Melissa Feeney Wasserman

Academic Fellow

mewasserman@law.harvard.edu
23 Everett St.
Office: 617-384-6895

Melissa Wasserman earned her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton University. She is also a graduate of New York University Law School, where she was an Articles Editor of the Law Review. After graduating she clerked for Judge Kimberly A. Moore on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Her past scholarship includes work on the extraterritorial scope of patent law and the doctrine of inequitable conduct. During her fellowship she intends to work on issues involving patent law and biotechnology, including the desirability of utilizing FDA law to promote biotechnology innovation, how the judicial philosophy of the Federal Circuit influences biotechnology innovation, and the anticompetitive effects of authorized generics.

Bibliography

Limiting the Inequitable Conduct Defense, Va. J.L. & Tech. 7 (2008).

Note, Divided Infringement: Expanding the Extraterritorial Scope of Patent Law, 82 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 281 (2007).

A Theoretical Study of the Interfacial Properties of Supercooled Water, 42 Indus. and Engineering Chemistry Res. 6396 (2003) (with Pablo Debenedetti).

A Statistical Mechanical Model for Inverse Melting, 119 J. of Chemical Physics 4582 (2003) (with Frank Stillinger and Pablo Debendetti).

Incoherent Quasi-elastic Neutron Scattering from Fructose-Water Solutions, 105 J. of Physical Chemistry B 7799 (2001) (with Craig Brown, Amos Tsai, Dan Neumann and Pablo Debenedetti).

Research Interests

Patent Law
Food & Drug Law
Antitrust Law
Copyright Law
Trademark Law
Health Law

Education

New York University, J.D., magna cum laude, 2007
Grand Prize Winner of the 2006 Seventh Annual Foley & Lardner Intellectual Property Writing Competition First Place Winner of the 2006 George Hutchinson Writing Competition, sponsored by the Federal Circuit Bar Association
Princeton University, Ph.D., 2004
American Association of University Women, Selected Professions Fellow

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow
Pennsylvania State University, B.S., high honors, 1997

Previous Experience

2007-2008, Clerk for the Honorable Judge Kimberly A. Moore, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit


	Melissa Feeney Wasserman Academic Fellow mewasserman@law.harvard.edu 23 Everett St. Office: 617-384-6895 Melissa Wasserman earned her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton University. She is also a graduate of New York University Law School, where she was an Articles Editor of the Law Review. After graduating she clerked for Judge Kimberly A. Moore on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Her past scholarship includes work on the extraterritorial scope of patent law and the doctrine of inequitable conduct. During her fellowship she intends to work on issues involving patent law and biotechnology, including the desirability of utilizing FDA law to promote biotechnology innovation, how the judicial philosophy of the Federal Circuit influences biotechnology innovation, and the anticompetitive effects of authorized generics. Bibliography Limiting the Inequitable Conduct Defense, Va. J.L. & Tech. 7 (2008). Note, Divided Infringement: Expanding the Extraterritorial Scope of Patent Law, 82 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 281 (2007). A Theoretical Study of the Interfacial Properties of Supercooled Water, 42 Indus. and Engineering Chemistry Res. 6396 (2003) (with Pablo Debenedetti). A Statistical Mechanical Model for Inverse Melting, 119 J. of Chemical Physics 4582 (2003) (with Frank Stillinger and Pablo Debendetti). Incoherent Quasi-elastic Neutron Scattering from Fructose-Water Solutions, 105 J. of Physical Chemistry B 7799 (2001) (with Craig Brown, Amos Tsai, Dan Neumann and Pablo Debenedetti). Research Interests Patent Law Food & Drug Law Antitrust Law Copyright Law Trademark Law Health Law Education New York University, J.D., magna cum laude, 2007 Grand Prize Winner of the 2006 Seventh Annual Foley & Lardner Intellectual Property Writing Competition First Place Winner of the 2006 George Hutchinson Writing Competition, sponsored by the Federal Circuit Bar Association Princeton University, Ph.D., 2004 American Association of University Women, Selected Professions Fellow National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow Pennsylvania State University, B.S., high honors, 1997 Previous Experience 2007-2008, Clerk for the Honorable Judge Kimberly A. Moore, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Melissa Wasserman Academic Fellow 2008-10

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