Doris Estelle Long

Doris Estelle Long is a Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is a frequent lecturer in the areas of intellectual property law, e-commerce. culture and technology and has presented papers at conferences in such diverse places as Havana, Cuba; Beijing, PRC; Moscow, Russia; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Lima, Peru; Kathmandu, Nepal; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Dakar, Senegal; Chiang Rai, Thailand; Taipei, Taiwan; Warsaw, Poland; Kiev, Ukraine; and Chisinau, Moldova. She has also been actively involved in training intellectual property enforcement officials in the nations of the former Soviet Union under the auspices of the Federal Judicial Center and has served as a consultant on IPR protection and enforcement matters for diverse foreign government agencies under the auspices of the US Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program and the US State Department International Information Programs.

In 2000 Professor Long was on leave from John Marshall and served as an attorney advisor in the Office of Legislative and International Affairs of the US Patent and Trademark Office where she helped negotiate the IPR Enforcement Sections of the Jordan Free Trade Agreement (among others), participated in various bilateral consultations, and had responsibility for international I P enforcement issues, including TRIPS compliance, and WTO accessions. She served as a Fulbright Professor at Jiao Tung University in Shanghai in 1998 where she taught International Intellectual Property Law and International Business Transactions.

Professor Long is the author of numerous books and articles in the area of intellectual property law, including a treatise entitled Unfair Competition and the Lanham Act. Among her most recent articles are Globalization: A Future Trend or a Satisfying Mirage?, The Protection of Information Technology in a Culturally Diverse Marketplace and The Impact of Foreign Investment on Indigenous Culture: An Intellectual Property Perspective. She is also the co?author of the recently published Coursebook in International Intellectual Property published by West. Professor Long is also a co-editor and contributing author of two anthologies: International Intellectual Property Law Anthology, and International Intellectual Property Law, and a textbook Contracts Law and Practice: Cases and Materials.

Before joining the faculty of the John Marshall Law School, Professor Long was an attorney for over 14 years with the Washington, D.C. law firms of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, and Howrey and Simon where she specialized in the areas of intellectual property, unfair competition, entertainment, computer and commercial law. She is admitted to practice before numerous courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and is the former chair of several committees in national professional organizations.

Professor Long is a graduate of the Cornell Law School (J.D. Cum Laude) and Ithaca College (B.A. Summa cum laude). She has taught in the areas of intellectual property law (including international and technology aspects), unfair competition and contracts.

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