David Olson is an associate professor. He teaches patent law, intellectual property law, antitrust law, and various seminars. His research and writing primarily focus on patents, copyrights, antitrust, and incentives for innovation and competition. He has been recognized for his teaching excellence and contributions, including being awarded the Business & Law Society Faculty Award for Achievement in Business & Law and the Professor Emil Slizewski Award for Faculty Excellence. Professor Olson has published scholarly articles on patent law, copyright law, antitrust, music licensing, and first amendment copyright issues. His writing has been cited in Supreme Court and other legal opinions. He has testified before House and Senate Committees in the U.S. Congress on matters of drug patents, FDA regulation, and antitrust.
Professor Olson is interested in international IP and competition law, as well as comparative law in intellectual property and antitrust. In 2015, he was Visiting Professor of Law at Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (PUC-Rio), where he conducted research and taught a course on intellectual property. In June 2018, Professor Olson was appointed to the visiting faculty of Zhongyuan Technical University in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China.
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Professor Olson came to Boston College from Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, where he conducted research on patent law and litigated copyright fair use impact cases. Before entering academia, Professor Olson practiced law as a patent litigator. He clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.听
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