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F. Scott Kieff Faculty Member
Positions
- Professor of Law and Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor of Law, LAW , Law 2009 -
- Director of Planning and Publications GW Law's Center for Law, Economics, and Finance C-LEAF, LAW , Law 2012 - 2013
- Associate Executive Director GW Law's Center for Law, Economics, and Finance C-LEAF, LAW , Law 2012 - 2013
- Co-Director of LLM Program for GW Law's Center for Law, Economics, and Finance C-LEAF, LAW , Law 2012 - 2013
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Affiliation
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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
- Lessons for Today’s Fields of Intellectual Property and Trade from Epstein’s Insights about Private Law and History. Journal of Legal Studies. 2021
- Scrutinizing the 2005 Hague Convention: Two Further Reasons to Keep Arbitration a Viable Option. Kluwer Arbitration Blog. 2021
- Warnings And Guideposts From EU Sanctions Blocking Case. Law360. 2021
- Great Powers and New Risks: What Businesses and Regulators Should Know about China’s Strategic Ambitions. Orbis. 2021
- How One ITC Initial Determination Highlights the Links Among a Strong Patent System, Jobs and International Cooperation. IP Watchdog. 2021
- UK Ruling Shows Tool for Taming Multijurisdictional Disputes. Law360. 2021
- Business, Risk, China’s MCF: Modest Tools of Financial Regulation for a Time of Great Power Competition 2020
- 2 Things Missing From Debates On US-China Fights. Law 360. 2018
- Private Antitrust at the U.S. International Trade Commission. Journal of Competition Law and Economics. 2018
- Pragmatism, Perspective, and Trade: AD/CVD, Patents, and Antitrust as Mostly Private Law. Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. 2017
- Benefits of Patent Jury Trials for Commercializing Innovation. George Mason Law Review. 2014
- Incentives Effects from Different Approaches to Holdup Mitigation Surrounding Patent Remedies and Standard Setting Organizations. Journal of Competition Law and Economics. 2013
- Anything Under the Sun Made by Humans: Patent Law Doctrines As Endogenous Institutions for Commercializing Innovation. Emory Law Journal. 2013
- The FTC, IP, and SSOs: Government Hold-Up Replacing Private Coordination, Competition. 8 J. COMPET. L. ECON. 2012
- Patently Bad Policy. DEFINING IDEAS. 2011
- File First, Invent Later?. DEFINING IDEAS. 2011
- Patent Reform Goes Haywire. DEFINING IDEAS. 2011
- The Perils of Patent Reform. DEFINING IDEAS. 2011
- Welcome to Patent Purgatory. DEFINING IDEAS. 2011
- The Patent Process Run Amok. DEFINING IDEAS. 2011
- Why Business Isn’t Getting ‘in the Game,’. INVESTOR’S BUS. DAILY. 2011
- The Importance of Finality in Patent Litigation. NAT’L L. J.. 2010
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article
- Trade Enforcement for Electric Vehicle Batteries Protects Jobs, Upholds Trade Treaty. Bloomberg Law. 2021
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book
- Principles of Patent Law - Seventh Edition. Foundation Press. 2018
- Perspectives on Patentable Subject Matter. Cambridge University Press. 2015
- Perpectives on Financing Innovation. Routledge. 2014
- Perspectives on Commercializing Innovation. Cambridge University Press. 2011
- INTERNATIONAL, UNITED STATES, AND EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. Aspen/Wolters Kluwer. 2010
- Perspectives on Corporate Governance. Cambridge University Press. 2010
- Perspectives on Properties of the Human Genome Project. Academic Press / Elsevier. 2003
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chapter
- A Stylized Model of Agency Structure for Mitigating Executive Branch Overreach. LIBERTY’S NEMESIS: THE UNCHECKED EXPANSION OF THE STATE. 2016
- Engineering a Deal: Toward a Private Ordering Solution to the Anticommons Problem. PERSPECTIVES ON COMMERCIALIZING INNOVATION. 2011
- Introduction. PERSPECTIVES ON COMMERCIALIZING INNOVATION. 2011
- The CEO and the Board: On CEO Overconfidence and Institutionalizing Dissent in Firms. PERSPECTIVES ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE. 2010
- Economic Perils of U.S. Patent Reform: Flexibility’s Achilles Heel. PATENTS AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD: LIBER AMICORUM JOSEPH STRAUS. 2009
- How Not to Invent a Patent Crisis. REACTING TO THE SPENDING SPREE: POLICY CHANGES WE CAN AFFORD. 2009
- On the Economics of Patent Law and Policy. PATENT LAW AND THEORY: A HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH. 2009
- Wrong Incentives from Financial System Fixes. REACTING TO THE SPENDING SPREE: POLICY CHANGES WE CAN AFFORD. 2009
- Perusing Property Rights In DNA. PERSPECTIVES ON PROPERTIES OF THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT. 2003
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conference paper
- Lessons Learned from Windy Times at the Interface Among International Trade, Intellectual Property, Antitrust, and Financial Regulation 2019
- Keynote presentation: Anything Under the Sun Made by Humans: Patent Law Doctrines As Endogenous Institutions for Commercializing Innovation 2013
- Relationships between Holdup and Approaches to Patent Remedies, In and Out of the Standard-‐Setting Context 2013
- Chaired Panel: Licensing Markets for IP 2012
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review
- Questioning the Frequency and Wisdom of Compulsory Licensing for Pharmaceutical Patents. 78 U. CHI. L. REV.. 2011
- Removing Property from Intellectual Property: (Intended?) Pernicious Impacts on Innovation and Competition. 19 SUP. CT. ECON. REV.. 2011
- An Inconvenient School of Thought. 61 ALA. L. REV.. 2010
- The Case for Preferring Patent Validity Litigation over Second Window Review and Gold Plated Patents: When One Size Doesn’t Fit All, How Could Two Do The Trick?. 157 U. Penn. L. Rev.. 2009
presentations
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Service
reviewer of
- American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal (Journal)
- Edward Elgar Publishing (Journal)
- Journal Industrial and Corporate Change (Journal)
- Journal of Legal Studies (Journal)
professional service activities
- European Academy of Sciences and Arts Member 2012 -
- Federal Circuit Historical Society Member 2011 -
- Federal Circuit Historical Society Vice-President 2009 -
- Intellectual Property Modeling Group of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy at McGill University Faculty of Law, founding faculty Member 2008 -
- American Bar Association Member 1996 -
- Bar Association of the City of New York Member 1996 -
- American Intellectual Property Law Association Member
- Federal Circuit Bar Association Member
- Federal Circuit Historical Society Member
- Munich Intellectual Property Law Center Member
- Federal Circuit Bar Association -- Governing Board Member 2018 - 2199
- National Security Agency Director's Advisory Board Compliance Panel Member - 2021
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Background
education and training
- JD degree, University of Pennsylvania Law School Philadelphia, PA 1991 - 1994
- BS degree in Biology with a focus in molecular genetics and biochemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 1991
awards and honors
- Confirmed by unanimous consent of the Senate, conferred by U.S. Senate, 2013
- Unanimous Favorable Vote after Confirmation Hearing, conferred by U.S Senate Committee on Finance, 2013
- Re-Nominated by U. S. President Obama to be Member of the U.S. International Trade Commission, conferred by Re-Nominated by U. S. President Obama to be Member of the U.S. International Trade Commission, 2013
- Nominated by U. S. President Obama to be Member of the U.S. International Trade Commission, conferred by Nominated by U. S. President Obama to be Member of the U.S. International Trade Commission, 2012
- Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, conferred by European Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2012
- law category for the World Technology Awards, conferred by None, 2011
- “Top 50 under 45”, conferred by IP LAW & BUSINESS, 2008
- Israel Trieman Faculty Fellowship, conferred by Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law, 2006
- Faculty rank fellowships, conferred by Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 2003
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Contact
full name
- F. Scott Kieff
mailing address
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LAW
2000 H Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
USA
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