Bernard Chao

Bernard Chao is a professor of law and co-director of the law school’s Intellectual Property and Technology Program. Professor Chao conducts research on patent law, remedies, data privacy and jury decision-making. His writings have been recognized with a Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize and included in West/Thomson’s annual Intellectual Property Law and Patent Law Reviews. Professor Chao has authored several amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court working with the Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic and Electronic Frontier Foundation among other groups. Professor Chao’s publications are found in leading law reviews including the California Law Review and Northwestern University Law Review and peer review journals in different disciplines including the Journal of Law and the Biosciences and the American Business Law Journal.

Prior to joining the University of Denver, Professor Chao practiced law in Silicon Valley for almost twenty years. At Wilson, Sonsini and Pennie & Edmonds, Professor Chao litigated high stakes patent cases. At Covad Communications, he served as the Vice President of Legal Strategy as the company grew from a small broadband startup to a public company. Professor Chao has also advised federal judges as a court appointed Special Master, most notably, in the largest patent multidistrict litigation in U.S. history, In Re Katz Interactive Call Processing Patent Litigation. 

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• JD, Duke University School of Law
• BS, Electrical Engineering Purdue University

• Registered with the Patent and Trademark Office
• Active Member of California Bar