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Paul Goldstein. Lillick Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.
A globally recognized expert on intellectual property law, Goldstein is the author of an influential four-volume treatise on copyright law, Goldstein on Copyright, and a one-volume treatise on international copyright law, International Copyright: Principles, Law and Practice, as well as four leading casebooks on the subject. He is the author of two novels with intellectual property themes, Errors and Omissions and a A Patent Lie. He is also the author of two general interest non-fiction books, Copyright’s Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox and the recently-published Intellectual Property: The Tough New Realities that Could Make or Break Your Business. He has served as chair of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information, has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright, and Competition Law in Munich, Germany, and teaches regularly on the masters faculty of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center.
Goldstein currently serves as of counsel at Morrison & Foerster in their intellectual property group. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1975, he was a professor of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law.
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Professor Goldstein's Stanford University web page
Professor Goldstein's web page
Ph. (650) 723-0313
Email: paulgold@stanford.edu
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