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Dan Burk

Chancellor's Professor
School of Law

M.S., Northwestern University, 1985, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry


J.D., Arizona State University, 1990


J.S.M., Stanford University, 1994

Phone: (949) 824-9325
Fax: (949) 824-7336
Email: dburk@uci.edu

University of California
401 East Peltason Drive
Mail Code: 8000
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests
law, intellectual property, patent, copyright, trademark, Internet law, biotechnology law
   
URLs Law Faculty Web Page
   
Publications at SSRN
   
UCI Chancellor's Professors
   
Research
Abstract
Dan L. Burk is an internationally prominent authority on legal and social issues related to high technology, whose research encompasses the areas of patent, copyright, electronic commerce, and biotechnology law. His work has included articles on scientific misconduct, on the regulation of biotechnology, on the ethics of computer gaming, and on the intellectual property implications of global computer networks. Some of his most recent work has considered the statutory “policy levers” used by courts to apply patent incentives to industries with diverse innovation profiles, as well as the effect of intellectual property rights on the structure of firms and of industries.
   
Publications THE PATENT CRISIS AND HOW THE COURTS CAN SOLVE IT (U. Chicago Press, 2009) (with Mark A. Lemley) .
   
  Trademarks and the Boundaries of the Firm, 51 WM. & MARY L. REV. 345 (2009) (with Brett H. McDonnell).
   
  Fence Posts or Sign Posts? Rethinking Patent Claim Constructon, 157 U. PENN. L. REV. 1743 (2009)(with Mark A. Lemley).
   
  The Goldilocks Hypothesis: Balancing Intellectual Property Rights at the Boundary of the Firm, 2006 U. ILL. L. REV. 275 (with Brett H. McDonnell).
   
  DNA Rules: Legal & Conceptual Implications of Biological “Lock-Out” Systems, 92 CAL. L. REV. 1553 (2004).
   
  Intellectual Property and the Firm, 71 U. CHI. L. REV. 3 (2004).
   
  Policy Levers in Patent Law, 79 VA. L. REV. 101 (2003)(with Mark A. Lemley).
   
  Anti-Circumvention Misuse, 50 UCLA L. REV. 1095 (2003).
   
  Patenting Speech, 79 TEXAS L. REV. 100 (2000).
   
Professional
Society
Order of the Coif
   
Other Experience Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor of Law
University of Minnesota 1999—2008

Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University 1995—1999

Research Center Center for Compter Games and Virtual Worlds
   
Link to this profile http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5592
   
Last updated 11/23/2009