Event Title
Post-Lexmark Exhaustion, Federal Preemption and Antitrust Concerns with Preventing Secondary Markets
Panel
Panel 5: Patient Exhaustion and Competition
Moderator
Gary Pulsinelli, Associate Professor of Law, University of Tennessee Law
Location
Pacific McGeorge School of Law, Lecture Hall, 3200 Fifth Ave., Sacramento, CA
Apr 5th, 1:45 PM
Apr 5th, 2:45 PM
Post-Lexmark Exhaustion, Federal Preemption and Antitrust Concerns with Preventing Secondary Markets
Pacific McGeorge School of Law, Lecture Hall, 3200 Fifth Ave., Sacramento, CA
Speaker Bio
Josh Sarnoff is a Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law, a 2018 DePaul Spirit of Inquiry Award winner, and a former Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology (CIPLIT®). From 2014 to 2015, Professor Sarnoff was a Thomas A. Edison Distinguished Scholar at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He teaches patent law, advanced patent law, administrative law, law and climate change, and other courses. He was previously a professor at the Washington College of Law, American University, in the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic, and at the University of Arizona College of Law, and was a visitor at the University of Baltimore School of Law in the Fall of 2017.
Professor Sarnoff is a registered patent attorney and a member of the bars of Washington DC and California, a former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Circuit Bar Association, a former pro bono mediator for the U.S Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and a member of the boards of directors and advisory boards of various non-profit organizations. Professor Sarnoff has been involved in a wide range of intellectual property legal and policy disputes, has submitted testimony and white papers on domestic patent law reform bills, has filed numerous amicus briefs in the United States Supreme Court and in the Federal Circuit on important patent law issues, and has been a consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on international intellectual property, trade, and environment issues. He is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property law issues and has written numerous articles and book chapters on patent law and on climate change and innovation policy. Professor Sarnoff is the editor of and a contributing author to the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Climate Change (Edward Elgar Publishing 2016), http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/researchhandbook- on-intellectual-property-and-climate-change.