Partner, Wiley Rein, LLP
Megan L. Brown is a partner at Wiley Rein LLP. She has significant litigation, appellate and regulatory experience before state and federal courts and agencies.
Ms. Brown helps businesses respond to federal, state and local regulation and investigations raising administrative law, statutory interpretation, and constitutional issues, including the First Amendment.
Of Counsel, Womble Bond Dickinson
Dwayne represents clients in complex proceedings concerning communications law, constitutional issues, the interpretation and enforcement of federal statutes, and administrative law. As an experienced advocate, Dwayne regularly practices before federal agencies, federal appellate and district courts, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
In addition to his legal practice, Dwayne serves as an adjunct professor at William & Mary Law School where he co-directs the Appellate and Supreme Court Clinic. The Clinic focuses on First Amendment (free speech and religion) and Fourth Amendment (search and seizure) cases in various federal courts of appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Previously, Dwayne served as a law clerk to Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Judge George L. Russell, III, of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. He is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association and the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court.
Founding Member, Flachsbart & Greenspoon
Robert Greenspoon is a founding member of Flachsbart & Greenspoon, LLC. He is a registered patent attorney who concentrates his practice on the trial and appeal of patent cases and other complex litigation. He often leads the charge to advance important sweeping policy issues favoring rights holders. He received his undergraduate science degree in physics from the University of Chicago and his law degree from the University of Michigan. He is also a former federal district court law clerk.
In patent cases, Mr. Greenspoon represents both licensing businesses and operating companies, and both rights holders and accused infringers. He has argued and won numerous cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, among others. One of his most recent appellate wins came in 2015, when the Eighth Circuit reinstated his client’s case against a bank, remanding to allow a determination of whether it should be held accountable for aiding and abetting a $190 million Ponzi scheme. In January 2016, Mr. Greenspoon also presented his client’s petition to the Supreme Court in Cooper v. Lee, No. 15-955, seeking to hold America Invents Act reviews unconstitutional on Article III separation of powers grounds. This position has attracted numerous “friends of the court” rallying in support from affected businesses, inventor non-profit groups and academia. The Supreme Court will likely determine whether to hear the case in the fall.
Mr. Greenspoon is also a past board member of the United Inventors Association of the United States of America.
Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Adam Mossoff is Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. He has published extensively on why patents, copyrights, and other intellectual property rights have been—and should be—legally secured to innovators and creators as property rights. His scholarship has been relied on by the United States Supreme Court, by lower federal courts, and by U.S. federal agencies. He has been invited to testify numerous times before the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives on intellectual property legislation. His writings on intellectual property policy have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Investors Business Daily, and in other media outlets. His journal articles can be downloaded here.
Professor Mossoff is a longstanding member of the Executive Committee of the Intellectual Property Practice Group of the Federalist Society, on which he served as Chairperson from 2016-2018, and he is Chair of the Intellectual Property Working Group of the Regulatory Transparency Project of the Federalist Society. He is a Senior Fellow and Chair of the Forum for Intellectual Property at the Hudson Institute, a Visiting Intellectual Property Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee of ANSI and he has served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the IEEE-USA, on which he remains a member in good standing.
Partner, Goldstein & Russell, P.C.
Tejinder Singh has represented parties and amici before the Supreme Court and lower courts. His matters have involved a broad range of subject areas, including constitutional law, the enforcement of arbitration awards, civil rights, criminal defense, financial regulation, and gambling law. In 2014, Tejinder argued and won the Supreme Court case Lane v. Franks, establishing that the First Amendment protects the subpoenaed testimony of public employees. He was named to the National Law Journal's D.C. Rising Stars list. A regular contributor to the SCOTUSblog, Tejinder also makes frequent television and radio appearances to discuss developments at the Court. Tejinder is an instructor in the Harvard Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.
Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP, Crowell & Moring LLP
Trevor K. Copeland is a partner in the law firm of Crowell & Moring LLP (formerly Brinks Gilson & Lione PC).
His patent prosecution experience includes work on medical devices, sunglasses, footwear, sprinklers and irrigation equipment, decorative statuary and water gardens, biotechnology and general mechanical arts. He works closely with clients having products in these areas to develop intellectual property acquisition and management strategies, as well as to protect new ideas and products while respecting the rights of others.
Mr. Copeland's further practice includes design protection, whereby clients are able to protect the unique and valuable ornamental designs of their products using patent, copyright, and/or trademark. He has also litigated utility patents on clients' behalf, and has worked on preliminary injunction lawsuits for both design and utility patents, including winning a preliminary injunction against a foreign company preparing to launch an infringing laser-level device with a suction base.
Mr. Copeland has former experience as a high school biology and chemistry teacher, and as a visiting scientist with a Fungal Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Laboratory Group.
Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law (on leave); Senior Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice
Professor Dolin’s scholarship centers on patent law with a specific focus on how the patent regime affects innovation, especially in bio-pharmaceutical areas. His work in these areas includes a number of scholarly articles, presentations, amicus briefs, and congressional testimony.
Dr. Dolin is currently on leave from his academic duties while he serves as Senior Counsel in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice.
From January 2020 to January 2022, Professor Dolin served as a resident Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Palau. In this role, he (together with other members of the Court) heard appeals in civil, criminal, administrative, and constitutional law matters.
Prior to joining the University of Baltimore School of Law, Professor Dolin held visiting appointments in other law schools. He also served as a law clerk to the Hon. Pauline Newman, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the late Hon. H. Emory Widener Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Rumors that he has a real Russian bear in his office are entirely true.
Associate Professor, University of Akron School of Law
Professor Camilla A. Hrdy is Associate Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Research & Development at The University of Akron School of Law.
Her primary teaching areas are Intellectual Property Law, Trade Secret Law, Trademark Law, Patent Law, State and Local Government Law, and Civil Procedure (Due Process and Federalism).
Professor Hrdy’s research has focused on the role of federal, state, and local governments in promoting innovation and economic development; the history of United States patent law; the law and policy of trade secrets and unfair competition; and the relationship between intellectual property law, innovation, and human well-being.
Her articles have appeared or will soon appear in various law journals, including Stanford Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Florida Law Review, Colorado Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Lewis & Clark Law Review, and Berkeley Law & Technology Journal. She is a three-time recipient of the Thomas G. Byers Outstanding Faculty Scholarly Publication.
She is also a regular blogger on the IP scholarship blog, Written Description, where she writes on IP scholarship related to trade secrets, trademarks, patents, IP theory, the history of intellectual property in America, and numerous other topics.
Professor Hrdy holds a J.D. from Berkeley Law, a B.A. from Harvard University, and an M.Phil. in from the University of Cambridge, Department of History & Philosophy of Science. She received Harvard’s Hoopes prize, and a Redhead Prize from the University of Cambridge Department of History & Philosophy of Science.
Before coming to Akron Law, she was a resident fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project and a teaching fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Center for Innovation, Technology & Competition.
She clerked for U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack in the Southern District of Texas.
Student Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
Ben Picozzi is a J.D. candidate in the class of 2016 at Yale Law School. His interests include patent law and innovation policy. He is an Articles Editor for the Yale Journal of International Law.
Prior to law school, Ben worked at the International Intellectual Property Institute, a nonprofit organization promoting creative uses of intellectual property in developing countries. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford in 2010.
Associate Professor, Boston College Law School
David Olson is an associate professor and the Faculty Director of the Program on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He teaches patent law, intellectual property law, antitrust law, and various seminars. His research and writing primarily focus on patents, copyrights, antitrust, and incentives for innovation and competition. Since joining BC Law in 2007, he has been recognized for his teaching excellence and contributions. In 2011, he received the Business & Law Society Faculty Award for Achievement in Business & Law. In 2012, he received the Professor Emil Slizewski Award for Faculty Excellence. For one semester in 2015, Olson served as a visiting professor at Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he conducted research and taught a course on intellectual property.
Olson has published scholarly articles on patent law, copyright law, antitrust, music licensing, and first amendment copyright issues. His writing has been cited in Supreme Court and other legal opinions. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on matters of drug patents, FDA regulation, and antitrust.
The media frequently seeks Olson’s insights and opinions. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, and Reuters, among others. He has appeared as a guest panelist on WBUR’s Radio Boston, WAMU's Kojo Namdi Show, and Public Radio Canada. His op-eds have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Washington Times, and The Hill.
Olson came to Boston College from Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, where he conducted research on patent law and litigated copyright fair use impact cases. Before entering academia, Olson practiced law as a patent litigator. He clerked for Judge Jerry Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Austin E. Owen Research Scholar & Professor of Law, The University of Richmond School of Law
Dean Kristen Jakobsen Osenga teaches and writes in the areas of patent law, antitrust, and legislation and regulation. Some of her recent scholarship focuses on standard development organizations, patent eligible subject matter, patent licensing firms, litigation and remedies for patent infringement, and patent law reform. She has written numerous law review articles on these and other topics, as well as book chapters and op eds on various aspects of patent law. Additionally, she has spoken on these issues at many academic conferences and bar events. Dean Osenga is Chief Policy Counselor for the Inventors Defense Alliance, as well as an active member of the Federal Circuit Bar Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
Dean Osenga received a B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, and a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law, where she graduated magna cum laude. After law school, she practiced at the law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett, & Dunner LLP, (now Finnegan) where she did patent prosecution and litigation. She then clerked for the Judge Richard Linn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. After clerking, she entered academia, teaching first at Chicago-Kent College of Law and then at the University of Richmond, where she has been since 2006. She has also been a Visiting Professor at Emory University School of Law and at William & Mary School of Law.
Partner, Wiley Rein, LLP
Megan L. Brown is a partner at Wiley Rein LLP. She has significant litigation, appellate and regulatory experience before state and federal courts and agencies.
Ms. Brown helps businesses respond to federal, state and local regulation and investigations raising administrative law, statutory interpretation, and constitutional issues, including the First Amendment.
Of Counsel, Womble Bond Dickinson
Dwayne represents clients in complex proceedings concerning communications law, constitutional issues, the interpretation and enforcement of federal statutes, and administrative law. As an experienced advocate, Dwayne regularly practices before federal agencies, federal appellate and district courts, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
In addition to his legal practice, Dwayne serves as an adjunct professor at William & Mary Law School where he co-directs the Appellate and Supreme Court Clinic. The Clinic focuses on First Amendment (free speech and religion) and Fourth Amendment (search and seizure) cases in various federal courts of appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Previously, Dwayne served as a law clerk to Judge Janice Rogers Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Judge George L. Russell, III, of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. He is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association and the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court.
Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP, Crowell & Moring LLP
Trevor K. Copeland is a partner in the law firm of Crowell & Moring LLP (formerly Brinks Gilson & Lione PC).
His patent prosecution experience includes work on medical devices, sunglasses, footwear, sprinklers and irrigation equipment, decorative statuary and water gardens, biotechnology and general mechanical arts. He works closely with clients having products in these areas to develop intellectual property acquisition and management strategies, as well as to protect new ideas and products while respecting the rights of others.
Mr. Copeland's further practice includes design protection, whereby clients are able to protect the unique and valuable ornamental designs of their products using patent, copyright, and/or trademark. He has also litigated utility patents on clients' behalf, and has worked on preliminary injunction lawsuits for both design and utility patents, including winning a preliminary injunction against a foreign company preparing to launch an infringing laser-level device with a suction base.
Mr. Copeland has former experience as a high school biology and chemistry teacher, and as a visiting scientist with a Fungal Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Laboratory Group.
Founding Member, Flachsbart & Greenspoon
Robert Greenspoon is a founding member of Flachsbart & Greenspoon, LLC. He is a registered patent attorney who concentrates his practice on the trial and appeal of patent cases and other complex litigation. He often leads the charge to advance important sweeping policy issues favoring rights holders. He received his undergraduate science degree in physics from the University of Chicago and his law degree from the University of Michigan. He is also a former federal district court law clerk.
In patent cases, Mr. Greenspoon represents both licensing businesses and operating companies, and both rights holders and accused infringers. He has argued and won numerous cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, among others. One of his most recent appellate wins came in 2015, when the Eighth Circuit reinstated his client’s case against a bank, remanding to allow a determination of whether it should be held accountable for aiding and abetting a $190 million Ponzi scheme. In January 2016, Mr. Greenspoon also presented his client’s petition to the Supreme Court in Cooper v. Lee, No. 15-955, seeking to hold America Invents Act reviews unconstitutional on Article III separation of powers grounds. This position has attracted numerous “friends of the court” rallying in support from affected businesses, inventor non-profit groups and academia. The Supreme Court will likely determine whether to hear the case in the fall.
Mr. Greenspoon is also a past board member of the United Inventors Association of the United States of America.
Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
Adam Mossoff is Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. He has published extensively on why patents, copyrights, and other intellectual property rights have been—and should be—legally secured to innovators and creators as property rights. His scholarship has been relied on by the United States Supreme Court, by lower federal courts, and by U.S. federal agencies. He has been invited to testify numerous times before the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives on intellectual property legislation. His writings on intellectual property policy have also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Investors Business Daily, and in other media outlets. His journal articles can be downloaded here.
Professor Mossoff is a longstanding member of the Executive Committee of the Intellectual Property Practice Group of the Federalist Society, on which he served as Chairperson from 2016-2018, and he is Chair of the Intellectual Property Working Group of the Regulatory Transparency Project of the Federalist Society. He is a Senior Fellow and Chair of the Forum for Intellectual Property at the Hudson Institute, a Visiting Intellectual Property Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee of ANSI and he has served as Chair and Vice-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the IEEE-USA, on which he remains a member in good standing.
Partner, Goldstein & Russell, P.C.
Tejinder Singh has represented parties and amici before the Supreme Court and lower courts. His matters have involved a broad range of subject areas, including constitutional law, the enforcement of arbitration awards, civil rights, criminal defense, financial regulation, and gambling law. In 2014, Tejinder argued and won the Supreme Court case Lane v. Franks, establishing that the First Amendment protects the subpoenaed testimony of public employees. He was named to the National Law Journal's D.C. Rising Stars list. A regular contributor to the SCOTUSblog, Tejinder also makes frequent television and radio appearances to discuss developments at the Court. Tejinder is an instructor in the Harvard Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.
Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law (on leave); Senior Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice
Professor Dolin’s scholarship centers on patent law with a specific focus on how the patent regime affects innovation, especially in bio-pharmaceutical areas. His work in these areas includes a number of scholarly articles, presentations, amicus briefs, and congressional testimony.
Dr. Dolin is currently on leave from his academic duties while he serves as Senior Counsel in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice.
From January 2020 to January 2022, Professor Dolin served as a resident Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Palau. In this role, he (together with other members of the Court) heard appeals in civil, criminal, administrative, and constitutional law matters.
Prior to joining the University of Baltimore School of Law, Professor Dolin held visiting appointments in other law schools. He also served as a law clerk to the Hon. Pauline Newman, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the late Hon. H. Emory Widener Jr., of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Rumors that he has a real Russian bear in his office are entirely true.
Associate Professor, University of Akron School of Law
Professor Camilla A. Hrdy is Associate Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Research & Development at The University of Akron School of Law.
Her primary teaching areas are Intellectual Property Law, Trade Secret Law, Trademark Law, Patent Law, State and Local Government Law, and Civil Procedure (Due Process and Federalism).
Professor Hrdy’s research has focused on the role of federal, state, and local governments in promoting innovation and economic development; the history of United States patent law; the law and policy of trade secrets and unfair competition; and the relationship between intellectual property law, innovation, and human well-being.
Her articles have appeared or will soon appear in various law journals, including Stanford Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Florida Law Review, Colorado Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Lewis & Clark Law Review, and Berkeley Law & Technology Journal. She is a three-time recipient of the Thomas G. Byers Outstanding Faculty Scholarly Publication.
She is also a regular blogger on the IP scholarship blog, Written Description, where she writes on IP scholarship related to trade secrets, trademarks, patents, IP theory, the history of intellectual property in America, and numerous other topics.
Professor Hrdy holds a J.D. from Berkeley Law, a B.A. from Harvard University, and an M.Phil. in from the University of Cambridge, Department of History & Philosophy of Science. She received Harvard’s Hoopes prize, and a Redhead Prize from the University of Cambridge Department of History & Philosophy of Science.
Before coming to Akron Law, she was a resident fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project and a teaching fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School Center for Innovation, Technology & Competition.
She clerked for U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack in the Southern District of Texas.
Associate Professor, Boston College Law School
David Olson is an associate professor and the Faculty Director of the Program on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He teaches patent law, intellectual property law, antitrust law, and various seminars. His research and writing primarily focus on patents, copyrights, antitrust, and incentives for innovation and competition. Since joining BC Law in 2007, he has been recognized for his teaching excellence and contributions. In 2011, he received the Business & Law Society Faculty Award for Achievement in Business & Law. In 2012, he received the Professor Emil Slizewski Award for Faculty Excellence. For one semester in 2015, Olson served as a visiting professor at Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he conducted research and taught a course on intellectual property.
Olson has published scholarly articles on patent law, copyright law, antitrust, music licensing, and first amendment copyright issues. His writing has been cited in Supreme Court and other legal opinions. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on matters of drug patents, FDA regulation, and antitrust.
The media frequently seeks Olson’s insights and opinions. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, and Reuters, among others. He has appeared as a guest panelist on WBUR’s Radio Boston, WAMU's Kojo Namdi Show, and Public Radio Canada. His op-eds have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Washington Times, and The Hill.
Olson came to Boston College from Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, where he conducted research on patent law and litigated copyright fair use impact cases. Before entering academia, Olson practiced law as a patent litigator. He clerked for Judge Jerry Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Student Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
Ben Picozzi is a J.D. candidate in the class of 2016 at Yale Law School. His interests include patent law and innovation policy. He is an Articles Editor for the Yale Journal of International Law.
Prior to law school, Ben worked at the International Intellectual Property Institute, a nonprofit organization promoting creative uses of intellectual property in developing countries. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford in 2010.
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