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Sean Seymore

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Sean B. Seymore

Assistant Professor of Law, Alumni Faculty Fellow, and Huss Faculty Fellow

B.S. 1993, University of Tennessee (Tennessee Scholar);
M.S.Chem. 1996, Georgia Institute of Technology;
Ph.D. 2001, University of Notre Dame (Arthur J. Schmitt Fellow);
J.D. 2006, University of Notre Dame


Publications

SSRN Publications

Law Review Articles and other scholarly publications

Rethinking Novelty in Patent Law, 60 Duke L.J. (2011)

The Teaching Function of Patents, 85 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 621 (2010).

Serendipity, 88 N.C. L. Rev. 185 (2009).

The Enablement Pendulum Swings Back, 6 NW. J. TECH. & INTELL. PROP. 283 (2008). ((invited symposium article), reprinted in PATENT LAW REVIEW 1 (West 2009) (selected as one of the best patent articles for 2008).)

Heightened Enablement in the Unpredictable Arts,
56 UCLA L. REV. 127 (2008).

The "Printed Publication" Bar After Klopfenstein: Has the Federal Circuit Changed the Way Professors Should Talk About Science? 40 AKRON L. REV. 493 (2007).

I'm Confused: How Can the Federal Government Promote Diversity in Higher Education Yet Continue to Strengthen Historically Black Colleges? 12 WASH. & LEE J. CIV. RTS. & SOC. JUST. 287 (2006).

Kinetic Effects on Heterometallic Dinitrogen Cleavage. INORG. CHEM. 2006, 45, 9540-9550. (with Sean B. Seymore and S. N. Brown)

How Does My Work Become Our Work? Dilution of Authorship in Scientific Papers, and the Need for the Academy to Obey Copyright Law, 12 RICH. J.L. & TECH. 11 (2006).

My Patent, Your Patent, or Our Patent: Inventorship Disputes Within Academic Research Groups, 16 ALB. L.J. SCI. & TECH. 125 (2006).

The Competency of State Courts to Adjudicate Patent-Based Malpractice Claims, 34 AIPLA Q.J. 443 (2006).

Set the Captives Free! Transit Inequity in Urban Centers, and the Laws & Policies which Aggravate the Disparity, 16 GEO. MASON CIV. RTS. L.J. 57 (2005).

Polar Effects in Nitride Coupling Reactions. INORG. CHEM. 2002, 41, 462 469. (cover article) (with Sean B. Seymore and S. N. Brown)

Synthesis and Cleavage Reactions of Metal-Metal Bonded [Mo2(S2CNEt2)6](OTf)2, a Source of the Tris(dithiocarbamato)molybdenum(IV) Fragment. INORG. CHEM. 2001, 40, 6676-6683.

Charge Effects on Oxygen Atom Transfer. INORG. CHEM. 2000, 39, 325-332.


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Professor Seymore is available to be interviewed on the following subjects:

• Intellectual Property 
• Patents 

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