Jake Linford is the Loula Fuller & Dan Myers Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the Florida State University College of Law. He focuses his scholarship on trademarks, copyright, and contract law. He teaches Trademarks and Unfair Competition, Contracts, Copyright, Information Privacy, and various IP and tech-related seminars. His scholarship empirically tests and theoretically reassesses key trademark and copyright doctrines, and has been published in leading law reviews including The Georgetown Law Journal, Notre Dame Law Review, and Minnesota Law Review.

Professor Linford received his J.D. from the University of Chicago, where he was a member of The University of Chicago Law Review, graduated with high honors and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Prior to joining the Florida State law faculty, Professor Linford litigated copyright and trademark matters with the law firm of Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson, LLP, in Chicago and clerked for the Honorable M. Margaret McKeown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.