Marc Vockell
Assistant Vice Chancellor and Managing Counsel, Business Law Section
Marc Vockell leads the OGC Business Law team, a strong and collaborative group of legal professionals that assists UT System and each of its academic and health institutions in business matters including intellectual property, real estate, tax, gifts and estates, corporate, contracting, procurement, construction, artificial intelligence, information technology, and any other business-related matters on which it can assist.
Prior to leading Business Law, Marc advised on intellectual property at OGC for almost 6 years, working on trademarks, copyrights, patents, sponsored research, clinical trials, technology commercialization, software licensing, confidentiality, and trade secrets. Marc came to the UT System after 14 years at Dell Technologies, where he served as Vice President for Intellectual Property Litigation. Before working at Dell, Marc was a business litigation attorney at Vinson & Elkins.
After graduating from Purdue University, Marc taught bilingual elementary education in the Houston Independent School District through Teach for America. He then got his law degree from The University of Texas School of Law, where he was Notes Editor of the Texas Law Review. He then clerked for United States District Judge Sam Sparks in Austin.
