Accolades and Awards
UCI Chancellor’s Professor of Law Dan Burk received the IP Vanguard Award from the
California Bar.
“We are honored to present Professor Burk with this esteemed award. Professor Burk
was selected to receive the Vanguard Award based on his significant contributions
to and impact on IP law through his teachings, published writings and research, his
demonstrated outstanding teaching ability, and his demonstrated leadership in the
legal profession and the California community.”
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW PROGRAM
Deborah Greaves
Brian Leiter, Ten Most-Cited Antitrust Faculty, 2010-2014 (inclusive), Brian Leiter’s L. Sch. Rep. (July 21, 2016), http://leiterlawschool.
typepad.com/leiter/2016/07/ten-most-cited-antitrust-faculty-2010-2014-inclusive.html.
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November 10, 2016
Howard T. Markey IP American Inn of Court
October 28, 2016
IP & Human Rights Symposium
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Brian Leiter, 20 Most-Cited Intellectual Property & Cyberlaw Faculty, 2010 – 2014 (inclusive), Law Professor Blogs Network:
Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports (June 14, 2016), http://leiterlawschool.typepad.com/leiter/2016/06/20-most-cited-intellectual-properycyberlaw-faculty-2010-2014-inclusive.html.
October 19, 2016
Nossaman Cybersecurity Symposium
Prof. Reese was honored as the 28th Annual Horace S. Manges lecturer at Columbia
University School of Law in 2015.
October 6, 2016
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit sitting in session at UCI Law
UCI Chancellor’s Professor of Law R. Anthony Reese, co-author of one of the foremost
copyright casebooks, has served since 2014 as an associate reporter on the American
Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law of Copyright.
September 7, 2016
IP Consortium Meeting
Prof. Leslie won the Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for Antitrust Scholarship
for the Best Private Enforcement Article of 2015 for his article: Mark A. Lemley &
Christopher R. Leslie, Antitrust Arbitration and Illinois Brick, 100 Iowa Law Review 2115
(2015).
2016 IP EVENTS
UCI Chancellor’s Professor of Law Christopher Leslie ranked No. 6 among the most
frequently cited antitrust faculty from 2010-2014 in Brian Leiter’s list based on data from
the 2015 Sisk Study.2
The UCI Law Intellectual Property, Arts, and
Technology Clinic and Prof. Jack Lerner received
the 2016 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year
award for achieving copyright exemptions affecting
filmmakers and authors nationwide.
The UCI Law Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinic and Prof. Jack Lerner
received the 2016 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award for achieving copyright
exemptions affecting filmmakers and authors nationwide.
Award-Winning IP Clinic at UCI Law
Prof. Burk ranked No. 3 among the most frequently cited IP and Cyberlaw faculty from
2010-2014, in Brian Leiter’s list based on data from the 2015 Sisk Study.1
401 East Peltason Drive, Suite 1000
Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Chair of the California Bar Intellectual Property Law Section
Pictured here: Award-Winning UCI Law Intellectual Property, Arts,
and Technology Clinic students with Prof. Jack Lerner
Faculty
Federal Bar IP Program
UCI Law IP faculty are consistently recognized among the most highly cited and influential intellectual
property scholars in the nation, with expertise ranging from patent and copyright to antitrust and employees’
rights. The scholarship excellence of UCI Law’s intellectual property faculty contributed significantly to the
Law School’s No. 6 scholarly impact ranking in 2015 among U.S. law school faculties.
The Federal Bar Association, Orange County
Chapter, in coordination with UCI Law,
presented the 2015 Annual IP Program,
featuring Hon. Josephine Staton, Hon. James
Selna, Hon. Andrew Guilford and Prof. Dan
Burk, as well as Ruchika Agrawal (Oracle legal
counsel), Jesse Mulholland (Western Digital
assistant general counsel), Andrew Pang
(Abbott Medical Optics chief IP counsel) and
Rouz Tabaddor (Core Logic chief IP counsel).
Olufunmilayo Arewa
UCI Technology & Entrepreneurship Competition
Professor of Law
Chancellor’s Professor of Law
Dan L. Burk
Catherine Fisk
Professor Arewa’s research
centers around intellectual
property and business, with a
primary focus on copyright and
music. Her work also focuses on
copyright and the entertainment
industry, law and technology,
law and society, and various
business issues. She directs the
Center for African Business,
Law & Entrepreneurship.
Professor Burk, winner of the
California State Bar’s 2015 IP
Vanguard Award, is an
internationally prominent
authority on legal and social
issues related to high technology.
Co-author of The Patent Crisis
and How the Courts Can Solve It,
he is widely known for his work
in patent law, for his work on
digital rights management, and
for his pioneering analysis of
legal control over Internet activity.
Professor Fisk, a celebrated
scholar on labor and
employment issues and their
intersection with IP rights,
published her most recent book,
Working for Hire: Unions,
Hollywood, and Madison
Avenue, and the prize-winning
book Working Knowledge,
Employee Innovation and the
Rise of the Corporate Intellectual
Property 1800-1930.
Creativity, Innovation, & Legal
Reform in Africa
Chancellor’s Professor of Law
Prof. Arewa convened a group of directors,
producers and actors in Nigeria’s film and
television industry for a week of events in
Southern California, including meetings in
Los Angeles with participants in the
television and film industry, a workshop in
Irvine that focused on discussing future paths
for the Nigerian film and television industry,
and the Africa Innovation 2016 conference,
which highlighted Nollywood as an innovative
sector in Africa.
Teams of graduate students from law, business, and science negotiated a joint development
agreement in the 2016 competition, sponsored by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Students
learned to collaborate and integrate the skills of multiple professions in a stem cell technology
simulation developed by Dr. Hans Keirstead of AiVita Biomedical.
Patent Sovereignty & International
Law Conference
Moderated by UCI Law Profs. Dan Burk, Greg
Shaffer and Olufunmilayo Arewa, experts on international patent law gathered to examine
national sovereignty under TRIPS and related treaties such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Agreement. Speakers discussed the proper balance between international patent harmonization and national laws on topics including pharmaceuticals, working requirements, and compulsory licensing.
Intellectual Property & High Technology
Consortium
Jack Lerner
Clinical Professor of Law
Christopher R. Leslie
Chancellor’s Professor of Law
R. Anthony Reese
Professor Lerner’s work examines
the intersection of law and
technology. He is the founding
director of the UCI Law
Intellectual Property, Arts,
and Technology Clinic and is
executive editor of the
award-winning treatise Internet
Law and Practice in California.
He has served on the International Documentary Association
board and as a trustee with the
Los Angeles Copyright Society.
Professor Leslie’s IP scholarship
focuses on antitrust law and
the intersection of antitrust law
and intellectual property rights.
He is past chair of the Antitrust
Law Section of the Association
of American Law Schools and
a senior editor for the Antitrust
Law Journal. He is a co-author of
the leading treatise IP and
Antitrust: An Analysis of
Antitrust Principles Applied to
Intellectual Property Law.
Professor Reese is a leading
expert on copyright law. Much
of his scholarship centers on the
interaction of copyright and
digital technologies, and his
current work examines various
aspects of copyright’s termination
of transfer provisions. He is
a co-author of two leading
casebooks in the field and is an
associate reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement
of the Law of Copyright.
Chancellor’s Professor of Law
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UCI Law faculty consult with leaders of the intellectual
property bar to increase enrollment of students with
degrees in engineering, science and computer science
— and ultimately expand the number of highly qualified
associates in IP and patent law.