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Tel: 215.898.4356
Email: polk@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Information Law
- Intellectual Property
- Law and Technology
- Patent Law
Bio
Polk Wagner focuses his research and teaching in intellectual property law and policy, with a special interest in patent law.
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Polk Wagner focuses his research and teaching in intellectual property law and policy, with a special interest in patent law. He has written over 20 articles on topics ranging from an empirical analysis of judicial decision-making in the patent law to the First Amendment status of software programs. His work has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, among several others. He is the author (with C. Nard) of Patent Law (Concepts and Insights) (Foundation 2008). He is a frequent lecturer on intellectual property topics worldwide.
Prior to joining the Penn Law faculty in 2000, Wagner served as a clerk to Judge Raymond C. Clevenger III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He holds degrees from Stanford Law School, the University of Michigan (as an engineering major), and was the 1994-95 Roger M. Jones Fellow at the London School of Economics.
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Representative Professional Positions
Law Clerk to the Hon. Clevenger, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1998-2000)
Penn Law - Professor of Law (2005- ); Assistant Professor (2000-05)
Representative Publications
Understanding Patent-Quality Mechanisms, 157 U. PA. L. REV. 2135 (2009).
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PATENT LAW: CONCEPTS AND INSIGHTS (Foundation Press 2008) (with C. Nard).
The Supreme Court and the Future of Patent Reform, 55 FED. LAW. 35 (2008)
The Federal Circuit and Patentability: An Empirical Assessment of the Law of Obviousness, 85 TEX. L. REV. 2051 (2007) (with L. Petherbridge).
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"A Teaching, Suggestion, or Motivation to Combine": Bringing Structure and Clarity to the Obviousness Analysis, 155 U. PA. L. REV. PENNUMBRA 96 (2006).
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Comments on “Stealth Marketing and Editorial Integrity”, 85 TEX. L. REV. SEEALSO 17 (2006).
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The Perfect Storm: Intellectual Property and Public Values, 73 FORDHAM L. REV. 1107 (2005).
Patent Portfolios, 154 U. PA. L. REV. 1 (2005) (with G. Parchomovsky).
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Reconsidering the DMCA, 42 HOUST. L. REV. 1107 (2005).
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On Software Regulation, 78 S. CAL. L. REV. 457 (2005).
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Exactly Backwards: Exceptionalism and the Federal Circuit, 54 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 749 (2004).
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Is the Federal Circuit Succeeding? An Empirical Assessment of Judicial Performance, 152 U. PA. L. REV. 1105 (2004) (with Lee Petherbridge).
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(Mostly) Against Exceptionalism, in F. SCOTT KIEFF, ADVANCES IN GENETICS 50-367 (2003).
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Of Patents and Path Dependency: A Comment on Burk & Lemley, 18 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 1341 (2004).
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Information Wants to Be Free: Intellectual Property and the Mythologies of Control, 103 COLUM. L. REV. 995 (2003).
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Realspace Sovereigns in Cyberspace: Problems with the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 17 BERKELEY TECH. L.J. 989 (2002) (with Catherine Struve).
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Reconsidering Estoppel: Patent Administration & the Failure of Festo, 151 U. PA. L. REV. 159 (2002).
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The Myth of Private Ordering: Rediscovering Legal Realism in Cyberspace, 73 CHI-KENT L. REV. 1295 (1999) (with M. J. Radin).
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Filters and the First Amendment, 83 MINN. L. REV. 755 (1999).
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The Medium is the Mistake: The Law of Software for the First Amendment, 51 STAN. L. REV. 387 (1999).
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