Andrew Chin at the University of North Carolina School of Law: Professional Activities

Consulting
Blogging
Advising
Law Reform
Bar Associations

Consulting

I consult on matters within the scope of my scholarly expertise, including on U.S. and international patent and antitrust litigation, patent prosecution, computer science, and the information technology industries. I am frequently asked to assist litigants with amicus briefs, white papers, and expert testimony, as well as specific questions relating to information technology and the law. For consulting inquiries only, please email --chinformation@gmail.com--.

Blogging

I write very intermittently at voiceless.com, a blog conceived as "an examination of the legal and technological structures that keep almost all of us voiceless." I developed this theme most fully in my 1996 article Making the World Wide Web Safe for Democracy: A Medium-Specific First Amendment Analysis, which predicted the concentration of speech power on the Web at a time when most commentators in the mainstream media were heralding the emergence of cyberspace as a level playing field.

Advising

I have served as faculty adviser to various student groups at UNC.

Asian American Law Students Association
Asian American Studies Workgroup
Asian Students Association
Carolina Intellectual Property Law Association
North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology

Through the Intellectual Property Initiative, Carolina Law's team of intellectual property faculty trains outstanding intellectual property lawyers, opens an exciting forum for exploring hot topics in intellectual property law, and builds bridges with our community by creating opportunities for our students to use their intellectual property skills to serve the public interest.

In my capacity as chair of the University's Rhodes Scholarship Nominating Committee, I also advise a number of our most talented undergraduate students on the application process for the scholarship and academic life at Oxford University.

Law Reform

I am a member of the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute, an independent Washington-based non-profit education, research, and advocacy organization. Our mission is to increase the role of competition, assure that competition works in the interests of consumers, and challenge abuses of concentrated economic power in the American and world economy. We have a centrist legal-economic ideology and promote the vigorous use of antitrust as a vital component of national and international competition policy.

In December 2010, I filed an amicus brief on behalf of eight Scholars of Biotechnology Patent Law in Association for Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (Myriad Genetics), Fed. Cir., No. 2010-1406, arguing that claims 5 and 6 of U.S. Patent No. 5,747,282 should be held invalid under the printed matter doctrine.

Bar Associations

I am licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and am an inactive member of the Virginia and California bars.