Moy, Carl

Professor Carl Moy was appointed Director of the Mitchell Hamline School of Law’s Intellectual Property Institute in 2024. He has been a full-time tenured faculty member for over thirty years, during which time he has focused on the school’s highly respected patent law curriculum. He is the author of Moy’s Walker on Patents, cited by the United States Supreme Court and recognized as the pre-eminent treatise on U.S. patent law, and has been a guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Patent, Copyright, and Unfair Competition Law, Munich, Germany. He is a former patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C., attorney at Merchant & Gould, Minneapolis, and patent agent at Parkhurst & Oliff, Alexandria, VA.