International Summit
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Speakers > Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Professor, SMU Dedman School of Law

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Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen focuses on the interdisciplinary of intellectual property, the Internet, commercial law and taxation in her teaching and scholarship. She has co-authored several treatises and casebooks, including Treatise, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION LICENSING LAW (BNA 2007); Casebook, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION LICENSING: Theories and Practice (Aspen, 2008); INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TAXATION (BNA 2003); and Casebook, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TAXATION: Problems and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 2004).

Professor Nguyen’s articles are published in the U.C. Davis Law Review (twice), the Tulane Law Review (twice), the Georgia Law Review (twice), the Hasting Law Journal, the Wake Forest Law Review, the North Carolina Law Review, the Washington & Lee Law Review, the George Mason Law Review, the American University Law Review (thrice), the Loyola Chicago Law Journal, the Albany Law Review, the Chicago-Kent Intellectual Property Journal, and the Loyola Chicago Consumer Law Review. Professor Nguyen also published in the Licensing Journal (Aspen Publishers) and Internet Law & Business. Her scholarships have been cited by the Federal Circuit, the Third Circuit, the Ninth Circuit, among others, in In re Steelbuilding.com, 415 F.3d 1293 (Fed. Cir. 2005); Interstellar Starship Services, Ltd v. Epix, Inc., 304 F.3d 936 (9th Cir. 2002); Times Mirror Magazines, Inc. v. Las Vegas Sports News, 212 F.3d 157, 175 (3d Cir. 2000); and Ligotti v. Garofalo, 562 F.Supp.2d 204 (D.N.H. 2008); Blue Nile, Inc. v. Ice.com, Inc., 478 F.Supp.2d 1240 (W.D.Wash. 2007); Pharmacia Corp. v. Alcon Laboratories, Inc., 201 F.Supp.2d 335 (D.N.J. 2002); EMSL Analytical, Inc. v. Testamerica Analytical Testing Corp., 2006 WL 892718 (D.N.J. April 4, 2006).

Professor Nguyen is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. She also serves as expert witness in litigation matters. She was the first American law professor to lecture at the Vietnam National University Faculty of Law in Hanoi. She provides technical expertise to the Vietnamese government, law schools and bar associations. She has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar for the spring semester of 2009 and she will develop a new Intellectual Property law major at Vietnam National University Faculty of Law in Hanoi. Prior to entering academia, she practiced law at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson (New York City) and Pryor, Cashman, Sherman & Flynn (New York City). Professor Nguyen is registered to practice in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She organizes and chairs the SMU Annual Symposium on Emerging Intellectual Property Issues.

Professor Nguyen teaches Secured Transactions, Payment Systems, The Internet/Law of Electronic Commerce, Intellectual Property and International Intellectual Property at SMU Dedman School of Law.

Education
B.A., Oberlin College J.D.
Northeastern University School of Law