Jonathan Barnett

Associate Professor of Law

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jbarnett@law.usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-4792
Fax: (213) 740-5502
Room: 412

Jonathan Barnett specializes in intellectual property and has additional interests in business organizations, contracts and antitrust. He teaches contracts and introductory and advanced courses in intellectual property. His recent research interests include the political economy of intellectual property, interfirm cooperation in technology and cultural markets, imitation practices in the fashion apparel market, and the interaction between legal and extralegal instruments for appropriating returns from innovation activities. He joined USC Law in fall 2006.

Prior to academia, Barnett practiced corporate law as a senior associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, specializing in private equity and mergers and acquisitions transactions. He was also a visiting assistant professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York, where he taught contracts and introductory and advanced courses in antitrust. A magna cum laude graduate of University of Pennsylvania, Barnett received a M.Phil. from Cambridge University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Articles and Book Chapters

• "The Fashion Lottery: Cooperative Innovation in Stochastic Markets" (with Gilles Grolleau and Sana El-Harbi), Journal of Legal Studies (forthcoming 2010).
• "Property as Process: How Innovation Markets Select Innovation Regimes", Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2009) - (SSRN)
• "Is Intellectual Property Trivial?", 157 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1691 (2009) - (www)
• "Certification Drag: The Opinion Puzzle and Other Transactional Curiosities," 33 Journal of Corporation Law 95 (2007) - (Hein)
• "Shopping for Gucci on Canal Street: Status Consumption," Intellectual Property and the Incentive Thesis, 91 Virginia Law Review 1381 (2005) - (Hein)
• "Private Protection of Patentable Goods," 25 Cardozo Law Review 1251 (2004) - (Hein)
• "Rational Underenforcement of Vice Laws," 54 Rutgers Law Review 423 (2002) - (Hein)
• "Cultivating the Genetic Commons: Imperfect Patent Protection and the Network Model of Innovation," 37 San Diego Law Review 987 (2000) - (Hein)
• "Rights, Costs, and the Incommensurability Problem," 86 Virginia Law Review 1303 (2000) - (Hein)

Works in Progress

• "Sharing in the Shadow of Property: Rational Cooperation in Innovation Markets" - (SSRN)