Thomas G. Field, Jr.
Professor of Law
Director, Intellectual Property Amicus Clinic
- AB, (Chemistry) West Virginia University
- JD, West Virginia University
- LLM, (Trade Regulation) New York University
- tfield@piercelaw.edu
- (603) 513-5147
- Courses: Administrative Process, Copyright Law, Fundamentals of IP
- Committees: Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP)v Appeals, Marketing (ad hoc), Graduate Program Concentration Chairs, IDEA Advisor
- Scholarship
- Personal pages: C.V., IP Basics, Courses
Before helping launch the Law Center in 1973, Professor Field examined patents (alkene polymers). He also taught and practiced briefly in Ohio.
Professor Field's primary curricular responsibilities include Administrative Process (emphasis on IP and technological regulation) and Fundamentals of IP (for first year and other students lacking IP backgrounds). (See syllabi, linked below.) He is also a faculty advisor to Pierce Law's premier IP journal, IDEA.
Field is admitted to several bars but is active outside the Law Center only as a consultant, expert witness or third party neutral. Yet, during four years as a consumer-advocate-arbitrator, he helped resolve more than 150 Chrysler warranty disputes. He has also arbitrated and mediated disputes under the aegis of the American Arbitration Association and the New Hampshire Public Employee Labor Relations Board.
As amicus curiae, Field supported the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the landmark Zurko case before both the Federal Circuit and, with two other professors, the U.S. Supreme Court (where the PTO ultimately won 6-3).
More than 150,000 of Field's IP booklets for nonlawyers were distributed before the advent of the web; now such information is more readily kept current and more frequently consulted online in his pages on IP Basics.
