Greg Vetter

Professor Vetter is a leading expert on intellectual property as applied to software, with particular emphasis on free and open source software (FOSS) licensing. His scholarship is at the intersection of software and the business of software with patent law, copyright law, and licensing law. After receiving his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering, he worked full‑time for nine years as a manager in the software field, gaining expertise in enterprise software design, management, and marketing. During these years he obtained a master’s degree in computer science, and an MBA, both through evening programs in Kansas City. He then obtained his JD from Northwestern University School of Law, attending from 1996 to 1999. After law school, he worked for two years at the law firm of Kilpatrick Stockton before clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Since his clerkship completed in 2002, he has served as a law professor at the University of Houston Law Center and served as a Co‑Director of the Law Center’s Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law (IPIL). Since June of 2017, he has served as the Associate Dean at the Law Center.