Chris Mohr advises clients on a variety of intellectual property, technology and media-related matters, including privacy, the First Amendment, copyright, licensing, public records access, and unfair competition. He has appeared before legislative, judicial, and administrative bodies on matters of intellectual property and constitutional law and has been involved in several Supreme Court cases, including a recent First Amendment challenge to the so-called "Millionaire's Amendment" under the campaign finance laws. He also represented database publishers and consumer reporting agencies before the Supreme Court of New Jersey over the existence of a constitutional right to privacy in public record information under that state's laws.
Mr. Mohr was appointed to Virginia's Joint Commission on Science and Technology Advisory Committee Number 5, a group of e-commerce practitioners tasked with examining the effect of the proposed changes to the state's information licensing laws on consumers, businesses and libraries, and has lectured on copyright and related issues at Georgetown and Columbia law schools. He is a member of the District of Columbia and New York bars, as well as the bars of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Circuit, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second and Fourth Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. He received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College and his law degree from Catholic University, where he was a law review editor.
Representative Publications
- Traditional Contours of Copyright: Silver Lining or Storm Clouds? Landslide, Vol. 1 No. 1 (Sept./Oct. 2008)
- Collateral
Damage: The Effect of the Database Debate on Other Acts of Congress, 5 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 78
(2005).
- Gray
Market Goods and Copyright Law: An End
Run Around K Mart v. Cartier, 45 Cath. U.L. Rev. 561 (1996), listed in Worth
Reading, National Law Journal, Sept. 9, 1996.
Representative Speaking Engagements
- Copyright Society of the United States, "Statutory Damages Under Siege: Constitutional and Other Limits on Section 504(c)" (June 2010)
- American
Bar Association, Section of Intellectual Property Law, “Collateral Damage:
The Effect of the Database Debate on
Other Acts of Congress” (April 2005).
- Glasser
Legal Works, “UCITA and the Copyright Act: Scope and Consequences,”
(March
2001).
- The
Copyright Office Speaks, “State Sovereign Immunity from Intellectual
Property Infringement” (February 2000).
- Duke Ellington School for the Arts, “Intellectual Property Protection: What Do You Own?” (April 2000).Copyright Society of Philadelphia, “State 11th Amendment Immunity from Copyright Infringement” (March 1999).