Smeal College Business Law Professors Honored For Intellectual Property Contributions
Smeal College Business Law Professors Honored For Intellectual Property Contributions
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA -- Jeff Sharp and Daniel Cahoy, business law faculty members in Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, recently earned three awards at the annual meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies (ALSB), demonstrating the significant strides being made by the college in the area of intellectual property research and education.
Sharp, Associate Professor of Business Law, received the 2003 Charles Hewett Memorial Master Teacher Award, given to the top presenter at the conference’s Master Teacher Symposium. Along with three others, Sharp was initially chosen as a presenter from the entire field of applicants to the conference. More than 100 business law professors evaluated his presentation, which was entitled “A Beatle, Some Rappers, an Uncertain Thereafter: Employing the Music Industry as a Vehicle for Teaching Copyright Law.”
Sharp also received the Ralph C. Hoeber Outstanding Article Award for a recent piece in the American Business Law Journal, which is published by ALSB.
“Coming Soon to Pay-Per-View: How the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Enables Digital Content Owners to Circumvent Educational Fair Use” addresses the ramifications of digital copyright legislation on educators, researchers, and educational institutions, and the ultimate negative influence on the country’s educational progress.
Cahoy, Assistant Professor of Business Law, received the Ralph C. Hoeber Award for Excellence in Research, also for an article in the American Business Law Journal.
Cahoy’s piece, “Treating the Legal Side Effects of Cipro: A Reevaluation of Compensation Rules for Government Takings of Patent Rights,” analyzes the government’s ability to take over private patent rights while providing limited compensation in return. According to Cahoy’s article, appropriations of private patent rights should instead be compensable at the level required by the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states that private property can not be taken for public use without just compensation.
About the Academy of Legal Studies
Founded in 1924, ALSB is an association of teachers and scholars in the fields of business
law, legal environment, and law-related courses outside of professional law schools. Its nearly
1,000 members teach primarily in schools of business in colleges and universities, at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels.
Back to Latest News
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
