Biographical Information

Alan Durham is a law graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as associate editor of the California Law Review. His undergraduate degree, cum laude, is from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received the Hartog Prize in European History. For nearly 10 years, Durham was in private practice in Palo Alto, California, with the law firms of Brown & Bain and Morrison & Foerster. His law practice emphasized high-technology intellectual property litigation, especially relating to patents and trade secrets. He is also the author of Patent Law Essentials: A Concise Guide(second edition, 2004). Professor Durham was appointed to the Alabama faculty in 1998. He teaches intellectual property, antitrust, and torts.

Publications

As stated above, Alan Durham authored Patent Law Essentials: A Concise Guide

Editorial Reviews:
"There are several excellent multi-volume legal treatises on patent law for the patent practitioner. But these are far too comprehensive to be useful to non-lawyers, or even to lawyers who are not patent lawyers. For the first time, Alan Durham's Patent Law Essentials lays it out plain and simple. A corporate R&D director, for example, can read Alan's book in a few evenings and come away with all he or she needs to do their job. A layperson can ignore the footnotes and read a clear, understandable expose of the essentials of patent law and patent litigation." - Roger Borovoy Fish & Richardson P.C.
More at Amazon.com[2256]

Purchase it on Amazon![2257]

Current Projects

This semester, Fall 2007, he has the privilege of opening up some the 60-some fledgling juris doctor candidates to the wonderful world of tort law. Cases that will be covered shortly in that class include:
Trimarco v. Klien[2258], Martin v. Herzog
[2259], and Tedla v. Ellman.
[2260]

Others topics to be covered can be found at "Significant Tort Cases"
[2261], or "US Tort Case Law"[2262].