Intellectual Property Faculty
Our full-time intellectual property faculty, international experts in their fields, inspires academic excellence and scholarship.
Spotlight On: Ann M. McCrackin
Professor of Law Ann McCrackin joined the intellectual property faculty in the fall of 2006, responsible for teaching Patent Practice I and II, skills-based courses focusing on the art of patent drafting and prosecution.
A registered patent attorney, McCrackin spent ten years in privat practice with the Minneapolis, MN, firm of Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner. Her practice focused on patent protection for computer architecture, software, and business methods.
McCrackin is co-editor and contributing author for Electronic and Software Patents: Law and Practice, a treatise published by BNA Books, and co-author of the Association of University Technology Manager's Technology Transfer Practice Manual. McCrackin is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and Licensing Executives Society, and in 2002 she was named a "rising star" by Minnesota Law & Politics magazine.
She is a 1997 graduate of Pierce Law and earned a BS degree in speech communication with a minor in computer science and English with a technical writing emphasis from Iowa State University.
Karl F. Jorda
David Rines Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Industrial Innovation
Director, Germeshausen Center
Stephen T. Black
Professor of Law
Jon Cavicchi
Intellectual Property Librarian and Assistant Professor of Research
Thomas G. Field Jr
Professor of Law
Chair, Intellectual Property Graduate Programs
Director, Intellectual Property Amicus Clinic
William A. Grimes
Professor of Law
Director of the Graduate Writing Program
J. Jeffrey Hawley
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Patent Law
William O. Hennessey
Professor of Law
Karen Hersey
Visiting Professor of Law
Ashlyn Lembree
Assistant Clinical Professor
William J. Murphy
Professor of Law
Chair, Commerce and Technology Graduate Programs
Susan M. Richey
Associate Dean and Professor of Law
Albert E. (Buzz) Scherr
Professor of Law
Mary W. S. Wong
Professor of Law
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