ABOUT US
Faculty
James Gibson
Professor of Law and Director
Professor Gibson founded and serves as the Director of the IP Institute at Richmond
Law. His research interests include the effect of new technologies on traditional
legal regulation and the formation and breadth of IP entitlements. He frequently
speaks, writes, and consults on issues involving law, innovation, technology,
and ethics. He has authored amicus briefs in Supreme Court cases and has been
quoted in the New York Times, Financial Times, Slate, National
Law Journal and other publications. Publications & More
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Christopher A. Cotropia
Professor of Law
Before joining the Richmond Law faculty, Professor Cotropia taught at Tulane University School of Law, where he was the C.J. Morrow Research Professor for the 2005-06 academic year in recognition of his productivity as a scholar. He also practiced with Fish & Richardson in Washington, DC, and clerked for the Honorable Alvin A. Schall of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Professor Cotropia received his law degree from The University of Texas School of Law, where he was elected to Order of the Coif and served as an editor of the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal. He earned a B.S. in both Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from Northwestern University.
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Kristen Jakobsen Osenga
Associate Professor of Law
Before joining the Richmond Law faculty, Professor Osenga spent two years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, clerked for the Honorable Richard Linn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and worked for Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, where she focused on patent litigation and prosecution. She earned her law degree from the University of Illinois, magna cum laude, where she served as the Notes Editor of the Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy and was elected Order of the Coif. She also has a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University. Professor Osenga’s primary research interest is patent law, and she has written a number of articles on Patent Office reform, patent litigation, and Federal Circuit jurisprudence. She regularly speaks at conferences across the country on reforming the patent office, improving claim construction in patent litigation, examining the effects of patents on scientific research, protecting and utilizing intellectual property obtained by institutions of higher education, and other important IP issues. Publications & More Info
John Carroll
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property and Transactional Law Clinic
John Carroll teaches intellectual property courses such as Intellectual Property Licensing and Intellectual Property Litigation. He also brings his experience developing Intellectual Property law departments in business and industry to found and direct Intellectual Property and Transactional Law Clinic at the University of Richmond School of Law. The Clinic attracts clients in the business, artistic and technological communities who need business formation counseling, intellectual property representation, as well as strategic legal analytic services. In addition to helping students learn the law in the context of clinical legal practice, John teaches clinical legal students principles of negotiation and dispute avoidance and resolution. John teaches, writes and consults on a range of issues, including strategic intellectual property transactions and litigation matters. His academic research interests include exploring the limits of the enforceability of law in today’s society. Publications & More Info