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Oskar Liivak
C.S. Wong Professor of Law
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Cornell Law School
224 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
224 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4901
Biography
Oskar Liivak, the C.S. Wong Professor of Law, graduated from Rutgers College with highest honors in 1994, received a Ph.D. 2000 in physics from Cornell University focusing on techniques for determining protein structure, and received a J.D. from the Yale Law School in 2005.
From 2000 to 2001, he was a post-doctoral scientist working on physical realization of quantum computing in the Quantum Information Group at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. Prior to law school, he served as a patent agent in the Boston office of Fish and Richardson P.C. Most recently, Professor Liivak served as a law clerk to Judge Sharon Prost on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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- B.A. 1994, Rutgers College
- Ph.D. 2000, Cornell University
- J.D. 2005, Yale Law School
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- Cotter, Thomas F., John M. Golden, Oskar Liivak, Brian J. Love, Norman Siebrasse, Masabumi Suzuki, and David O. Taylor, “Reasonable Royalties,” in Patent Remedies and Complex Products: Toward a Global Consensus (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
- Liivak, Oskar, “Private Law and the Future of Patents,” Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 30
- Liivak, Oskar, “A Crisis of Faith & the Scientific Future of Patent Theory,” St. John’s Law Review 90, p. 639 (2016)
- Liivak, Oskar, “The Unresolved Interpretive Ambiguity of Patent Claims,” UC Davis Law Review 49, p. 1851-1880 (2016)
- Liivak, Oskar, “When Nominal Is Reasonable: Damages for the Unpracticed Patent,” Boston College Law Review 56, p. 1031 (2015)
See all publications on SSRN and SelectedWorks.
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- 6511 Intellectual Property
- 6742 Patent Law
- 7783 Topics in Intellectual Property