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