Paul Schoenhard
E-mail: paul.schoenhard@american.edu
Mr. Schoenhard has researched, taught, and practiced intellectual property law since 2003. He is currently an Associate at Ropes & Gray LLP, where his practice focuses primarily on patent litigation. He has experience in federal district courts, the United States International Trade Commission, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Mr. Schoenhard has written extensively on the boundaries and enforceability of intellectual property rights, with special attention to the delicate balance between public benefit and private right and to the impact of intellectual property laws on the United States' relationship with its international trading partners. He has taught courses on intellectual property as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law. And he has served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Arthur J. Gajarsa at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Currently Teaching
Areas of Specialization
- Intellectual Property Law
- Veterans Affairs Law
Degrees & Universities
- J.D., Harvard Law School 2003
- B.A., Dartmouth College 2000
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Selected Publications- Paul Schoenhard, Should Foreign Sales Figure in Domestic Damages?, Natl. L.J. , at S8 (Jan. 21, 2008).
- Paul Schoenhard, Reconceptualizing Inventive Conception: Strengthening, Not Abandoning the First-to-Invent System, 17 Fed. Cir. B.J. 567 (2008).
- Paul Schoenhard, A Three-Dimensional Approach to the Public-Private Distinction, 2008 Utah L. Rev. 635 (2008).
- Paul Schoenhard, Who Took My IP?: Defending the Availability of Injunctive Relief in Patent Cases, 16 Tex. Intell. Prop. L.J. 187 (2008).
- Paul Schoenhard, Commercial Speech, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (David S. Tanenhaus, ed., MacMillan Reference USA 2008).
- Paul Schoenhard, Reversing the Reversal Rate: Using Real Property Principles to Guide Federal Circuit Patent Jurisprudence, 17 Fordham Intell. Prop., Media & Ent. L.J. 299 (2007).
- Paul Schoenhard, No Trespassing: The Supreme Court Should Buttress Patent Owners’ Right to Refuse, Leg. Times , 42 (May 8, 2006).
- Paul Schoenhard, Judging Trial Judges, Intell. Prop. L. & Bus. , 22 (Mar. 2006).
- Paul Schoenhard, Why Marks Have Power Beyond the Rights Conferred: The Conflation of Trademarks and Service Marks, 87 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Socy. 970 (2005).