Murphy, John

John Murphy is a judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.  Before being appointed to the court, Judge Murphy was an IP litigation partner at Baker & Hostetler in Philadelphia, where he focused on patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and other intellectual property disputes.  He teaches patent litigation and strategy as an adjunct professor at both Villanova Law School and Rutgers Law School.  Judge Murphy is co-author of the last three editions of the casebook Patent Litigation and Strategy along with Federal Circuit Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore, Professor Timothy Holbrook, and Andrew Sommer.  Judge Murphy also clerked for Chief Judge Moore.  He attended Harvard Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.  Before that, he obtained a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Caltech and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.