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Engelken, Sheri

engelken

Sheri Engelken
Assistant Professor

sengelken@lawschool.gonzaga.edu
(509) 313-5891

  • B.A. with High Honors, Administration of Justice, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1980
  • J.D. with Honors, University of Chicago, 1983
  • University of Chicago Law Review, Staff Member 1981-82, Articles Editor & Managing Board 1982-83
  • Judicial clerkship, Honorable John C. Godbold, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 1983-84

Biographical Information

Before joining the faculty of the Gonzaga University School of Law in 2003, Prof. Engelken practiced law as an associate and partner at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago, Illinois from 1984-2003. Her practice focused on Intellectual Property litigation at the trial, appellate and administrative levels, including preliminary injunction hearings, TRO hearings, ex part seizures, mediation and ADR, TTAB oppositions and cancellations, ITC exclusion actions, and ICANN and WIPO proceedings. The cases she handled concerned such subjects as trademark and trade dress, false advertising, copyright, patents and design patents, Internet marketing, cybersquatting, non-competition covenants, confidentiality and trade secret disputes, and business torts.

In addition to her litigation practice, Prof. Engelken assisted clients with counseling, clearance, prosecution and enforcement programs for trademarks, service marks, design patents, trade names, domain names and corporate names.

During the course of her practice, Prof. Engelken did pro bono work in a number of areas. She represented Illinois death-row inmate Willie Enoch from 1989 until his death of natural causes in prison in April 2000. She also represented low-income artists and authors through Lawyers for the Creative Arts, and victims of domestic violence needing assistance with separation, divorce, child custody and orders of protection through Pro Bono Advocates.

Teaching Areas

  • Intellectual Property
  • Civil Procedure
  • Constitutional Law
  • Professional Responsibility
  • Comparative Constitutional Law
  • Faculty Advisor – Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition

Publications

  • Opening the Door to Efficient Infringement: eBay Inc. v MercExchange, L.L.C., 2 Akron Intell. Prop. J. 57 (2008)
  • Majoritarian Democracy in a Federalist System: The Late Chief Justice Rehnquist and the First Amendment, 30 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 695 (2007), reprinted in First Amendment Law Handbook 792-819 (Rodney A. Smolla ed. 2007-08)
  • Statute Makes Theft of Trade Secrets a Federal Crime, 2 Representing The Corporation: Strategies for Legal Counsel 29-Ex-61(Richard H. Weise ed., 2nd ed. 2006)

Presentations

  •  The Enduring Constitutional Legacy of Justice Holmes' Lochner Dissent, 2008 Sherman J. Bellwood Panel Discussion with Dean Kenneth Starr (Pepperdine Law School), Dean Donald Burnett, Jr. (Univ. of Idaho College of Law) & Professor Don Crowley (Univ. of Idaho Pol. Sci. Dept.) April, 2008
  • Student Free Speech Rights under the First Amendment after Morse vs. Frederick, 2008 William O. Douglas Debate with Professor David DeWolf, Gonzaga University School of Law, April 2008
  • Race & The Death Penalty, Gonzaga University School of Law - ACLU & Multicultural Law Caucus, February 2008
  • Intellectual Property Issues in the Writers' Strike, Gonzaga University School of Law - Entertainment Law Society, February 2008
  • What did eBay Do? The Future of eBay in the Lower Courts, Intellectual Property Scholars' Forum, University of Akron School of Law, November 2007
  • Civil Liberties & the War on Terror, Constitution Day Lecture - Gonzaga University, September 2007
  • Legal Update for Publishers & Editors, Association of Editors of Jesuit Publications, July 2007
  • The Right to Privacy v. The Right to Security During the War on Terror , Debate with U.S. Attorney James McDevitt (E.D. Wa.) Spokane Rotary Club, February 2007
  • Copyright Issues for Graphic Designers & Web Page Programmers, Spokane Skills Center, October 2006
  • William O. Douglas Fall Lecture, Democracy in a Federalist System: The Late Chief Justice Rehnquist and the First Amendment, November 3, 2005.
  • Copyright & Speech Issues For Graphic Designers & Broadcasters, Spokane Skills Center, November 2005.
  • The Other Side of War: Our Loss of Civil Liberties Based on Ethnicity & Religion, Gonzaga University, October 2005
  • Copyright For Academics, Gonzaga University Fall Faculty Conference, August 2005
  • Moderator: The Constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, Gonzaga University School of Law, February 2005
  • Intellectual Property Assertion Strategies, Washington State Bar Association - Intellectual Property Section CLE, Spokane, WA, October 2004

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