• Associate Professor, School of Law

• B.S. at MIT
• J.D. at University of Pennsylvania

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Backed patent bill in trouble in U.S. Senate 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. References: April 14, 2008 — Backed patent bill in trouble in U.S. Senate in the The Guardian (UK) and 10 others.

Commentary: Let The Markets Regulate Microsoft 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. References: March 11, 2008 — Commentary: Let The Markets Regulate Microsoft in the Forbes.com

How a patent ruling Is changing court cases 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. References: July 31, 2007 — How a patent ruling Is changing court cases in the The Wall Street Journal

Microsoft's European experience troubling for U.S. companies WUSTL law professors Scott Kieff and Troy Paredes along with a Stanford colleague write that the latest regulatory actions by the competition unit of the European Union against Microsoft could have a profound impact on other U.S. companies doing business in Europe. Consumers may end up paying the freight for runaway regulation. References: March 14, 2007 — Microsoft's European experience troubling for U.S. companies in the SiliconValley.com and 9 others.

The Injustice Collector 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. References: June 19, 2006 — The Injustice Collector in the The New Yorker

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Kieff teaches law school courses on contracts, patents, trademarks, contracts and intellectual property, law and economics of patents, and biotechnology. He is currently a faculty fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, after two years of a faculty fellowship in the Olin Program at Harvard Law School. Kieff took up his present post at Washington University after transitioning from his practice as a trial lawyer and intellectual property lawyer with Jenner & Block in Chicago and Pennie & Edmonds in New York by serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University School of Law and the University of Chicago Law School. Having trained in science and economics at MIT and in law at the University of Pennsylvania, Kieff served as law clerk to Judge Giles Rich at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.