Lee Petherbridge

Lee Petherbridge Professor of Law

• Property
• Administrative Law
• Biological Foundations of Law
• Land Use Regulation
• Patent Law
• Advanced Topics in Patent Law
• Intellectual Property

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• CV
• SSRN

Education

• JD, University of Pennsylvania
• PhD, Baylor College of Medicine
• MA, Smith College
• BS, Western New England College

About

Lee Petherbridge currently focuses his research on the connection between natural selection and the law. His areas of specialty include administrative law, patent law, and property law.

He has authored over 35 articles and essays on topics spanning from empirical analyses of judicial decisionmaking to the examination of gender disparity in law review citation rates. His work has appeared in such journals as the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, and the Northwestern Law Review, among others.

Prior to joining the Loyola Law School faculty in 2005, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Raymond C. Clevenger III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Petherbridge holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Baylor College of Medicine, Smith College, and Western New England College.

Selected Scholarship

• Infringement, Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law (P. Menell, D. Schwartz & B. Depoorter, eds, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) (with Jason Rantanen)
• Inequitable Conduct And Patent Misuse Research Handbook On The Economics Of Intellectual Property Law (P. Menell, D. Schwartz & B. Depoorter eds, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) (with Jason Rantanen)
• Gender Disparity in Law Review Citation Rates, 59(3) Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 771 (2018) (with Christopher A. Cotropia)
• Teva and the Process of Claim Construction, 70(2) U. Fla. L. Rev. 379 (2018) (with R. Polk Wagner)
• Should Your Law Review Article Have an Abstract and Table of Contents?, 85 Miss. L.J. 295 (2016) (peer review) (with Christopher A. Cotropia) 
• The Dominance of Teams in the Production of Legal Knowledge, 124 Yale L. J. F. 18 (2014) (with Christopher A. Cotropia)
• Disuniformity, 66 Fla. L. Rev. 2007 (2014) (with Jason Rantanen)
• Unenforceability, 70 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1751 (2013) (with Jason Rantanen and R. Polk Wagner)
• Unenforceability: Research Report (with Jason Rantanen and R. Polk Wagner)
• The End of an Epithet? An Exploration of the Use of Legal Scholarship in Intellectual Property Decisions, 50 Hous. L. Rev. 523 (2013) (with David L. Schwartz)
• The Pseudo-Elimination of Best Mode: Worst Possible Choice?, 59 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 170 (2012) (with Jason Rantanen)    
• In Memoriam Best Mode, 64 Stan. L. Rev. Online 125 (2012) (with Jason Rantanen)
• America Invents, More or Less?, 160 U. Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra 229 (2012) (with Jason Rantanen and Jay Kesan)
• On Predicting Patent Litigation, 90 Texas L. Rev. See Also 75 (2012)
• Therasense v. Becton Dickinson: A First Impression, 14 Yale J.L. & Tech. 226 (2012) (with Jason Rantanen)
• An Empirical Assessment of the Supreme Court’s Use of Legal Scholarship, 106 Nw. U. L. Rev. 995 (2012) (with David L. Schwartz)
• Did Phillips Change Anything? Empirical Analysis of the Federal Circuit’s Claim Construction Jurisprudence  (forthcoming in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE COMMON LAW, S. Balganesh, ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012) (with R. Polk Wagner)
• Toward a System of Invention Registration: The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, 110 Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 24 (2011) (with Jason Rantanen)
• The Federal Circuit and Inequitable Conduct:  An Empirical Assessment, 84 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1293 (2011) (with Jason Rantanen and Ali Mojibi)
• The Use of Legal Scholarship by the Federal Courts of Appeals, 96 Cornell L. Rev. 1345 (2011) (with David L. Schwartz)
• Legal Scholarship and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: An Empirical Study of a National Circuit, 26 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1561 (2011) (with David L. Schwartz)
• On the Decline of the Doctrine of Equivalents, 31 Cardozo L. Rev. 1371 (2010)
• Patent Law Uniformity?, 22 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 421 (2009)
• On Addressing Patent Quality, 158 U. Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra 13 (2009)
• The Federal Circuit and Patentability:  An Empirical Assessment of the Law of Obviousness, 85 Tex. L. Rev. 2051 (2007) (with R. Polk Wagner)
• Is the Federal Circuit Succeeding? An Empirical Assessment of Judicial Performance, 152 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1105 (2004) (with R. Polk Wagner)