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Adam Mossoff

  • Professor of Law
  • JD, University of Chicago Law School
  • MA, Columbia University
  • BA, University of Michigan

Professional Information

  • SSRN Author Profile Page
  • Subjects Taught:
    • Internet Law
    • Patent Law
    • Property
    • Trade Secrets Law
  • Curriculum Vitae: CV in PDF format
  • Area(s) of Expertise:
    • Intellectual Property Law
    • Internet Law
    • Legal History
    • Patents
    • Property Law
    • Trade Secrecy

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Biographical Sketch

Adam Mossoff is Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University. He teaches a wide range of courses at the law school, including property, patent law, trade secrets, trademark law, remedies, and internet law. He primarily researches and writes on patent law and innovation policy, explaining how private property rights in inventions and artistic works promote a growing innovation economy and flourishing society. His research has been relied on by the Supreme Court, by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and by federal agencies.

Professor Mossoff has testified seven times before the Senate and the House of Representatives on proposed patent legislation. He has also been invited to present his research at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Smithsonian Museum of American History. He has filed over 35 amicus briefs, and many more comments before federal agencies like the USPTO, FTC, FDA, and NIST on proposed regulations and polices affecting intellectual property rights. His writings on intellectual property policy have appeared in the popular press in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, The Hill, Politico, and in other media outlets. He is Chair of the Forum for Intellectual Property and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, and a Visiting Intellectual Property Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding in January 2020. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee of ANSI and he has served as past Chair and Vice-Chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the IEEE-USA, on which he remains a member in good standing. He was a co-founder and director of the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property at Scalia Law from 2012-2018.

Professor Mossoff graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a research assistant to Richard A. Epstein and received a Bradley Governance Fellowship. Following law school, he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Visiting Lecturer at Northwestern University School of Law, and he clerked for the Honorable Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Before coming to Scalia Law, he taught at Michigan State University College of Law, the University of San Diego School of Law, and Washington & Lee University School of Law. He holds an MA in philosophy, specializing in legal and political philosophy, from Columbia University and a BA with High Distinction and High Honors in philosophy from the University of Michigan.