Kristen Jakobsen Osenga
Austin E. Owen Research Scholar
University of Richmond School of Law
Kristen Jakobsen Osenga is Austin E. Owen Research Scholar and professor of law at the University of Richmond School of Law and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. She also serves as associate dean for academic affairs.
Her research focuses on intellectual property, patent law, legislation and regulation, and the relationship between law and language. Her recent scholarship examines patent-eligible subject matter, patent-licensing firms, standard-setting organizations, patent reform, and claim construction.
Osenga has held successive appointments at the University of Richmond as professor of law, associate professor of law, and assistant professor of law. She has also been a visiting professor at William & Mary Law School and Emory University School of Law, and earlier a visiting assistant professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Before entering academia, she clerked for Judge Richard Linn of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and practiced patent prosecution and litigation as an associate attorney at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP.
Her distinctions include the University of Richmond Distinguished Scholar Award and the University of Richmond Distinguished Educator Award. She is a registered patent attorney with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and a member of the Federal Circuit Bar Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
She earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law, a master’s in electrical engineering from Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, and a bachelor’s from the University of Iowa.
