Graeme Dinwoodie LLB (Glasgow), LLM (Harvard), JSD (Columbia)

Graeme Dinwoodie has held a Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary since 2005. He is also a Professor of Law, Associate Dean and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He previously taught at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he was a three-time recipient of the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 2003, he was elected to membership in the American Law Institute.

Prior to teaching, Graeme had been an associate with Sullivan and Cromwell in New York, concentrating in the practice of intellectual property law and in commercial, corporate, and international litigation. He holds a First Class Honours LLB degree in Private Law from the University of Glasgow, an LLM from Harvard Law School, and a JSD from Columbia Law School. He was the Burton Fellow in residence at Columbia Law School for 1988-89, working in the field of intellectual property law, and a John F. Kennedy Scholar at Harvard Law School for 1987-88.

He is the author of the casebooks International Intellectual Property Law and Policy (with Hennessey and Perlmutter), International and Comparative Patent Law (with Hennessey and Perlmutter), and Trademarks and Unfair Competition: Law and Policy (with Janis). His articles on various aspects of intellectual property law have appeared in several leading law reviews. He has served as a consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organization on matters of private international law, to UNCTAD on traditional knowledge questions, and as an advisor to the American Law Institute project on Jurisdiction and Recognition of Judgments in Intellectual Property Matters. He teaches courses in Copyright Law, Trademark Law, International Intellectual Property Law, Conflict of Laws and Civil Procedure.

Research Interests

Graeme Dinwoodie's current research interests include the relationship between trademark law and social norms, and the development of a private international law of intellectual property. He is also working with Rochelle Dreyfuss on a book, to be published by Oxford University Press, addressing how to achieve balance in international intellectual property law and collaborating with Mark Janis, his trademarks casebook co-author, on a project reconsidering the role of use in trademark law.

Publications Since 2001

The Rational Limits of Trademark Law, in H. Hansen (Editor), US Intellectual Property Law and Policy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006, 59-84, ISBN: 1845428668 [URL]

The Story of Kellogg Co v National Biscuit Co: Breakfast with Brandeis, in J. Ginsburg and R. Dreyfuss (Editors), Intellectual Property Stories, Foundation Press, 2005, 220-257, ISBN: 158778727X [URL]

Concurrence and Convergence of Rights: The Concerns of the U.S. Supreme Court, in F.W. Grosheide and J.J. Brinkhof (Editors), Intellectual Property Law 2004: Articles on Crossing Borders between Traditional and Actual, Antwerp: Intersentia, 2005, 5-22, ISBN: 9050954812 [URL]

WTO Dispute Resolution and the Preservation of the Public Domain Under International Law (Co-author with R. Dreyfuss), in K.E. Maskus and J.H. Reichman (Editors), International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 861-882, ISBN: 0521603021 [URL]

Use, Intent to Use, and Registration in the United States (Co-author with M. Janis), in J. Philips and I. Simon (Editors), Trademark Use, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 313-327, ISBN: 0199280339 [URL]

Conflicts and International Copyright Litigation: The Role of International Norms, in J. Basedow, J. Drexel, A. Kur and A. Metzger (Editors), Intellectual Property in the Conflict of Laws, Tübingen: Paul Mohr Verlag, 2005, 195-210, ISBN: 3161485130 [URL]

Towards an International Framework for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge, in Elements of National Sui Generis Systems for the Preservation, Protection and Promotion of Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices and Options for an International Framework, New York: UNCTAD, 2004, 17, ISBN: N/A [URL]

TRIPS and the Dynamics of Intellectual Property Lawmaking (Co-author with R. Dreyfuss) [2004] 36 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 95-122, ISSN: 0008-7524 [URL]

Trademarks and Territory: Detaching Trademark Law from the Nation-State [2004] 41 Houston Law Review 885-973, ISSN: 0018-6694 [URL]

The International Intellectual Property Law System: New Actors, New Institutions, New Sources [2004] Proceedings of the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law 213, ISSN: 0272-5037 [URL]

The Seventh Annual Honorable Helen Wilson Nies Memorial Lecture in Intellectual Property Law: The Trademark Jurisprudence of the Rehnquist Court [2004] 8(2) Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 187-208, ISSN: 1092-5899 [URL]

Trademarks and Unfair Competition: Law and Policy (Co-author with M. Janis), New York: Aspen Publishers, 2004, 979, ISBN: 073553991X [URL]

International Intellectual Property Law and the Public Domain of Science (Co-author with R. Dreyfuss) [2004] 7(2) Journal of International Economic Law 431-448, ISSN 1369-3034 [URL]

Private Ordering and the Creation of International Copyright Norms: The Role of Public Structuring [2004] 160 Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 161-180, ISSN: 0932-4569 [URL]

Commitments to Territoriality in International Copyright Scholarship, in P. Brugger (Editor), Copyright-Internet World: Report on the Neuchatel Study Session, 16-17 September, 2002, Lausanne: Groupe Suisse de'l ALAI, 2003, 74-78, ISBN: 3905106035 [URL]

International and Comparative Patent Law (Co-author with W. Hennessey and S. Perlmutter), New Jersey: Matthew Bender, 2002, 875, ISBN: 0820554685 [URL]

Constructing International Intellectual Property Law: The Role of National Courts [2002] 77 Chicago-Kent Law Review 991-992, ISSN: 0009-3599 [URL]

The Architecture of the International Intellectual Property System [2002] 77 Chicago-Kent Law Review 993-1014, ISSN: 0009-3599 [URL]

International Intellectual Property Law and Policy (Co-author with W. Hennessey and S. Perlmutter), New Jersey: Matthew Bender, 2001, 1420, ISBN: 0820545252 [URL]

Trademark and Copyright: Complements or Competitors?, in J. Ginsburg and J. Besek (Editors), Adjuncts and Alternatives to Copyright: Proceedings of the ALAI Congress, New York, June 13-17, 2001, New York: Columbia School of Law, 2002, 498-521, ISBN: 0972221000 [URL]

Report of the United States, in J. Ginsburg and J. Besek (Editors), Adjuncts and Alternatives to Copyright: Proceedings of the ALAI Congress, New York, June 13-17, 2001, New York: Columbia School of Law, 2002, 1942-1958 (CD-ROM), ISBN: 0972221000 [URL]

The Rational Limits of Trademark Law, in H. Hansen (Editor), International Intellectual Property Law and Policy Volume 6, New York: Juris Publishing, 2001, 20-1 to 20-17, ISBN: 157823087X [URL]

International Intellectual Property Litigation: A Vehicle for Resurgent Comparativist Thought? [2001] 49 American Journal of Comparative Law 429-453, ISSN: 0002-919X [URL]

Designing Non-National Systems: The Case of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (Co-author with L. Helfer) [2001] 43 William and Mary Law Review 141-274, ISSN: 0043-5589 [URL]

Private International Aspects of the Protection of Trademarks, Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization, 2001, 61, WIPO Document Number: WIPO/PIL/01/4 [URL]

Incorporating International Norms in the Development of Contemporary Copyright Law [2001] 62 Ohio State Law Journal 733-782, ISSN: 0048-1572 [URL]

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