Other professors who are not directly connected with the Kernochan Center but who teach IP include Eben Moglen and Harold Edgar '67. Professor Moglen, a legal historian and antitrust expert who has written extensively on the Microsoft antitrust case, brings his scholarship on computers and free expression to bear when teaching Perspectives on Legal Thought as well as Computers, Privacy, and the Constitution. Professor Edgar, the Julius Silver Professor in Law, Science, and Technology, teaches patent and advanced patent law courses and also serves as director of the Julius Silver Program in Law, Science & Technology, established in 1985, which sponsors and coordinates the Law School's advanced courses in fields related to science and technology. (Offerings in this area have included courses in technological properties and food and drug law; seminars in computers and the law, telecommunications, and medical innovation; and university-wide colloquiums on biotechnology.)

It was Professor Edgar’s interest in science (particularly in bioethics and in law and medicine) that drew him to the burgeoning area of patent law more than 10 years ago.

“It was a field that many law schools had been neglecting,” he says. “In an advanced, information-based society like that of the United States, where the courts have ruled that even microorganisms can be patented, it was extremely important to educate law students about patent law. Intellectual property is a vehicle through which science gets commercialized,” he adds.