Professor Graeme Dinwoodie joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2000 from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he was a three-time recipient of the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 2001, he was named a Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar, and he was elected to membership in the American Law Institute in 2003. Professor Dinwoodie also holds a Chair in Intellectual Property Law at the University of London, Queen Mary College. Prior to teaching, Professor Dinwoodie had been an associate with Sullivan and Cromwell in New York, concentrating in the practice of intellectual property law and in commercial, corporate, and international litigation. Professor Dinwoodie holds a First Class Honors LL.B. degree in Private Law from the University of Glasgow, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and a J.S.D. from Columbia Law School. He was the Burton Fellow in residence at Columbia Law School for 1988-89, working in the field of intellectual property law, and a John F. Kennedy Scholar at Harvard Law School for 1987-88. He is the author of the casebooks International Intellectual Property Law and Policy (with Hennessey and Perlmutter), International and Comparative Patent Law (with Hennessey and Perlmutter), and Trademarks and Unfair Competition: Law and Policy (with Janis). His articles on various aspects of intellectual property law have appeared in several leading law reviews. He has served as a consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organization on matters of private international law, to UNCTAD on traditional knowledge questions, and as an advisor to the American Law Institute project on Jurisdiction and Recognition of Judgments in Intellectual Property Matters. He teaches courses in Copyright Law, Trademark Law, International Intellectual Property Law, Conflict of Laws and Civil Procedure. He is presently the Chair of the Intellectual Property Section of the Association of American Law Schools.
Articles
Lewis & Clark Law School Ninth Distinguished IP Lecture: Developing Defenses in Trademark Law, Lewis & Clark Law Review (2009)
Trademark law contains important limits that place a range of third party conduct beyond the...
A Reverse Notice and Takedown Regime To Enable Fair Uses of Technically Protected Copyrighted Works (with J. Reichman & P. Samuelson), Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2007)
The WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) recognized the need to maintain a balance between the rights...
Lessons From the Trademark Use Debate (with M. Janis), Iowa Law Review (2007)
In their response to our article Confusion Over Use: Contextualism in Trademark Law, Professors Dogan...
The WIPO Copyright Treaties: A Transition to the Future of International Copyright Lawmaking? (forthcoming 2007) (symposium), Case Western Reserve Law Review (2007)
Confusion Over Use: Contextualism in Trademark Law (with M. Janis), Iowa Law Review (2007)
This paper tackles an intellectual property theory that many scholars regard as fundamental to future...
Books
Achieving Balance in International Intellectual Property Law (with R. Dreyfuss) (forthcoming 2010). (2010)
International Intellectual Property: Law and Policy (with W. Hennessey, S. Perlmutter & G. Austin) (2008)
Contributions to Books
Copyright and Free Expression: Engine or Obstacle, Copyright and Freedom of Expression: Proceedings of the ALAI Study Days (2008)
Foreign and International Influences on National Copyright Policy: A Surprisingly Rich Picture (F. McMillan, ed.), 6 New Directions in Copyright (2007)
National copyright policy, traditionally reflective of domestic cultural and economic priorities, is increasingly shaped by...
The International Intellectual Property System: Treaties, Norms, National Courts and Private Ordering, Intellectual Property, Trade and Development: Strategies to Optimize Economic Development in a TRIPS Plus Era (2007)
Although part of the political impetus for international intellectual property law making has long come...
What Linguistics Can Do For Trademark Law, Trade Marks and Brands: An Interdisciplinary Critique (2007)
This contribution to an inter-disciplinary book on Trademarks and Brands responds to the work of...
Patenting Science: Protecting the Domain of Accessible Knowledge (with R. Dreyfuss), The Future of the Public Domain in Intellectual Property (2006)
In this book chapter, we look at the effect of commodification on scientific and technological,...