Mark A. Lemley is the director of the Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 program in Law, Science & Technology. He teaches intellectual property, computer and Internet patent and antitrust law. He is a widely cited expert on the impact of patents on innovation and what the appropriate requirements for granting a patent should be. He is also an active attorney.

Prior to Stanford, he taught law at University of Texas School of Law

University of Texas School of Law

The University of Texas School of Law, also known as UT Law, is an ABA-certified American law school located on the University of Texas at Austin campus. The law school has been in operation since the founding of the University in 1883. It was one of only two schools at the University when it was...

 and Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley.