The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
IP @ the U
 
August 2022

Welcome to IP @ the U, a periodic newsletter for students, alumni, faculty and friends of the University of Utah College of Law's Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law. If you have news about IP events, accomplishments and milestones, please send them to our Program Director, Jorge Contreras.
WELCOME TO PROFESSOR JONAS ANDERSON!
We are delighted to announce that Professor Jonas Anderson will be joining the faculty of the College of Law in July 2022. Professor Anderson is a distinguished scholar and teacher of patent law and civil procedure with more than a decade of experience in the academy. His work has appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, and the Boston College Law Review, among others, and has been cited by courts including the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Professor Anderson is a graduate of the University of Utah (B.S., Physics; minor in Creative Writing) and Harvard Law School (J.D.) and clerked for the Honorable Alan D. Lourie of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Professor Anderson joins us from American University Washington College of Law, where he served as Associate Dean for Scholarship.
IP SCHOLARS CONFERENCE (IPSC)
Victoria Carrington (3L) and Professor Contreras at the annual IP Scholars Conference at Stanford Law School
On August 11, Victoria Carrington (3L) presented the paper “Intellectual Property and Assisted Reproductive Technology – Past, Present and Future”, co-authored with Prof. Contreras and David Cyranoski (Kyoto Univ.) at the annual IP Scholars Conference held at Stanford Law School. The paper explores the patent landscape of in vitro gametogenesis, a new assisted reproductive technology that could enable the creation of egg and sperm cells from undifferentiated donor cells. Prof. Contreras was the co-author of two other papers presented at IPSC, “Based on a True Story: Life Story Rights, Modularity, and the Propertization of the Self” (with Dave Fagundes (Univ. of Houston)) and “Preliminary Injunctive Relief in Patent Cases: Repairing Irreparable Harm” (with John Jarosz and Robert Vigil (Analysis Group)).
THE GENOME DEFENSE IN MIAMI
Prof. Contreras with attorney Dan Ravicher and Jenny Lopez-Ponce, host of the Miami Lit podcast, at Books and Books in Coral Gables, Florida.
Professor Contreras continues to speak across the country about his NY Times-listed book The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA (Algonquin, 2021). In August, he was interviewed for the Miami Lit podcast along with attorney Dan Ravicher, who played a key role in the. Myriad litigation that is the focus of the book. Prof. Contreras recently wrote a commentary for Harvard’s Bill of Health blog about a new bill intended to reverse the holding of the Myriad case.
ANDERSON AND PATENT JURISDICTION
Prof. Anderson testifying before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s IP Subcommittee
Professor Anderson’s recent work on jurisdictional disputes in patent cases has attracted national attention and was recently cited by Senators Leahy and Tillis in a public letter to Chief Justice Roberts urging the Court to consider Professor Anderson’s court reform proposals. Professor Anderson recently testified about his proposals before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s IP Subcommittee. Some of those proposals were recently implemented in rules changes at the Western District of Texas, a hotspot for patent litigation.
IP AMICI IN THE COURTS
In August, Emeritus Professor Terry Kogan filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts, Inc. v. Lynn Goldsmith, et al. (2nd Cir. 2021), supporting the Second Circuit’s decision in favor of the photographer whose portrait of Prince was used without permission by Andy Warhol. According to Kogan, the decision was “a major win for photographers, whose work has been seriously devalued over the past years.” And in April, Professor Contreras led the drafting and submission of a Brief of Amicus Curiae Law and Economics Scholars in Support of Petition For Rehearing En Banc in Continental Automotive Sys., Inc. v. Avanci, L.L.C. (5th Cir., Apr. 19, 2022). The brief contributed to the court’s withdrawal of its prior opinion and reissuance of an opinion that eliminated problematic language concerning technical standard setting and standards-essential patents (explained here).
The Second Circuit found that Andy Warhol was not authorized to use a photograph of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith without her permission. The case will be heard by the Supreme Court next term.
NEW CASEBOOK: IP LICENSING AND TRANSACTIONS
In July, Cambridge University Press released Professor Contreras’s new casebook Intellectual Property Licensing and Transactions: Theory and Practice (2022). Prof. Contreras has used earlier versions of this book in his course on IP Transactions, and many students over the years contributed to its content. Concerned about the rising cost of textbooks, Prof. Contreras used funding from his recent Presidential Scholar Award (2019-22) to make the book available to all on an open access (i.e., free of charge) basis.
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