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[PAST EVENT] Mervis Lecture: Professor Mark A. Lemley, Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology
Professor Mark A. Lemley, the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, and the Director of the Stanford University Program in Law, Science & Technology will present the 2016 Stanley H. Mervis Lecture at the Law School on September 26 at 12:50 PM in Room 127. His lecture is titled "The Surprising Resilience of the Patent System."
Free and the public is welcome. A free boxed lunch is available (RSVP here to reserve one).
The Stanley H. Mervis Lectureship in Intellectual Property was created in memory of Stanley Mervis in 2003 by his family and friends. Mervis, a member of the William & Mary Law School Class of 1950, was patent counsel for Polaroid Corporation for most of his career and was actively involved in important patent and intellectual property issues.
About Professor Lemley (from his Stanford Law School biography; full text available on the Stanford website.)
Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. He teaches intellectual property, computer and internet law, patent law, trademark law, antitrust, and remedies. He is the author of seven books (all in multiple editions) and 153 articles on these and related subjects, including the two-volume treatise IP and Antitrust. His works have been cited more than 220 times by courts, including eleven United States Supreme Court opinions, and more than 14,000 times in books and law review articles, making him the most-cited scholar in IP law and one of the five most cited legal scholars of all time. He has published 9 of the 100 most-cited law review articles of the last twenty years, more than any other scholar, and a 2012 empirical study named him the most relevant law professor in the country. His articles have appeared or will appear in 23 of the top 25 law reviews, in top economic journals such as the American Economic Review and the Review of Economics and Statistics, and in multiple peer- reviewed and specialty journals. They have been reprinted throughout the world, and translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, and Danish. He has taught intellectual property law to federal and state judges at numerous Federal Judicial Center and ABA programs, has testified seven times before Congress, and has filed 45 amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, and the federal circuit courts of appeals.