Lisa Larrimore Ouellette

Lisa Larrimore Ouellette received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2011. She earned her B.A. from Swarthmore and her Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell, where she investigated biochemical sensing with carbon nanotubes. Her research interests include the relationship between patents and innovation, particularly as applied to basic research. She has written about the effects of university patents on climate change, access to biomedical materials, and pharmaceuticals. Her most recent work is an empirical study of whether nanotechnology patents disclose useful information. Lisa was the 2009 Director of the Yale Chapter of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), which worked with Yale's Office of Cooperative Research on a new licensing policy to promote access to Yale-developed medicines in developing countries. She was also a Coker Fellow in Contract Law and an Articles Editor of The Yale Law Journal. Lisa blogs about recent patent scholarship at Written Description. Lisa is spending 2011-12 clerking for Judge Timothy Dyk on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.