Background

I am a faculty fellow at Duke University Law School, and am a part of the Center for Genome Ethics Law & Policy. My areas of interest include patents, software, trade regulation, and administrative procedure.  Prior to coming to Duke, I was in private practice, focusing on patent litigation and software licensing.  

In August of 2008, I will begin a one-year clerkship with the Hon. Kenneth Ripple on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Research

  • The Other Patent Agency: Congressional Regulation of the ITC (in progress) (Download .doc)
     
  • Proprietary and Open Science: Zinc Finger Proteins, Patents, and Synthetic Biology (in progress, with Arti Rai and Shubha Chandrasekharan)

  • 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)

Teaching

Law 735: Open Source: Software and Beyond

Workshops & Presentations

  • Irreconcilable Differences: The Role of the ITC in Patent Decisions, MSU Intellectual Property and Communications Law Workshop, 2008

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

  • Patent Landscape of Synthetic Biology, Duke Synthetic Biology Workshop, 2007