Faculty Profiles

BU Law is one of the best law schools in the United States, if not the world, at which to study intellectual property law. Our IP law faculty is second to none, known for its excellent teaching and scholarly contributions to the debates that arise as technology advances.

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Recent Publications

Full Time

Adjunct

Among the School's prominent adjunct faculty members who teach in the Intellectual Property law program are:

William S. Elias, J.D., Visiting Associate Professor of Law
William Elias is currently general counsel and technology licensing principal for Draper Laboratory. He will teach two seminars: Technology Licensing and Intellectual Property & Business Strategy.

Val Gurvits, J.D., Adjunct Professor
Val Gurvits is a partner of the Boston Law Group, LLP, where he has a general business practice representing companies in high technology industries, including licensing of technology, mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property issues. He teaches two seminars: E-Commerce for the Business Lawyer and International Intellectual Property.

Recent Publications

Robert Bone

"Secondary Liability for Trade Secret Misappropriation: A Comment," 22 Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal 529 (2006)

"Enforcement Costs and Trademark Puzzles," 90 Virginia Law Review 2099 (2004)

"The Story of Connecticut v. Doehr: Balancing COsts and Benefits in Defining Procedural Rights," in Civil Procedure Stories 153, Foundation Press (2004)

Wendy Gordon

"Copyright Nowms and the Problem of Private Censorship," in Copyright and Free Speach: Comparative and International Analyses 67, J. Griffiths and U. Suthersaned, eds., Oxford University Press (2005)

Developments in Economics of Copyright: Research and Analysis, edited with L. Takeyama and R Towse, Edward Elgar Publishing (2005)

"Even Non-Extremists Get the Blues: The Rhetoric of Copyright," with Lois Wasoff, in Benjamin Kaplan, An Unhurried View of Copyright Republished (and with Contributions from Friends), Matthew Bender (2005)

“Render Copyright Unto Caesar: On Taking Incentives Seriously,” 71 University of Chicago Law Review 75 (2004)

Keith Hylton

"Information, Litigation, and Common Law Evolution," 8 American Law and Economics Review 33 (2006)."

Arbitration: Governance Benefits and Enforcement Costs," in Symposium on Federal Courts, 80 Notre Dame Law Review 489

"Calabresi and the Intellectual History of Law and Economics," in Symposium on Calabresi, 64 Maryland Law Review 85 (2005)

Michael Meurer

"Invention, Refinement and Patent Claim Scope: A New Perspective on the Doctrine of Equivalents," Craig Nard, 93 Georgetown Law Journal 1947 (2005)

"Lessons for Patent Policy from Empirical Research on Patent Litigation," with James Bessen, 9 Lewis and CLark Law Review (2005)

“Fair Division of the Surplus from Collaboration in Markets for Intellectual Property,” presented at Oxford University, University of Chicago, and the American Law and Economics Association meetings

Patent Rights and Licensing, Symposium on Biotech Materials and Medical Devices in the New Millenium, 6 Journal of Science & Technology Law 3 (2000)

Maureen O'Rourke

Copyright in a Global Information Economy 2nd edition, and Statutory and Case Supplement, with J. Cohen, L. Loren and R. Okediji, Aspen Law & Business (2006)

"The Story of Diamond v. Diehr: Toward Patenting Software," in J.C. Ginsburg and R.C. Cooper, Intellectual Property Stories, Foundation Press (2006)

Principles of Software Conrtacting, Draft No. 2, with Robert Hillman, American Law Institute (2004)

"Virtual Trespass: An Apt Analogy or a Square Peg in a Round Hole?," Communications of the ACM, Feb. 2001, at 98, and presented at panel on "E-Commerce, Boston Bar Association Banking and Financial Services Seminar," October 2000; presented at a luncheon of the Boston Bar Association, Internet Law section (April 2001).