Intellectual Property

Harvey Perlman is a professor with the College of Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is an expert in the fields of torts and unfair competition and intellectual property. He has written widely on unfair competition and intellectual property law. He is a life member of the Uniform Law Commission, and is a council member emeritus of the governing Council of the American Law Institute. He returned to the Nebraska Law faculty after serving as 19th Chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 2001 to 2016. As chancellor, he oversaw Nebraska's entrance into the Big Ten Conference and the establishment of Nebraska Innovation Campus on the former site of the Nebraska State Fair. (Updated November 2024.)

Christal Sheppard has more than two decades of science and intellectual property law and policy work experience including private practice, the United States International Trade Commission, the United States Patent and Trademark Office and chief counsel on patents and trademarks for the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. She holds advanced degrees in cellular and and molecular biology along with her law credentials. She served as the first director of the United States Patent and Trademark Satellite Office in Detroit, the first patent office established outside Washington D.C. in 227 years. In 2018, she joined IPwe, a patent-based startup company headquartered in Paris as executive vice president for strategy and business development. She continues to teach two courses each year at Nebraska Law, patent law and intellectual property law. (Updated November 2024.)