Jordi Goodman
Jordi Goodman
@jordigoodman.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. at Chicago-Kent College of Law; Innovator in Residence at MIT
Excited to watch Jesse Appell talk about "Small Businesses in the Age of Digital Influence" with the House Committee on Small Business today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyla...
Streaming Success: Small Businesses in the Age of Digital Influence
YouTube video by House Committee on Small Business
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September 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Due process is not a liberal concept.
My civil procedure professor taught us that due process means "notice and a meaningful opportunity to be heard." It doesn't have to be fancy, and it can be flexible.

But it means, at minimum, that the government tells people what's about to happen to them and gives them a chance to contest it.
! I've been banging this drum for months

Due process is how you determine things like 'is this person a citizen' & 'did they break a law'

GOP's insistence that noncitizens & lawbreakers shouldn't get due process is putting the racism-cart before the logic-horse

ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
September 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I had an amazing time at WEMIP at Northwestern Law! Mike Schuster and I discussed our project about interactions between attorneys, inventors, and examiners in patent law (or what we lovingly call "The Patent Trifecta")! Special thanks to our exceptional discussant, Melissa Wasserman.
June 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
• anti-racism - anti-discrimination
• racism - racial prejudice
• allyship - supportive advocacy
• bias - skewed perspective
• DEI - representation, fairness, and acceptance
• diversity - variety
• diverse - varied
• confirmation bias - belief reinforcement
• equity - fairness
February 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Reposted by Jordi Goodman
Congratulations to Professor Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social at Chicago-Kent College of Law for her article “The Counterfeit Sham” in Harvard Law Review, discussing the important differences between counterfeiting and design patent infringement.

Read more here:
https://buff.ly/40tqKNs
January 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I am so proud of this joint work with Mike Schuster in Scientific Reports. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39814744/ “Gender Inventorship Equity in Patent Prosecution,” shows how each stage of examination individually contributes to a lower aggregate grant rate for female inventors. (1/2)
Gender inventorship equity in patent prosecution - PubMed
There are pervasive gender gaps throughout the patent process. Here, we add to the literature by providing an in-depth analysis of gendered outcomes across each stage of patent prosecution. We show th...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
So excited to celebrate the publication of "Inequality on Appeal: The Intersection of Race and Gender in Patent Litigation", co-authored with Paul Gugliuzza and @rebouche.bsky.social. Thanks to the editors at UC Davis Law Review! lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/archives/58/...
Inequality on Appeal: The Intersection of Race and Gender in Patent Litigation | UC Davis Law Review
lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu
December 22, 2024 at 4:53 PM
SO proud of my colleague and mentor at Chicago-Kent, who wrote an amazing article in HLR about Schedule A counterfeiting claims, and detailing how patent infringement is not the same as counterfeiting. This is a must-read from the design patent expert, @design-law.bsky.social Sarah Fackrell!
December 12, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Reposted by Jordi Goodman
I am so excited to get to share the final version of "The Counterfeit Sham" with you all: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
The Counterfeit Sham
Abstract There’s a new front in the IP rhetoric wars. Plaintiffs in “Schedule A” cases tell judges that they need to secretly seize the assets of hundreds of defendants all at once in order to defea
harvardlawreview.org
December 12, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Doing some research... Does anyone know how USPTO technology centers 2100, 2400, and 2600 were formed? Who decides to make new technology centers and who decides what categories are important? Would love some insight!!
December 11, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Had a great time with the World's Best IP Prof's at the Chicago-Kent College of Law's Chicagoland IP Workshop. Thanks to @design-law.bsky.social, @cathaysmith.bsky.social, @graemedinwoodie.bsky.social, Greg Reilly, Paul Rogerson, and Felicia Caponigri for making our IP faculty feel like a family!
December 8, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Sometimes, as a law professor, you get to be part of something truly spectacular. Thank you to Jessica Lai and @kathybowrey.bsky.social for this book and inviting me to contribute a chapter (www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...). @jessicasilbey.bsky.social - Couldn't have done it without you!
www.elgaronline.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Nov 25! Mike Schuster and I are presenting a new piece called "Patent Trifecta" at WIPO in Geneva. We'll be examining the gender gap and presenting data on interactive effects between inventors, examiners, and attorneys. Register here to see everyone's scholarly work: www.wipo.int/meetings/en/...
WIPO to Host First IPGAP Global Research Experts Meeting on Improving Gender and Diversity in IP and Innovation
www.wipo.int
November 18, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Reposted by Jordi Goodman
Please join us online next Friday, September 27 for the annual Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology Supreme Court IP Review.

More details (and a link to sign up for CLE credit) are available here:
Supreme Court IP Review
SCIPR is a conference designed to provide intellectual property practitioners, jurists, legal academics, and law students with a review of IP cases from the U.S. Supreme Court.  Every year, SCIPR
kentlaw.iit.edu
September 17, 2024 at 3:02 PM
One year down, forever to go! So glad I have this amazing community of Chicago-Kent IP Scholars for year 2 in Chicago!! @design-law.bsky.social
May 16, 2024 at 2:21 PM
A BIG thank you to Sarah Burstein @design-law.bsky.social for a wonderful review of Access to Justice for Black Inventors in Jotwell! jotwell.com. This piece was such a special project to work on, and I'm so appreciative of the continued recognition! cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-wordpress...
Jotwell
The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)
jotwell.com
March 24, 2024 at 8:30 PM
I'm excited to share that my article, Patently Inequitable, is forthcoming in Boston University Law Review! You can read a draft here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Comments are welcome!
February 26, 2024 at 8:33 PM
I am so excited to welcome the one and only Sarah Burstein @design-law.bsky.social to Chicago-Kent this fall! I cannot express how lucky I am to be in such a wonderfully rich community of scholars and colleagues who I can learn from each and every day.
February 20, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Reposted by Jordi Goodman
Some personal news: This summer, I’ll be joining the faculty at Chicago-Kent College of Law. I am so excited to return to Chicago and to join such an amazing intellectual community.
February 20, 2024 at 6:10 PM