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Ted M. Sichelman
Title: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Legal Research Fellow, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Office: 2440 Bancroft Way - Office 301D
Email Address: tsichelman@law.berkeley.edu
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Ted Sichelman joined the law school as the Kauffman Foundation Legal Research Fellow in 2008. His teaching and research interests include intellectual property, corporate law, and civil procedure.
Previously, Sichelman practiced in the areas of intellectual property litigation and transactions, appellate litigation, and venture capital finance at the law firms of Heller Ehrman and Irell & Manella. Before practicing law, he founded and ran a venture-backed software company, Unified Dispatch. Sichelman designed the company's software and is named lead inventor on two filed patents. He also clerked for Judge A. Wallace Tashima of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Sichelman has participated in a number of pro bono cases, including playing a substantial role in a recent win in the U.S. Supreme Court for an injured employee in MetLife v. Glenn (2008).
His publications include "Why Entrepreneurs Patent," in Handbook of Law, Innovation and Growth (forthcoming 2009); "Why do Startups Patent?," Berkeley Technology Law Journal (forthcoming 2008); "Drafting Patent Infringement Complaints," Intellectual Property Strategist (2005); and "Effectively Using Partial Summary Judgment in Patent Cases," Intellectual Property Strategist (2005).
His current research efforts examine the effects of the patent system on entrepreneurial companies, the commercialization of inventions, the application of quantum game theory to intellectual property, and the financing of start-up and early-stage technology companies.
Education:
A.B, Stanford University (1992)M.S., Florida State University (1996)
J.D., Harvard Law School (1999)
