Professor Taylor teaches in the areas of contracts and patent law.  His scholarship focuses on patent law, patent policy, patent litigation, and civil procedure.
 
Professor Taylor earned his bachelor of science, magna cum laude, in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and his juris doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School.  Prior to law school, Professor Taylor worked as an applications engineer at National Instruments Corporation in Austin, Texas.  While in law school, he served as an extern for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston and was a member of both the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology and the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.
 
After graduating from law school, Professor Taylor clerked for the Honorable Sharon Prost of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  A registered patent attorney, he also worked in the intellectual property department of the law firm of Baker Botts LLP in its Dallas office.  While at Baker Botts, Professor Taylor engaged in patent prosecution, patent licensing, and patent litigation in various district courts and at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  He also assisted with various advanced patent law courses at SMU Dedman School of Law and successfully represented clients in pro bono matters, including before the U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals.
 
Professor Taylor has published articles in the Temple Law Review; Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal; and Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit cited his first article in In re Echostar Communications Corp., 448F.3d 1294, 1303 n.5 (Fed. Cir. 2006).

Primary Articles

Misjoinder: The Next Battleground in the War Over the Eastern District of Texas (in progress)

The Declining Significance of Secondary Considerations of Nonobviousness (in progress)

Patent Fraud, 83 TEMP. L. REV. 49 (2010), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1596452

Clear But Unconvincing: The Federal Circuit’s Invalidity Standard, 21 FORDHAM INTELL. PROP., MEDIA & ENT. L.J. 293 (2011), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1651597

Wasting Resources: Reinventing the Scope of Waiver Resulting from the Advice-of-Counsel Defense to a Charge of Willful Patent Infringement, 12 TEX. INTELL. PROP. L.J. 319 (2004)

• Cited in In re Echostar Commc’ns Corp., 448 F.3d 1294, 1303 n.5 (Fed. Cir. 2006)
• Selected for republication in INTELL. PROP. L. REV., 2005 ed.
  

Speeches/Presentations

Misjoinder – The Next Battleground, IP Scholars Conference, August 2011

Recent Developments in Copyright Law, Oklahoma Bar Assoc., Intell. Prop. Law Section, June 2010

The Federal Circuit & Computer Related Inventions, Dallas Bar Assoc., Comp. Law Section, Mar. 2010

Traps in the FRAPS: Appellate Procedure for the IP Litigator, Dallas Bar Assoc., Intell. Prop. Law Section, Jan. 2007 (with Samara Kline)