Christopher B. Seaman

Washington and Lee University School of Law

Professor of Law and Director, Frances Lewis Law Center

Lexington, VA 24450

United States

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Permanent Injunctions in Patent Litigation After eBay: An Empirical Study

101 Iowa Law Review 1949 (2016), Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2015
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 20 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2016
Christopher B. Seaman
Washington and Lee University School of Law
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patent, injunction, eBay, patent troll, NPE, PAE, innovation, remedies, pharmaceuticals, drugs, biotechnology, medical devices, software

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Willful Patent Infringement and Enhanced Damages After In re Seagate: An Empirical Study

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 97, p. 417, 2012
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 31 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2015
Christopher B. Seaman
Washington and Lee University School of Law
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willful, willfulness, patent, infringement, seagate, enhanced damages, read, opinion, opinion of counsel, copying, design around, reexamination, substantial defense, bifurcation, jury, judge, empirical

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Best Mode Trade Secrets

Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Vol. 15, p. 1, 2012
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 May 2012 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2012
Brian J. Love and Christopher B. Seaman
Santa Clara University - School of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law
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patent, trade secret, best mode, AIA, America Invents Act, preferred embodiment, unclean hands

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Beyond Trade Secrecy: Confidentiality Agreements That Act Like Noncompetes

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 133, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 15 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2023
Camilla Alexandra Hrdy and Christopher B. Seaman
University of Akron School of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law
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contract, employment, noncompete, confidentiality, NDA, innovation, trade secret, IP, empirical

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Reconsidering the Georgia-Pacific Standard for Reasonable Royalty Patent Damages

BYU Law Review, No. 5, p. 1661, 2010, Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property, Science & Technology Research Paper No. 10-030
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 26 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2011
Christopher B. Seaman
Washington and Lee University School of Law
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Reasonable royalty, reasonable royalties, damages, patent, patent infringement, Georgia-Pacific, hypothetical negotiation, Aro, noninfringing alternatives, noninfringing substitutes, Grain Processing

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The Case Against Federalizing Trade Secrecy

101 Virginia Law Review 317 (2015), Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2014-12
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 18 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2015
Christopher B. Seaman
Washington and Lee University School of Law
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trade secret, trade secrecy, misappropriation, federalization, common law, patent, disclosure, uniformity, legislation, intellectual property, IP, jurisdiction

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Professors’ Letter in Opposition to the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2015 (S. 1890, H.R. 3326)

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Dec 2015
Eric Goldman, David S. Levine, Sharon K. Sandeen and Christopher B. Seaman
Santa Clara University - School of Law, Elon University School of Law, Mitchell Hamline School of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law
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trade secrets, innovation, cyberespionage, cybersecurity, intellectual property

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The DTSA at One: An Empirical Study of the First Year of Litigation Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act

53 Wake Forest Law Review 106 (2018), Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2018-03
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 06 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 20 May 2018
David S. Levine and Christopher B. Seaman
Elon University School of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law
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trade secrets, trade secrecy, misappropriation, intellectual property, IP, information, cybersecurity, cyberespionage, innovation, DTSA, Defend Trade Secrets Act, empirical, litigation, remedies, preliminary injunction, TRO, patent, copyright, trademark, unfair competition

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Patent Injunctions on Appeal: An Empirical Study of the Federal Circuit's Application of eBay

92 Washington Law Review 145 (2017), Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2016-17
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 01 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2017
Hon. Ryan T. Holte, Hon. Ryan T. Holte and Christopher B. Seaman
United States Court of Federal ClaimsThe University of Akron School of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law
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intellectual property, patent, injunction, remedies, ebay, Federal Circuit, federal courts, patent trolls, PAEs, innovation, empirical

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Standards of Proof in Civil Litigation: An Experiment from Patent Law

26 Harvard Journal of Law &Technology 429 (2013)., 7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper (2012)., Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2012-13
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 17 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2015
David L. Schwartz and Christopher B. Seaman
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law
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patent, experiment, empirical, presumption, burden of proof, standard of proof, obvious, i4i

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Intellectual Property and Tabletop Games

107 Iowa Law Review 1615 (2022)
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 19 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2022
Christopher B. Seaman and Thuan Tran
Washington and Lee University School of Law and Wahington and Lee University School of Law
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intellectual property, ip, legal theory, innovation, negative space, tabletop games, board games, roleplaying games, card games, patent, copyright, trademark, trade secrets, design patents, user innovation

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Ongoing Royalties in Patent Cases After eBay: An Empirical Assessment and Proposed Framework

23 Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal 203 (2015), Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2015
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 13 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2015
Christopher B. Seaman
Washington and Lee University School of Law
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patent, injunction, remedies, ongoing royalty, eBay, PAE, NPE, patent troll, equity, empirical

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Lost Profits and Disgorgement

Forthcoming in Patent Remedies and Complex Products: Toward a Global Consensus, Ch. 2 (Brad Biddle, Jorge L. Contreras, Brian J. Love, and Norman V. Siebrasse, eds., Cambridge University Press)
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 17 Sep 2018
Christopher B. Seaman, Thomas F. Cotter, Brian J. Love, Norman Siebrasse and Masabumi Suzuki
Washington and Lee University School of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, Santa Clara University - School of Law, University of New Brunswick - Fredericton - Faculty of Law and Faculty of Law, Waseda University
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patent, infringement, remedies, lost profits, disgorgement, restitution, apportionment, price erosion, non-infringing alternatives, entire market value rule, convoyed sales, collateral sales, loss of goodwill, comparative patent law, China, Japan, EU, UK, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, India

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Toward a Federal Jurisprudence of Trade Secret Law

32 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 829 (2017), Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2017-9
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 25 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2018
Sharon K. Sandeen and Christopher B. Seaman
Mitchell Hamline School of Law and Washington and Lee University School of Law
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intellectual property, IP, trade secrets, Defend Trade Secrets Act, Uniform Trade Secrets Act, statutory interpretation, Erie doctrine, federal common law, federal courts

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Enhanced Damages, Litigation Cost Recovery, and Interest

Forthcoming in Patent Remedies and Complex Products: Toward a Global Consensus, Ch. 3 (Brad Biddle, Jorge L. Contreras, Brian J. Love, and Norman V. Siebrasse, eds., Cambridge University Press)
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 17 Sep 2018
Colleen V. Chien, Jorge L. Contreras, Thomas F. Cotter, Brian J. Love, Christopher B. Seaman and Norman Siebrasse
Berkeley Law School, University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, Santa Clara University - School of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law and University of New Brunswick - Fredericton - Faculty of Law
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enhanced damages, punitive damages, exemplary damages, willful infringement, willfulness, litigation costs, disbursements, attorney fees, fee shifting, English Rule, pre-judgment interest, post-judgment interest

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Brief of Thirty-Four Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellants in Altera Corp. v. Papst Licensing GMBH

Southwestern Law School Research Paper No. 2015-25
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 22 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2021
Debra Lyn Bassett, Anya Bernstein, Jeremy Bock, Patrick Joseph Borchers, Michael J. Burstein, Michael A. Carrier, Bernard Chao, Colleen V. Chien, Jorge L. Contreras, Scott Dodson, Joshua A. Douglas, Catherine Ross Dunham, Katherine Florey, Roger Allan Ford, Leah Chan Grinvald, Paul R. Gugliuzza, Timothy R. Holbrook, William Hubbard, Sapna Kumar, Megan M. La Belle, Mark A. Lemley, David I. Levine, Joseph Scott Miller, Patricia W. Moore, Ira Steven Nathenson, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Philip A. Pucillo, Charles W. (Rocky) Rhodes, Cassandra Burke Robertson, Christopher B. Seaman, Gregory C. Sisk, Howard Wasserman, Buzz and Matthew K. Telford
Southwestern Law School, University of Connecticut School of Law, Tulane University Law School, Creighton University School of Law, Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Rutgers Law School, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Berkeley Law School, University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law, UC Law, San Francisco, University of Kentucky - College of Law, Elon University School of Law, University of California, Davis, University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, University of Baltimore - School of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, Catholic University of America (CUA) - Columbus School of Law, Stanford Law School, UC Hastings Law, University of Georgia School of Law, St. Mary's University Law School, St. Thomas University School of Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Center for Intellectual Property & Innovation, Michigan State University College of Law, South Texas College of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), Florida International University (FIU) - College of Law, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School - Student/Alumni/Adjunct
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patent, declaratory judgment, jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction, patent assertion entity, minimum contacts

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The End of Preclearance As We Knew It: How the Supreme Court Transformed Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act

Michigan Journal of Race & Law, Vol. 11, p. 275, 2006
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 21 Aug 2011
Peyton McCrary, Christopher B. Seaman and Richard Valelly
Government of the United States of America - Civil Rights Division, Washington and Lee University School of Law and Swarthmore College
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Noncompetes and Other Post-Employment Restraints on Competition: Empirical Evidence from Trade Secret Litigation

72 Hastings Law Journal 1183 (2021)
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 14 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2021
Christopher B. Seaman
Washington and Lee University School of Law
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noncompete, nonsolictation, innovation, empirical, trade secrets, California, federal court, labor, mobility, employees

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An Uncertain Future for Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act: The Need for a Revised Bailout System

St. Louis University Public Law Review, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2010
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 18 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2012
Christopher B. Seaman
Washington and Lee University School of Law
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Voting Rights Act, Section 5, preclearance, bailout, NAMUDNO, Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1, Fifteenth Amendment, City of Boerne v. Flores, Congress, constitutionality

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Brief Amicus Curiae of Intellectual Property Professors in Support of Neither Party, No. 14-1513, Halo Elecs. Inc. v. Pulse Elecs. Inc.; No. 14-1520, Stryker Corp. v. Zimmer, Inc. (U.S. Supreme Court)

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 Dec 2015
Christopher B. Seaman and Jason Rantanen
Washington and Lee University School of Law and University of Iowa - College of Law
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patent, remedies, enhanced damages, punitive damages, Seagate, Bard, octane fitness, willful infringement, willfulness

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Empirical Studies Relating to Patents - Presumption of Validity

Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law - Vol. II: Analytical Methods (P. Menell, D. Schwartz & B. Depoorter eds., Edward Elgar) (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Oct 2015
Christopher B. Seaman
Washington and Lee University School of Law
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patent, presumption of validity, i4i, invalidity, standard of proof, clear and convincing, empirical, experimental, 101, Alice

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Introduction: The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2015

Washington and Lee Law Review Online, Vol. 72, p. 278, 2015
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 19 Dec 2015
Christopher B. Seaman
Washington and Lee University School of Law
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trade secrets, innovation, federalization, federal law, intellectual property

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American Innovation and the Limits of Patent Law: A Response to William Hubbard, Competitive Patent Law

65 Florida Law Review Forum 23 (2013)
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 03 May 2014
Christopher B. Seaman
Washington and Lee University School of Law
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innovation, patent, competition

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Patent Eligibility and Cancer Therapy

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 79, No. 1, 2022
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 03 May 2022
Christopher B. Seaman
Washington and Lee University School of Law
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patent, patent eligibility, 101, cancer, health, medical diagnostics, mayo, myriad, alice, bilski, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, CAR-T therapy

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An Inside History of the Burger Court's Patent Eligibility Jurisprudence

53 Akron Law Review 915 (2019), Washington & Lee Legal Studies Paper No. 2020-08
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 29 Jul 2020
Christopher B. Seaman and Sheena Wang
Washington and Lee University School of Law and Washington and Lee University, School of Law, Students
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patent, patent eligibility, patentable subject matter, 101, supreme court, justice lewis f. powell, benson, flook, diehr, chakrabarty, bilski, mayo, myriad, alice, congress, federal circuit, software, biotechnology, biotech, legal history, innovation, innovation policy, intellectual property