Xuan-Thao Nguyen

Peer Reviewed Journals & Law Reviews

• Xuan-Thao Nguyen and Elizabeth G. Porter, The AI Input Class: Constitutional Urgency and Fair Licensing in AI Copyright Class Actions, 14 N.Y.U. J. Intell. Prop. & Ent. L. 1 (2025).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Too Woke to Fail, 99 Wash. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming December 2024).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Jeffrey A. Maine, Crypto Losses, 2024 U. of Ill. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2024).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Jennifer Fan, Founder Worship, Effective Altruism, and Corporate Governance, 112 Kentucky Law Journal ___ (forthcoming 2024).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Tech Supremacy: The New Arms Race between China and the United States, 49 J. Corp. Law 103-136 (2023).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Manufacturing Innovation, 56 Int'l Law 91 (2023).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Blockchain Games and Disruptive Corporate Business Model, 6 Stan. J. Blockchain L. & Pol'y 43-92 (2023).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Jeffrey A. Maine, Taxing Creativity, 89 Tenn. L. Rev. 523-570 (2021-2022).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Jeffrey A. Maine, Incentivizing Innovation, 75 Tax Law. 351-410 (2022).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, #MeToo Innovators: Disrupting the Race and Gender Code by Asian Americans in the Tech Industry, 28 Asian Am. L. J. 17–56 (2021).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Contract as Emergency Law, 30 Wash. Int’l L. J. 420–469 (2021).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Promoting Corporate Irresponsibility? Delaware as the Intellectual Property Holding State, 46 J. Corp. L. 717–750 (2021).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Lending Innovations, 86 Brook. L. Rev. 135–177 (2020).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Banking the Unbanked Innovators, 45 J. Corp. L. 715–742 (2020).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Disrupting Adhesion Contracts with #MeToo Innovators, 26 Va J. Soc. Pol’y & L. 165–199 (2019).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Jeffrey A. Maine, Attacking Innovation, 99 B. U. L. Rev. 1687–1755 (2019).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, For Canadian Love of Trader Joe’s: First Sale Doctrine, Reputational Harm and Lanham Act’s Extraterritoriality, 25 B. U. J. Sci. & Tech. L. 570–596 (2019).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Lessons from Case Study of Secured Transactions with Bitcoin, 21 SMU Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 181–204 (2018).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Eric Hille, Disruptive Lending for Innovations: Signaling Model and Banks Selection of Startups Innovations, 21 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. 200–234 (2018).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Eric Hille, Patent Aversion: An Empirical Study of Patents Collateral in Bank Lending, 1980-2016, 9 UC Irvine L. Rev. 141–175 (2018).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Eric Hille, The Puzzle in Financing with Trademark Collateral, 56 Hous. L. Rev. 365–399 (2018).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Sovereign Patent Funds, 51 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1257–1296 (2018).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Zombie Patents and Zombie Companies with Patents, 69 Fla. L. Rev. 1147–1156 (2017).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Jeffrey A. Maine, Branding Taxation, 50 Ga. L. Rev. 399–473 (2016).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Judicial Wisdom or Patent Envy? The Eleventh, Seventh and Federal Circuits’ Patent Jurisdictional Battle, 32 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 303–355 (2016).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, In the Name of Patent Stewardship: The Federal Circuit’s Overreach in Commercial Law, 67 Fla. L. Rev. 127–169 (2015).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Financing Innovation: Legal Development of Intellectual Property as Security in Financing, 1845–2014, 48 Ind. L. Rev. 509–550 (2015).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, China’s Apologetic Justice: Lessons for the United States? 4 Colum. J. Race & L. 97–128 (2014).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Dynamic Trademark Development 10 J. L. & Applic. 23– ___ (2012).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Bich T. Nguyen, Transplanting Secured Transactions Law: Trapped in the Civil Code for Emerging Economy Countries, 40 N.C. J. Int’l L. 1–54 (2014).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Patent Prudential Standing, 21 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 17–57 (2013).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Trademark Apologetic Justice: China and the Three Laws, 15 U. Pa. J. Bus. L. 131–168 (2012).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Apologies as Intellectual Property Remedies: Lessons from China, 44 Conn. L. Rev. 883–923 (2012).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Jeffrey A. Maine, Taxing Facebook Code: Debugging the Tax Code and Software, 60 Buff. L. Rev. 1–67 (2012)
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Fame Law: Requiring Proof of National Fame in Trademark Law, 33 Cardozo L. Rev. 89–123 (2011).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Jeffrey A. Maine, The History of Intellectual Property Taxation: Promoting Innovations and Other Intellectual Property Goals, 64 SMU L. Rev. 795–858 (2011).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, The China We Hardly Know: Revealing the New China’s Intellectual Property Regime, 55 St. Louis U. L. J. 773–810 (2011).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Jeffrey A. Maine, Equity and Efficiency in Intellectual Property Taxation, 76 Brook. L. Rev. 1–63 (2010).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Dynamic Federalism and Patent Law Reform, 85 Ind. L. J. 449–489 (2010).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Justice Scalia’s “Renegade Jurisdiction”: Lessons for Patent Law Reform, 83 Tul. L. Rev. 111–156 (2008).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Selling It First, Stealing It Later: The Trouble with Trademarks in Corporate Transactions in Bankruptcy, 44 Gonz. L. Rev. 1–38 (2008).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Jeffrey A. Maine, Acquiring Innovation, 57 Am. U. L. Rev. 775–819 (2008).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, The Other Famous Marks Doctrine, 17 Transnat’l L. & Contemp. Probs. 757–773 (2008).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Collateralizing Intellectual Property, 42 Ga. L. Rev. 1–45 (2007).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Jeffrey A. Maine, Giving Intellectual Property, 39 UC Davis L. Rev. 1721–1771 (2006).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Holding Intellectual Property, 39 Ga. L. Rev. 1155–1195 (2005).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Nationalizing Trademarks: A New International Trademark Jurisprudence? 39 Wake Forest L. Rev. 729–781 (2004)
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Bankrupting Trademarks, 37 UC Davis L. Rev. 1267–1315 (2004).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Collateralizing Internet Privacy, 78 Tul. L. Rev. 553–603 (2004)
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Jeffrey A. Maine, Taxing the New Intellectual Property Right, 56 Hastings L. J. 1–76 (2004).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, The Digital Trademark Right: The Troubling New Extraterritorial Reach of National Law, 81 N.C. L. Rev. 483–565 (2003).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Commercial Law Collides with Cyberspace: The Trouble with Perfection – Insecurity Interests in the New Corporate Asset, 59 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 37–82 (2002).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Cyberproperty and Judicial Dissonance: The Trouble with Domain Name Classification, 10 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 183–214 (2002).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Shifting the Paradigm in E-commerce: Move Over Inherently Distinctive Trademarks, The E-brand, I-brand and Generic Domain Names Ascending to Power? 50 Am. U. L. Rev. 937–978 (2001).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Should It be a Free for All? The Challenge of Extending Trade Dress Protection to the Look and Feel of Web Sites, 49 Am. U. L. Rev. 1233–1277 (2001).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Blame It on the Cybersquatters: How Congress Partially Ends the Circus Among the Circuits with the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act? 32 Loy. U. Chi. L. Rev. 777–813 (2001).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, A Circus Among the Circuits: Would the Truly Famous and Diluted Performer Please Stand Up? The Federal Trademark Dilution Act and Its Challenges, 1 Chi.-Kent J. Intell. Prop. 158–190 (2000).
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, The New Wild West: Measuring and Proving Fame and Dilution Under the Federal Trademark Dilution Act, 63 Alb. L. Rev. 201–239 (1999).
• Xuan-Thao N. Nguyen & Maxim H. Waldbaum, Using Creativity to Fight a $60 Billion Consumer Problem—Counterfeit Goods, 10 Loy. Consumer L. Rev. 88–102 (1998).

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Books or Treatises

• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Silicon Valley Bank: The Rise and Fall of a Community Bank for Tech (Cambridge Univ. Press 2024). 262 pages.
• Robert W. Gomulkiewicz, Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Danielle M. Conway, Licensing Intellectual Property: Law and Application, (5th ed. Aspen Publishing 2023). 972 pages.
• Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Danielle M. Conway, Lateef Mtima, | Willajeanne F. McLean, & Emily Michiko Morris, Transnational Intellectual Property Law: Cases and Materials from the United States, Europe, Japan, and China (West Academic 2d ed. 2022). 1437 pgs.

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Professional Publications

• Xuan-Thao Nguyen & Jeffrey A. Maine, The Unequal Tax Treatment of Intellectual Property, 130 Tax Notes 931–938 (2011).

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• Speaker, Transforming Education Human Futures: Thriving in the Age of AI, Penn State Dickinson School of Law (April 4, 2024)
• Speaker, The Rise and Fall of Silicon Valley Bank: A Conversation With Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen with Elizabeth Rowe, The LawTech Center, University of Virginia School of Law (March 12, 2024)
• Speaker, Startup Ills A Decade of Growth and Transformation in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, Texas A& M School of Law (February 23, 2024)
• Speaker, The Past and the Future of IP Law The 20th Symposium on Emerging Intellectual Property Issues, Tsai Center for Law, Science & Innovation, SMU Dedman School of Law (February 16, 2024)
• Speaker, AI Litigations Vietnam National University (December 12, 2023)
• Speaker, Trademarks/IP in Bankruptcy Thai Bankruptcy Court (December 8, 2023)
• Panelist, Warehouse Receipts and WR Finance Agri Sector Economic Development, Special Roundtable, Central Bank of the Philippines (October 4, 2023)
• Speaker, Training on Philippines Movables Finance Law Association of Non-Depositary Lending Institutions of the Philippines, Manila (October 3, 2023)
• Speaker, Personal Property and Warehouse Receipts Finance Philippines Security Exchange Commission (October 2, 2023)
• Speaker, Sector Innovations and Financing Laws University of the Philippines School of Law, BGC, Manila (September 29, 2023)
• Speaker, Judicial Curriculum Development for Movable Assets and Financing Law Cambodia Royal Academy for Justice (September 25, 2023)
• Panelist, Research and Innovation Roundtable - Connecting the Dots: From Ideas to Impact Penn State Dickinson Law (September 7, 2023)
• Speaker, Financial Law Knowledge Sharing Session Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Justice, Kathmandu, Nepal (August 25, 2023)
• Speaker, Legal Training on Bhutan’s Secured Transaction Law Bhutan Royal Monetary Authority (August 22, 2023)
• Speaker, Credit Market and Movable Assets Bhutan Royal Monetary Authority (August 21, 2023)