Katherine Strandburg is professor of law at New York University School of Law, where
she teaches intellectual property law, cyberlaw, and information privacy law. Prior to
coming to NYU, she was Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law. She has also
visited at Fordham University and the University of Illinois. Her research interests are
in patent law, including the empirical study of the patent citation network using
statistical physics techniques; science and technology policy; and information privacy
law. She was the recipient of DePaul's 2004 Award for Outstanding Achievement in
Scholarship. She has authored several amicus briefs to the Supreme Court and Federal
Circuit on patent issues. Professor Strandburg obtained her law degree from the
University of Chicago Law School with high honors in 1995 and served as a law clerk to
the Hon. Richard D. Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Prior to
her legal career, Strandburg was a research physicist at Argonne National Laboratory,
having received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1984. She was a visiting faculty
member of the physics department at Northwestern University from 1990 to 1992.

Information Privacy Law

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Freedom of Association in a Networked World: First Amendment Regulation of Relational Surveillance, Boston College Law Review (2008)
Recent controversies about the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of international calls have somewhat overshadowed...
 

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Freedom of Association in a Networked World: First Amendment Regulation of Relational Surveillance, Boston College Law Review (2008)
Recent controversies about the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping of international calls have overshadowed equally...
 

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Surveillance of Emergent Associations: Freedom of Association in a Network Society, Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies, and Practices (2007)

Recent events have combined to bring of the prospect of using communications traffic data to...

 

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Social Norms, Self Control, and Privacy in the Online World, PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGIES OF IDENTITY: A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY CONVERSATION (2005)
This chapter explores ways in which human limitations of rationality and susceptibility to temptation might...
 

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Privacy, Rationality, and Temptation: A Theory of Willpower Norms, Rutgers Law Review (2005)
Social norms that look askance at people when they disclose their own personal information in...
 

Network Science

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Modeling Innovation by a Kinetic Description of the Patent Citation System (with Gabor Csardi, Jan Tobochnik, Peter Erdi, and Laszlo Zalanyi), Physica A (2007)
This paper reports results of a network theory approach to the study of the United...
 

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Estimating the Dynamics of Kernel-Based Evolving Networks (with Gabor Csardi, Laszlo Zalanyi, Jan Tobochnik, and Peter Erdi), PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS (2006)
In this paper we present the application of a novel methodology to scientific citation and...
 

Patent Law

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Evolving Innovation Paradigms and the Global Intellectual Property Regime (2008)

Since the negotiation of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) in 1994,...

 

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Patent Carrots and Sticks: An Economic Model of Nonobviousness (with Michael J. Meurer), Lewis and Clark Law Review (2008)
The authors develop an informal model of the impact of the nonobviousness standard on the...
 

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Users as Innovators: Implications for Patent Doctrine, University of Colorado Law Review (2008)

User innovators range from commercial firms, which invent new production methods in expectation of competitive...

 

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What If There Were a Business Method User Exemption to Patent Infringement?, Michigan State Law Review (2008)
The Federal Circuit’s decision in State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group...
 

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Law and the Science of Networks: An Overview and an Application to the "Patent Explosion" (with Gabor Csardi, Jan Tobochnik, Peter Erdi, and Laszlo Zalanyi), Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2007)
The network may be the metaphor of the present era. A network, consisting of “nodes”...
 

Technology Transfer and University Research Policy

Sharing Research Tools and Materials: Homo Scientificus and User Innovator Community Norms (2008)
This Article uses a simplified rational choice theory of social norms to illuminate the circumstances...
 

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Technology Transfer and An Information View of Universities: A Conceptual Framework For Academic Freedom, Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and the University Mission (with Patrick L. Jones) (2006)
In this Article, we provide a conceptual framework for technology transfer grounded in the fundamental...
 

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Curiosity-Driven Research and University Technology Transfer, ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH (2005)
The rise in university patenting has provoked concerns about the effects that increasing university entanglements...