Christopher B. Seaman Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

Professor Seaman teaches intellectual property litigation, intellectual property and antitrust, and legal writing at Chicago-Kent. Before joining the faculty in 2009, Professor Seaman was an attorney in the intellectual property litigation practice group at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago, where he represented clients in patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret cases in federal and state courts.

Professor Seaman's current scholarship focuses on various aspects of intellectual property law. His recent paper "Willful Patent Infringement and Enhanced Damages After In re Seagate: An Empirical Study" was selected as one of the winners of the inaugural Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize competition for outstanding new scholarship related to patent remedies. Professor Seaman's academic articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review, Brigham Young University Law Review, Saint Louis University Public Law Review, and Michigan Journal of Race & Law.

Professor Seaman received his B.A. in 2000 from Swarthmore College and his J.D. in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an executive editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and received the Edwin R. Keedy Award for the most scholarly contribution to the law review. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable R. Barclay Surrick of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.