ROBERT MERGES, Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law
and Technology, is Director, Berkeley
Center for Law & Technology,
University of California School of
Law – Boalt Hall.
He has authored or coauthored
three leading texts: PATENT LAW
AND POLICY: CASES AND MATERIALS;
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE NEW
TECHNOLOGICAL AGE; and LEGAL PROTECTION FOR COMPUTER
TECHNOLOGY. Other notable scholarship includes: The Story
of Graham v. John Deere Co., in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STORIES
(2006); A Transactional View of Property Rights, 20
BERKELEY TECH. L.J.1477 (2005); and 100 Years of Solicitude:
IP Law, 1900-2000, 88 CAL. L. REV. 2187 (2000).
Professor Merges teaches Patent Law, Historical Perspectives
on IP, IP Scholarship Seminar, and Contracts, serves as a
special consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust
Division, and is a member of the Department’s Task Force on
Intellectual Property.
EDUCATION: B.S., Carnegie-Mellon University; J.D., Yale Law
School; LL.M., J.S.D., Columbia University.
PRIOR LECTURERS
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2007 JOEL R. REIDENBERG, Professor of Law and Founding Director of the
Center on Law and Information Policy, Fordham University
School of Law |
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2006 THE HONORABLE ARTHUR J. GAJARSA, United States Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit |
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2005 F. SCOTT KIEFF, Professor of Law,Washington University in
St. Louis-School of Law |
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2004 JANE C. GINSBURG, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic
Property Law, Columbia University School of Law School |
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