Bernard Chao
Professor of Law & Maxine Kurtz Research Scholar
Co-Director, Intellectual Property and Technology Law Program
303-871-6110 (Office)
Office 407B, Frank H. Ricketson Law Bldg., 2255 East Evans Ave. Denver, CO 80208
Specialization(s)
Contracts, Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Privacy Law
Professional Biography
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.
Degree(s)
- JD, Duke University School of Law
- BS, Electrical Engineering Purdue University
Licensure / Accreditations
- Registered with the Patent and Trademark Office
- Active Member of California Bar
Featured Publications
- The Power of Procedure: Uncovering the Gap in U.S. Privacy Rights, forthcoming 52 Pepperdine Law Review __ (2025) (co-authored with Mandi Abbott).
- USPTO's Lax Policy Leads to Humira Formulation Thicket, (forthcoming Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, peer reviewed).
- Extent of Drug Patents with Terminal Disclaimers and Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Rejections, JAMA (August 12, 2024) (co-authored with Sean Tu and Aaron Kesselheim).
- Unjust Enrichment: Standing Up for Privacy Rights, 108 Iowa Law Review Online 49 (2023).
- Biological Patent Thickets and Delayed Access to Biosimilars, An American Problem, Vol. 9 Issue 2, Journal of Law and the Biosciences (2022) (co-authored with Rachel Goode).
- Why Patent Monopsonies Increase Consumer Welfare, 30 Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal 1 (co-authored with Tod Duncan) (2021).
- Does Conjoint Analysis Reliably Value Patents?, 58 American Business Law Journal 225 (co-authored with Sydney Donovan) (2021).
- Privacy Losses as Wrongful Gains, 106 Iowa Law Review 555 (2021).
- Saliency, Anchors and Frames: A Multicomponent Damages Experiment, 26 Michigan Technology Law Review 1 (co-authored with Roderick O'Dorisio) (2019).
- Focusing Patent Litigation, 18 Chi-Kent J. Intell.Prop. 497 (solicited) (2019) .
- How Evidence of Subsequent Remedial Measures Matters, 84 Missouri Law Review 609 (co-authored with Kylie Santos) (2019).
- Crowdsourcing & Data Analytics: The New Settlement Tools, 102 Judicature 62 (co-authored with Christopher Robertson and David V. Yokum) (peer reviewed) (2018).
- Why Courts Fail to Protect Privacy: Race, Age, Bias and Technology, 106 California Law Review 263 (co-authored with Ian Farrell, Catherine Durso and Christopher Robertson) (2018).
- Lost Profits in a Multicomponent World, 59 Boston College Law Review 1321 (2018).
- Testing the White Hat Effect in Patent Litigation, 27 Federal Circuit Bar Journal 155 (co-authored with Roderick O’Dorisio) (2017).
- Time is Money: An Empirical Assessment of Non-Economic Damages Arguments, 95 Washington University Law Review 1 (2017) (co-authored with John Campbell and Christopher Robertson).
- Countering the Plaintiff’s Anchor: Jury Simulations to Evaluate Damages Arguments, 101 Iowa Law Review 543 (2016) (co-authored with John Campbell, Christopher Robertson and David Yokum).
- Horizontal Innovation and Interface Patents, 2016 Wisconsin Law Review 287.
- Causation and Harm In a Multicomponent World, 164 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 61 (2016).
- An Early Look at Mayo's Impact on Personalized Medicine, 2016 Patently -O-Patent Law Journal 10 (co-authored with Amy Mapes).
- The Infringement Continuum, 35 Cardozo Law Review 1359 (2014).
- A Case Study In Patent Litigation Transparency, 2014 Journal of Dispute Resolution 87 (2014) (solicited and co-authored with Derigan Silver).
- Patent Imperialism, 109 Northwestern University Law Review Online 77 (2014).
- Finding the Point of Novelty in Software Patents, 28 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1218 (2013).
- Reconciling Foreign and Domestic Infringement, 80 UMKC Law Review 607 (invited symposium contribution) (2012).
- Moderating Mayo, 107 Northwestern University Law Review 423 (2012).
- The Case for Contribution in Patent Law, 80 University of Cincinnati Law Review 113 (2011) awarded a Samsung/Stanford Patent Prize.
- Not So Confidential: A Call for Restraint in Sealing Court Records, 2011 Patently-O Patent L.J. 6 (July 29, 2011).
- Breaking Aro’s Commandment: Recognizing That Inventions Have Heart, 20 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal 1185 (2010).
- Rethinking Enablement in the Predictable Arts – Fully Scoping the New Rule (2009 Stanford Technology Law Review 3 (2009) reprinted in Intellectual Property Law Review, Thomson West 2010 ed.).
- After eBay v. MercExchange: The Changing Landscape for Patent Remedies, 9 Minn. J. L. Sci. and Tech. 543 (2008) (reprinted in Patent Law Review, Thomson West 2009 ed.).