Intellectual Property & Information Law focuses on three core legal areas in patent, copyright, and trademark law, as well as the law of unfair competition and trade secrets.

Kenneth P. Mortensen

As an attorney and engineer, Kenneth P. Mortensen works to empower organizations to develop and implement a knowledge governance strategy treating information as a critical enterprise asset used to optimize risk and facilitate innovation through enhanced decision-making while incorporating protections for individual privacy and addressing cybersecurity risks. Ken is currently the data protection officer leading […]

Maureen A. O’Rourke

As dean from 2006 to 2018 and interim dean from 2004 to 2006, Maureen A. O’Rourke oversaw the construction of the five-story, state-of-the-art Sumner M. Redstone Building and gut renovation of the adjacent law tower. This project was the culmination of decades of planning and provides students with first-rate community spaces, high quality classrooms, and amenities. Dean O’Rourke also […]

Kevin Outterson

Kevin Outterson, J.D., LL.M., is Professor of Law and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law at Boston University, where he leads the Social Innovation on Drug Resistance program. He is also the founding Executive Director and Principal Investigator of Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X), a global non-profit partnership funded by the U.S., U.K., and […]

Andrew Sellars

Andrew Sellars is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law and the founding director of the Technology Law Clinic, a legal service for undergraduate and graduate students at MIT and BU. In the clinic, BU Law students counsel clients on laws and regulations that affect their research, advocacy, and innovation, including intellectual property, media law, data […]

Jessica Silbey

Jessica Silbey teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property, constitutional law, and law and the humanities. In addition to a law degree, she has a PhD in comparative literature and draws on her studies of literature and film to better account for law’s force, both its effectiveness and failing as socio-political regulation. In […]