| Professor Graham teaches and conducts research on intellectual property strategies, entrepreneurship, technology transfer, and the legal environment of business. He received his PhD in business economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds advanced degrees in Law (JD), Business (MBA), and Geographical Information Systems (MA). An attorney licensed to practice law in the State of New York, he has written on intellectual property and litigation strategies in the software and biotechnology industries, comparative studies of the U.S. and European patent systems, and the use by companies of patenting and secrecy in their innovation strategies. A selection of his recent publications includes "Software Patents: Good News or Bad News?" in American Enterprise Institute/Brookings Institution Joint Center, Intellectual Property Rights in Frontier Industries: Software and Biotechnology (with D.C. Mowery); "Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Post-grant Opposition" in National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER), Innovation Policy and the Economy IV (with B.H. Hall, D. Harhoff, and D.C. Mowery), and "Submarines in Software? Continuations in U.S. Software Patenting in the 1980s and 1990s" in Economics of Innovation and New Technology (with D.C. Mowery). Professor Graham has conducted his research under grants provided by the National Academies of Science, the National Science Foundation, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and the OECD, among others. He spent the 2007-2008 academic year at the Boalt Hall School of Law (UC Berkeley) as the Kauffman Foundation Fellow in Social Science and Law at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Areas of Specialization
Business Policy and Strategy
Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer
Intellectual Property Strategy
Legal Environment of Business Education
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
JD, State University of New York, Buffalo
MBA, State University of New York, Buffalo |
