Sean O'Connor

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Chair, Law, Technology & Arts Group
Professor
Professor of Law

Phone: (206) 543-7491
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B.A. 1988, University of Massachusetts
M.A. 1995, Arizona State University
J.D. 1998, Stanford University

Curriculum Vitae


Books or Treatises

Sean O'Connor (co-authors Kate Batuello & Patricia Kuszler), Genetic Technologies and the Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press 2007).

Book Chapters

Sean M. O'Connor, Enabling Research or Unfair Competition? De Jure and De Facto Research Use Exceptions in Major Technology Countries, in PATENT LAW AND THEORY: A HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH (Toshiko Takenaka ed., 2009).

Peer Reviewed Journals & Law Reviews

Sean M. O'Connor, Teaching IP from an Entrepreneurial Counseling and Transactional Perspective, 52 St. Louis U. L.J. 877-90 (2008)

Sean O'Connor, Using Stock and Stock Options to Minimize Patent Royalty Payment Risks after MedImmune v. Genentech, 3 N.Y.U. J. Law & Bus. 381 (2007).

Sean O'Connor, The Use of MTAs to Control Commercialization of Stem Cell Diagnostics & Therapeutics, 21 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1017 (2006).

Sean O'Connor, Restoring Auditor Independence by Reestablishing Audits as Control and Premium Signaling Mechanisms, 81 Wash. L. Rev. 525 (2006).

Sean O'Connor, IP Rights and Stem Cell Research: Who Owns the Medical Breakthroughs?, 39 New Eng. L. Rev. 665 (2005).

Sean O'Connor, La Legislacion Como Impulsora de las Innovaciones Tecnologicas y su Comercializacion, Propiedad industrial certidumbre juridica y competitividad, Fondo Editorial Nuevo Leon (Universidad de Monterrey) (2005).

Sean O'Connor, Be Careful What You Wish For: How Accountants and Congress Created the Problem of Auditor Independence, 45 B.C. L. Rev. 741 (2004).

Sean O'Connor, The De Minimus Exemption of Stored Value Cards from Regulation E: An Invitation to Fraud? 5 RICHMOND JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY 6 (1998).

Sean O'Connor, The Supreme Court's Philosophy of Science: Will the Real Karl Popper Please Stand Up? 35 Jurimetrics Journal of Law, Science and Technology 263 (1995).

Professional Publications

Sean O'Connor, Merck KGaA v. Integra Lifesciences I, Ltd., 12 CASRIP Newsl. (2005).

Sean O'Connor, Biometrics and Identification after 9/11, 7 Bender's Immigr. Bull.159 (2002).

Sean O'Connor, Collected, Tagged, & Archived: The Burgeoning Use of Biometrics in Personal Identification, 3 Bender's Immigration Bulletin 1245 (1998).

Reports

Sean M. O'Connor, How to Build IPR-Focused Entrepreneurial Law and Business Clinics to Assist Regional and Economic Development Around the Globe (2008) available at Http://www.iipi.org/iipiforum/Blog/DisplayBlog.asp?Cat _ID=113&Group _ID=1&PC=61nC)p 61xx&ReturnURL=2%Flipiforum%2Fblog%2FBlogList.asp&IDCard=A5sG5uAM21 (77-page International Intellectual Property Institute Report)

Sean O'Connor, Smart Cards: The Final Step Towards a National Identification Card? (Research report for Brown & Bain Fellowship in Law & High Technology at Stanford Law School) 1996.

Newspapers

Sean O'Connor, Ownership Battles and Science Funding, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Apr. 12, 2005.

Others

Sean M. O'Connor, Historical Context of U.S. Bayh-Dole Act: Implications for Indian Government Funded Research Patent Policy, Soc'y Tech. Mgmt. Newsl., July 2008, at 2.

Sean O'Connor, Regressus and the Scientific Revolution: A Defense of Zabarella's Contribution to Scientific Methodology (M.A. Thesis, 1995; filed with Arizona State University Library).

Areas of Expertise

  • Biotechnology
  • Business Organizations
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporations
  • Intellectual Property, Copyright, Patents & Trademarks
  • Securities Regulation