Michael V. Risch
Associate Professor of Law (2007)
Project Director – Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Law Program
Education
J.D., University of Chicago Law School, high honors, 1998
- Olin Fellow in Law and Economics
- Bradley Fellow in Law and Economics
- Order of the Coif
A.B., Stanford University, honors and distinction, 1992
- National Merit Scholar
Bio
Professor Risch joined the West Virginia College of Law faculty in 2007 after spending a year as an Olin Fellow at Stanford Law School. His teaching and research are in patent law, cyberlaw, and entrepreneurship. He is also the faculty director of the WVU College of Law’s Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Law Program, and in 2008 he founded the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic, which represents entrepreneurs throughout the state. His scholarship has appeared in the Indiana Law Journal, Tennessee Law Review, and Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. more...
Publications
- Patent Challenges and Royalty Inflation, 85 Indiana L.J. (forthcoming 2009)
- Virtual Rule of Law, 111 W. Va. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009 symposium issue)
- Trade Secret Law and Information Development Incentives , Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Trade Secrecy (Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss and Katherine Strandburg, eds., forthcoming chapter 2009).
- Everything is Patentable, 75 Tenn. L. Rev. 591 (2008)
- Virtual Third Parties, 25 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 415 (2008)
- Comments on Trade Secrets in High Velocity Labor Markets, 12 Emp. Rights and Emp’t Pol. J. (2009)
- The Failure of Public Notice in Patent Prosecution, 21 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 179 (2007)
- Why Do We Have Trade Secrets?, 11 Marquette Int. Prop. L. Rev. 1 (2007)
- How Can Whelan v. Jaslow and Lotus v. Borland Both be Right? Re-Examining the Economics of Computer Software Reuse, 17 J. Marshall J. Comp. & Info. Law 511 (1999)
- Virtual Reality – A Legal Overview, with Jack Russo (chapter in Computer Software treatise by Clark Boardman Callaghan) (1995)
Academic Experience
Associate Professor, West Virginia University College of Law, 2007
Olin Fellow in Law, Stanford Law School, 2006-2007
Professional Experience
- Partner, Russo & Hale, intellectual property and complex business litigation
- Owner/Consultant, Risch Consulting, computer software programming and information technology management
