Professor Holbrook is an associate professor of law with tenure and the associate director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law. He graduated summa cum laude from North Carolina State University with B.S. in chemical engineering with a life sciences concentration. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as a lead editor and publications director of the Yale Journal on Regulation. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Glenn L. Archer Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Following his clerkship, Professor Holbrook worked in Budapest, Hungary, with the Hungarian patent law firm Danubia. Prior to joining the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2000, he was an associate with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding, where his practice focused on patent and appellate litigation. Professor Holbrook has published widely on issues of patent law, international patent law, and the patenting of human genes. His most recent scholarship has appeared in Washington University Law Review, Science, and SMU Law Review. His latest article is forthcoming in the William and Mary Law Review. In fall 2007, Professor Holbrook was the Edwin A. Heafey Jr. visiting professor of law at Stanford Law School. He has also been a scholar-in-residence at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and a visiting professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. Professor Holbrook is a founding member of Chicago-based Richard Linn Inn of Court, which focuses on intellectual property law. He currently serves as the program chair for the Inn. Professor Holbrook served on the board of directors for the AIDS Legal Council of Chicago from 2004 to 2007 and remains active with that organization. Professor Holbrook teaches classes in Patent Law, International Patent Law, Patent Litigation, Trademark Law and Policy, and Property Law.
Articles
A Comparative Look at Recent U.S. Supreme Court Patent Decisions, Computer Law Review International (2008)
Extraterritoriality in U.S. Patent Law, William & Mary Law Review (2008)
Globalization has created increasing pressure on, and erosion of, traditional territorial limits on intellectual property...
Obviousness in Patent Law and the Motivation to Combine: A Presumption-Based Approach, Washington University Law Review Slip Opinions (2007)
In KSR International v. Teleflex, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering the appropriate...
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