Oskar Liivak

Oskar Liivak, Professor of Law, graduated from Rutgers College with highest honors in 1994, received a Ph.D. 2000 in physics from Cornell University focusing on techniques for determining protein structure, and received a J.D. from the Yale Law School in 2005.

From 2000 to 2001, he was a post-doctoral scientist working on physical realization of quantum computing in the Quantum Information Group at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. Prior to law school, he served as a patent agent in the Boston office of Fish and Richardson P.C. Most recently, Professor Liivak served as a law clerk to Judge Sharon Prost on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Education

• B.A. 1994, Rutgers College
• Ph.D. 2000, Cornell University
• J.D. 2005, Yale Law School

Publications

• Cotter, Thomas F., John M. Golden, Oskar Liivak, Brian J. Love, Norman Siebrasse, Masabumi Suzuki, and David O. Taylor, “Reasonable Royalties,” in Patent Remedies and Complex Products: Toward a Global Consensus (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
• Liivak, Oskar, “Private Law and the Future of Patents,” Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 30
• Liivak, Oskar, “A Crisis of Faith & the Scientific Future of Patent Theory,” St. John’s Law Review 90, p. 639 (2016)
• Liivak, Oskar, “The Unresolved Interpretive Ambiguity of Patent Claims,” UC Davis Law Review 49, p. 1851-1880 (2016)
• Liivak, Oskar, “When Nominal Is Reasonable: Damages for the Unpracticed Patent,” Boston College Law Review 56, p. 1031 (2015)