IP/IT Faculty Achievements – Spring-Summer 2020

CIPLIT® would like to congratulate its IP/IT faculty members for their remarkable achievements throughout the first half of 2020. These include publishing articles on the importance of legal tech education and the doctrine of equivalents, winning an award for cultural heritage preservation, and publishing a book on Jewish tradition, among many other accomplishments.

• DePaul University College of Law was named a “2020 Top School for IP Law” by preLaw Magazine. The Intellectual Property Law program received an A rating from preLaw Magazine, a national publication that is read by more than 45,000 law students, professors and law school administrators. DePaul received the highest grade from the publication from 2016-2019. The magazine grades law schools based on the breadth of their curricular offerings.

• Discussed trademark issues related to the Washington Redskins name controversy in Yahoo! Sports and The Washington Times
• Posts on the rights to repair and produce products in a pandemic in the Harvard Law Bill of Health and Northwestern University Law Review of Note blogs
• Correcting Misunderstandings of Literal Infringement Scope Regarding After-Arising Technologies Protected By the Doctrine of Equivalents - AKRON LAW REVIEW, and discussed on the PatentlyO Blog (Sarnoff on After-Arising Technologies and the Doctrine of Equivalents by Jason Rantanen)

• Justices Should Construe Computer Fraud Law Narrowly (co-written with Karen Heart, CIPLIT® adjunct faculty, CDM) – EXPERT ANALYSIS FOR LAW360 LEXISNEXIS
• A Perspective on Technology Education for Law Students - 36 SANTA CLARA HIGH TECH L. J. 33 (2020)

• Professor Kwall’s book, REMIX JUDAISM: PRESERVING TRADITIONS IN A DIVERSE WORLD (Rowman and Littlefield) was released with a tour starting at Congregation B'nai Israel in Tampa, Florida. (Read the Publisher Weekly’s article.)
• Op-eds in The Jewish Journal, The Jerusalem Post, eJewish Philanthropy, and Jewish Telegraphic Agency

• Recipient of the 2020 Outstanding Public Service Award at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America

• Providence and Provenance Intersecting with International Law in the Markets - NORTH CAROLINA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Vol. 45, No. 1 (2020)
• The Disposition of Movable Cultural Heritage - INTERSECTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE LAW (Anne-Marie Carstens and Elizabeth Varner eds. 2020)
• A Threat to Iran's Rich Cultural Heritage (co-written with Brian I. Daniels) – NEW YORK TIMES (Letter to the Editor)

• AI and the Death of Trademark – forthcoming KENTUCKY LAW JOURNAL

• Invited participant at February’s Trademark Scholars Roundtable at Stanford Law School, an annual gathering of trademark scholars to discuss recent and long-term developments in trademark doctrine.

• Life after Losing My Father and Sister to Suicide - Newsweek
• The Criminal Justice System and Trump: He Should be Treated Like Everyone Else – THE HILL (op-ed)