The Pierce advantage: the IP faculty of global IP leaders, practitioners, educators, authors, scholars who care about the success of each Pierce Law student

IP at Pierce Law

Pierce Law was founded by a patent lawyer who believed that the IP Faculty needed to have the “three legs of a solid stool:” law firm attorneys, corporate counsel and patent examiners. The original IP Faculty led the first patent drafting and prosecution program in the United States. A handful of schools offered courses only in patent law. Patent practice was learned on the job.

During the 1980s the field of IP expanded to include trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets as well as the management, monetization and commercialization of IP assets and other intellectual capital. Pierce Law IP Faculty was in the lead studying, developing and teaching innovative IP courses. Pierce Law IP Faculty members strongly integrate law and technology, business, science, economics, social justice and public interest. The IP Faculty constantly analyze the full range of commercial transactions that integrate IP assets. The Faculty also teaches the criminal protection and enforcement of IP - one of the fastest growing areas of IP practice.

November 2009 : The Financial Times names Pierce Law now the US's foremost institute for the study of intellectual property law.

GLOBAL IP FACULTY WITH DECADES OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Pierce IP Faculty members are experienced teachers who have been litigators, counselors, transactional specialists in the full range of legal and business settings.

Pierce Law has one of the largest full time resident IP faculties in the United States, supplemented by a substantial influential contingent of domestic and foreign adjuncts. Pierce Law has continuously followed a strategic plan to attract high profile global IP leaders to teach courses both during the academic year as well as during the innovative Intellectual Property Summer Institute.

Pierce Law IP Faculty have extensive and diverse experience:

five IP Faculty are members of the United States Patent Bar
four IP Faculty practiced trademark law in IP law firms
our IP Faculty members have prosecuted IP, litigated IP and managed IP
one IP Faculty member was an examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
one IP Faculty member is a well known author practicing in a national patent law firm
one IP Faculty member was corporate counsel at a giant pharmaceutical department
one IP Faculty member was inducted into the prestigious IP Hall of Fame
one IP Faculty member was IP counsel for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
one IP Faculty member, a Cornell Ph.D. biotechnology graduate and prolific author, was the principle investigator in the world famous "golden rice" freedom to operate patent landscape analysis
one IP Faculty member is a pioneering innovator in IP research tools and strategies, writing and teaching in the field of patent informatics

Pierce Law IP Faculty range in teaching experience from several years to over three decades. Beyond the model of teaching and legal scholarship, IP Faculty engage in a wide range of global activities:

participating in conferences, symposium, continuing legal education, government, NGO and many other IP related events
leaders in global and domestic professional associations
acting as expert witnesses
acting as arbitrators
authoring content in a wide range of formats including articles, casebooks, treatises, reports, websites and blogs.

Despite these many activities, IP Faculty are committed to educating students and working toward the success of students in the global IP professional arena. They participate in a wide range of student oriented activities including speaking at student events, acting as moot court judges, mentoring law review editors and joining in fellowship at the many student social and ethnic activities.

Full Time Resident IP Faculty

Featured Distinguished Faculty Profile

GORDON SMITH IS ONE OF THE FOREMOST EXPERTS ON VALUATION OF IP

Gordon V. Smith, Board of Trustees, Distinguished Professor of IP Management

A noted author, lecturer and consultant, Gordon V. Smith serves as chair of AUS, Inc., Mount Laurel, NJ, and as president of AUS Consultants in the United States. He has advised clients in valuation matters for nearly 45 years. His assignments have included appraisals of nearly every type of tangible and intangible property as well as consultations and expert testimony relative to royalty rates, economic life, and litigation damages relating to intellectual property. Smith, a graduate of Harvard University, has lectured on valuation subjects throughout the Americas, in Europe, and extensively in Asia. An adjunct professor at Pierce Law, Smith is a member of the school's Advisory Council on Intellectual Property. He is a member of the International Trademark Association and the Licensing Executives Society.

He has authored five books, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., entitled: Corporate Valuation: A Business and Professional Guide; Trademark Valuation; Valuation of Intellectual Property and Intangible Assets (coauthor); Intellectual Property: Licensing and Joint Venture Profit Strategies (co–author). His most recent work, published in April 2005, is titled Intellectual Property: Valuation, Exploitation, and Infringement Damages.

Stephen T. Black
Professor of Law

Jon Cavicchi
Intellectual Property Librarian and Assistant Professor of Research

Thomas G. Field Jr
Professor of Law
Chair, Intellectual Property Graduate Programs

William A. Grimes
Professor of Law
Director of the Graduate Writing Program

J. Jeffrey Hawley
David Rines Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Industrial Innovation
Director, Germeshausen Center for the Law of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

William O. Hennessey
Professor of Law

Karen Hersey
Visiting Professor of Law

Dr. Stanley P. Kowalski
Assistant Clinical Professor
Director, International Technology Transfer Institute

Ashlyn Lembree
Assistant Clinical Professor

Ann McCrackin
Professor of Law

William J. Murphy
Professor of Law
Chair, Commerce and Technology Graduate Programs

Susan M. Richey
Associate Dean and Professor of Law

Albert E. (Buzz) Scherr
Professor of Law

Gordon V. Smith
Board of Trustees, Distinguished Professor of IP Management

Mary W. S. Wong
Professor of Law & Chair, IP Programs

Professor Emeritus

Karl F. Jorda
Professor Emeritus

Adjunct Faculty from around the globe

Pierce Law has been known for over three decades for calling upon the global community of IP lawyers and experts to offer one of the most innovative, deep, global and interdisciplinary IP curriculum in the world. The following is only an illustrative list of Adjunct Professors who are currently teaching or who have taught IP courses over the past several years. A full list would be prohibitivily long. Here is the a sampling from the granite hills of New Hampshire, the Washington beltway, across the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa...

Nermien Al-Ali
Course: Intellectual Capital Management
Managing Attorney - Ibrachy & Dermarkar

Konrad Becker
Course: International and Comparative Patent Law
European Patent Attorney

Carol Carr
Course: Non-Profit Technology Transfer
Counsel - Office of Sponsored Programs, MIT

Kevin Carroll
Courses: Patent Practice and Procedure I, US Patent Law
Partner - Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

Gregory Cohan
Course: Patent Practice
Attorney - Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

Brian Colandreo
Course: Patent Practice
McDermott, Will & Emery

Phillip Decker
Course: Patent Practice
Mesmer & Deleault, PLLC

Robert Deleault
Course: Patent Practice II
Mesmer & Deleault, PLLC

Geoffrey Dellenbaugh
Course: Intellectual Property Management
Former Executive Director, External Relations - The R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development

Allison Demas
Course: International and Comparative Music Licensing
Chief Executive Officer - COTT

Sean Detweiler
Course: Patent Practice II
Partner - Lahive & Cockfield, Boston, MA

Kevin M. Farrell
Course: Law & Biotechnology
Partner - Pierce Atwood LLP

Stephen Finch
Course: Patent Practice I
Associate - Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Peter Foley
Course: Sports Law
Law Office of Peter Foley, Concord, NH

Raymond Friel
Courses: Competition Law in the EU, International Business Transactions
Head - School of Law, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Jon Garon
Course: Law of Motion Picture, Virtual and Performing Arts
Dean - Hamline University School of Law

Michael Gollin
Course: Global IP Management
Partner - Venable LLP

Kristina M. Grasso
Course: Law & Biotechnology
Private Practice - Milford, New Hampshire - USA

Kevin Green
Course: Music Law
Associate Professor - Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Philip Grubb
Course: International & Comparative Patent Law
European Patent Attorney

Russell Hanser
Course: Telecommunications
Partner - Wilkinson, Barker, Knauer, LLP

Joel Hoffman
Course: Food and Drug Law
Of Counsel - Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP

Martin Jenkins
Course: Graduate Program Skills I
Griffin, Pudloski & Jenkins, PLLC, Portsmouth, NH

Cheng Jie
Course: Introduction to the Chinese Legal System
Associate Professor of Law - Tsinghua University Law School

John Paul Jones
Course: Mediation Skills for Intellectual Property and Commercial Disputes
Founder and President - The John Paul Jones Group

Craig Joyce
Course: U.S. Copyright Law
Co-director - Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law - University of Houston Law Center

David J. Kera
Course: Trademark Litigation, Inter Partes Practice in the US Trademark Office
Senior Trademark Partner - Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt

Gerd Kunze
Course: International and Comparative Trademark Law
Of Counsel - Walder Wyss & Partners
President - AIPPI

Mary LaFrance
Course: IP Tax
Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs - William S. Boyd School of Law

Arthur Bennett Levin
Course: International Telecommunications Law
Chief of Staff - International Telecommunication Union

Gerald Mossinghoff
Course: Legislative Aspects of IP Law
Senior Counsel - Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt P.C.

Charles R. McManis
Course: Biodiversity, Biotechnology & the Legal Protection of Traditional Knowledge
Professor of Law - Washington University, St. Louis

Jeffrey Murray
Course: Advertising Law

Ty Nguyen
Course: Patent Practice I
Associate - Fish & Richardson, PC

Edmund Pfleger
Course: Patent Practice
Founding Partner - Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC, Manchester, NH

David William Plant
Course: Cross Cultural Negotiation for IP Disputes
Former Partner - Fish & Neave

Parker Potter
Course: Judicial Opinion Drafting, Faculty Advisor to the journal IDEA

Richard Rose
Course: Entertainment Asset Management

Glen Secor
Courses: Copyright in the Digital Age, Copyright & Media Licensing
Attorney - Law Office of Glen M. Secor

Jose Gomez Segade
Course: International and Comparitive Trademark Law
Professor - Santiago de Compostela University, Santiago, Spain

Lars Smith
Course: US Trademark Law
Professor - Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville

Donald Stacey
Federal Trademark Registration
Attorney - Getman, Stacey, Schulthess & Steere, P.A.

Michelle Temple
Course: Patent Practice
Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A., Manchester, NH

David Thibodeau
Course: Patent Practice II
Attorney - Hamilton, Brooke, Smith & Reynolds, P.C., Concord, MA

Silke Von Lewinski
Course: International and Comparative Copyright Law
Head of Department on International Law - Max Planck Institute

Bing Wang
Course: Intro to Chinese IP Law
Professor - Tsinghua University, Beijing,China

Thomas M. Ward
Course: IP Under the Commercial and Bankruptcy Code
Professor or Law - University of Maine School of Law

Ronald N. Weikers
Course: CyberCrime
Attorney - Weikers & Co.

John Whealan
Course: Practice and Current Issues Before the Federal Circuit
Deputy General Counsel for Intellectual Property Law and Solicitor - United States Patent and Trademark Office

Dr. Darius Whelan
Course: Information Liberties (IPSI)
Lecturer in Law - University College, Cork, Ireland

Nancy Yeend
Course: Mediation Skills for Intellectual Property and Commercial Disputes
Principle - The John Paul Jones Group