Professor Schwartz teaches patent law and patent litigation at Chicago-Kent. He joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2009 after teaching for three years at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Professor Schwartz also brings to the law school more than a decade of experience as an intellectual property law practitioner. From 2000 to 2006, he was a partner at two intellectual property boutique firms in Chicago, where his practice included patent, copyright, trademark and trade secrets litigation; patent and trademark prosecution; and intellectual property-related transactions. He began his career in intellectual property law in 1995 as an associate at Jenner & Block. Professor Schwartz's research focuses on empirical studies of patent law, including patent claim construction. His scholarship has appeared in the Michigan Law Review and the William & Mary Law Review. Professor Schwartz is a member of the Richard Linn Inn of Court, which focuses on intellectual property law, and the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago. He served as chair of the association's biotechnology committee from 2005 to 2006 and as vice chair of the committee from 2004 to 2005. Professor Schwartz is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In 1995, Professor Schwartz graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a contributing editor for the University of Michigan Law Review. He earned a B.S. degree with high distinction in chemical engineering in 1992 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a member of Tau Beta Pi, an engineering honors society.