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Intellectual property law
Washington University School of Law has a top intellectual property faculty led by Professor Charles R. McManis, an internationally recognized scholar, lecturer, symposium editor, author, and consultant in intellectual property law. Working with McManis are Professors Scott Kieff and Jennifer Rothman.
The Intellectual Property/Technology Law curriculum at the law school allows students to study introductory and advanced intellectual property and technology law and to scrutinize the policies affecting intellectual property and technology law under the guidance of leading scholars in the field. Students will also participate in practical skills courses taught by teams of experienced intellectual property lawyers.
In addition, the School of Law is among a few law schools in the U.S. to have an Intellectual Property and Business Formation Legal Clinic. The IP/BF clinic provides students with unique opportunities to work with intellectual property counsel in providing early stage legal advice to innovators both within the University and in the wider community.
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Carl Minzner
Associate Professor of Law
Carl Minzner is well known for his work in Chinese law and politics. Before joining the law faculty, he served as senior counsel on the Congressional-Executive Commission on China and was an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Minzner's experiences abroad while working ...
Direct contact: (314) 935-6273
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cminzner@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Jennifer Rothman
Associate Professor of Law
Rothman is available to comment on issues related to intellectual property, entertainment law, the internet and the First Ammendment. Rothman's research focuses on issues involving the intersection of intellectual property law, entertainment and free speech concerns. She practiced intellectual property ...
Expertise: intellectual property, copyright, trademark, entertainment law, Internet law, right of publicity, free speech
Direct contact: 314-935-7857
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jerothman@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Charles McManis
Thomas and Karole Green Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Program and Director of the Center for Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Charles McManis is active in the intellectual property area both nationally and internationally. He has taught or researched in the United States, China, India, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan and has served as a consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organization. During 1993 and 1994, McManis made ...
Expertise: copyrights, intellectual property law, patents, torts, trademarks, unfair competition
Direct contact: (314) 935-6448
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mcmanis@wulaw.wustl.edu
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F. Scott Kieff
Professor of Law
Scott Kieff is one of the country's leading experts on obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights and bringing new ideas to market. He has delivered numerous articles and speeches and is the author of "Perspectives on Properties of the Human Genome Project," published by Academic Press. ...
Expertise: antitrust, business intellectual property, contracts, technology law, unfair competition, patent law
Direct contact: (314) 935-5052
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kieff@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Supreme Court to rule on patent law -- Quanta v. LG
"Patent holder had a right to sue a downstream purchaser," says patent law expert
Jan. 22,
2008 --
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The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing Quanta v. LG, a case that could determine the future direction of patent law. "This case is key to ensuring that patent law develops in a way that best promotes innovation and competition," says F. Scott Kieff, J.D., professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Kieff and colleagues have filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court in support of LG, arguing that under contract law the patent holder had a right to sue a downstream purchaser. Kieff will be closely following this case and is available for comment.
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Another brick from the wall
Supreme Court ruling on patents is step in right direction, economists contend
May 1,
2007 -- The Supreme Court's decision April 30 to raise the bar for patents on products combining elements of pre-existing inventions is a landmark in the battle against so-called "nuisance patents" and just one more sign that the tide is turning against overly restrictive and costly intellectual property right protections, suggests a pair of economists from Washington University in St. Louis.
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Another brick from the wall
Apple's bid to end music piracy protection may signal end to copyright system
Feb. 12,
2007 --
Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple Computers, has issued a challenge to the music industry, saying Apple would support an open online music marketplace if the four-largest music companies would drop the use of digital-rights management software — the technology that prevents the copying of music sold online. Jobs' challenge, which some consider shocking, is just the latest brick to fall in the inevitable collapse of a legal wall that since 1999 has been obstructing technological progress and preventing people from enjoying more and better music at a lower price, suggests Michele Boldrin, Ph.D., an economist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies the hidden costs of intellectual property rights protections.
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Backed patent bill in trouble in U.S. Senate
The Guardian (UK)
and 10 others
April 15,
2008 -- A long-negotiated patent overhaul bill sought by technology companies and opposed by big pharmaceutical makers ran into trouble in the U.S. Senate. Scott Kieff, WUSTL law professor and patent law expert, comments.
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Commentary: Let The Markets Regulate Microsoft
Forbes.com
March 12,
2008 -- WUSTL law professor Scott Kieff writes a commentary about regulating Microsoft.
He is also a research fellow at Stanford University' s Hoover Institution, where he runs the Hoover Project on Commercializing Innovation, which studies the law, economics and politics of innovation.
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How a patent ruling Is changing court cases
The Wall Street Journal
July 31,
2007 -- Three months after the Supreme Court handed down what many called a landmark patent decision, judges have begun to rule in favor of companies defending themselves against infringement lawsuits.
Some experts in law and economics think affording judges discretion in analyzing an obviousness defense is not a good thing. "Flexibility has an Achilles' heel, which is that people with the biggest lobbying and litigation budgets, and the best public relations, win," said Scott Kieff, a WUSTL law professor, who has argued for predictable rules in the patent system.
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The Injustice Collector
The New Yorker
July 13,
2006 -- In a June 19 article on the legal battle over intellectual property rights between James Joyce's grandson and various scholars, WUSTL law professor and intellectual property specialist F. Scott Kieff comments.
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