F. Scott Kieff
Senior Fellow
Member, Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force

Expertise: Technology law and business; intellectual property; antitrust; entrepreneurship; innovation; technology development; technology transfer; and commercial transactions, litigation, and appeals

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F. Scott Kieff is a professor at Washington University School of Law, with a secondary appointment in the School of Medicine’s Department of Neurological Surgery, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, where he directs the Project on Commercializing Innovation, which studies the law, economics, and politics of innovation, including entrepreneurship, corporate governance, finance, economic development, intellectual property, antitrust, and bankruptcy.

He also serves on Hoover’s Property Rights Task Force and as a faculty member of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center at Germany’s Max Planck Institute; previously he was a visiting professor in the law schools at Northwestern, Chicago, and Stanford, as well as a faculty fellow in the Olin Program on Law and Economics at Harvard.

Having practiced law for more than six years, as a trial lawyer and patent lawyer for Pennie & Edmonds in New York and Jenner & Block Chicago and as law clerk to U.S. Circuit judge Giles S. Rich, he now serves as a testifying and consulting expert, mediator, and arbitrator to law firms, businesses, government agencies, and courts. He served for two years on the Federal Circuit’s Appellate Mediation Panel, until November 2007, and that December was appointed by Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez to serve a three-year term on the nine-person Patent Public Advisory Committee of the Patent and Trademark Office, which was created by Congress to advise the government on the policies, goals, performance, budget, and user fees of the patent operation.

In May 2008, he was recognized as one of the nation’s “Top 50 under 45” by the magazine IP Law & Business.

Before attending law school at the University of Pennsylvania, he studied molecular biology and microeconomics at MIT and conducted research in molecular genetics at the Whitehead Institute.

More information about Kieff, including PDF versions of his faculty biography and CV, as well as links to many of his recent publications, is available on the web at http://law.wustl.edu/kieff.