Professor Kristen Jakobsen Osenga teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property, patent law, law and language, and legislation and regulation. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection between law and linguistics in patent claim construction as well as other aspects of patent law and has appeared in a number of venues. Professor Osenga is a frequent speaker at symposiums on patent law and intellectual property and has made numerous presentations to academics and practitioners on these topics. Prior to joining academia, she practiced patent law and clerked for Judge Richard Linn of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She has also been a Visiting Professor at Emory University School of Law and at William & Mary School of Law.
Moderator at the "Solutions to the Software Patent Problem" conference, Santa Clara Law (law.scu.edu/hightech/2012-solutions-to-the-software-patent-problem.cfm)
Get the Balance Right!: Squaring Access With Patent Protection, 25 Pac. McGeorge Global Bus. & Dev. L.J. 309 (2012) (invited symposium essay).
A Penguin’s Defense of the Doctrine of Equivalents , 6 N.Y.U. J.L. & Liberty 313 (2011).
Cooperative Patent Prosecution: Viewing Patents through a Pragmatics Lens, 85 St. Johns L. Rev. 115 (2011).
Book Review, The IP Law Book Review, Feb. 2011, at 85 (reviewing William Kingston, Beyond Intellectual Property: Matching Information Protection to Innovation).
The PTOs Fast Track Takes Us in the Wrong Direction, 2010 Patently-O Patent L.J. 89.
Ants, Elephant Guns, and Statutory Subject Matter, 39 Arizona State Law Journal 1087 (2007).
Rembrandts in the Research Lab: Why Universities Should Take a Lesson from Big Business to Increase Innovation, 59 Maine Law Review 407 (2007).
The Componentization of Information, in Feist, Facts, and Functions (Robert Brauneis ed., Edward Elgar Press 2009).
Intellectual Property Law
Law and Language
Legislation and Regulation