Samson Vermont

Biographical Sketch

Samson Vermont is Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, where he teaches patent law and torts. Before transitioning into academics, he practiced patent law in the Washington DC office of Hunton & Williams. He is a registered patent attorney, and the founder of the monthly periodical Patent Strategy & Management. Between practice and starting at George Mason, he earned an LLM from the University of Virginia School of Law and served as the Humphrey Fellow in Law and Economics at the University of Michigan Law School. He earned his JD from the University of Georgia School of Law.

Recent publications include:

• Taming the Doctrine of Equivalents in Light of Patent Failure, J. Intellectual Property Law (forthcoming)
• Less "Gotcha": A Response to Milgram, 90 J. Patent and Trademark Office Society 308 (April 2008)
• The Golden Hand Formula, 11 The Green Bag 2D 230 (Winter 2008)
• The Angel is in the Big Picture: A Response to Lemley, 105 Mich. L. Rev. 1537 (May 2007)
• Independent Invention as a Defense to Patent Infringement, 105 Mich. L. Rev. 475 (Dec. 2006) (reprinted in: 90 J. Patent and Trademark Office Society 268 (April 2008); 6 Icfai J. Intellectual Property Rights 55 (Aug. 2007); Patent Infringement: Disputes and Remedial Options (Amicus Books 2007))