• Professor, School of Law

Charles McManis

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• B.A. in Philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College
• M.A. in Philosophy at Duke University
• J.D. at Duke University

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Expert Comment Combating biopiracy: Use existing IP systems March 1, 2006 -- Concerns over biopiracy have fueled urgent calls for a new system of legal protection for indigenous biological materials and knowledge. Detractors of the current patent systems say that the knowledge of traditional cultures and communities does not readily fit into the industrialized world's definition of intellectual property (IT); critics argue that existing laws basically promote the interests of the industrialized world. However, intellectual property and technology law expert Charles McManis, J.D., disagrees. More...

New law clinic Intellectual Property and Business Formation Clinic to offer a variety of legal services to the St. Louis community Jan. 20, 2005 -- From helping start-up companies grow into strong businesses to guiding inventors as they obtain patents, students in the Washington University School of Law's new Intellectual Property and Business Formation Legal Clinic, working under the supervision of experienced intellectual property law attorneys, will offer a variety of services to the University and St. Louis community.

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Recent Publications

Books

* Licensing of the Intellectual Property in the Digital Age (with Kenneth Port, Terence McElwee and Faye Hammersley) Carolina Academic Press (1999).

* Intellectual Property & Unfair Competition in a Nutshell West Publishing Company, 4th edition (2000).

Book Chapters

* APatent Law,@ (with John Kepler), West=s Federal Administrative Practice 3rd edition (1999).

Selected Articles

* Database Protection in the Digital Information Age, Roger Williams University Law Review (forthcoming).

* The Privatization (or AShrink-wrapping@) of American Copyright Law, 87 California Law Review 173 (1999).

* Intellectual Property and International Mergers and Acquisitions, 66 University Cincinnati Law Review 1283 (1998).

* The Interface Between International Intellectual Property and Environmental Protection: Biodiversity and Biotechnology, 76 Washington University Law Quarterly 255 (1998).

* International Intellectual Property Protection and Emerging Computer Technology: Taking TRIPS on the Information Superhighway (Part I) 13 Comparative Law 37 (1996); (Part II) 14 Comparative Law 195 (1997) (Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan).

* Taking TRIPS on the Information Superhighway: International Intellectual Property Protection and Emerging Computer Technology, 41 Villanova Law Review 207 (1996).

* The Interface Between International Intellectual Property and Environmental Protection, Nihon University Journal of Business Research (1995).

* Introduction, Special Issue: Intellectual Property in East Asia, 13 UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal 1 (1994).

* Intellectual Property Protection and Reverse Engineering of Computer Programs in the United States and European Community, 7 High Technology Law Journal, Number 3 (June, 1993).

* Intellectual Property Protection and Reverse Engineering of Computer Programs in the United States, 9 Comparative Law 131 (1992) (Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan).

* International Protection for Semiconductor Chip Designs and the Standard of Judicial Review for Presidential Proclamations Issued Pursuant to the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984, 22 George Washington Journal of International Law & Economics 331 (1989).

* Satellite Dish Antenna Reception: Copyright Protection of Live Broadcasts and the Doctrine of Anticipatory Infringement, 11 Columbia-VLA Journal of Law and the Arts 387 (1987).

* Questionable Corporate Payments Abroad: An Antitrust Approach, 86 Yale Law Journal 215 (1976).