Christopher Jon Sprigman
Professor of Law
New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South, 314C
New York, NY 10012
Telephone: (212) 992-8162
Research
Copyright
Intellectual Property
Law and Economics
Patent
Trademark
Education
J.D., University of Chicago School of Law, with honors, 1993
B.A. (History), University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, 1988
Appointments
Professor of Law, New York University Law School; Co-Director, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, 2013
Class of 1963 Research Professor in Honor of Graham C. Lilly and Peter W. Low, University of Virginia School of Law, 2011
Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, 2010
Associate Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, 2005
Representative Publications
How Can Brands Flourish in the Knockoff Kingdom? What China Tells Us About the Bad – And Good – Effects of Luxury Goods Counterfeiting in The Luxury Economy and Intellectual Property: Critical Reflections (Beebe, Sun & Sunder, eds., forthcoming) (with Kal Raustiala)
"Berne's Vanishing Ban on Formalities," 28 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1565 (2014)
"Experimental Tests of Intellectual Property Laws' Creative Thresholds," 93 Texas Law Review 1921 (2014) (with Christopher J. Buccafusco, Zachary C. Burns and Jeanne C. Fromer)
"What's a Name Worth?: Experimental Tests of the Value of Attribution in Intellectual Property," 93 Boston University Law Review 1389 (2013) (with Christopher Buccafusco and Zachary Burns)
The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation (Oxford University Press, 2012) (with Kal Raustiala)