William Gallagher

• BA, University of California, Berkeley
• MA, University of Chicago
• JD, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law
• PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law

• Intellectual Property Law: Patents, Trademarks, Copyright, Trade Secrets, Rights of Publicity
• Interdisciplinary Study of Law: "Law and Society" approaches to law, legal processes
• Legal Profession: Ethics, Trends, Regulation

• Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley School of Law, 2009-2010
• Member, Executive Committee, State Bar of California Intellectual Property Law Section
• Former partner in the San Francisco office of Townsend and Townsend and Crew, specializing in intellectual property and complex business litigation.
• Extensive trial and appellate experience in federal and state courts.
• Lecturer in law and sociology at Santa Clara University for eight years, teaching Intellectual Property Law; Legal Ethics; and Business, Technology, and Society.
• Co-founder, Collaborative Research Network on Intellectual Property Law and Policy for the Law and Society Association.
• Member, California State Bar; US District Courts for the Northern District of California, Central District of California, Southern District of California; US District Court for the District of Colorado; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

• IP Law Book Review

• Alica Del Valle. The 'Governator' Bobblehead: An Exploration of the Right of Publicity in California - an interview with William T. Gallagher of Golden Gate University School of Law, 5 U.C. Davis Bus. L.J. 21 (2005).

• SSRN Scholarship Social Science Research Network scholarly papers by Prof. Gallagher.
• IP Legal Ethics in the Everyday Practice of Law: An Empirical Perspective on Patent Litigators, 10 J. MARSHALL REV. INTELL. PROP. L. 309 (2011).
• Book review: Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk (Princeton University Press, 2008), by James Bessen and Michael Muerer, in 19 Law & Politics Book Review: 568 (2009).
• What is a "Law and Society" Approach to Intellectual Property? Introduction to Intellectual Property, Ashgate Press (2007). Center for the Study of Law and Society/Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program (University of California, Berkeley School of Law) Faculty Working Papers, No. 63 (2008).
• Editor, Intellectual Property Ashgate Publishing Co. (2007).
• Book Review, 18 Law and Politics Book Review 4 (January 2008). Reviewing Jain, Sarah S. Lochlann, Injury: The Politics of Product Design and Safety Law in the United States, Princeton University Press, 2006).
• Strategic Intellectual Property Litigation, the Right of Publicity, and the Attenuation of Free Speech, 45 Santa Clara L. Rev. 581 (2005).
• Ideologies of Professionalism and the Politics of Self-Regulation in the California State Bar, 22 Pepperdine L. Rev. 485 (1995).

• Intellectual Property Litigation
• Intellectual Property Survey
• Torts I and II
• Professional Responsibility