Mark D. Janis teaches at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and writes in the fields of patents, trademarks/unfair competition, and intellectual property/antitrust. He has a particular interest in intellectual property rights in plants and plant biotechnology. He has published numerous law review articles and is co-author of a two-volume treatise, IP and Antitrust (with Hovenkamp and Lemley), a casebook, Trademarks & Unfair Competition: Law and Policy (with Dinwoodie) and several other books on trademark law. He is a 2000-2001 recipient of the University of Iowa Collegiate Teaching Award. He was named a University of Iowa Faculty Scholar for 2002-2006 to conduct research on intellectual property rights in plant biotechnology. In 2006, he was named the H. Blair & Joan V. White Intellectual Property Law Chair at the University of Iowa College of Law. He joined the faculty at the IU Maurer School of Law in 2009.

Professor Janis earned his JD summa cum laude in 1989 from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and his BS with distinction in 1986 in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University. He is a registered patent attorney and a member of the Indiana bar. Prior to entering law teaching, Professor Janis practiced patent law with Barnes & Thornburg in Indianapolis, Indiana, from 1989-1995.

AUTHOR UPDATE:

In June of 2011, Mark Janis, joined by Professor Timothy Holbrook of Emery University Law School, wrote a letter to the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee arguing that the first-to-file provisions of the pending America Invents Act were constitutional and did not violate Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the Constitution, stating that it is completely within the powers of the Congress to define who can be an "inventor" in patent law.