Farm Bill provisions draw upon the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act authored by Texas A&M Law School Professor Thomas W. Mitchell. These reforms help heirs’ property owners maintain ownership of their property and, for the first time, access government assistance programs.

Professor Peter K. Yu of Texas A&M University School of Law delivered a plenary address, "The Complex Trajectory of Chinese Intellectual Property Law," at the 9th Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference at the Delhi School of Economics in New Delhi, India.

The Texas A&M Immigrant Rights Clinic won an appeal to reopen the case of a client from Somalia who fears being tortured in his home country. Clinic students prepared the motion to reopen, a habeas petition, and complaint to be filed in federal district court in addition to obtaining an emergency stay of removal to stop his deportation.

Professor Irene Calboli shared her intellectual property expertise to teach a Ph.D. workshop co-organized by the USPTO in Berlin, Germany, and chaired a panel on protection of non-traditional trademarks at the 2018 European Policy for Intellectual Property annual conference.

The Texas A&M University School of Law Center for Law and Intellectual Property hosted 30 intellectual property scholars for the 4th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, an international forum for sharing research and networking.