Rate My Professor Greg Vetter

Professor Vetter is a leading expert on intellectual property law as applied to software, with emphasis on free and open source software licensing at the intersection of software business, patent law, copyright law, and licensing law. He co-directs the Law Center's Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law, has taught courses such as Patents, Licensing, Trademark Law, Intellectual Property Survey, Digital Transactions, and Internet Law, and served as visiting professor at University of Texas at Austin School of Law (2006-2007), University of Washington School of Law (2010), and Texas A&M University School of Law (2015). His scholarship comprises over two dozen articles, including 'The Collaborative Integrity of Open-Source Software' (Utah L. Rev. 2004), 'Infectious Open Source Software: Spreading Incentives or Promoting Resistance' (Rutgers L.J. 2004), 'Commercial Free and Open Source Software: Knowledge Production, Hybrid Appropriability, and Patents' (Fordham L. Rev. 2009), and contributions to intellectual property casebooks. Vetter has delivered nearly ninety presentations, chaired committees, served as AALS section chair, and received University of Houston research grants for projects on prior user rights and open source software implications.