Professor Simon joined the TJSL faculty in 2010. Prior to that, she was the teaching fellow for the Law, Science and Technology LL.M. Program at Stanford Law School, and a fellow in the Center for Law and the Biosciences. Before joining Stanford, Professor Simon was an associate at Fenwick & West, where she represented technology clients in intellectual property litigation, counseling and patent prosecution. Her pro bono representation of clients included successful appeals before the Ninth and Federal Circuits. In 2000-2001, she served as a law clerk to Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Her research focuses on intellectual property and bioethics. Professor Simon’s recent articles have been published in the Houston Law Review, the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, Nature Biotechnology, and the Stanford Journal of Law, Science & Policy. Her article, Rules, Standards, and the Reality of Obviousness, 65 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 25 (2014), was selected as one of the year’s best law review articles related to intellectual property and republished in Intellectual Property Law Review (West 2015).
Courses include:
Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Property I & II.
Data-Generating Patents, 111 Northwestern Univ. L. Rev. (with Ted Sichelman) (forthcoming 2017)
Preventing the Potential Perils Associated with Automated Pre-Examination Search, 2 Berkeley Technology Law Journal Commentaries (2016)
Rules, Standards, and the Reality of Obviousness, 65 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 25 (2014) (selected for republication in the Intellectual Property Law Review (Thomas Reuters West 2015), as one of the best law review articles related to intellectual property published in 2014).
The Implications of Technological Advancement for Obviousness, 19 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. 331 (2013), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2152123
Unsettled expectations: how recent patent decisions affect biotech, 29 Nature Biotechnol. 229 (2011) (with Christopher Thomas Scott) (first author)
Patent Cover-Up, 47 Hous. L. Rev. 1299 (2011)
Pluripotent patents make prime time: an analysis of the emerging landscape. 28 Nature Biotechnol. 557 (2010) (with Charles E. Murdoch and Christopher Thomas Scott) (first author)
Misuse Made Plain: Evaluating Concerns about Neuroscience in National Security, Peer Commentary, 1 Am. J. Bioethics-Neuroscience 15 (2010) (with multiple authors)
How to Get a Fair Share: IP Policies for Publicly Supported Biobanks, Stan. J.L. Sci. & Pol.y 65 (2009)
The Underrepresentation of Women on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 16 Wis. Women's L.J. 113 (2001)
Note, United States v. Hilton, 14 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 385 (1999)
Data-Generating Patents, Corporate Innovation and Legal Policy Seminar, University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA (March 10, 2016)
Comments on the Sociology of Patenting, Professors' Patent Law Workshop at 6th Annual Patent Law Conference, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA (January 17, 2016)
Data-Generating Patents, 2015-2016 IP Law Speaker Series, University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA (November 19, 2015)
Patenting Data-Generating Inventions, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL (August 7, 2015), available at http://law.depaul.edu/about/centers-and-institutes/center-for-intellectual-property-law-and-information-technology/programs/ip-s
Comments on Public Enforcement of Patent Law, Professors' Patent Law Workshop at 5th Annual Patent Law Conference, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA (January 17, 2015), available at http://www.sandiego.edu/law/centers/ciplm/detail.php?_focus=49377
Generating Trade Secrets from Patents, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA (August 7, 2014), available at http://www.law.berkeley.edu/16588.htm
Moderator, Where to File: A Framework for Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Companies to Develop an International Patent Filing Strategy, Second Panel, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA (April 11, 2014)
Rules, Standards and the Reality of Obviousness, PatCon 4: The Annual Patent Conference, University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA (April 5, 2014)
Rules, Standards and the Reality of Obviousness, Corporate Innovation and Legal Policy Seminar, University of San Diego School of Law, San Diego, CA (March 20, 2014)
Moderator, The Blurred Lines Between Intellectual Property Trolls and Legitimate Intellectual Property Enforcement, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA (October 18, 2013)
Rethinking Analogous Arts in Patent Law, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Cardozo Law School, New York, NY (August 9, 2013)
The Implications of Technological Advance for Obviousness, Spring 2013 Colloquia and Distinguished Speaker Series, Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA (March 21, 2013), available at http://www.law.whittier.edu/index/centers-programs/cipl/intellectual-property-distinguished-speakers/
The Implications of Technological Advance for Obviousness, 2012–13 IP Law Speaker Series, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA (February 28, 2013), available at http://www.sandiego.edu/law/faculty_staff/calendar/event_details.php?_focus=44327
Presenter, Clarifying the Analogous Arts Test, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA (August 9, 2012), available at http://www.stanford.edu/dept/law/ipsc/
Presenter, The Implications of Cognitive Technology for Obviousness, 2012 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Honolulu, HI (June 8, 2012)
Presenter, The Implications of Cognitive Technology for Obviousness, Southern California Junior Law Faculty Workshop, California Western School of Law, San Diego, CA (May 5, 2012)
Oral and Written Testimony, “The Need for Quality Assessment” , USPTO Genetic Diagnostic Testing Hearing, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA (March 9, 2012)
The Implications of Cognitive Enhancement for Obviousness, Stanford Law & Biosciences Workshop, Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA (March 6, 2012)
Are Human Genes Patentable?, 12th Annual Women and the Law Conference, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA (February 24, 2012)
Commentator, Edifying Thoughts of a Patent Watcher, Professors' Patent Law Workshop, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Theatre, University of San Diego (January 21, 2012)
(Available at http://www.sandiego.edu/law/news/calendar_of_events/event_details.php/?_focus=40315)
The Implications of Cognitive Enhancement on Obviousness, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL (August 12, 2011)
Moderator, TRIPS and Patent Enforcement, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, CA (April 8, 2011)
Patent Cover-Up, Cardozo IP Speaker Series, Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY (March 21, 2011)
Public Patents, Private Information, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA (August 13, 2010)
