June 2009 Associates Meeting, Mark Lemley

William Neukom Professor of Law, Mark Lemley will discuss Patent Trolls and the Effort to Fix the Patent System at the June Associates Meeting.

Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, and the Director of Stanford’s Master of Laws (LLM) Program in Law, Science and Technology. He teaches intellectual property, computer and Internet law, patent law, and antitrust. He is also a founding partner of the law firm of Durie Tangri, where he litigates in the areas of antitrust, intellectual property and computer law. He has litigated more than sixty IP, antitrust, and Internet law cases. He is the author of six books (all but one in multiple editions) and 100 articles on these and related subjects, including the two-volume treatise IP and Antitrust. His works have been reprinted throughout the world, and translated into Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Italian. He has taught intellectual property law to federal and state judges at numerous Federal Judicial Centers and ABA programs. Professor Lemley has testified six times before Congress and numerous times before the California legislature, the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Modernization Commission on patent, trade secret, antitrust and constitutional law matters. He has filed numerous amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Lemley received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and his A.B. from Stanford University.