Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, INDUSTRY NEWS: Former Antitrust Division Lawyer to Head Stanford Law School’s Intellectual Property Clinic, (May 13, 2013)

Philip Malone, a longtime senior attorney with the Department of Justice Antitrust Division and recent director of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, has been appointed director of Stanford Law School’s new Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic, according to a May 13 announcement. He will join Stanford in July 2013.

Malone had a long and illustrious career as senior attorney with the Antitrust Division, where he directed many civil and criminal cases and investigations involving companies in the high-tech field, including those in Internet, computer software, and computer hardware industries. Beginning in 1996, he was lead counsel in the Department of Justice’s investigations of Microsoft. Malone was the primary career counsel, along with outside counsel David Boies, in the trial of U.S. v. Microsoft Corp. Before leaving the Justice Department, he served as one of the lead lawyers in the government’s case against Oracle Corp.

In 2001, Malone joined Harvard Law School, where he was the Victor H. Kramer Fellow before becoming a clinical professor of law and the director of the Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. His clinical work and scholarship have focused on promoting sound innovation and intellectual property and competition policy in high-tech industries, as well as encouraging broad opportunities for creativity, online expression, open access, and dissemination of information. His teaching has addressed the relationship between legal policy and innovation, including the role of antitrust law as well as intellectual property law. Malone is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Arizona College of Law.

Stanford’s Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic has been established with support from Stanford Law School alumnus Stephen Juelsgaard, JD 1982, who served in several executive positions, including general counsel, with Genentech Inc. for nearly 25 years. The core vision of the Juelsgaard Clinic is that intellectual property law and the regulatory climate must be developed with acute sensitivity to the ways in which laws and regulations can serve to promote or frustrate vital innovation.

The Juelsgaard Clinic is one of 11 distinct clinics of the Mills Legal Clinic. The clinics collectively expose law students to a wide array of legal practice models, from individual client representation and transactional work to far-reaching impact litigation. The program spans a range of subject areas, including employment, housing, and education disputes; immigration rights; criminal justice; religious liberty; and environmental law.

The students in the Juelsgaard Clinic will represent primarily nongovernmental organizations in subject areas, including biotechnology, information technology, pharmaceuticals, clean technology, and the creation and distribution of knowledge.

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