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Eric C. Frank

Law Clerk, Admission Pending
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. Phone: 202-916-7739 Fax: 202-451-4901
Mr. Frank’s practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and counseling in both the high technology and life sciences sectors.

During law school, Mr. Frank was an associate editor on the George Washington Law Review. He also served as a law clerk for the House Judiciary Committee, where he researched and drafted memoranda on antitrust law and intellectual property. Mr. Frank also served as a Dean’s fellow for his law school’s 1L Research and Writing Program. In the Administrative Law Issues and Appeals Clinic, Mr. Frank coauthored a brief of amicus curiae in the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of Professor Steven Schooner, advocating the rights of government contractors under the Fifth Amendment. He competed in the Rothwell Intellectual Property Moot Court competition and won the Finnegan Prize for Intellectual Property, First Place, for his paper on Federal Circuit issue preclusion.
 
Before law school, Mr. Frank was a graduate research assistant in a bio-optics lab under Dr. Giuliano Scarcelli, where he designed and engineered acquisition systems for high-speed optics applications in biology.

Prior Experience

  • Summer Associate, Desmarais LLP, Washington, DC, 2025
  • Summer Associate, Irell & Manella LLP, Los Angeles, CA, 2024  

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Leadership Committee, John Carroll Society 

Other Distinctions

  • GW 2026 Finnegan IP Writing Competition 1st Place

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News & Publications

  • Eric Frank, Towards an Alternative Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Dec. 20, 2025), https://ssrn.com/abstract=6023395 (Publication forthcoming in Volume 94, Issue 5 of The George Washington Law Review).
  • Eric Frank, Moving the Goal Post: The Dangers of the Federal Circuit's Flawed Use of Issue Preclusion (Oct. 03, 2025), https://ssrn.com/abstract=5570758 (awarded Finnegan Prize for Intellectual Property Law, 1st Place).
  • Rosvold, Zanini, Handler, Frank, Li, Vitolo, Martin, and Scarcelli, Stimulated Brillouin scattering flow cytometry, Biomed. Opt. Express 15, 6024-6035 (2024)
  • Hutchins, Schumacher, Frank, Ambekar, Zanini, and Scarcello, Brillouin spectroscopy via an atomic line monochromator, Opt. Express 32, 18572-18581 (2024)
  • Frank, Eric, Instrumentation and Automation for Simulated Brillouin Spectroscopy. Master Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, No. 30422646 (2023)
  • Song, B. Xu, R. Xu, Tung, Frank, et al., Longitudinal Study on Independent and Effect of Brachial-Ankle Pulse Wave Velocity and Blood Pressure Control on Incident Stroke in Hypertensive Patients, Hypertension (2016)

EDUCATION

The George Washington University Law School, J.D., with High Honors, Concentration in Intellectual Property Law, 2026; Order of the Coif; Associate Editor, The George Washington Law Review; Full Presidential Merit Scholarship; GW 2026 Finnegan IP Writing Competition 1st Place


University of Maryland, College Park, M.S., Bioengineering, 2023

University of Maryland, College Park, B.S. Bioengineering, 2021; cum laude

ADMISSIONS

Pending, District of Columbia

Pending, Maryland
 
Registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office
 

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