Mark Lemley, a leading scholar of patent, intellectual property and Internet law, will join the Stanford Law School faculty this summer and direct the school's Program in Law, Science and Technology.
Considered among the top intellectual property scholars in the nation, Lemley has written six books and more than 50 articles on patents, copyright and trademark, as well as antitrust and cyberspace law. He is currently a professor at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley, where he co-directs the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.
"No one knows more than he does about patent law and the emerging law of the Internet," Stanford Law School Dean Kathleen Sullivan said.
Lemley's major contributions to legal scholarship focus on how the economics and technology of the Internet affect patent law, copyright law and trademark law. He has conducted major empirical studies of patent issuance and of Internet standard-setting organizations that have helped illuminate how the economics of intellectual property differs across industries. And he has made important contributions to the public policy debate on how licensing and contracting should take place over the Internet.
Lemley graduated from Stanford in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in economics and political science. He earned a law degree from Boalt in 1991.
