At Syracuse University, I teach courses on patent law, Internet law, and practice and procedure in the federal courts, and serve as Associate Director of the Center on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism and Associate Director of the Syracuse University Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media. During a sabbatical leave from Syracuse University, I served as law clerk to the Hon. Paul F. Michel, (now-) Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and have served since January 2005 as a member of the Federal Circuit’s Advisory Council. My research interests include issues at the intersections of patent law and judicial procedure, patent law and the media, and patent law and legal ethics. I am currently studying media coverage of the U.S. patent system and the effects of the evolving inequitable conduct doctrine on the practice of patent law, and am working on a reconsidered theory of subject matter conflicts. My publications and forthcoming works include: Inequitable Conduct: A Flawed Doctrine Worth Saving (in progress) The United States Patent System in the Media Mirror, 58 Syr. L. Rev. 459 (2008) (with Blaine T. Bettinger, Ph.D) eBay and the Blackberry®: A Media Coverage Case Study, 2 AKRON I.P. J. 1 (2008) (with Blaine T. Bettinger, Ph.D) Power or Prudence: Toward a Better Standard for Evaluating Patent Litigants’ Access to the Declaratory Judgment Remedy, 41 U.S.F. L. REV. 407 (2007) The Ethics of Delaying Prosecution, 53 AM. U. L. REV. 739 (2004) Risky Business: The Perils of Representing Competitors, 30 A.I.P.L.A. Q.J. 413 (2002) The Inequitable Conduct Doctrine: Lessons from Recent Cases, 84 J. PAT. & TM. OFF. SOC. 719 (2002) Patents Without Paper: Proving a Date of Invention with Electronic Evidence, 36 HOUS. L. REV. 472 (1999) Declaratory Judgment Jurisdiction in Patent Cases: Restoring the Balance Between the Patentee and the Accused Infringer, 38 B.C.L. REV. 903 (1997)
Jurisdiction
Ethics in Intellectual Property Negotiations: Issues and Illustrations, unpublished (2012)
Negotiating – formally or informally – is a characteristic aspect of law practice. The requisite...
Power or Prudence: Which Is It?, ExpressO (2006)
In limiting patent litigants’ access to the declaratory judgment remedy, the U.S. Court of Appeals...
Intellectual Property Law
Ethics in Intellectual Property Negotiations: Issues and Illustrations, ExpressO (2012)
Negotiating – formally or informally – is a characteristic aspect of law practice. The requisite...
Inequitable Conduct: A Flawed Doctrine Worth Saving, ExpressO (2010)
A growing chorus of voices is calling for reform or even elimination of the doctrine...
eBay and the Blackberry®: A Media Coverage Case Study (with Blaine T. Bettinger) (2008)
Patent owners, potential infringers, and the courts will continue to work through the implications of...
Inequitable Conduct: A Flawed Doctrine Worth Saving (2008)
A growing chorus of voices is calling for reform or even elimination of the doctrine...
The United States Patent System in the Media Mirror (with Blaine T. Bettinger) (2008)
The last several years have witnessed a flurry of transformative patent reform activity. The Supreme...
Media
eBay and the Blackberry®: A Media Coverage Case Study (with Blaine T. Bettinger) (2008)
Patent owners, potential infringers, and the courts will continue to work through the implications of...
The United States Patent System in the Media Mirror (with Blaine T. Bettinger) (2008)
The last several years have witnessed a flurry of transformative patent reform activity. The Supreme...
Ethics
Ethics in Intellectual Property Negotiations: Issues and Illustrations, unpublished (2012)
Negotiating – formally or informally – is a characteristic aspect of law practice. The requisite...