Roberta J. Morris
Lecturer, Patent Law
Latest
News: My amicus brief in Microsoft
v. i4i: .docx of Table of Contents
only; .pdf as e-filed.
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TEACHING
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Fall 2010
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Former Students, STANFORD
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Former Students, MICHIGAN
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Stanford students
in the Scientific Evidence
seminar: the course website is here and it has the course
description and consent form.
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Students
in
previous years' Scientific Evidence Seminars: the
course
websites are here: 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.
Students in the
Spring 2007 IP
Survey: The course materials have disappeared from courseworks.
Please
contact me if you need something.
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Students
in Advanced Patent Law, Fall 2005, click here
for the course website, or here
for the seminar description.
Students
in Patent Law, Winter 2004, click here
for the course website if you remember the username and
password; contact me if you don't.
Students from 1991 to 2003, please contact me for past course materials.
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syllabi for
past courses may be found here. |
I set up
the Morris's Michigan
Patent
Students (MMPS) group a long time ago. It is for my former
students. These days both "Michigan" and "patent" are often
honored in the breach. The group gets about 10 messages a year,
but/and is a good
way for you to find each other without involving Google or
Facebook.
Email me,
rjmorris@stanford.edu, if you think you are entitled to join. The
old MMPS webpages, although not updated since 2005, are still on
umich.edu for those who know how to find them.
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- January 2011: Stanford Law Review Symposium on The Future of
Patents: Bilski and Beyond," Moderator of Panel on Law and
Policy. Handout.
- September 2010: ICLE (Michigan) 3rd Annual IT
Law Seminar: The Supreme Court Decides Bilski (handout;
slides)
- April 2010: Speaker, "The Richness
and Poorness
of the Rich Legacy (Written Description, Possession and Other Fables),"
WSPLA/OPLA Meeting on
April
16-18, 2010; handout; slides
- February 2010: Commentator, Stanford Techology Law
Review
Symposium on PTO Reform, Stanford Law School
- January 2010: Welcome/Introduction of keynote session, Law.gov
Workshop, Stanford Law School
- October 2009: Speaker, ICLE (Michigan)
2nd Annual Information Technology (IT) Law Seminar, "Patenting
Business
Methods and Software." (Written materials, as submitted to ICLE, are here. Slides, including ARS data, are here.)
- September 2008: Speaker, Tech Transfer and Patent Law, Stanford
University School of Medicine
Genetics Department Retreat
- Fall 2006 to present: Founding Member, Women's Meeting on
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)).
Written materials are available on Westlaw, 609 PLI/Pat 95; cartoon
("The Perils of RISC Architecture") is here.
- 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
- March 1998: Speaker, Sow's Ear Workshop, How to Keep
Educational Fair Use from Getting an F (draft
paper)
- July-August 2010: San Mateo County Board of Supervisors
Meetings: speaker on the costs, both financial and societal, of
depriving residents in artificially small Mail Ballot Only Precincts of
a neighborhood polling place, when the sole explanation for those
precincts' boundaries is historical accident
- June-July 2010: "Dolly," The Pear Avenue
Theatre's
production of Adam Bock's The
Shaker Chair
(Ann Kuchins, director), Mountain View, CA (see San Jose
Mercury review)
- 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
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- February 2011: Amicus Brief in Microsoft v. i4i. Click for .docx of Table of Contents
only; .pdf as e-filed.
- September 2010: Comments submitted to the USPTO concerning
process claims and Bilski:
"Comments to the Interim Guidance for
Determining Subject Matter Eligibility for Process Claims In View of Bilski v. Kappos,
75 FR 43922, July 27, 2010" (.pdf
available on uspto.gov website)
- April 2010: Materials for WSPLA/OPLA talk on Written
Description, Ariad, etc. (see
Speeches above)
- 2010 Blog postings on
http://myunpublishedworks.blogspot.com
- October 2009: Materials for 2nd Annual IT Seminar, ICLE
(Michigan), "Patenting Software and Business
Methods" (see Speeches for additional links)
- 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
- 2009 Blog postings on
http://myunpublishedworks.blogspot.com
- 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" doc or pdf,
Intellectual Property
Today. Concerns the sociology of patent litigation and
scholarship, in general, and KSR v. Teleflex, in particular,
shortly before the Supreme Court decision).
- 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).
- 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.
- June 2000, Materials submitted for
PLI
Handbook, Patenting the New
Business Model, "Business Method Patents: Old or New, Good or
Bad?" (.doc version of
wp5.1 paper; conversion may lead to some weirdness; cartoon
not included in the .doc). See Speeches,
above. The paper is also
available on Westlaw at 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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- 2011 Blog Postings on myunpublishedworks2:
- 2010 Blog Postings on myunpublishedworks2:
- 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)
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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
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Original Slides and Drawings
(A selection of single
slides and drawings
I created between 1990 and the present that I often revise when I
reuse.)
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Community Service
- Platelet/Blood Donor, 1988-present
- Poll Worker, San Mateo County, 2007-present
Last modified February 6, 2011 - rjm