OSKAR LIIVAK ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW CORNELL LAW SCHOOL, 224 Myron Taylor Hall, Ithaca, NY

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1 OSKAR LIIVAK ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW CORNELL LAW SCHOOL, 224 Myron Taylor Hall, Ithaca, NY EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION CORNELL LAW SCHOOL, Ithaca, New York Associate Professor Assistant Professor Teaching courses on intellectual property and patent law. CORNELL LAW SCHOOL, Ithaca, New York Visiting Assistant Professor Taught patent law and copyright law courses. HON. SHARON PROST, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fed. Cir Law Clerk FISH AND RICHARDSON, Boston, Massachusetts Patent Agent Drafted and prosecuted patent applications in numerous technical fields. IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER, San Jose, California Post-Doctoral Visiting Scientist, Quantum Information Group Explored proposals for physical realization of quantum computation. YALE LAW SCHOOL J.D., 2005 Honors: Editor, The Yale Law Journal CORNELL UNIVERSITY Ph.D., Physics, 2000 Honors: National Institute of Health Biophysical Training Grant RUTGERS COLLEGE B.S. with Highest Honors, Physics and Mathematics, 1994 Honors: Phi Beta Kappa Barry M. Goldwater Scholar Rutgers College General Honors Program RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS Primary Interests: Secondary Interests: Patent, Biotechnology, Intellectual Property Property, Copyright, Trademark, Science & the Law 1

2 PUBLICATIONS & WORKS IN PROGRESS The Right Not to Use in Property and Patent Law with Eduardo M. Peñalver, forthcoming CORNELL L. REV. (2013) Arguing for a property based vision of patent law that incorporates contextual richness (and not absolutism) into patent law and patent remedies. Establishing an Island of Patent Sanity, forthcoming BROOKLYN L. REV. (2013) Establishing a market for inventions as an economically justified core for the patent system., forthcoming FLA. ST. U. L. REV. (2013) Presenting a historically based vision of the invention capable of providing critically needed clarity to patent scope determinations. Maturing Patent Law from Industrial Policy to Intellectual Property, 5 TULANE L. REV (2012) Selected for a plenary presentation at the 2011 Intellectual Property Scholars Conference Rescuing the Invention from the Cult of the Claim, 42 SETON HALL L. REV. 1 (2012) Selected for presentation at the 2010 Junior Scholars in Intellectual Property Workshop Rethinking the Concept of Exclusion in Patent Law, 98 GEORGETOWN L. J (2010) Presented at the 2009 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum Maintaining Competition in Copying: Narrowing the Scope of Gene Patents, 41 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 177 (2007) The Forgotten Originality Requirement: A Constitutional Hurdle for Gene Patents, 87 J. PAT. & TRADEMARK OFF. SOC'Y 261 (2005) AMICUS BRIEFS In support of Defendant-Appellant in Ariad Pharmaceuticals, Inc., v. Eli Lilly, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No (November 18, 2009). Reported at 598 F.3d 1336 (2010)(en banc). Brief was cited by Judge Linn in his dissenting opinion at 598 F.3d at In support of Defendants-Appellants in Centocor v. Abbott, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No (March 17, 2010). Reported at 636 F.3d 1341(2011). BAR ADMISSIONS U.S. Patent and Trademark Office New York State Bar U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 2

3 PRESENTATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS The Written Description Requirement: Are Antibodies Chemicals, Proteins, or Exceptions? Webinar, American Bar Association, August 30, 2012 The (Relatively) Easy Case for Patents on Inventions 2012 Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, August 9-10, 2012 Pondering Patents: First Principles and Fresh Possibilities Fellow, University of Houston Law Center s Institute for IP, June 2, 2012 Santa Fe, New Mexico The Statutory Basis for the Doctrine of Equivalents 2012 Works in Progress in Intellectual Property Conference, February 10, 2012 University of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX The Future of Patent Law, January 23, 2012 University of San Diego Law School, San Diego, CA Tri-State Intellectual Property Works-in-Progress, January 13, 2012 Fordham Law School, New York, NY Presenter, Opening Conference Franklin Pierce Center for IP, September 30, 2011 Franklin Pierce Intellectual Property Law Center, Concord, NH Rebranding the Patent System Plenary Speaker, 2011 Intellectual Property Scholar s Conference, August 12, 2011 DePaul Law School, Chicago, IL Incentives and Indecision in Patent Law Tri-State Intellectual Property Works-in-Progress, January 14, 2011 Fordham Law School, New York, NY Patent Scope Revisited: On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope Panelist, Disclosure and Claim Scope, September 23-24, 2010 Indiana University-Bloomington Maurer School of Law Rescuing the Invention from the Cult of the Claim 2010 Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, August 12-13, 2010 UC Berkeley Law School, Berkeley, CA Michigan State Law School s 3 nd Annual Junior IP Workshop, April 2, 2010 Michigan State Law School, East Lansing, MI 3

4 IP Reform Through Property Works in Progress in Intellectual Property, October 2-3, 2009 Seton Hall Law School, Newark, NJ 2009 Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, August 7-8, 2009 Cardozo Law School, New York, NY Patents, Property, and Competition 2009 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum, May 29, 2009 Patentable Subject Matter Conference on Intellectual Property Law and the Biosciences, May 8, 2009 Patents, Property, and Competition Michigan State Law Schools 2 nd Annual Junior IP Workshop, March 27, 2009 Michigan State Law School, East Lansing, MI Developments in Patent Law: Claim Construction, Obviousness, & the Ghost of Invention International Trade Commission, Washington, D.C., October 10, 2008 Between Competition and Piracy: In Search of Bentham's & Hand's Patent System Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, August 7-8, 2008 Competition as the Design Parameter in Patent Law Law in Context Conference, June 8-10, 2008 Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY Competition by Design in Patent Law Intellectual Property Workshop Series, February 26, 2008 George Washington University Law School Maintaining Competition in Copying: Narrowing the Scope of Gene Patents Workshop on the Law and Economics of IP and IT, 5-6 July, 2007 Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK 4

5 SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS Anne Verhulst et al., A Rapid and Precise Probe for Measurement of Liquid Xenon Polarization, 155 JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE 145 (2002). Anne Verhulst et al., Non-thermal Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Quantum Computing Using Hyperpolarized Xenon, 79 APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 2480 (2001). Oskar Liivak & David Zax, Deconvolving Multiple Simultaneous Dipolar Couplings Using REDOR in IS n Spin Networks, 115 JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 402 (2001). Oskar Liivak & David Zax, Multiple Simultaneous Distance Determinations: Application of Rotational Echo Double Resonance Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to IS 2 spin networks, 113 JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS 1088 (2000). Zhitong Yang et al., Supercontraction and Backbone Dynamics in Spider Silk: 13 C and 2 H NMR, 122 THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 9019 (2000). Andreas Seidel et al., Regenerated Spider Silk: Processing, Properties, and Structure, 33 MACROMOLECULES 775 (2000). Lynn Jelinski et al., Orientation, Structure, Wet-spinning, and Molecular Basis for Supercontraction of Spider Dragline Silk, 24 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES 197 (1999). Andreas Seidel et al., Artificial Spinning of Spider Silk, 31 MACROMOLECULES 6733 (1998). Oskar Liivak et al., A Microfabricated Wet-spinning Apparatus to Spin Fibers of Silk Proteins. Structure-Property Correlations, 31 MACROMOLECULES 2947 (1998). Oskar Liivak et al., Conformation of the Polyalanine Repeats in the Minor Ampullate Gland Silk of the Spider Nephila clavipes, 30 MACROMOLECULES 7127 (1997). 5