Amelia Smith Rinehart is an Associate Professor of Law at University of Utah's S. J. Quinney College of Law. She writes about intellectual property licensing and litigation. Professor Rinehart teaches Patent Law, Contracts and other intellectual property courses. Professor Rinehart was previously a visiting assistant professor of law at Florida State University College of Law. Before entering the legal academy, Professor Rinehart worked as an associate at Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre L.L.P. in Baton Rouge and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe L.L.P. in New York. She earned her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2002.
Intellectual Property Law
Patent Cases and Jurisdiction Controversies, ExpressO (2012)
A patent could be described as a private solution to a public problem—the government grants...
Patents as Escalators, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law (2011)
High technology companies commit time, effort and resources to innovation. Over the course of a...
Contracting Patents: A Modern Patent Exhaustion Doctrine, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology (2010)
The patent exhaustion doctrine operates to extinguish a patent owner’s right to exclude others from...
Yours, Mine or Ours: Employee Invention Ownership, Around the Bar, Baton Rouge Bar Association (2008)
Patents
Patents as Escalators, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law (2011)
High technology companies commit time, effort and resources to innovation. Over the course of a...
Contracting Patents: A Modern Patent Exhaustion Doctrine, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology (2010)
The patent exhaustion doctrine operates to extinguish a patent owner’s right to exclude others from...
Yours, Mine or Ours: Employee Invention Ownership, Around the Bar, Baton Rouge Bar Association (2008)