Roberta J. Morris

• Brief Biography
• My Recent Publications
• My Recent Activities
• Courses Taught, 1991-present

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• February 2007:  San Mateo County Board of Supervisors hearing on Palo Alto Way Crosswalk Removal:  speaker in opposition
• Fall 2006:  Founder, Women Meditating Patent Law (bimonthly lunch club)
  
• Summer 2005: Coordinator, Michigan Law's Fawley Summer Supreme Court Series, Ann Arbor
• Spring 2004: Patent law expert witness, contract arbitration, Michigan
• June 2003: Honorable Mention, Current Magazine's Fifth Annual Fiction and Poetry Contest, for "Crocuses" (poem)
• September 2002: Guest Lecturer in Michigan Engineering Prof. Debasish Dutta's Mechanical Engineering 590 course on Global Product Realization, Ann Arbor (and webcast to Seoul, Korea; Berlin, Germany; and Oxford, England)
• June 2002: Honorable Mention, Current Magazine's Fourth Annual Fiction and Poetry Contest, for "The Recycled Bridegroom" (short story)
• April 2002: Keynote Speaker, Chi Epsilon Banquet, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• February 2002: Featured Speaker, Practising Law Institute, "Patenting the New Business Model," New York City (also February 2001 (NYC), June 2000 (San Francisco) and February 2000 (NYC))
• October 2001: Guest Lecturer in Michigan Engineering Prof. Debasish Dutta's Mechanical Engineering 590 course on Global Product Realization, Ann Arbor (and webcast to Seoul, Korea and Oxford, England)
• Fall 2001: Founder, Law and Histrionics Workshop, University of Michigan Law School (a short-lived experiment)
  
• March 2001: Featured Speaker, Advanced Computer and Internet Law Institute, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. (Handout)
• December 2000: Panelist, CIO's Symposium: Copy 'RIGHTS' @ the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• November 2000: Guest Lecturer in Michigan Engineering Prof. Debasish Dutta's Mechanical Engineering 590 course on Global Product Realization , AnnArbor (and webcast to Seoul, Korea and Delft, Holland)
• June 1999: Honorable Mention, Current Magazine's First Annual Fiction and Poetry Contest, for "Clothes" (poem).
• June 1999: Performer, Ann Arbor Civic Theater's production of Rumors by Neil Simon (played the role of "Cookie"), Ann Arbor
• September 1998: Featured Speaker, Copyright Session, Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan, Annual Meeting, Lansing, Michigan

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• April 2007, "Thoughts on Patent-Bashing, Obviously," Intellectual Property Today.
• 2007, Blog for thoughts about patent law: http://myunpublishedworks.blogspot.com/
  • First posting, 3/30/07: "Forum Shopping and MedImmune, SanDisk, and patent DJs: Where is the F word in MedImmune and SanDisk?" [FORUM, as in forum shopping and choice of forum]
  • Second posting, 5/04/07: The Missing V-Word in KSR v. Teleflex : VACATED
• 2005, Patent Law for Scientists and Engineers, Avery N. Goldstein, ed. Chapter 1, "Anatomy of a Patent," and Chapter 3, "Inventor Actions that can Jeopardize Patent Rights."
• March and May 2005, Comment in response to Copyright Office's Notice of Inquiry Concerning Orphan Works (70 FR 3739, 1/26/05),  http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/OW0652-Morris.pdf , and Reply, http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/reply/OWR0089-Morris.pdf.
• August 8, 2003, Letter to the Editor, The New Yorker. The letter quarrels with an article by James Surowiecki in the issue dated July 14&21, 2003, in which he discusses business method patents and states that "[_State Street_] did away with that principle," the principle being that "a business method was considered to be an idea ... and ideas of this sort were not patentable." The much longer letter I originally submitted on July 21, intended to be a Department of Correction/Amplification article, is here.
• Fall 2002, "International Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments in the Era of Global Networks; Irrelevance of, Goals for, and Comments on the Current Proposals," with Jonathan Franklin, 77 Chi.-Kent L.Rev. 1213 (Symposium on Constructing International Intellectual Property Law: The Role of National Courts).
• August 2002, "A Door to Nowhere," Ann Arbor Observer (concerning a vestigial door in the law school library's reading room)
• June 2001, "An Open Letter to the Supreme Court Concerning Patent Law," Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society (83 JPTOS 438; errata 83 JPTOS 683).
  • For the whole article, click here.
  • For an all-ascii version of the passage from Warner-Jenkinson discussed in that article, click here.
• May 2001, "Some Data about Patents in Class 705," IntellectualProperty Today.
• May 2001, "Where Else?" (poem), Dicta: The Law School Literary Journal
• December 2000, "A View from the Bridge," Ann Arbor Observer (concerning the new railings installed on the Huron Parkway Bridge)
• February 2000 and June 2000, PLI Handbook, Patenting the New Business Model, "Business Method Patents: Old or New, Good or Bad?" 589 PLI/Pat 77 and 609 PLI/Pat 95
• Spring 1996, "Whom Do You Trust," (a commentary on the Michigan Document Services case and educational fair use), co-author Johnathan A. Franklin, available at http://fairuse.stanford.edu/primary_materials/cases/michigan_document_services/oped.html .

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Patent Law: 1991, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004

Protection of Technology (second half of semester): 1996

Copyright: 1993, 1994, 1995

Seminar in Advanced Patent Law: 1998-2003, 2005

Seminar in Internet Issues in Intellectual Property: 2001

Seminar in International Patents and Copyrights: 2003

Writing and Advocacy (Acting Director, Legal Writing Program): 1992-93