
Professor Chris Cotropia is director of the School of Law's Intellectual Property Institute. He writes in the areas of patent law, intellectual property, and federal courts. He is the author of numerous book chapters, amicus briefs, and law review articles on these subjects, and his scholarship has appeared in the UCLA Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Notre Dame Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Yale Journal of Law and Technology, and Berkeley Technology Law Journal, among other venues. Prior to joining the Richmond Law faculty, Professor Cotropia was the C. J. Morrow Research Professor of Law at Tulane University School of Law.
Patents as Signals of Quality in Crowdfunding, University of Illinois Law Review (2021).
Convergence and Conflation in Online Copyright, 105 Iowa Law Review 1027 (with James Gibson) (2020).
The Hidden Value of Abandoned Applications to the Patent System, 61 Boston College Law Review (with David Schwartz) (2020).
Menstruation Management in United States Schools and Implications for Attendance, Academic Performance, and Health, 6 Women's Reproductive Health 289 (2019).
Gender Disparity in Law Review Citation Rates, 59 William and Mary Law Review 771 (with Lee Petherbridge) (2018).
Heterogeneity among Patent Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Patent Case Progression, Settlement, and Adjudication, 15 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 80 (with Jay Kesan et al.) (2018).
Higher Education and the DMCA, 25 Richmond Journal of Law & Technology (with James Gibson) (2018).
Who Benefits from Repealing Tampon Taxes? Empirical Evidence from New Jersey, 15 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 620 (with Kyle Rozema) (2018).
Physicalism and Patent Theory, 69 Vanderbilt Law Review 1543 (2016).
Should Your Law Review Article Have an Abstract and Table of Contents: An Empirical Analysis, 85 Mississippi Law Journal 295 (with Lee Petherbridge) (2016).
Is Patent Claim Interpretation Deference or Correction Driven?, 2014 Brigham Young University Law Review 1095 (2015).
Copyright's Topography: An Empirical Study of Copyright Litigation, 92 Texas Law Review 1981 (with James Gibson) (2014) (Symposium: Steps Toward Evidence-Based IP)).
Copyright's Topography: An Empirical Study of Copyright Litigation, 92 Texas Law Review 1981 (with Jim Gibson) (2014).
Patent Claim Interpretation Review: Deference or Correction Driven, 2014 Brigham Young University Law Review 1095 (2014).
Predictability and Nonobviousness in Patent Law after KSR, 20 Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 391 (2014).
The Dominance of Teams in the Production of Legal Knowledge, 124 Yale Law Journal Forum 18 (with Lee Petherbridge) (2014).
Unpacking Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), 99 Minnesota Law Review 649 (with Jay Kesan et al.) (2014).
Do Applicant Patent Citations Matter? Implications for the Presumption of Validity, 42 Research Policy 844 (with Mark Lemley et al.) (2013).
Patent Applications and the Performance of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 23 Federal Circuit Bar Journal i (with Cecil Quillen et al.) (2013).
What is the "Invention?", 53 William and Mary Law Review 1855 (2012).
The Strength of the International Trade Commission as a Patent Venue, 20 Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal 1 (2011).
Determining Uniformity within the Federal Circuit by Measuring Dissent and En Banc Review, 43 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 801 (2010).
The Upside of Intellectual Property's Downside, 57 UCLA Law Review 921 (with James Gibson) (2010).
The Upside of Intellectual Property’s Downside, 57 UCLA Law Review 921 (with Jim Gibson) (2010).
Copying in Patent Law, 87 North Carolina Law Review 1421 (with Mark Lemley) (2009).
Describing Patents as Real Options, 34 Journal of Corporation Law 1127 (2009).
Modernizing Patent Law's Inequitable Conduct Doctrine, 24 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 723 (2009).
The Folly of Early Filing in Patent Law, 61 Hastings Law Journal 65 (2009).
The Individual Inventor Motif in the Age of the Patent Troll, 12 Yale Journal of Law and Technology 52 (2009).
The Unreasonableness of the Patent Office's "Broadest Reasonable Interpretation" Standard, 37 AIPLA Quarterly Journal 285 (with Dawn-Marie Bey) (2009).
Nonobviousness and the Federal Circuit: An Empirical Analysis of Recent Case Law, 82 Notre Dame Law Review 911 (2007).
Observations on Recent Decisions: The Year in Review, 88 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 46 (2006).
Patent Law Viewed through an Evidentiary Lens: The "Suggestion Test" as a Rule of Evidence, 2006 Brigham Young University Law Review 1517 (2006).
After-Arising Technologies and Tailoring Patent Scope, 61 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 151 (2005).
Patent Claim Interpretation and Information Costs, 9 Lewis & Clark Law Review 57 (2005).
Patent Claim Interpretation Methodologies and Their Claim Scope Paradigms, 47 William and Mary Law Review 49 (2005).
Counterclaims, the Well-Pleaded Complaint, and Federal Jurisdiction, 33 Hofstra Law Review 1 (2004).
Arising Under Jurisdiction and Uniformity in Patent Law, 9 Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 253 (2003).
Post-Expiration Patent Injunctions, 7 Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal 105 (1998).
Empirical Analysis of Patent Validity, in Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law (Edward Elgar) (Peter Menell et al., eds.) (with Ronald Mann) (2019).
Ethics: Conflict of Interest Issues in Patent Litigation, in IP Enforcement and Litigation 2012: Civil and Criminal Update (PLI Intellectual Property Course Handbook Series) (2012).
Compulsory Licensing Under TRIPS and the Supreme Court of the United States's Decision in Ebay v. MercExchange, in Patent Law and Theory: A Handbook of Contemporary Research (Edward Elgar Publishing) (2009).
Internet, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (MacMillian) (David MacMillian, ed.) (2008).
Commentary to the U.S. Copyright Office Regarding the Section 512 Study: Higher Education and the DMCA Safe Harbors IHELG Monograph 17-04 (with James Gibson) (2016).
Using A.I., Researchers Seek To Improve Legal Practice, Administration of Justice (ScienceBlog)
Mon., Dec. 14, 2020
Tampons: That Bloody Sales Tax (NPR)
Wed., Mar. 6, 2019
In 2020 Virginians could pay less for tampons and diapers (Virginia Mercury)
Tue., Mar. 5, 2019
The future is now (Richmond Magazine)
Tue., Feb. 27, 2018
A deep dive on NPE outcomes (Written Description Blog)
Tue., Oct. 17, 2017
Cotropia on Ali Enterprises suing Fox (Bloomberg)
Wed., Oct. 11, 2017
Gorsuch's "mainstream" measurement (FactCheck)
Thu., Apr. 6, 2017
The battle for patent law (Law360)
Sat., Jul. 9, 2016
Richmonders respond to Taylor Swift's victory over Apple (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Mon., Jun. 22, 2015
IP Professors Q&A: Richmond Law's Christopher Cotropia (Law360)
Fri., Oct. 17, 2014
Cracking the Code (Style Weekly)
Tue., Jul. 8, 2014
What does the trademark ruling really mean for the Redskins? (NBC 12)
Wed., Jun. 18, 2014
Lighting Ballast, Anderson Study (IPFrontline Magazine)
Sat., Sep. 21, 2013
Guest Post by Christopher Cotropia on Existing Deference in Patent Claim Interpretation (Patently-O)
Wed., Jul. 24, 2013
Study suggests patent office lowered standards to cope with backlog (ArsTechnica)
Sun., Apr. 7, 2013
Patent bonanza is bad for business (CBS Moneywatch)
Tue., Mar. 26, 2013