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Saurabh Vishnubhakat is a Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Law Program at Cardozo Law. He is also a Research Fellow at the Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy.

Professor Vishnubhakat writes and teaches in intellectual property, administrative law, federal civil procedure, and remedies, especially from an empirical perspective. His research explores the interaction of the U.S. intellectual property system with federal courts and agencies and with technology and knowledge markets.

Professor Vishnubhakat’s work has been cited in federal judicial opinions, agency rulemaking, and briefing across more than a dozen Supreme Court and Federal Circuit cases. He testified as an invited expert in the FTC’s Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century hearings, and the law and economics professors’ joint comment on patent claim interpretation that he spearheaded helped shape the USPTO regulation that still remains the agency’s legal standard across multiple presidential transitions.

Before joining Cardozo Law, Professor Vishnubhakat held joint tenured appointments in law and engineering at Texas A&M University. He began his career in public service, serving as principal legal advisor to the USPTO’s first two chief economists. He was also a faculty fellow at Duke Law School, where he co-taught patent law, and was an NIH-funded postdoctoral associate at the Duke Center for Public Genomics, where he researched law and policy issues surrounding innovation in genetics and biomedicine. He is a past chair of the AALS Section on Intellectual Property and the Section on Remedies.