Roberta J. Morris
Fall 2009
Stanford students
interested in the Scientific Evidence
seminar: the course description is here,
the consent form is here, and
the course website is here.
|
Former
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: The course materials have disappeared from courseworks.
Please
contact me if you need something.
|
Former
Students, MICHIGAN
Students in Advanced Patent Law, Fall 2005, click here
for the course website, or here
for the seminar description.
Students from 1991 to 2004, please contact me for past course materials.
|
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. |
SPEECHES AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
Speeches and Activities Related to Patent and Copyright Law
- October 2009: Speaker,
2nd Annual Information Technology Law Seminar, "Patenting Business
Methods and Software." (Written materials will be available here.)
- September 2008: Speaker, Tech Transfer and Patent Law, Stanford
University School of Medicine
Genetics Department Retreat
- Fall 2006: Founder, Women Meditating Patent Law (bimonthly
lunch club)
- Spring 2004: Patent law expert witness, contract arbitration,
Michigan
- April 2003: Speaker, Saginaw Valley Patent Law Association,
"Best Mode: Thoughts on Eli Lilly v. Barr, and then
some."
(Slides are available here.)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- September 1998: Featured
Speaker, Copyright Session, Intellectual Property Law Section of the
State
Bar of Michigan, Annual Meeting, Lansing, Michigan
Other Speeches and Activities
- July 2009: San Mateo County Board of Supervisors
hearing on Palo Alto Way Crosswalk Removal: speaker in opposition
- 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
- 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
- Summer 2005: Coordinator,
Michigan Law's
Fawley Summer Supreme Court Series, Ann Arbor
- June 2003: Honorable Mention, Current Magazine's Fifth Annual
Fiction and Poetry Contest, for "Crocuses" (poem)
- June 2002: Honorable Mention, Current Magazine's
Fourth Annual Fiction and Poetry Contest, for "The Recycled Bridegroom"
(short story)
- Fall 2001: Founder, Law and Histrionics Workshop, University of
Michigan Law School (a short-lived experiment)
- 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
***
- October 2009: Blog posting on
http://myunpublishedworks.blogspot.com:
- October 2009: Materials for 2nd Annual IT Seminar, ICLE Michigan,
"Patenting Software and Business Methods"
- October 2009: Amicus Brief in Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Eli Lilly and Company (Fed. Cir. No. 2008-1248)
Brief in Support of Neither Party, Urging Attention to the
Grammatical Structure and Words of 35 USC 112 P 1
- September, 2009, blog postings on
http://myunpublishedworks.blogspot.com
- "Mark
Twain on Patents and Inventions": David Kappos, new PTO
Director, just quoted Twain on the
need for good patent laws, and it reminded that my first
encounter with that quotation had led me to the Autobiography of Mark
Twain, and Mr. Clemens' personal experience as
a venture capitalist.
- February, 2009, blog postings on
http://myunpublishedworks.blogspot.com
- "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 better by considering the burden
of proof for the issue
which gives rise to the dispute over the meaning of claim language.
- April 2008, Amicus Brief filed
with the Federal Circuit in In re Bilski, also available at
2008 WL 1842256, 2008 U.S. Fed. Cir. Briefs LEXIS 27 and 2007 U.S. Fed.
Cir. Briefs 1130
- April 2007,
"Thoughts on Patent-Bashing, Obviously", Intellectual Property
Today. Concerns KSR v. Teleflex, before the Supreme Court has
ruled.
- 2007, A new blog for thoughts about patent law:
http://myunpublishedworks.blogspot.com/
- 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, discussing business
method patents. Surowiecki states that
"[State Street] did away with
that principle [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).
- February 2002, June 2001, and February 2000, Speaker, 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
- 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", Intellectual Property
Today.
- 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
.
- October, 2009, Blog Postings on myunpublishedworks2:
- September, 2009, Blog Postings on myunpublishedworks2:
- September, 2009, on
myunpublishedworks: Oral
Argument on Citizens United v. FEC: didn't anybody point out that
non-natural persons
can't vote?
- 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)
- July 2006, "From Ann Arbor to Stanford: What I'll Miss and What I
Won't," Ann
Arbor Observer
- August 2002, "A Door to Nowhere," Ann Arbor Observer
(concerning a vestigial door in the law school library's reading room)
- May 2001, "Where Else?" (poem), Dicta: The Law School Literary
Journal, University of Michigan Law School
- December 2000, "A View from the Bridge," Ann
Arbor Observer
(concerning the new railings installed on the Huron Parkway Bridge)
***
Courses Taught at Stanford Law, 2006-present
Seminar in Scientific Evidence
and Expert Testimony: Patent Litigation: 2006-present
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
***
Community Service
- Reading Tutor, Reading Partners, Belle Haven School, Ravenswood
School District, Menlo Park
- Platelet/Blood Donor
- Poll Worker, San Mateo County
- Project Gutenberg Distributed
Proofreaders, P3 proofreader
Last modified 11-13-09 - rjm