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Dennis D. Crouch is a Professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, where he holds the Judge C.A. Leedy Professor of Law chair. He is a leading expert in Intellectual Property Law and Artificial Intelligence Law, with a career spanning academia, patent litigation, and technical engineering.
- Education: BSE cum laude from Princeton University (1997), JD cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School (2003)
- Prior Roles: Patent attorney in Chicago, teaching at Boston University Law School
His research focuses on the intersection of Patent Law, Copyright, and AI Policy, including recent work on:
- Patent eligibility in Jilin v. US and implications for China-US trade
- Copyright challenges in AI training data
- Evolution of the Federal Circuit’s discretionary IPR denials
- Historical foundations of patent law (e.g., Alexander Milburn Co. v. Davis-Bournonville Co.)
- Design patent enforcement in cases like Top Brand LLC v. Cozy Comfort
Key scientific contributions include:
- Co-authoring empirical studies on Federal Circuit dissent patterns
- Advocacy for patent system reforms (e.g., value-based patent taxes under Trump administration)
- Analysis of legal fictions in AI inventorship (Legal Fictions and the Corporation as an Inventive Artificial Intelligence, 2022)
He maintains the widely-read Patently-O blog, which has published over 6,000 posts and attracted tens of millions of visitors since 2006. His teaching portfolio includes experiential patent law courses with internal moot court competitions and drafting practice.
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