Kevin Emerson Collins
Edward T. Foote II, Professor of Law
Office
Anheuser-Busch Hall
Room 582
About Kevin Emerson Collins
Kevin Emerson Collins is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Washington University’s Intellectual Property and Technology Law Program. He writes regularly on patent protection for software and biotechnology innovation. Before beginning his legal career, he was a licensed architect and an adjunct professor of architecture, and he is the author of a forthcoming book on the intellectual property of architecture. He clerked for Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Raymond Clevenger III on the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
Education
- J.D., Stanford Law School, 2002
- M.Arch., Columbia University School of Architecture, 1994
- B.A., Yale College, 1990
Courses
- Patent Law
- Advanced Patent Law
- Copyright
- Trademark
- International Intellectual Property
- The Intellectual Property of Architecture
- Law and Architecture
- Survey of Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property Seminar
Areas of Expertise
- Intellectual Property Law
- Patent Eligibility (Software and Biomedical Patents)
- Architectural Copyrights, Patents, and Trade Dress
Scholarship
- Patent Law’s Authorship Screen, 84 U. CHI. L. REV. 1603 (2017)
- Architectural Patents beyond Bucky Fuller’s Quadrant, in TERMS OF APPROPRIATION: MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND GLOBAL EXCHANGE (Amanda Lawrence & Ana Miljacki, eds.) (Routledge 2018)
- Patent-Ineligibility as Counteraction, 84 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 955 (2017)
- The Williamson Revolution in Software’s Structure, 31 BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL 1597 (2016)
- The Structural Implications of Disclosure, 69 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 1785 (2016)
- The Knowledge/Embodiment Dichotomy, 47 DAVIS LAW REVIEW 1279 (2014)
- Patent Law’s Functionality Malfunction and the Problem of Overbroad, Functional Software Patents, 90 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1399 (2013)
- Prometheus Laboratories, Mental Steps, and Printed Matter, 50 HOUSTON LAW REVIEW 391 (2012) (symposium)
- Getting into the “Spirit” of Innovative Things: Looking to Complementary and Substitute Properties to Shape Patent Protection for Improvements, 26 BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL 1217 (2012)
- Bilski and the Ambiguity of “An Unpatentable Abstract Idea”,15 LEWIS AND CLARK LAW REVIEW 37 (2011) (symposium)
- Semiotics 101: Taking the Printed Matter Doctrine Seriously, 85 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 1379 (2010)
- Enabling After-Arising Technology, 34 JOURNAL OF CORPORATION LAW 1083 (2009) (symposium)
- The Reach of Literal Claim Scope into After-Arising Technology: On Thing Construction and the Meaning of Meaning, 41 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 493 (2008)
- Constructive Nonvolition in Patent Law, or the Problem of Insufficient Thought Control, 2007 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW 759 (2007)
- Propertizing Thought, 60 SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 317 (2007) (selected for Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum)