Ochoa, Tyler T.

Tyler T. Ochoa is a Professor with the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law in California, where he teaches courses in copyright law, trademark law, rights of publicity, and international intellectual property.  Professor Ochoa is the author of annual updates to the treatise, The Law of Copyright (West 2024 edition); a co-author of Copyright Law (Carolina Academic Press 12th ed. 2025), a widely-used casebook; a co-author of Under­standing Intellectual Property Law (Carolina Academic Press 2020), a student hornbook; and a co-author of Celebrity Rights: Rights of Publicity in the United States & Abroad (Carolina Academic Press 2d ed. forthcoming 2026).  His article, Patent and Copyright Term Extension and the Constitu­tion: A Historical Perspective, 49 J. Copyr. Soc’y U.S.A. 19 (2001), was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ash­croft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003).  He has written numerous articles on intellectual property law and has submitted five amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court.  Prior to joining the faculty at Santa Clara, he was a Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California.