Biography
Brian Love joined Stanford Law School as a lecturer and teaching fellow in 2010. He is responsible for all aspects of the Law, Science and Technology LLM Program, including student advising and teaching. His principal research interest is patent law.
Prior to joining Stanford Law School, Brian served as a law clerk to Dorothy W. Nelson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to David C. Godbey on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. He also practiced law at Fish & Richardson P.C. with an emphasis on patent litigation.
Brian received his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2007. As a law student, he was a member of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, served as President of the Kirkwood Moot Court Competition, and was a Teaching Assistant for Federal Pretrial Litigation. Prior to law school, Brian studied electrical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and worked in the Sonar Development Division of The University of Texas at Austin’s Applied Research Laboratories.
Education
- J.D., Stanford Law School, 2007
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering with Highest Honors, The University of Texas at Austin, 2004
Employment
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson, 2009-2010
- Associate, Fish & Richardson P.C., 2008-2009
- Law Clerk to the Honorable David C. Godbey, 2007-2008
- Applied Research Laboratories, 2003-2004
Key Works
- Brian J. Love, Interring the Pioneer Invention Doctrine, 90 North Carolina Law Review 379 (2012).
- Brian J. Love, The Misuse of Reasonable Royalty Damages as a Patent Infringement Deterrent, 74 Missouri Law Review 909 (2009).
- Brian J. Love, Patentee Overcompensation and the Entire Market Value Rule, 60 Stanford Law Review 263 (2007).
In the News
Publications & Cases
- Brian J. Love, David J. Love and James V. Krogmeier, Like Deck Chairs on the Titanic: Why Spectrum Reallocation Won’t Avert the Coming Data Crunch But Technology Might Keep the Wireless Industry Afloat, 89 Washington University Law Review, (forthcoming).
- Brian Love, My View: Taxpayers Subsidize Universities’ ‘Patent Roulette’, Indianapolis Star, March 2, 2012.
- Brian J. Love, Interring the Pioneer Invention Doctrine, 90 North Carolina Law Review 379 (2012).
- Brian J. Love, An Empirical Study of Patent Litigation Timing: Could a Patent Term Reduction Decimate Trolls Without Harming Innovators?, SSRN Working Paper Series, August 30, 2011.
- Brian J. Love, The Misuse of Reasonable Royalty Damages as a Patent Infringement Deterrent, 74 Missouri Law Review 909 (2009).
- Brian J. Love, Patentee Overcompensation and the Entire Market Value Rule, 60 Stanford Law Review 263 (2007).
- blove@law.stanford.edu
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