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During the 2011-12 academic year Jorge L. Contreras will serve as a Visiting Associate Professor and will teach Intellectual Property Licensing and Transactions, Intellectual Property in Cyberspace and Property Law. Previously, he served as a Senior Lecturer in Law and Acting Director of the Intellectual Property Program at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. His research focuses on the effects of intellectual property structures on the dissemination of scientific and technological innovation and information.

Professor Contreras serves as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Science & Technology Law Committee on Technical Standardization and holds leadership positions with ASTM International, the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), and similar organizations. He recently completed a four-year term on the Council of the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH. Professor Contreras is the editor of the Technical Standards Patent Policy Manual (ABA Publishing: Chicago, 2007) and has published numerous articles and chapters relating to the legal issues surrounding intellectual property, scientific research and standards development. Professor Contreras recently completed an empirical research study supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) regarding the effect of certain policy choices on the efficiency of standards-development processes.

Prior to joining Washington University, Professor Contreras was a partner at the international law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, where he advised organizations on intellectual property, technology transfer and standards-related issues. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School (JD) and Rice University (BA, BSEE).

• Selected Publications

  • Jorge Contreras, Natl. Inst. Standards & Tech. Study Report: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Ex Ante Licensing Disclosure Policies on the Development of Voluntary Technical Standards, Natl. Inst. Stands. & Tech. (June 27, 2011).
  • Jorge Contreras, Bermuda’s Legacy: Patents, Policy and the Design of the Genome Commons, 16 Minn. J.L. Sci. & Tech. 61 (2011).
  • Jorge Contreras, Prepublication Data Release, Latency, and Genome Commons, 329 Sci. 393 (2010).
  • Jorge Contreras, Data Sharing, Latency Variables and Science Commons, 25 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1601 (2010).