Patent Law in Global Perspective

Ruth L. Okediji is the William L. Prosser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. She is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts on the international intellectual property system, its intersection with multilateral trade regimes, and implications for economic development. Her scholarship focuses on the needs of developing countries and issues of global knowledge governance in the context of international institutions and public international law. Professor Okediji has provided expert advice to numerous countries in drafting national patent laws and in TRIPS implementation and compliance.

Margo A. Bagley is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. She is one of the leading scholars in the area of international and comparative patent law and policy. Her scholarship focuses on issues relating to patents and biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and technology transfer. Professor Bagley is a member of the board of directors of the Public Patent Foundation, and she served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on University Management of Intellectual Property: Lessons from a Generation of Experience, Research, and Dialogue. Professor Bagley also lectures in the Munich Intellectual Property Law Program at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany, and has taught courses in China and Singapore.

Contributors: 

Margo A. Bagley, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

Mor Bakhoum, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law

Shamnad Basheer, Ministry of HRD Professor of IP Law, WB NUJS-West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (India)

Dan L. Burk, Chancellor's Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine

Nuno Pires de Carvalho serves in the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. All views expressed are the author's and not necessarily those of the Secretariat or member states of WIPO

Thomas F. Cotter, Briggs and Morgan Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School

Peter Drahos, Professor in the Regulatory Institutions Network, Australian National University; Chair in Intellectual Property, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London

Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

Graham Dutfield, Professor of International Governance, University of Leeds School of Law

Matthew Fisher, Senior Lecturer and Vice Dean (Education), University College London

Daniel Gervais, Professor of Law and Director, Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program, Vanderbilt Law School

Christopher Heath, Judge, Boards of Appeal, European Patent Office; Former Head of the Asian Department, Max Planck Institute, Munich

Cynthia Ho, Clifford E. Vickrey Research Professor and Director, Intellectual Property and Technology Program, University of Chicago - Loyola School of Law 

Mark D. Janis, Robert A. Lucas Chair in Law and Director, Center for Intellectual Property Research, Indiana University's Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, IN

Feroz Ali Khader, Coordinator, MHRD IPR Chair at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India 

Ruth L. Okediji, William L. Prosser Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School

Shobita Parthasarathy, Associate Professor, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Srividhya Ragavan, Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law

Arti K. Rai, Elvin R. Latty Professor, Duke Law School

Susan K. Sell, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University

Gregory Shaffer, Melvin C. Steen Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, and Affiliated Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota 

John R. Thomas, Professor of Law, Georgetown University

Geertrui van Overwalle, Professor of IP Law, University of Leuven, and Professor of Patent Law and New Technologies, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT), University of Tilburg

Esther van Zimmeren, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Liège, and post-doctoral research fellow of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), Centre for Intellectual Property Rights, University of Leuven

Alexis Walker, Ph.D candidate, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University