Patents, Property Rights, and What Patent Policy Keeps Getting Wrong

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Gene Quinn interviews Kristen Osenga about her journey from engineering to patent law and the implications of patent policy.

Send us Fan Mail This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, our host and the founder of IPWatchdog, Gene Quinn, speaks with Kristen Osenga, who is the Julie & John Nowak Faculty Research Scholar & Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Richmond School of Law. Osenga discusses her path from engineering to patent law, including her time at Finnegan and her clerkship with Judge Richard Linn of the Federal Circuit, and explains how those experiences shaped h...

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Host: Gene Quinn

Guest: Kristen Osenga

Topics covered

• patent law
• property rights
• legal education
• engineering
• judicial clerkship

Keywords

• patents
• property rights
• patent policy
• law
• engineering
• judicial clerkship

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Organizations: University of Richmond School of Law, Finnegan

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