Mark A. Lemley (born c. 1966) is currently the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at

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and the Director of the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science & Technology, as well as a founding partner of the law firm of Durie Tangri LLP, which he has been practicing with since 2009."Mark Lemley"
attorney profile at Durie Tangri LLP (last visited Feb. 12, 2014).

Career

Academic career

Lemley teaches intellectual property, computer and Internet law, patent law, trademark law, antitrust law and remedies at

. He is the author of seven books, including the two-volume treatise ''IP and Antitrust'' and over 150 articles published in law reviews or law journals. He is a widely cited expert on patent law. For example, according to his official biography on the Stanford Law website, his works "have been cited more than 220 times by courts, including eleven

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opinions, and more than 14,000 times in books and law review articles, making him the most-cited scholar in IP law and one of the five most cited legal scholars of all time" and he has also "published 9 of the 100 most-cited law review articles of the last twenty years." Prior to Stanford Law, where he has been teaching since 2004, he taught law at

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(1994-2000) as The Marrs McLean Professor of Law and

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(2000-2004) as The Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law.https://www-cdn.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Resume-6-22-16.pdf Among his students include Professor Dmitry Karshtedt.

Private practice

Since 2009, he also practices law as a partner at Durie Tangri LLP, which he co-founded. Before his academic career, Lemley practiced law with the firms of Brown and Bain as well as Fish and Richardson.

Business

Lemley is one of the founders of Lex Machina, a company that provides data analytics involving IP and antitrust litigation to law firms, universities, courts, and policymakers. The company started as a public interest project by Lemley and co-founders George Gregory and Joshua Walker at

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's Law School and Computer Science department, under the IP Clearinghouse Project.Daniel McKenzie (2012-07-26), "Know Your Enemy: Lex Machina Raises $2 Million For IP Litigation Analytics," TechCrunch, https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/26/know-your-enemy-lex-machina-raises-2-million-for-ip-litigation-analytics/

Education

Lemley earned his Bachelor of Arts in

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and Economics from

in 1988, where he won the John G. Sobieski Prize in Economics and was a

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. He earned his

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degree from the

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(or

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) in 1991, where he graduated first in his class (winning the Thelen Marrin Prize for Academic Achievement given to the top graduate) and was elected into the

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. Upon graduation from law school, he served as a judicial law clerk for The Honorable

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at the

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Awards

Lemley has been named California Lawyer's Attorney of the Year twice (in 2005 and 2015) and received the California State Bar's inaugural IP Vanguard Award. In 2007, he was named a Young Global Leader by the Davos World Francisco IP lawyer of the year and Best Lawyers' San Francisco IP Lawyer of the Year in 2010. Lemley was inducted in the 2014 IP Hall of Fame. In 2017, he received the P.J. Federico Award from the

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. In 2018, Lemley received the World Technology Award for Law. He has been recognized as one of the 25 most influential people in IP by American Lawyer, one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the National Law Journal (in 2006 and 2013), and one of the 10 most admired attorneys in IP by IP360. In 2007, Lemley was recognized as one of the top 50 litigators in the country under 45.

Publications

Lemley is the author of eight books and 175 articles, including the two-volume treatise ''IP and Antirust''. His articles have appeared in 23 of the top 25 law reviews, in economic journals such as the ''American Economic Review and the Review of Economics and Statistics''. Lemley published 9 of the 100 most-cited law review articles in the last twenty years, more than any other scholar.

References

External links

Mark Lemley's Official Page at Stanford Law SchoolMark Lemley's Page at Durie Tangri LLP
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