Jonathan M. Barnett

Jonathan M. Barnett is a Professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, and Director of the law school's Media, Entertainment, and Technology Law Program. He specializes in intellectual property and competition law and policy, with a focus on the empirical study of transactional structures in information technology markets.  He has published widely in scholarly journals and recently published Innovators, Firms, and Markets: The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property (Oxford University Press 2021), an economic and legal history of U.S. technology markets and innovation policy.  Before academia, he practised law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, specializing in private equity and mergers and acquisitions transactions.

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