Jorge Contreras
James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law
Director, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law IP Program
Research Profile Phone: 801/587-5471
Email: jorge.contreras@law.utah.edu
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News / Articles:
- Utah Law faculty updates: August 2025
- Utah Law faculty updates: December 2025
- Professor Jorge Contreras and Associate Professor Daniel Aaron file amicus brief in 23andMe bankruptcy case
- Property rules and liability rules for genetic data
- Professor Jorge Contreras quoted in Bloomberg Law about Apple Watch lawsuit
- Utah Law faculty updates: September 2025
- Utah Law faculty updates: July 2025
- Utah Law faculty updates: February 2025
- Professor Jorge Contreras named distinguished professor of law
- Utah Law faculty updates: June 2025
- Utah Law faculty updates: November 2025
- Utah Law faculty updates: January 2025
- Utah Law faculty updates: February 2026
- Stegner Center Faculty Updates
- Do You Own Your Genetic Test Results? What About Your Temperature?
- College of Law to open IP clinic in spring 2026
- Utah Law faculty updates: October 2025
- Utah Law faculty updates: March 2025
- Utah Law faculty updates: January 2026
- Bench to Bedside: Students get practical IP law experience through medical device competition
- Utah Law faculty updates: March 2026
- Stegner Center Faculty Updates Fall 2024
- Utah Law faculty updates: September 2024
- Utah faculty updates: August 2024
- Utah Law faculty updates: July 2024
- Utah Law faculty updates: June 2024
- Utah Law faculty updates: May 2024
- Utah Law faculty updates: April 2024
- Utah Law faculty updates: March 2024
- Utah Law faculty updates: February 2024
- Utah Law faculty updates: January 2024
- Utah Law faculty updates: October 2024
- Utah Law faculty updates: November 2024
- Utah Law faculty updates: December 2024
- Professor Jorge Contreras testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee about RESTORE Patent Rights Act
- Professor Jorge Contreras testifies before national IP Subcommittee
- Professor Jorge Contreras talks to media about Henrietta Lacks’ family’s settlement
- Professor Jorge Contreras speaks to media about Michael Oher conservatorship case
- Professor Jorge Contreras featured in the Wall Street Journal discussing dispute over gene-editing technology
- Professor Jorge Contreras quoted in Quartz article about scientific publishing inequality
- Contreras Elected to American Law Institute
- Utah Law professors present at AALS Annual Meeting
- Book Panel: Jorge Contreras’s “The Genome Defense”
- Professor Jorge Contreras discusses gene patents on CNN
- Professor Jorge Contreras’ forthcoming book featured by The New York Times
- Professor Contreras served as Chair of the (AALS)
- Professor Contreras co-founded the Open COVID Pledge (OCP)
- Professor Contreras on the BBC World Service Business Matters
- Professor Jorge Contreras testified before the S. Senate Intellectual Property Subcommittee
- Contreras testifies in Senate subcommittee hearing on protecting patent quality
- Professors Brown, Contreras, and Dryer honored with teaching and research awards
- Recent publications from Utah Law faculty members