Gary Pulsinelli

Associate Professor of Law
J.D., 1997, University of California-Berkeley
Ph.D., 1994, University of Wisconsin-Madison
A.B., 1985, Harvard University

Intellectual Property; Law, Science, and Technology; Patent Law; Antitrust Law; and Legal Process I

pulsinel@libra.law.utk.edu

Professor Gary Pulsinelli joined the faculty at the University of Tennessee College of Law in August 2001 after clerking for Judge S. Jay Plager on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Professor Pulsinelli earned his J.D. degree at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley in 1997, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. Prior to attending law school, he earned his Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994, then continued his doctoral research as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Oncology. His legal experience includes working as an associate in the Palo Alto , Calif., firm of Pennie & Edmonds in the area of biotechnology patent prosecution and related legal research. He also worked as a research associate in the Department of Biology at Harvard University and at I.G.B. Products, Ltd.

Publications

Freedom to Explore: Using the Eleventh Amendment to Liberate Researchers at State Universities from Liability for Intellectual Property Infringements , 82 Wash. L. Rev. __ (2007) (forthcoming).

Share and Share Alike: Increasing Access to Government-Funded Inventions under the Bayh-Dole Act , 7 Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. 393 (2006).

The Orphan Drug Act: What's Right With It , 15 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 299 (1999).

High Rate of Mismatch Extension During Reverse Transcription in a Single Round of Retrovirus Replication, 91 Proc. Nat'l Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 9490 (1994) (with Howard M. Temin).

Characterization of Large Deletions Occurring during a Single Round of Retrovirus Replication: Novel Deletion Mechanism Involving Errors in Strand Transfer, 65 J. Virology 4786 (1991) (with Howard M. Temin).

Recent Presentations

Invited Panelist, Incentives and Invention (Conference on Patent Policy in the Supreme Court and Congress, Santa Clara University School of Law, October 2006)

Invited Commentator, Are Patents an Efficient and Internationally Fair Means of Funding R&D for New Medicines? (Ethics and the Business of Biomedicine Conference, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, April 2006)

Invited Lecture, Intellectual Property and Digital Copyright Law ( Gordon Ford College of Business, Western Kentucky University , April 2005)

Young Scholar Presentation, Intellectual Property Infringement: Liability of Researchers at State Universities (Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, July 2003)

Summer Faculty Scholarship Forum Presentation, Intellectual Property Infringement: Liability of Researchers at State Universities ( University of Tennessee College of Law , June 2003)

Achievements and Affiliations

Admitted to the bar of the State of California

Registered Patent Attorney , United States Patent & Trademark Office

Works in Progress

Fixing Festo : How the Foreseeability Test for the Doctrine of Equivalents Punishes Innovation (and What to Do about It)

May 31, 2007