2024 Supreme Court IP Review

Sarah Burstein Related Seminars and Products

Professor of Law

Chicago Kent College of Law

Sarah (Fackrell) Burstein joined the Chicago-Kent College of Law faculty in fall 2024 as a professor of law.

Professor Burstein’s research focuses on the intersection between art, design, and intellectual property law. She is an internationally-recognized expert in design patent law. Prior to becoming a law professor, Professor Burstein worked as an intellectual property litigation associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert W. Pratt in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.

Graeme Dinwoodie Related Seminars and Products

Professor

Chicago-Kent College of Law

Graeme B. Dinwoodie is a University Distinguished Professor and Global Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He returned to Chicago in 2018 after nine years as the IP Chair at the University of Oxford. He remains a Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford. Immediately prior to taking up the IP Chair at Oxford, Professor Dinwoodie was for several years a Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. During that time, Professor Dinwoodie led Chicago-Kent's Program in Intellectual Property Law, helping to build the program’s international reputation.  Professor Dinwoodie first joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2000 from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he was a three-time recipient of the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching. From 2005 to 2009, he also held a Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary College, University of London.  Professor Dinwoodie has held a number of visiting positions, including as the Yong Shook Lin Visiting Professor of IP Law at the National University of Singapore, a Global Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, and a visiting professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected as a member of the American Law Institute in 2003. In 2008, INTA awarded Professor Dinwoodie the Pattishall Medal for Teaching Excellence in Trademark Law—awarded only once every four years. Professor Dinwoodie holds law degrees from the University of Glasgow, Harvard Law School (where he was a John F. Kennedy Scholar) and Columbia Law School (where he was the Burton Fellow in residence).

Professor Dinwoodie is the author of many books and casebooks, including A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS: The Resilience of the International Intellectual Property Regime (Oxford University Press 2012) (with R. Dreyfuss), Trademarks and Unfair Competition: Law and Policy (6th ed. 2022) (with M. Janis), Trade Dress and Design Law (2010) (with M. Janis), and International Intellectual Property Law and Policy (2d ed. 2008) (with W. Hennessey, S. Perlmutter & G. Austin); dozens of articles, book chapters and other substantial works; and numerous essays and shorter works. His scholarship is widely cited by scholars in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. He received the 2008 Ladas Memorial Award from the International Trademark Association for his article Confusion Over Use: Contextualism in Trademark Law (with M. Janis), an article that was recently cited by the US Supreme Court in Jack Daniel’s v VIP Prods. He is considered a leading international authority in trademark law, design law, and international intellectual property law, and is regularly invited to speak at numerous conferences and institutions around the world.  Prof. Dinwoodie was elected to the IP Hall of Fame in 2020.

Professor Dinwoodie has served as a consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organization on matters of private international law, as an adviser to the American Law Institute Project on Principles on Jurisdiction and Recognition of Judgments in Intellectual Property Matters, and as a consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on the Protection of Traditional Knowledge. He currently serves as an adviser on the ALI's project on the Restatement of Copyright Law. He is a past chair of the Intellectual Property Section of the Association of American Law Schools and was president of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) from 2011 to 2013. Prior to teaching, Professor Dinwoodie had been an associate with Sullivan and Cromwell in New York, concentrating in the practice of intellectual property law and in commercial, corporate, and international litigation.

Sam Ernst Related Seminars and Products

Professor of Law

Western State College of Law at Westcliff University

Professor Ernst has published extensively in the areas of intellectual property and contract law as they relate to innovation policy, consumer protection, freedom of speech, the courts, and legal history. Prior to entering academia Professor Ernst was a partner at the international law firm of Covington & Burling in San Francisco, practicing intellectual property and appellate litigation while maintaining an active pro bono practice focusing on veterans disability recovery, civil liberties, immigration law, and homeless advocacy. During these years Professor Ernst also co-taught Pre-Trial Civil Litigation at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law. After law school Professor Ernst served as a law clerk to the Honorable Timothy Dyk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In 2010, Professor Ernst was recognized by the Federal Circuit Bar Association for his work on behalf of veterans. In 2006 and 2008, he received a Certificate of Excellence from Insight Housing (formerly the Berkeley Food and Housing Project) and serves on the board of that organization. Professor Ernst earned his JD Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown University Law Center. He has a BA in Modern Literary Studies from UC Santa Cruz and an MA in Comparative Literature from UCLA.

Melinda Kern Related Seminars and Products

Attorney-Advisor

U.S. Copyright Office

Melinda joined the U.S. Copyright Office (“Office”) as an Attorney-Advisor in 2022, but started with the Office in 2020 as a Barbara A. Ringer Copyright Honors Fellow.  Since joining the Office, she has worked on a variety of copyright matters, such as rulemakings, litigation, administrative appeals, and several policy studies.  She received her J.D. from the George Washington University Law School and her B.A. in Government and World Affairs from the University of Tampa.

Jonathan Moskin Related Seminars and Products

Partner

Foley & Lardner LLP

Jonathan E. Moskin has acted as lead trial counsel and otherwise litigated trademark, copyright, and patent cases, as well as contract disputes, privacy matters, false advertising, and right of publicity cases in numerous federal, trial, and appellate courts. He is a partner in the firm’s IP Litigation Practice Group as well as its Trademark, Copyright & Advertising and Privacy, Security & Information Management Practices.

Jonathan is described by clients as a “superb communicator” who also “has an eye for practical advice” and a “leader in the field.”

He has successfully represented major companies in intellectual property matters, including Acco Products; Anne Frank House, Aristocrat Technologies; Cablevision; Calvin Klein; Cannondale Bicycle Corp.; Citigroup; Caesars Entertainment; Diageo; Distillerie Stock; Deutsche Bank Trust Co.; Emjoi, Inc.; Field & Stream Holdings, LLC; Games Workshop; Hasbro; Herman Miller, Inc.; Ingersoll-Rand; Jim Beam Brands; JP Morgan & Chase Co.; Novartis; Phillips Van Heusen; Priceline; QVC, Rambus, Inc.; Sony Pictures Entertainment; Stiefel Laboratories; Swiss Army Brands; Target and Valentino.

Prior to joining Foley, Jonathan was a partner at other large law firms, where he was chair of the Trademark/Copyright Group.

Tyler Ochoa Related Seminars and Products

Professor of Law

Santa Clara University School of Law

            Tyler T. Ochoa is a Professor with the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law in California, where he teaches courses in copyright law, trademark law, rights of publicity, and international intellectual property.  Professor Ochoa is the author of annual updates to the treatise, The Law of Copyright (West 2024 edition); a co-author of Copyright Law (Carolina Academic Press 12th ed. forthcoming 2025), a widely-used casebook; a co-author of Understanding Intellectual Property Law (Carolina Academic Press 2020), a student hornbook; and a co-author of The Puzzling Purposes of Statutes of Limitation, 28 Pac. L.J. 453 (1997).  His article, Patent and Copyright Term Extension and the Constitu­tion: A Historical Perspective, 49 J. Copyr. Soc’y U.S.A. 19 (2001), was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ash­croft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003).  He has written numerous articles on intellectual property law and has submitted four amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court.  Prior to joining the faculty at Santa Clara, he was a Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California.

Orly Ravid Related Seminars and Products

Associate Dean, Biederman Entertainment, Media, and Sports Law Institute | Associate Professor of Law

Southwestern Law School

Professor Orly Ravid is formerly Senior Counsel at TUBI (a FOX Corporation subsidiary). After graduating from Southwestern's SCALE program, she was an entertainment attorney (Of Counsel) at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (MSK) and continued running The Film Collaborative (TFC).  She returned to Southwestern in November 2018 as Director of the Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute and as an Associate Professor of Law.  Professor Ravid has over 20 years of experience in independent film (spanning distribution, sales/licensing, development, production, and business affairs).  

Professor Ravid advised and contributed to Sundance’s Artist Services / Transparency Project and was an Associate Programmer of documentaries at the festival. She has spoken on panels and conferences at film schools and festivals including Sundance, Cannes, SXSW, AFI, IDA, Doc NYC, UCLA, USC, IDFA, and LAFF/Film Independent. Professor Ravid previously served as an executive at Senator Entertainment, Wolfe Releasing, and Maxmedia.  She co-authored the book series Selling Your Film Without Selling Your Soul and contributed to How Not to Sign a Film Contract.  

At TFC, Ravid has been committed to educating creators and helping artistically and intellectually important films and series sustainably reach their respective audiences. Having focused on VOD and rights splitting for over a decade and being a regular traveler to content festivals and markets worldwide, Professor Ravid keeps up with the entertainment industry’s trends and challenges so she can best advise clients and law students alike.

Paul Rogerson Related Seminars and Products

Visiting Assistant Professor

Chicago Kent College of Law

Paul Rogerson joined the Chicago-Kent College of Law as a Visiting Assistant Professor in fall 2023. Before that, he graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Posner, and practiced law at Sidley Austin LLP and Durie Tangri LLP. His primary research interest is patent law.

Education

J.D., University of Chicago Law School

M.Sc., University College London

B.A., University of California Berkeley

Andres Sawicki Related Seminars and Products

Professor of Law

University of Miami

Andres Sawicki is a Professor of Law and Director of the Business of Innovation, Law, and Technology Concentration (BILT) and teaches in the area of intellectual property. His primary research projects explore the extent to which IP can help solve problems in the production of inventions and expressive works. He is particularly interested in the complex psychology of creativity, and in the difficulty of coordinating multiple creative collaborators.  Professor Sawicki’s research also examines the interaction among distinct patent doctrines. His work has been published by leading journals, including Cornell Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, and The University of Chicago Law Review, among others.

Professor Sawicki graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with S.B. degrees in Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Science, Technology, & Society. He then earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2006, where he was an Articles Editor for the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.

After graduation, he clerked for the Honorable Robert D. Sack of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 2007 through 2010, he worked as an associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. His practice focused on intellectual property litigation, especially Hatch-Waxman Act pharmaceutical patent cases. Prior to his appointment at Miami Law, Professor Sawicki was a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

Ben Siders Related Seminars and Products

Intellectual Property Practice Group Leader

Lewis Rice LLC

Benjamin J. Siders is an intellectual property and technology licensing and compliance attorney with Lewis Rice LLC in St. Louis, MO, where is the Practice Group Leader for Intellectual Property.  He is a licensed patent prosecutor, and the chairman of the Copyright Law Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA).  As a former software engineer, Ben is "trilingual" (fluent in tech jargon, legalese, and English), and puts his software background to work representing small businesses, entrepreneurs, and startups in the software and computer technology sectors, as well as guiding larger enterprises through complex software audits.  He also enjoys niche practices in video games, board game, and music law.  Ben is a co-author of the American Bar Association's Legal Guide to Video Game Development, was published in the American Bar Association's Landslide journal on IP law regarding board games, holds a patent on a geogaming technology for creating parallel reality games, recently filed an amicus brief in Warner Chappell v. Nealy on behalf of AIPLA, and occasionally co-hosts a podcast about geek culture called A Lawyer’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Cathay Smith Related Seminars and Products

Professor of Law

Chicago Kent College of Law

Cathay Y. N. Smith joined the Chicago-Kent College of Law faculty in fall 2024 from the University of Montana Blewett School of Law. She has also taught at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, New York Law School’s London Program, and was a visiting academic and research fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIPRC) at the University of Oxford.

Smith’s research focuses on copyright law and free speech in contemporary culture and the art world. She teaches copyright law, property law, and art and cultural property law courses. 

Professor Smith currently serves as co-director of Chicago-Kent’s Intellectual Property Law Program.  Her past leadership experiences include serving as co-acting dean at Montana Law, and as the 2022 chair and 2021 chair-elect of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Intellectual Property.  

Prior to entering academia, Professor Smith was an associate in the trademark and copyright group at Katten in Chicago where she represented multinational technology, fashion, and entertainment and media corporations. She’s admitted to the Bar in Illinois, Colorado, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  

Education

M.Sc., The London School of Economics and Political Science

J.D., Loyola University Chicago School of Law

B.S., Washington and Lee University

Prof. Rebecca Tushnet Related Seminars and Products

Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment

Harvard Law School

Rebecca Tushnet is the inaugural Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law at Harvard Law School.  Her work focuses on the intersection between intellectual property and advertising law and freedom of speech.

Saurabh Vishnubhakat Related Seminars and Products

Professor of Law

Cardozo School of Law

Saurabh Vishnubhakat is a Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property & Information Law Program at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.  During the 2024–2025 year, Professor Vishnubhakat is a Visiting Scholar at the NYU School of Law's Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy.  He is also a Research Fellow at the Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy and a Senior Scholar at the George Mason University Center for IP and Innovation Policy.  He writes and teaches on intellectual property, administrative law, civil procedure, and remedies, especially from an empirical perspective. 

Professor Vishnubhakat’s work appears in leading law reviews as well as peer-reviewed legal, economic, and life science journals.  His writings have been cited in federal judicial opinions, in agency reports and rulemaking, and in over fifty Supreme Court petitions and briefs across more than two dozen cases. 

Until 2022, he was a professor at Texas A&M University, where he held tenured appointments in the School of Law and the Dwight Look College of Engineering and guest-lectured in the Mays Business School.  Before becoming a full-time academic, Professor Vishnubhakat served in the United States Patent and Trademark Office as the principal legal advisor to that agency’s first two chief economists.  He was also a faculty fellow at Duke Law School and a postdoctoral associate at the Duke Center for Public Genomics.

Mary Beth Walker Related Seminars and Products

Attorney

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Mary Beth Walker in an attorney in the USPTO’s Register Protection Office.

Before her recent move to the Register Protection Office, Mary Beth worked as an Associate Solicitor in the USPTO’s Office of the Solicitor for nearly ten years. In that role she litigated and advised on trademark cases at all levels of federal court practice, including at the Supreme Court.

Mary Beth previously served as IP counsel to the House Judiciary Committee (on detail), and as an attorney in the Office of General Counsel at the U.S. House of Representatives. Before joining the public sector, Mary Beth worked for two law firms in DC, where her work focused on trademark and copyright matters. She began her law career as a clerk in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.   

Mary Beth is a graduate of Duke Law School and the University of Virginia.