Tom Cotter
Associate Dean for Research & Planning
Taft Stettinius & Hollister Professor of Law

Prof. Cotter Quoted in MN Daily on 'Patent Cliff'

Professor Thomas Cotter was quoted in an article in the Minnesota Daily about the effects of newly enacted changes to U.S. patent law on research at the University of Minnesota. Cotter discusses the U.S. changeover from a first-to-invent to a first-to-file patent system, which becomes effective in March 2013.