Biography
Brenda M. Simon joined Stanford Law School in 2008 as the teaching fellow for the Law, Science, and Technology LLM Program, and as a fellow in the Center for Law and Biosciences. Her research focuses on intellectual property, bioethics, and constitutional law.
Before joining Stanford, Simon was an associate at Fenwick & West, where she represented technology clients in intellectual property litigation, counseling and patent prosecution. Her pro bono representation of clients included successful appeals before the Ninth and Federal Circuits. In 2000-2001, she served as a law clerk to Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Simon graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a B.S. in General Chemistry, and she received her J.D., from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 2000, where she was an executive editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, a teaching assistant for Negotiations, and awarded the Prosser Prize in Intellectual Property.
Publications
- “Burdened Expression: Eligibility for Intellectual Property Protection and the First Amendment” (in progress)
- Note, United States v. Hilton, 14 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 385 (1999)
Field of Interest/Expertise
- Intellectual Property, Bioethics, Constitutional Law
- BMSimon@law.stanford.edu
- 650 721.5592