Biography
Professor Brian J. Love writes and teaches about patent law, intellectual property, remedies, and civil litigation more generally. His research on these topics appears in both peer-reviewed economics journals and student-edited law reviews, including the Journal of Law & Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Stanford Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review. His publications have been been cited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, multiple U.S. District Courts, the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, White House Council of Economic Advisers, and Congressional Research Service. He is also widely quoted and cited in the press, including in articles published by the Associated Press, Reuters, and New York Times, and he has published op-eds in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and L.A. Times, among others.
Prior to joining the Santa Clara Law faculty, Professor Love was a Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School from 2010 to 2012. In recent years, he has also taught courses as a visiting professor at the University of California College of the Law San Francisco, Seton Hall University School of Law, and University of San Francisco School of Law.
Before entering academia, Professor Love practiced law as a special counsel with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and as an associate with Fish & Richardson. He also served as a law clerk to the Hon. Dorothy W. Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Hon. David C. Godbey of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Professor Love received his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2007 and, before pursuing a career in law, studied electrical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and worked as a software developer at UT’s Applied Research Laboratories.
