Roberta J. Morris
Fall 2009
Stanford students
interested in the Scientific Evidence
seminar: the course description is here
and the consent form is here.
|
Recent
Students, STANFORD
Students in previous years' Scientific Evidence Seminars: the course
websites are here: 2006,
2007, and
2008,
Students in the
Spring 2007 IP
Survey: Course materials are on courseworks.
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Recent
Students, MICHIGAN
Students in Advanced Patent Law, Fall 2005, click here
for the course website, or here
for the seminar description. |
All
former students, including those who took courses other than patent law
and those who took courses at Stanford, are invited to join the Morris's Michigan Patent
Students group. Please email Prof. Morris,
rjmorris@alumni.brown.edu.
|
Some syllabi for
past patent law courses may be found here. |
Activities
- May 2009: "Lady Wishfort," The Pear Avenue Theatre's
production of
Congreve's
The Way of the World
(Rebecca Ennals, director), Mountain View, CA
(see reviews by
Palo Alto Weekly
,
KQED and
Palo Alto Daily News.
- October 2008: "Emma," Northside Theatre Company's
production of Joe
DiPietro's
Over the River and Through the Woods
(Susannah Greenwood, director), San Jose, CA
- September 2008: Speaker, Tech Transfer and Patent Law, Stanford
University School of Medicine
Genetics Department Retreat
- April 2008: "Grandma Gellman," Theatreworks' production of
Caroline,
or Change, book and lyrics by Tony Kushner, music by Jeanine
Tesori (Robert Kelley, director), Mountain View, CA
- 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: "Cookie," Ann Arbor Civic Theater's production of Rumors
by Neil Simon, 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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Publications
- February, 2009, blog postings on
http://myunpublishedworks.blogspot.com
- Application Form for Position of PTO Director (currently in
draft, available here)
- "Claim Construction and Burdens of Proof,"
concerning Kinetic Concepts v. Blue Sky, (Fed. Cir.
2/2/09) and pointing out that close questions of claim construction
might be resolved more predictably and fairly by considering the burden
of proof for the issue
which gives rise to the dispute over the meaning of claim language
(article in preparation).
- January, 2009, The New York Times, Letter
to the Editor,
concerning Bob Herbert, "Where the Money Is" (Jan. 12)
- November 2008, The New York Times, Letter
to the Editor, concerning
“Study Finds Many Doctors Often Give Placebos” (news article, Oct. 24)
- April 2008, Amicus Brief filed
in In re Bilski, also available at 2008 WL 1842256.
- 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
- July 2006, "From Ann Arbor to Stanford: What I'll Miss and What I
Won't," Ann
Arbor Observer
- 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 comments on 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." A longer version submitted on
July 21 as 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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Courses Taught at Stanford Law, 2006-present
Seminar in Scientific Evidence
and Expert Testimony: Patent Ligitation: 2006, 2007, 2008
Introduction to Intellectual Property: 2007
Courses Taught at Michigan Law, 1991-2005
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
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