Stephen Michael McJohn

Biography

Northwestern University School of Law, magna cum laude: Articles Editor, Law Review;" Fellow, Juristin Program, German Academic Exchange Service, 1985-86; Clerk, Judge Emschbach, U.S.C.A., 7th Circuit, West Palm Beach, FL, 1986-87; Associate, Latham & Watkins, Chicago, 1987-91; Visiting Assistant Professor, Chicago-Kent, 1991-93; Assistant Professor, Suffolk, 1993-96; Associate Professor, since 1996.

Education

• BA, JD, Northwestern University

Publications

Articles

• The Unmarked: Intellectual Property and Geography, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology (2022)(co-authored with Lorie Graham)
• Introduction to Copyright and Trademark Law, in Laws of Medicine – Core Legal Aspects for the Healthcare Professional (Springer Publishing, Amirala Pasha ed., 2022)
• Resale Restrictions on Artworks, U. Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal (2021)(co-authored with Lorie Graham)
• Intellectual Property’s First Sale Doctrine and the Policy Against Restraints On Alienation, 7 Tex.A&M L. Rev. 479 (2020)(co-authored with Lorie Graham)
• Fair Use and Machine Learning, 12 Northeastern University Law Review 99 (2020) (co-authored with Ian McJohn)
• Some Speculation About Mirror Neurons And Copyright, 14 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 410 (2015)
• The GPL Meets the UCC: Does Free Software Come with a Warranty of No Infringement of Patents and Copyrights?, 5 J. HIGH TECH. L. 1 2014)
• Leverage, Daniel L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley's THE PATENT CRISIS AND HOW THE COURTS CAN SOLVE IT (2009), INDIAN J. INTELL. PROP. L. (forthcoming 2011) (book review)
• Top Tens of 2013: Patent, Trademark, Copyright and Trade Secret Cases, 12 NW. J. TECH. INTELL. PROP. 177 (2014) 
• Top Tens in 2012 Patent, Trademark Cases, Copyright and Trade Secret Cases, 11 NW. J. TECH. INTELL. PROP. 173 (2013)
• The Case of the Missing Case: Stewart v. Abend and Fair Use Law, 53 IDEA 323 (2013)
• Top Tens in 2011: Patent and Trademark Cases, 10 NW. J. TECH. & INTELL. PROP. 313 (2012)
• Top Tens in 2011: Copyright and Trade Secret Cases, 10 NW. J. TECH. & INTELL. PROP. 331 (2012)
• Thirty-two Short Stories about Intellectual Property, 3 HASTINGS SCI. & TECH. L.J. 1 (2011) (with Lorie Graham)
• Top Tens in 2010: Patent and Trademark Cases, 9 NW. J. TECH. & INTELL. PROP. 313 (2011)
• Top Tens in 2010: Copyright and Trade Secret Cases, 9 NW. J. TECH. & INTELL. PROP. 325 (2011)
• Cognition, Law, Stories, 10 MINN. J. L. SCI. & TECH. 255 (2009) (with Lorie Graham)
• Scary Patents, 7 NW. J. TECH. & INTELL. PROP. 343 (2009)
• Patents: Hiding from History, 24 SANTA CLARA COMPUTER & HIGH TECH. L.J. 961 (2008)
• A New Tool for Analyzing Intellectual Property, 5 NW. J. TECH. & INTELL. PROP. 101 (2006) (review essay)
• Indigenous Peoples and Intellectual Property, 19 WASH. U. J.L. & POL'Y. 313 (2005) (with Lorie Graham)
• Eldred’s Aftermath: Tradition, the Copyright Clause, and the Constitutionalization of Fair Use, 10 MICH. TELECOMM. & TECH. L. REV. 95 (2003)
• The Paradoxes of Free Software, 9 GEO. MASON L. REV. 25 (2000)
• Fair Use and Privatization in Copyright, 35 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 61 (1998)
  
• Artificial Legal Intelligence, 12 HARV. J.L. & TECH. 241 (1998) (review essay)
• Default Rules in Contract Law as Response to Status Competition in Negotiation, 31 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 39 (1997)
• Fair Use of Copyrighted Software, 28 RUTGERS L.J. 593 (1997)
• The Impact of United States v. Lopez: The New Hybrid Commerce Clause, 34 DUQ. L. REV. 1 (1995)
• Person or Property? On the Legal Nature of the Bankruptcy Estate, 10 BANKR. DEV. J. 465 (1994)
• Assignability of Letter of Credit Proceeds: Adapting the Code to New Commercial Practices, 25 UCC L.J. 257 (1993)
• On Uberty: Legal Reasoning by Analogy and Peirce's Theory of Abduction, 29 WILLAMETTE L. REV. 191 (1993)
• The Flip Side of Twist Cap: Letters of Credit as Executory Contracts in Bankruptcy, 38 WAYNE L. REV. 1379 (1992)

Books

• Intellectual Property Law: Examples and Explanations (7th ed. Aspen Pub. 2021)
• Co-author, Dratler & McJohn, Intellectual Property: Commercial, Creative and Industrial Property; Licensing of Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw (Law Journal Press updated regularly)
• Copyright: Examples and Explanations (6th ed. Aspen Pub. 2021)
• Co-author, Whaley & McJohn, Problems and Materials on Commercial Law (12th ed. Aspen Pub. 2021) and its three break-out books: Secured Transactions, Payment Law and Sales and Leases.
• THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: AN UNDERGRADUATE TEXTBOOK (American Bar Association, 2015) (with Lorie Graham)
• PROBLEMS AND MATERIALS ON THE SALE AND LEASE OF GOODS (6th ed., 2012) (with Douglas Whaley)
• PROBLEMS AND MATERIALS ON PAYMENT LAW (9th ed., 2012) (with Douglas Whaley)
• THE GLANNON GUIDE TO COMMERCIAL PAPER AND PAYMENT SYSTEMS (Aspen 2d ed., 2012)
• PROBLEMS AND MATERIALS ON SECURED TRANSACTIONS (Aspen, 8th ed., 2010) (with Douglas Whaley)
• COPYRIGHT: EXAMPLES AND EXPLANATIONS (2006)
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: EXAMPLES AND EXPLANATIONS, (2003)
• CYBERLAW: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DIGITAL MILLENNIUM (Law Journal Press, 2000) (with Jay Dratler, Jr.)
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: COMMERCIAL, CREATIVE, AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY/BY JAY DRATLER, JR. (1991) (Supp. 2004-2007)