Background

I am currently clerking for the Hon. Judge Kenneth F. Ripple and will be joining the University of Houston Law Center faculty this Fall.

From 2oo6-2008, I was a faculty fellow at Duke University Law School and part of the Center for Genome Ethics Law & Policy.  Before that, I was in private practice, focusing on patent litigation and software licensing.

 My areas of interest include patents, software, biotechnology, and administrative law.

Research

  • The Other Patent Agency: Congressional Regulation of the ITC (forthcoming, Florida Law Review) (Download .doc)
     
  • Proprietary Science, Open Science, and the Role of Patent Disclosure: The Case of Zinc Finger Proteins (with Arti Rai, Shubha Chandrasekharan, and Cory Valley), Nature Biotechnology 27, 140 - 144 (2009)

  • GPL Version 3's DRM and Patent Clauses Under German and U.S. Law  (with Dr. Olaf Koglin), Computer Law Review Int. (April 15, 2008)

  • Synthetic Biology: The Intellectual Property Puzzle, 85 U. Texas Law Review 1745 (2007), co-authored with Arti Rai. (Download .pdf)  
  • Website Libel and the Single Publication Rule (Comment), 70 U. Chi. L. Rev. 639 (2003) (Download .pdf)

Courses

Administrative Law (Fall 2009) 

Property Law (Spring 2010)

Open Source: Software and Beyond

Honors

2008 Recipient of the University of Houston Law Center IPIL Sponsored Scholarship Grant For Federal Appellate Court Clerks

Selected Presentations

  • Invited panelist for An Uncomfortable Fit?: Intellectual Property Policy and the Administrative State, Southeastern Association of Law Schools (forthcoming, August 2009)

  • Invited panelist for the International Trade Commission session of the 2009 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal Symposium

  • The Other Patent Agency: Congressional Regulation of the ITC, University of Houston Law Center IPIL Colloquium (2008)

  • Irreconcilable Differences: The Role of the ITC in Patent Decisions, Michigan State University College of Law Intellectual Property and Communications Law Workshop (2008)

  • Patent Litigation in the ITC, Duke University Law School Early Stages Faculty Workshop (2007)

  • The Patent Landscape of Synthetic Biology, Duke University Synthetic Biology Workshop (2007)