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Joseph S. Miller
Professor of Law
B.A., St. John's College
M.S., J.D., Northwestern University
Courses
Patent Law
Intellectual Property Survey
Antitrust
Biographical Information
Joseph S. Miller, who specializes in intellectual property law, joined the Georgia Law faculty in 2011 as a professor teaching Patent Law, Intellectual Property Law Survey and Antitrust Law.
He comes to Athens from Lewis & Clark Law School, where he taught from 2002 to 2011. With 10 years of teaching experience, Miller has also served as a visiting professor at Northwestern University School of Law as well as at Georgia Law.
Miller's scholarly efforts focus on intellectual property law issues, both alone and within the larger legal structures that govern the competitive process within a market economy. He is especially interested in intellectual property law's creativity thresholds, such as patent law's nonobviousness requirement and copyright law's originality requirement. His recent work appears in the Stanford Technology Law Review, the Administrative Law Review, the Cardozo Law Review and the Indiana Law Review. He has also co-authored a casebook with Professor Lydia Loren, entitled Intellectual Property Law: Cases & Materials (2d ed., 2010).
Previously, Miller worked as an attorney in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he helped with a variety of investigations that included intellectual property law components. Additionally, he practiced both patent and general appellate law at Sidley & Austin, and served as a judicial clerk for Judge Paul R. Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He was later appointed to the Federal Circuit Advisory Council, a post he held for five years.
Miller earned his bachelor's degree from St. John's College, where he graduated first in his class, and his master's degree and law degree cum laude from Northwestern University, where he was an articles editor of the Northwestern University Law Review.
ARTICLES
Joint Defense or Research Joint Venture? Reassessing the Patent-Challenge-Bloc's Antitrust Status, 2011 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 5 (2011).
Substance, Procedure, and the Divided Patent Power, 63 Admin. L. Rev. 31 (2011).
Bilski v. Kappos: Everything Old is New Again, 15 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 1 (2011).
Hoisting Originality, 31 Cardozo L. Rev. 451 (2009).
Level of Skill and Long-felt Need: Notes on a Forgotten Future, 12 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 579 (2008).
Remixing Obviousness, 16 Texas Intell. Prop. L.J. 237 (2007).
Standard Setting, Patents, and Access Lock-In: RAND Licensing and the Theory of the Firm, 40 Indiana L. Rev. 351 (2007).
Patent Ships Sail an Antitrust Sea, 30 Seattle U. L. Rev. 395 (2007).
Foreword: Why Open Access to Scholarship Matters, 10 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 733 (2006).
The Proven Key: Roles and Rules for Dictionaries at the Patent Office and the Courts, 54 Am. U. L. Rev. 829 (2005) (with James Hilsenteger).
Enhancing Patent Disclosure for Faithful Claim Construction, 9 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 177 (2005).
Building a Better Bounty: Litigation-Stage Rewards for Defeating Patents, 19 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 667 (2004).
This Bitter Has Some Sweet: Potential Antitrust Enforcement Benefits from Patent Law's Procedural Rules, 70 Antitrust L.J. 875 (2003).
Allchin's Folly: Exploding Some Myths About Open Source Software, 20 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 491 (2002).
Muddy Waters: Infringement Analysis After Markman and Warner-Jenkinson, 7 Fed. Cir. B.J. 227 (1997) (with Clyde Willian).
The Expert as Educator: Enhancing the Rationality of Verdicts in Child Sex Abuse Prosecutions, 1 Psychol., Pub. Pol'y, & L. 323 (1995) (with Ronald J. Allen).
The Common Law Theory of Experts: Deference or Education?, 87 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1131 (1993) (Ronald J. Allen).
BOOKS
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: CASES & MATERIALS (2d ed. 2010) (with Lydia Loren).
PATENTS (Critical Concepts in Intellectual Property Law Series) (2010) (editor).
CHAPTERS
The Expert as Educator, in EXPERT WITNESSES IN CHILD ABUSE CASES (Ceci & Hembrooke eds., 1998) (with Ronald J. Allen).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Patent Office Power: Tafas v. Doll, and Next Steps, OR. INTELL. PROP. NEWSLETTER, Spring 2009, at 6.
IP Policy as Governance Structure: A Fresh Look at the RAND Promise, in THE STANDARDS EDGE: GOLDEN MEAN (2006).
Another Fall, Another Festo, OR. INTELL. PROP. NEWSLETTER, Winter 2003, at 11.
The Historical Roots of Patent Prosecution Laches, OR. INTELL. PROP. NEWSLETTER, Spring 2002, at 8.
Contact Information
University of Georgia
School of Law
307 Hirsch Hall
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: (706) 542-7989
Fax: (706) 542-7404
Email: getmejoe@uga.edu
Administrative Support
Cathy Dasher
Phone: (706) 542-2901
Email: catdash@uga.edu
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