Joshua Sarnoff
Practitioner in Residence
Office: Room 446A
Phone: 202-274-4165
E-mail: jsarnoff@wcl.american.edu
JOSHUA D. SARNOFF is the Assistant Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic and a practitioner-in-residence at the Washington College of Law, American University, where he supervises law students in the practice of intellectual property law. He is a registered patent attorney, teaches patent law, and has been involved in a wide range of intellectual property legal and policy disputes. He has published articles on patent law, has coordinated an academics’ position statement on patent law reform, has filed amicus briefs in the United States Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and has been a consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on intellectual property, trade, and environmental issues, and a pro-bono mediator for the Federal Circuit in patent cases. Mr. Sarnoff was formerly in private practice in Washington, DC, and previously taught at the University of Arizona College of Law.
Professor Sarnoff was awarded the Emalee C. Godsey Scholarship Award in 2005 for the following publications: The Historic and Modern Doctrine of Equivalents and Claiming the Future, Part I (1790-1870) and The Historic and Modern Doctrine of Equivalents and Claiming the Future, Part II (1870-1952).
Currently Teaching
Areas of Specialization
- Clinical Legal Education
- Domestic and International Patent and Other Intellectual Property Laws
- Environmental Law
- Federalism
Degrees & Universities
- J.D., Stanford Law School 1986
- B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1981
Selected Publications
- Joshua Sarnoff, The Historic and Modern Doctrine of Equivalents and Claiming the Future, Part I (1790-1870), 87 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Socy. 371 (2005). SSRN Link
- Joshua Sarnoff, The Historic and Modern Doctrine of Equivalents and Claiming the Future, Part II (1870-1952), 87 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Socy. 441 (2005). SSRN Link
- Joshua Sarnoff, United Nations Committee on Trade and Development: Analysis of Options for Implementing Disclosure of Origin Obligations in Intellectual Property Applications, in UNCTAD/DTIC/TED/2005/14 (U.N. Comm. on Trade and Dev. 2005) (reprinted in UNEP/CBD/ABSWG/04/1NF/02/EN).
- Joshua Sarnoff, The Doctrine of Equivalents and Claiming the Future After Festo, 14 Fed. Cir. B.J. 403 (2005). SSRN Link
- Joshua Sarnoff, Abolishing the Doctrine of Equivalents and Claiming the Future After Festo, 19, No. 4 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1157 (2004). SSRN Link
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Books
- Joshua Sarnoff, RCRA Policy Documents: Finding Your Way Through the Maze of EPA Guidance on Solid and Hazardous Waste (Joshua Sarnoff & T.L. Garrett, eds., ABA 1993).
Other Publications
- Christine Haight Farley, Peter Jaszi, Victoria Phillips, Joshua Sarnoff, & Ann Shalleck, Clinical Legal Education and the Public Interest in Intellectual Property Law, 52 St. Louis U. L.J. 735 (2008).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Comment on Merck v. Integra, Assn. U. Tech. Managers Newsltr. (July/Aug. 2005) (reprinted in Intl. Rev. Intell. Prop. & Competition L. (July 2005)).
- Brief of Amici Curiae Consumer Project on Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Public Knowledge in Support of Defendant-Appellant Integra LifeSciences I Ltd. v. Merck KGaA, Nos. 02-1052, 02-1065 (2005).
- Brief Amicus Curiae of AARP in Support of Petitioner LabCorp of America Holdings v. Metabolite Labs., Inc. (2005).
- Joshua Sarnoff, W. Wagner & J. Entin, Enviornmental and Natural Resources Regulation, in Developments in Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice 1999-2000 (Jeffery S. Lubbers, ed., ABA 2001).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Equality as Uncertainty, 84 Iowa L. Rev. 377 (1999).
- Joshua Sarnoff, I Come To Praise Morality, Not To Bury It, 84 Iowa L. Rev. 819 (1999).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Threading the Labyrinth of Agency's OSWRO Rule, 29 Envt. Rep. 2198 (1999).
- Joshua Sarnoff, A World Law Without Agreement On Environmental Values?, 10 Colo. J. Intl. Envtl. L. & Policy 251 (1999).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Risk Assessment Policy Under Superfund and RCRA, in 1997 Environmental Deskbook (Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP 1997).
- Joshua Sarnoff, The Continuing Imperative (But Only From A National Perspective) For Federal Environmental Protection, 7 Duke Envtl. L. & Policy Forum 255 (1997).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Cooperative Federalism, The Delegation of Federal Power, and the Constitution, 39 Ariz. L. Rev. 205 (1997).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Supreme Court Decisions in Waste Cases Settle Pending Issues But Promise Further Activity, 23 Envtl. Rep. 692 (1992).
- Joshua Sarnoff & J.T. Smith, II, Free Commerce and Sound Waste Management: Some International Comparative Perspectives, 15 Intl. Env. Rep. 207 (1992).
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Selected Presentations
- Joshua Sarnoff, Speech, Shaking the Foundations of Patentable Subject Matter, or Taking the Exclusions for Science, Nature, and Ideas, Principles of Invention and Paker v. Flook Seriously (What's Ahead on Highway 101, Oracle-GWU Joint Symposium, Wash., D.C., Nov. 3, 2006).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Presentation, What's Next for Disclosure of Origin Requirements? (UICN-SPDA International Workshop on Access to Genetic Resourses and Protection of Traditional Knowledge: Application and Implementation Themes, Lima, Peru, June 8-9, 2006).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Speech, The Need To Address Disclosure of Origin Requirements in Patent Law Harmonization Initiatives (WIPO Open Forum on the Draft Substantive Patent Law Treaty, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switz., Mar. 1, 2006).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Speech, Patent Law Issues in Recent FTAs (WCL, CIEL, SPDA, TRALAC, and TWN Workshop on IP, FTAs and Sustainable Development, Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Feb. 27-28, 2006).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Speech, Disclosures of Origin in Intellectual Property Applications: Presentation at Chatham House (Conference on Disclosure Requirements in IPR Applications – Options and Perspectives of Users and Providers of Genetic Resources, Chatham House (Royal Society of International Affairs), London, U.K., Feb. 9, 2006).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Panelist, The Missing Reforms in Patent Reform Legislation (Innovations and its iDiscontents, John Marshall Law School, Chic., Ill., Oct. 14, 2005).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Speech, Disclosure of Origins of Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge (3rd Annual Works In Progress in Intellectual Property Conference, Oct. 7, 2005).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Presentation, H.R. 2795 and Patent Law Reform (AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, Sept. 30, 2005).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Presentation, Copyright and DMCA Preemption and Misuse Issues in Recent Cases (BNA Advisory Board, Sept. 22, 2005).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Speech, Essential Facilities Doctrine and Refusals to Deal (University of California, Berkeley Patents and Interoperability Conference, Berkeley, Cal., Sept. 15, 2005).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Presentation, Whether to Abolish the Doctrine of Equivalents (Hot Topics in Patent Law Seminar, Geroge Mason University, Fairfax, Va., July 19, 2005).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Presentatation, Federalism Issues in Intellectual Property Enforcement (U.S. State Department International Visitor Leadership Program, June 6, 2005).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Presentation, What is a Patent? (Patents for Poets and Policy Wonks, Transatlantic Consumer Dialog, Wash., D.C., Apr. 19, 2005).
- Joshua Sarnoff, Speech, Abolishing the Doctrine of Equivalents and Claiming the Future after Festo (Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court Public Debate on Inn of Court Resolution Whether The Doctrine of Equivalents Should be Abolished, Jan. 2005).
