Biography

A globally recognized expert on intellectual property law, Paul Goldstein is the author of an influential four-volume treatise on U.S. copyright law and a one-volume treatise on international copyright law, as well as leading casebooks on intellectual property and international intellectual property. He has authored seven other books including two novels devoted to intellectual property themes, Errors and Omissions and A Patent Lie. Some of his other works include Copyright’s Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, a widely acclaimed book on the history and future of copyright, and Intellectual Property: The Tough New Realities That Could Make or Break Your Business.

Professor Goldstein currently serves as of counsel at Morrison & Foerster in their intellectual property group and has been regularly included in Best Lawyers in America. He has served as chairman of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information, has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright, and Competition Law in Munich, Germany, and was a founding faculty member of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center. In addition, before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1975, he was a professor of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School.

Key Works

• Paul Goldstein, Goldstein On Copyright, 3rd ed., New York: Aspen, 2005.
• Paul Goldstein, Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, Rev. ed., Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. 238 pages.
• Paul Goldstein, Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Related State Doctrines: Cases and Materials on Intellectual Property Law, Revised 5th edition, New York, NY: Foundation Press, 2002. 1025 pages.
• Paul Goldstein, International Copyright: Principles, Law and Practice, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 618 pages.
• Paul Goldstein, International Intellectual Property Law : Cases and Materials, New York, NY: Foundation Press, 2001. 580 pages.

Courses & Programs

Courses

• Intellectual Property: Copyright
• International Intellectual Property

Programs

• John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law
• Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology, Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

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• Paul Goldstein and Joseph Straus, eds., Intellectual Property in Asia: Law, Economics, History and Politics, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2009.
• Paul Goldstein, Fair Use in Context (Symposium: Fair Use: "Incredibly Shrinking" or Extraordinarily Expanding?), 31 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 433 (Summer 2008).
• Paul Goldstein, A Patent Lie, New York: Doubleday, June 2008.
• Paul Goldstein and R. Anthony Reese, Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Related State Doctrines, New York: Foundation Press, 6th ed., 2008.
• Paul Goldstein, Goldstein on Copyright, 2008 Supplement, New York: Aspen Publishers, 2008.
• Paul Goldstein, International Intellectual Property, New York: Foundation Press, 2nd ed., 2008.
• Paul Goldstein, Intellectual Property: The Tough New Realities that Could Make or Break Your Business, New York: Portfolio, 2007.
• Paul Goldstein, Goldstein on Copyright, 2007 Supplement, New York: Aspen Publishers, 2007.
• Paul Goldstein and Edmund W. Kitch, Selected Statutes and International Agreements on Unfair Competition, Trademark, Copyright and Patent, New York: Foundation Press, 2007.
• Paul Goldstein, Errors and Omissions, New York, NY :Doubleday, 2006.

Affiliations & Honors

Honors and Awards

• Recipient, John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford, 1978, 1983