JANICE MUELLER
Janice Mueller is a registered U.S. patent attorney and author living in Lexington, Kentucky.
After earning a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Virginia Tech (Class of ’86), Janice attended law school at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota while working as a patent agent with Merchant & Gould, P.C. in Minneapolis. After law school Janice completed a two-year clerkship with the Honorable Giles S. Rich, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in Washington, D.C. She then litigated patent and copyright infringement cases as an Honors Program Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice before entering legal academia in 1995.
From 2004–2011 Janice was a tenured full Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she taught and wrote in the field of intellectual property law with an emphasis in U.S. and comparative patent law. Janice has also taught at the John Marshall Law School (now University of Illinois-Chicago), Suffolk University (Boston), the University of Kentucky, the University of Washington, Seattle University, Santa Clara University, and William Mitchell College of Law. Janice retired from academia in 2011.
As a full-time law professor for sixteen years, Janice authored two patent law reference texts—the leading patent law student treatise, first published by Wolters Kluwer Legal Education (Aspen Publishers) in 2003 and now in its sixth edition, as well as the comprehensive two-volume practitioner treatise, Mueller on Patent Law, first published in 2012 and currently published by Full Court Press (an imprint of Fastcase, Inc.). Janice continually updates each volume to incorporate significant new judicial decisions and legislative enactments. Intellectual Property Publishing House Co., Ltd. published a Chinese language translation of her student treatise in 2013. Janice has also published law review articles in journals including Baylor Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, Kentucky Law Journal, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, and Washington Law Review.
Janice co-founded the Chisum Patent Academy with her husband Donald S. Chisum in 2009 to provide advanced patent law education and training to experienced practitioners. The Academy holds small-group seminars in various U.S. locations. The seminars focus on recent developments and best practices in patent law and litigation.
Janice has served on the Amicus Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, as a trustee of the Federal Circuit Historical Society, and chaired the Expert Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property for the non-profit Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.
Janice grew up in a small town in Kentucky. She studied violin and piano as a child. Currently Janice and her husband live on a twenty-acre farm in Lexington, Kentucky with one horse, two miniature donkeys, and two cats. Together Janice and Don have traveled to over thirty countries. Janice also enjoys reading, cooking, fine dining, and almost all forms of music.
