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Elizabeth Winston's academic work centers on intellectual property law, contracts, and remedies. Prior to her academic career, she practiced at Covington & Burling, specializing in intellectual property matters and complex civil disputes.
She holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and an S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During law school, she served as managing editor of The Journal of Law and Politics. After graduating, she clerked first for the Honorable James T. Turner at the United States Court of Federal Claims, and then for the Honorable Paul R. Michel at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Professor Winston's Scholarship on SSRN
Law Review Articles and Essays:
Bargaining for Innovation, 66 Villanova Law Review 119 (2021).
Information Age Technology, Industrial Age Laws, 87 Tennessee Law Review 483 (2020).
Standard Essential Patents at the International Trade Commission, The Cambridge Handbook of Technical Standardization Law, Vol. 1 – Antitrust and Patents (Jorge L. Contreras ed., Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Patent Pledges at the International Trade Commission, Patent Pledges: Global Perspectives on Patent Law's Private Ordering Frontier (Jorge L. Contreras and Meredith Jacob, eds., New York: Edward Elgar, 2017).
Patent Boundaries, 87 Temple Law Review 501 (2015).
Sowing the Seeds of Protection, 2014 Wisconsin Law Review 445 (2014).
A Patent Misperception, 16 Lewis and Clark Law Review 289 (2012).
The Technological Edge, 6 Akron Journal of Intellectual Property 361 (2012).
Differentiating the Federal Circuit, 76 Missouri Law Review 813 (2011).
Clarifying the Doctrine of Inequitable Conduct, 10 The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law 290 (2011).
The Flawed Nature of the False Marking Statute, 77 Tennessee Law Review 111 (2009).
Selected for republication in the Intellectual Property Law Review (Thomson West Group 2010) as one of the best intellectual property law review articles published in 2009.
What If Seeds Were Not Patentable?, 2008 Michigan State Law Review 321 (2008).
Why Sell What You Can License?: Contracting Around Statutory Protection of Intellectual Property, 14 George Mason Law Review 93 (2006).