IP Center Distinguished Lecture Series Features Professor Jonas Anderson
11/06/2019
Professor Jonas Anderson delivered the final lecture in the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation's Distinguished Lecture series for the Fall 2019 semester. His discussion of the topic, "Court Competition: The Past and Future of Federal Courts Engaging in Litigant Shopping," took place on November 5 in the Wynne Courtroom at Inlow Hall.
Professor Anderson is the Dean of Scholarship at American University Washington School of Law. He spoke at length about the relatively recent trend of patent cases being filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, which hears about one-third of such cases in the United States. He also talked about other types of cases being filed more frequently in other jurisdictions. Professor Anderson spoke about the negative aspects of such tendencies, and why the United States Congress should take steps to combat this potentially growing trend.
In the photo are Professor Anderson and Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen. Professor Nguyen is the Gerald L. Bepko Chair in Law and the Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation at IU McKinney.
