Law professor at the SMU Dedman School of Law, teaching contracts and patent law courses, my scholarship focuses on patent law.

Joined January 2012
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The 2024 Tsai Today newsletter is online! We invite you to check it out and learn more about the Tsai Center's programs and people: calameo.com/read/00041460036… @SMULawSchool @smu @davidotaylor @nathancortez @MeghanJRyan @JasonPNance @SMULawAdmission
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While the #Federal Circuit remains the nation's primary expositor of #patentlaw, the Patent Trial & Appeal Board has evolved into the most powerful institution in the nation's #patent system. Read More: spkl.io/601640ZKI Subscribe: spkl.io/601740ZKL #LawTwitter
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#SMU Professor @davidotaylor studies the relationship of the Federal Circuit and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board as a matter of institutional choice through 10 years of case law, giving insight into this understudied area. #researchwithimpact
Professor @davidotaylor's article, "The Federal Circuit and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board," was published in @J_PTOS. 🔗 Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Professor @davidotaylor's article, "The Federal Circuit and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board," was published in @J_PTOS. 🔗 Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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SMU Dedman School of Law is thrilled to welcome @ShaniShisha as an Assistant Professor of Law, starting fall 2024. His teaching and scholarship focus on intellectual property law, copyright law, and the intersection of law and technology. 🔗 More: bit.ly/3tLMqIx

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Free registration for 2/24 is open! smu.edu/IP2023 Topics: #trademarks & #copyrights in #metaverse & #videogames; managing innovation process in business; #SSOs, #EssentialPatents & #PatentPools, with keynote address by Chief Judge Gilstrap. 4 hrs CLE pending!
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Complimentary registration is open! ➡️smu.edu/IP2023⬅️ 19th Symposium on Emerging Intellectual Property Issues: Intellectual Property & The Business of Innovations on Friday, Feb, 24th @SMULawSchool. 4 hrs CLE pending. @davidotaylor @MustangBarSMU
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Kicking off the 2022-2023 academic year with a welcome dinner for our #TsaiScholars, co-directors and new dean of @SMULawSchool @JasonPNance at the home of @davidotaylor with @nathancortez & @MeghanJRyan!
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Senator Tillis's bill is a significant improvement over the legislation proposed in 2019. Indeed, the bill addresses many of the concerns I identified then in my testimony. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

Four basic principles should guide any legislative effort to correct patent eligibility law: broad eligibility, clarity, constraint on judicial intervention, and flexibility. Senator Tillis's bill, while not perfect, holds the potential to check all these boxes.
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As I testified in 2019, "Patent eligibility law is in a state of crisis, and legislative reform is needed to eliminate that crisis." Senator Tillis's bill seeks to address the confusion, incorrect results, and reduced investment my research identified. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis yesterday introduced a bill addressing patent law's subject matter eligibility doctrine. congress.gov/bill/117th-cong…

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#SMULawSchool Profs. @nathancortez and @MeghanJRyan named as Co-Directors of SMU Dedman School of Law's @SMUTsaiCenter. They join founding Co-Director and Prof. @davidotaylor who is currently leading the Center. @SMU Read more: bit.ly/3uNW76G
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Justice Breyer's Last Act? One of Justice Breyer’s last acts as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court might be voting to deny a petition for a writ of certiorari in an important patent eligibility case decided by the Federal Circuit. fedcircuitblog.com/2022/06/2…
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New issue 79:1 of @WLULawReview is now available in the @WLULaw Scholarly Commons with articles by @casey_faucon, @pormerod, @anita_krug, @ProfGReilly, @BlackJDPhD and the Student Notes Colloquium w/@cbseaman, @davidotaylor & 2 @WoodsRogersPLC attorneys: bit.ly/3LMKra8
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In our first Online Symposium post, @tnarecha discusses the #SupremeCourt decision in 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘷. 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘹 and the Court's subtle shift in its approach to administrative patent law. Read the entire post here: fedcircuitblog.com/2022/02/0… #FederalCircuit
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