2013 Mark T. Banner Award Winners

 

Hon. Pauline Newman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 

Christina Bohannan, Professor, University of Iowa College of Law

Section Chair Joseph M. Potenza will present the awards during the Mark T. Banner Award Luncheon at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco on Saturday, August 10, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. at the InterContinental San Francisco with special guest speaker David J. Franklyn, Director of the McCarthy Institute for IP and Technology Law.

Purchase your tickets to the Mark T. Banner Award Luncheon when you register for the 2013 ABA Annual Meeting (event code: IPL03)

This award in honor of the late Mark T. Banner is presented to an individual or group that have an impact on intellectual property law and/or practice. Candidates will have expressed a clear passion and enthusiasm for, and advanced the practice, profession, and/or substance of IP law and through extraordinary contributions to, among, other things, teaching, scholarship, innovation, legislation, advocacy, bar or other association activities, or to the judiciary. The award is open to the widest range of individuals and there is no requirement to be a lawyer or ABA member.

2012 Award Winner

The Honorable James F. Holderman, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

 

 

 

 

Read Chief Judge James F. Holderman's Tribute to Mark T. Banner

2011 Award Winners

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Marybeth Peters
Former Register of Copyrights

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Judge Richard Linn, United States Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit

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About Mark Banner...

Mark Banner, who served as Chair of the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law from 2002 to 2003, sought, demanded, and attained the very best from himself and from everyone around him. The latter characteristic made him and those around him seek excellence in all they did: advocacy, work, relationships, intellectual property matters, and work for the ABA-IPL Section.


The IP community and the entire legal profession considered Mark not only one of the best IP trial lawyers in the United States, but also one of the country’s best trial lawyers, period.


Mark’s work transcended narrow principles of IP decisional law and wove in the fabric of general law to reflect the reality of his legal positions in a way that not only was easy to understand, but also was reasonable and cogent.


His gift, in addition to his trial experience, was to truly teach, varying the performance to conform to a student’s style. He often referred to his teaching as a “labor of love.”