)

handle is hein.journals/johnmars21 and id is 1 raw text is: UIC REVIEW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW FOREWORD: THE SUPREME COURT'S CHANGING APPROACH TO PATENT LAW By TED L. FIELD1 INTRODUCTION One of my proudest accomplishments as a law student from 1999-2002 at the John Marshall Law School (JMLS) in Chicago was that I was one of the co-founders of what is today called the UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law (RIPL).2 Within the course of about a year, we co-founders took RIPL from a mere germ of an idea to a full-fledged journal. During this short time period, we were able to obtain administrative approval,3 obtain faculty approval, recruit faculty advisors and interested students, and assemble an editorial board. And once we got all of that out of the way, we were left with just a small detail: publish actual issues of our new journal with actual articles by actual authors. Somehow, in the 2001-02 academic year, we were able to publish the first two issues of RIPL. Amazingly, this first volume of RIPL featured articles from a Supreme Court 1 Associate Dean for Faculty and Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law Houston. J.D., summa cum laude, John Marshall Law School, 2002; M.S., Northwestern University, 1990; B.A., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1987. As a student at the John Marshall Law School, the author was a cofounder of the John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law and served as its first managing editor in 2001-02. The author welcomes comments via e-mail at tfield@stcl.edu. 2 The original title was the John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law, which it remained until the merger of the John Marshall Law School (JMLS) with the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2019. UIC John Marshall Law School Makes History, Becomes Chicago's First and Only Public Law School, https://today.uic.edu/uic-john-marshall-law-school-makes-history-becomes-chicagos-first- and-only-public-law-school (Sept. 16, 2019). 3 The Dean of JMLS at the time was the late Robert Gil Johnston (1931-2018). See Bob Goldsborough, Robert Johnston, Teacher and Mentor at John Marshall Law School, Dies, CHI. TRIBUNE, July 27, 2018, https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-met-robert-johnston- obituary-20180726-story.html. Dean Johnston's enthusiastic support was vital to the success of RIPL.

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