Thomas G. Field, Jr.
Professor of Law
Director, Intellectual Property Amicus Clinic
- AB, (Chemistry) West Virginia University
- JD, West Virginia University
- LLM, (Trade Regulation) New York University
- tfield@piercelaw.edu
- (603) 513-5147
- Courses: Administrative Process, Copyright Law, Fundamentals of IP
- Committees: Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP)v Appeals, Marketing (ad hoc), Graduate Program Concentration Chairs, IDEA Advisor
- Scholarship
Before helping launch the Law Center in 1973, Professor Field examined
patents (alkene polymers). He also taught and practiced briefly in Ohio.
Professor Field's primary curricular responsibilities include
Administrative Process (emphasis on IP and technological regulation)
and Fundamentals of IP (for first year and other students lacking IP
backgrounds). (See syllabi, linked below.) He is also a faculty advisor
to Pierce Law's premier IP journal, IDEA.
Field is admitted to several bars but is active outside the Law Center
only as a consultant, expert witness or third party neutral. Yet,
during four years as a consumer-advocate-arbitrator, he helped resolve
more than 150 Chrysler warranty disputes. He has also arbitrated and
mediated disputes under the aegis of the American Arbitration
Association and the New Hampshire Public Employee Labor Relations Board.
As amicus curiae, Field supported the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
in the landmark Zurko case, before both the Federal Circuit and, with
two other professors, the U.S. Supreme Court (where the PTO ultimately
won 6-3).
More than 150,000 of Field's IP booklets for nonlawyers were
distributed before the advent of the web; now such information is more
readily kept current and more frequently consulted online. (See below.)
IP Information
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