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Richard Gruner

Former Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law, The John Marshall Law School

Richard S. Gruner is the former Director of John Marshall’s Center for Intellectual Property Law and a former inside counsel to the IBM Corporation. He is the co-author of Transactional Intellectual Property: From Startups to Public Companies (Carolina Academic Press 3rd ed. 2015) andIntellectual Property: Private Rights, the Public Interest, and the Regulation of Creative Activity (West 3rd ed. 2016). His article, “Corporate Patents: Optimizing Organizational Responses to Innovation Opportunities and Invention Discoveries,” was rated by the editors of Intellectual Property Law Review as “One of the Best Articles on Intellectual Property” published in 2005–2006.