Marketa Trimble, Ph.D., J.S.D., J.S.M., JUDR., Mgr.

(Distinguished Professor/Endowed Chair)

Marketa Trimble, the Samuel S. Lionel Professor of Intellectual Property Law, specializes in international intellectual property law and publishes extensively on issues at the intersection of conflict of laws/private international law and intellectual property law. She has authored numerous works on these subjects, including Global Patents: Limits of Transnational Enforcement (Oxford University Press, 2012), and is the co-author of a leading international intellectual property law casebook, International Intellectual Property Law (with Professor Paul Goldstein, Foundation Press, 2012, 2016, 2019, and 2024) and of casebook International and Comparative Copyright Law (with Professor Paul Goldstein, Foundation Press, 2024). She has also authored several works in the area of cyberlaw, particularly relating to the legal issues of geoblocking and the circumvention of geoblocking, including her book The EU Geo-Blocking Regulation: A Commentary (Edward Elgar, 2024). She has presented at conferences in the United States and abroad, and teaches regularly in the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center. She is a member of several professional and academic organizations; she is an elected member of the American Law Institute and of the International Academy of Comparative Law.