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This year's speaker is John F. Duffy, Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law. His lecture is titled, "Does Intellectual Property Restrict Competition?"

An imaginative and prolific scholar of patent law, Professor Duffy is one of the most highly cited academics writing about intellectual property in the United States today.  He has helped shape the course of U.S. patent law through both his research and his work as a lawyer practicing before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  Within the field of intellectual property, he has been identified as one of the 25 most-influential people in the nation by The American Lawyer and a legal “visionary” by the Legal Times.  Professor Duffy previously taught on the faculty at William & Mary Law School, as well as the George Washington University and Benjamin N. Cardozo Schools of Law.  He received his undergraduate degree in physics from Harvard and his law degree from the University of Chicago.  He clerked for Judge Judge Stephen Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, and he served in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice.

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.

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