Jonathan Barnett is the Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law at the Gould School of Law, University of Southern California. He founded and currently directs the USC Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program. Barnett specializes in intellectual property, contracts, antitrust, and corporate law. Barnett has published in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Journal of Legal Studies, Review of Law & Economics, Journal of Corporation Law and other scholarly journals.
He joined USC Law in fall 2006 and was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law in fall 2010. Prior to academia, Barnett practiced corporate law as a senior associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, specializing in private equity and mergers and acquisitions transactions. He was also a visiting assistant professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York. A magna cum laude graduate of University of Pennsylvania, Barnett received a MPhil from Cambridge University and a JD from Yale Law School.
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An Unconventional View of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Policy — A Fireside Chat with Prof. Jonathan Barnett
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036
Dispatches from the Patent Wars: The High-Stakes Battle Between Qualcomm and Apple
A Teleforum Sponsored by the Intellectual Property Practice Group
TeleforumAn Unconventional View of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Policy — A Fireside Chat with Prof. Jonathan Barnett
Join us on Thursday, February 27th at 12:00 PM ET for a special lunch panel sponsored by our Intellectual Property Practice...
Why Weak Intellectual Property Rights Threaten Innovation and Competition
Over the past two decades, a largely overlooked revolution in intellectual property law has taken...
Patent Owners in the Soup... No Injunction for You!
Some Intellectual Property experts contend that American patent reliability has been in decline for 20...
Patent Owners in the Soup... No Injunction for You!
Some Intellectual Property experts contend that American patent reliability has been in decline for 20...
Dispatches from the Patent Wars: The High-Stakes Battle Between Qualcomm and Apple
A Teleforum Sponsored by the Intellectual Property Practice Group
American patent law has witnessed a number of high-profile patent wars throughout history and today...