Andrew Clearwater

Fellow, Center for Law and Innovation

University of Maine School of Law

Maine Law Class of 2009

IP Clinic Student, 2008

Andrew Clearwater joined the Center for Law and Innovation as a Fellow to strategically enhance the Center's teaching mission, reinforce the Maine Patent Program's ability to serve clients, and to provide the University with legal scholarship. Andrew has an LLM in Global Law and Technology with a concentration in Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law. He is a recipient of the ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law, and a 2009 graduate of the University of Maine School of Law.

Prior to joining the Center, Andrew provided iCommons Ltd. with legal research and analysis addressing a variety of topics, chief among them, the disposition of intellectual property in international scientific research collaborations. He also aided the Open Government Project which sought to assess the public's ability to access taxpayer–funded work product and investigated aspirations and practices in the UK. Before that Andrew served as a research assistant with the Cooperation Research Group at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His work was part of the industrial case studies looking at the role of intellectual property within commons-based production and collaboration.