Mark A. Lemley

A.B., Stanford University, Political Science, 1988

J.D., Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 1991

Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology, and the Director of Stanford's LLM Program in Law, Science and Technology. He teaches intellectual property, computer and Internet law, patent law, and antitrust. He is the author of seven books (all but one in multiple editions) and more than 112 articles on these and related subjects, including the two-volume treatise IP and Antitrust. His works have been reprinted throughout the world, and translated into Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Danish, and Italian. He has taught intellectual property law to federal and state judges at numerous Federal Judicial Center and ABA programs, has testified seven times before Congress and numerous times before the California legislature, the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Modernization Commission on patent, trade secret, antitrust and constitutional law matters, and has filed numerous amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, and the federal circuit courts of appeals. He has been named California Lawyer's Attorney of the Year (2005), Best Lawyers' San Francisco IP Lawyer of the Year (2010), was named "One of the 25 Most Influential People in IP" by American Lawyer (2010), was given the inaugural IP Vanguard award by the California State Bar in 2009, was named a Young Global Leader by the Davos World Economic Forum (2007), one of the top 50 litigators in the country under 45 by the American Lawyer (2007), one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the nation by the National Law Journal (2006), one of the top 25 intellectual property lawyers in California (2003), one of the 100 most influential lawyers in California (2004, 2005 and 2006) and one of the 75 leading intellectual property litigators (2010 and 2011) by the Daily Journal and one of the 500 leading lawyers in the country by Lawdragon Magazine, among other honors. In 2002 he was chosen Boalt's Young Alumnus of the Year. In 2010 he was named one of Law360’s 10 Most Admired Intellectual Property Attorneys.

Mark is a founding partner of Durie Tangri. He litigates and counsels clients in all areas of intellectual property, antitrust, and Internet law. He has argued seven Federal appellate cases and numerous district court cases, and represented clients including Genentech, Google, Grokster, Hummer Winblad, Impax, Intel, NetFlix, Zediva, and the University of Colorado Foundation in over eighty cases in nearly two decades as a lawyer.

Mark received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley, and his A.B. from Stanford University. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge Dorothy Nelson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and has practiced law in Silicon Valley with Brown & Bain and with Fish & Richardson and in San Francisco with Keker & Van Nest. Until January 2000, he was the Marrs McLean Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law, and until June 2004 he was the Elizabeth Josslyn Boalt Professor of Law at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley.

Selected Publications