OUR FACULTY

• Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
• Visiting Faculty
• Special Faculty Appointments
• Pence Law Library Faculty
• Adjunct Faculty (Summer 2013)
• Adjunct Faculty (Spring 2013)
• Adjunct Faculty (Fall 2012)
• Emeritus Law Faculty

FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP

Professor Anderson joined the WCL faculty in 2011. Professor Anderson teaches courses in Patent Law, Trade Secret Law, and Real Property. Before joining the faculty, Professor Anderson was a research fellow with the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at U.C. Berkeley Law School. Prior to that, he clerked for Judge Alan D. Lourie of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. After law school, he worked in the patent litigation and IP licensing groups at Latham & Watkins in Silicon Valley, California. Professor Anderson’s scholarly work is in the areas of intellectual property, with a particular focus on patent law and entrepreneurship.

• Selected Publications

  • J. Jonas Anderson & Peter S. Menell, Informal Deference: An Historical, Empirical, and Normative Analysis of Claim Construction, 108 Nw. U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2013).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Secret Inventions, 26 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 917 (Spring 2011). SSRN Link
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Book Review: Gene Patents and Collaborative Licensing Models, 2 Intell. Prop. L. Book 1 (2011).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Hiding Behind Reciprocity: The Temporary Presence Exception and Patent Infringement Avoidance, 15 Mich. Telecommun. & Tech. L. Rev. 1 (2008). SSRN Link

• Selected Works in Progress

  • J. Jonas Anderson & Peter S. Menell, The Market for Patent Litigation, (manuscript in progress).

• Selected Presentations

  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, Congress as Catalyst (Third Annual Patent Conference, Chicago Kent Law School, Chi., Ill., Apr. 2013).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, Informal Deference (George Washington University Law School Faculty Workshop, D.C., Jan. 2013).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, Obviousness Since KSR (D.C. Bar Association IP Section Meeting, D.C., Dec. 2012).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, Shaping Legislation: The Federal Circuit’s Emerging Dialogic Relationship with Congress (Junior Scholars Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich., Nov. 2012).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, Informal Deference (Mid-Atlantic Works In Progress, D.C., Sept. 2012).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Plenary Speaker, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (Stanford Law School, Stanford, Cal., Aug. 2012).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, Shaping Legislation: The Federal Circuit’s Emerging Dialogic Relationship with Congress (Junior Scholars Workshop, Catholic University, D.C., June 2012).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, Informal Deference (Patent Conference, Boston College University College of Law, Bos., Mass., May 2012).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, Informal Deference (George Mason Law School Faculty Workshop, Arlington, Va., Apr. 2012).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, Top Twenty Cases for the FDA in 2012 (Food and Drug Law Institute Annual Meeting, D.C., Apr. 2012).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Moderator, Patent Post-grant Symposium (American University Washington College of Law, D.C., Jan. 2012).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, United States Patent Law (University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, Dec. 2011).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, United States Patent Law (American University Washington College of Law, (before delegation of Brazilian judges), D.C., Nov. 2011).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, Empirical Claim Construction (11th Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Depaul University College of Law, Chi., Ill., Aug. 2011).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, Secret Inventions (10th Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, Cal., Aug. 2011).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, The Market for Patent Litigation (, Patent Conference, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kan., Apr. 2011).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, Do Patents Promote Innovation? (U.C. Hastings College of Law, S.F., Cal., Mar. 2011).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Organizer, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, Cal., Aug. 2010).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, Secret Inventions, Infringement Liability, and Bilski (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Wash., July 2010).
  • J. Jonas Anderson, Presentation, Patent Law at the ITC (Federal Judicial Conference, International Trade Commission, D.C., Oct. 2009).