Thomas F. Cotter is the Briggs and Morgan Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Professor Cotter’s principal research and teaching interests are in the fields of domestic and international intellectual property law, antitrust, and law and economics. He is the author of six books, including Patent Wars: How Patents Impact Our Daily Lives (2018), and Comparative Patent Remedies: A Legal and Economic Analysis (2013), both published by Oxford University Press.
Professor Cotter has published over 60 other scholarly works, including articles in the California Law Review and the Georgetown Law Journal, and over 1,200 posts on his award-winning blog, ComparativePatentRemedies. Professor Cotter was appointed an Innovators Network Foundation Intellectual Property Fellow for 2018-19 and 2019-20, and was elected to the American Law Institute in 2020.
