Building An Innovation Environment

The Intellectual Property (IP) Law Program at Lewis & Clark invites you to explore the world of possibilities in the thriving field of Intellectual Property Law and to engage the powerful resources available to members of our community.

Take part in Lewis & Clark's vibrant Intellectual Property Law program. U.S. News recently ranked our Intellectual Property program #22 in the nation. Join us as we and our IP Law alumni build tomorrow's innovation environment.

Intellectual Property Program

Lewis & Clark's Intellectual Property program is integrated with and complements our outstanding Business Law Program. The synergy between the two programs affords Lewis & Clark students a learning environment that strengthens their appreciation of intellectual property law in an important context in our economy.

Our Small Business Legal Clinic, CIS: Corporate Counsel, CIS: Business Advising-Center for Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Law all offer students real-life experiences working with clients on all manner of IP issues including trademark, copyright and licensing with small companies, major compaines and emerging high-technology ventures.

Faculty

We have three full-time tenured or tenure-track professors who devote both their teaching and their scholarship to intellectual property law. Lewis & Clark has four additional faculty members who teach related courses, such as Entertainment Law, while focusing their scholarship on other areas of the law.

We also have a wide array of talented and experienced adjunct professors that help us round out our curricular offerings.

Tomas Gomez-Arostegui

Tomas Gomez-Arostegui teaches international intellectual property, trademarks, and information privacy law. Prior to joining the faculty at Lewis & Clark in 2006, he was a Visiting Researcher and Lecturer at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law at the University of Oslo, where he still holds an appointment as Supervisor of Examiners. Tomas's scholarship interests lie primarily in the history of intellectual property and in the remedies awarded in intellectual property cases. His most recent article will appear in volume 81 of the Southern California Law Review. He is currently examining the viability of granting continuing royalties in lieu of permanent injunctions in intellectual-property cases.

Lydia Loren

Lydia Loren writes and teaches in the copyright law field. Her extremely popular casebook Copyright in a Global Information Economy (co-authored with Julie Cohen, Maureen O'Rourke, and Ruth Okediji) is used in many schools across the country. Her recent scholarship has focused on using motivation for creation to shape the scope of copyright protection (Louisiana Law Review), understanding the interplay between Creative Commons licenses and copyright law (George Mason Law Review), and music copyrights (Case Western Reserve Law Review). Loren consistently receives high student-evaluation scores for her courses in the intellectual property field, challenging students to understand the law with innovative classroom exercises and writing projects. Active in several Oregon state bar groups, Loren has also taught intellectual property law in China and in Italy for summer study abroad programs. During the 2006-2007 academic year she served as the Interim Dean of Lewis & Clark Law School while the school engaged in a national search for its next dean.

Joseph Miller

Joe Miller writes and teaches in the patent law field. His current focus is on creativity thresholds in both patent law ("Remixing Obviousness," and "Level of Skill & Long-Felt Need: Notes on a Forgotten Future") and, more recently, in copyright law. Other works of his have appeared in the Indiana Law Review, the American University Law Review, and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. An outstanding classroom teacher, he consistently receives some of the highest student-evaluation scores on our campus. He is also an active participant in national dialogues about patent law, currently serving as one of only two academics on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Advisory Council, and blogging about patent law at The Fire of Genius.