Christopher A. Cotropia
Associate Professor of Law
Office: Room 203
Tel. (804) 484-1574
Fax (804) 287-8683
ccotropi@richmond.edu
Courses Taught: Intellectual Property
Fundamentals; Property
More Information:
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Intellectual Property Institute
Education
J.D., University of Texas School of Law (1999)
with Honors
Order of the Coif
Articles Editor – Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal
Robert S. Strauss Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Law, 1998-1999
Queen Mary & Westfield College – Centre for Commercial Law Studies (Fall 1998)
Study in International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law
B.S., Northwestern University (1996)
with Honors and Distinction in both Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering
Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu Engineering Honor Societies
Professional Experience
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, VA
Associate Professor of Law, 2006-present
Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans, LA
Associate Professor of Law, 2003-2006
C.J. Morrow Research Associate Professor of Law, 2005-2006
Fish & Richardson P.C., Washington, DC, 2001-2003
Intellectual Property Litigation Associate
Hon. Alvin A. Schall, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, DC, 1999-2001
Law Clerk
Recent & Featured Publications
Books and Contributions to Books
Nonobviousness as an Exercise in Gap Measuring, in Intellectual Property And Information Wealth (P. Yu ed., Praeger Publishers, 2006).
Internet, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David S. Tanenhau ed., New York: MacMillian Reference USA/Thomson-Gale, forthcoming 2008).
Legal Periodical Articles
Compulsory Licensing Under TRIPS and the Supreme Court of the United States' Decision in eBay v. MercExchange, in Patent Law and Theory: A Handbook of Contemporary Research (Toshiko Takenaka and Rainer Moufang eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., forthcoming 2008).
Nonobviousness and the Federal Circuit: An Empirical Analysis of Recent Case Law, 82 Notre Dame L. Rev. 911(2007).
Patent Law Viewed Through an Evidentiary Lens: The "Suggestion Test" as a Rule of Evidence, 2006 BYU L. Rev. 1517 (2007).
Observations on Recent Patent Cases: The Year in Review, 88 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc'y 46 (2006) (invited submission).
Patent Claim Interpretation Methodologies and Their Claim Scope Paradigms, 47 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 49 (2005).
Patent Claim Interpretation and Information Costs, 9 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 57 (2005) (symposium on Markman v. Westview Instruments).
"After-Arising" Technologies and Tailoring Patent Scope, 61 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 151 (2005) (issue on intellectual property).
Bar Admissions
California, District of Columbia, United States Patent and Trademark Office