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Marc E. Brown
USC Gould School of Law

Marc E. Brown

Lecturer in Law

699 Exposition Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90089-0074 USA

Last Updated: July 10, 2023




Registered patent attorney with more than 35 years of experience in the preparation, prosecution and litigation of patents, as well as with teaching others about them.
 
Coached team at USC in the 2023 National Patent Application Drafting Competition sponsored by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office who then won both the preliminary and final round of the Silicon Valley regional division and then second place in the national round, beating all but one of the 54 other law schools in the competition.

Repeatedly recognized as an “IP Star” in Managing IP Handbook, as one of “Southern California’s Top-Rated Lawyers” by Law.com, and has the highest peer rating of “AV Preeminent” in Martindale-Hubbell. Represented clients in the procurement, evaluation and enforcement of high-technology patents, with particular expertise in computer hardware, software, the internet, electronics and biomedical devices.

Writings on intellectual property law have been widely published. These include Brown on Patents, an interactive guide to patents; PatentBites.com, a condensed, interactive guide to patents; the columns “On The Law” in Electronic Business; “Software and the Law” in Dr. Dobb’s Sourcebook; “Electronics and the Law” in Electronics; and Internet Business Method Patents, an Internet-linked CD containing a compendium of reports and related information on Internet business method patents.

Invited to speak at numerous legal conferences, trade shows and universities. Often contacted by the media for comment on new legal developments.

Holds BSEE from Case Western Reserve University and JD from George Washington University. Served as law clerk and technical advisor to the United States Court of Claims (now called the United States Claims Court) in Washington, D.C., and assisted this court with major patent infringement lawsuits brought against the U.S. government.

Admitted to practice before federal and California state courts, both at the trial and appellate level, and admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 

FACULTY IN THE NEWS

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance
September 25, 2023
Re: Jonathan Barnett

Jonathan Barnett wrote an op-ed piece, based on his forthcoming paper to be published in the University of Chicago Business Law Review, about antitrust regulations and the effects it has on merger review processes. "This inquiry raises serious concerns that legislators and regulators have embarked on a course of action that has an insufficient factual foundation in the digital markets on which competition policymakers have focused," Barnett wrote.

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

Jonathan Barnett
August, 2023

"Killer Acquisitions Reexamined: Economic Hyperbole in the Age of Populist Antitrust," University of Chicago Business Law Review.

Robin Craig
August, 2023

Robin Craig's article, "The Regulatory Shifting Baseline Syndrome: Vaccines, Generational Amnesia, and the Shifting Perception of Risk in Public Law Regimes," 21 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 1-60 (July 2022), was featured in The Regulatory Review on August 31, 2023.

Edward McCaffery
August, 2023

"The Paradox of Taxing the Rich," Florida Tax Review (Forthcoming, Fall 2023).