RAYMOND ALEXANDER MERCADO
mercado.raymond@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Duke University
Ph.D., Political Science
Fields: Political Theory and International Relations
Dissertation: Pathologies of Political Judgment and Democratic Deliberation
University of San Diego
B.A., Political Science, with Minor in History
St. John’s College (Santa Fe, NM)
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Raymond A. Mercado, “Keep Muddling Through?” International Theory, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Nov., 2009), pp. 478-487. (unsolicited critical note, peer-reviewed and published as part of previously planned symposium)
Raymond A. Mercado, “On Sedition in Tacitus,” Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 35, No.1 (Winter 2006), pp. 14-21.
LAW REVIEW ARTICLES
Raymond A. Mercado, Resolving Patent Eligibility and Indefiniteness in Proper Context: Applying Alice and Aristocrat, Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 20 (2016), pp. 240-337 [20 Va. J.L. & Tech. 240 (2016)].
Raymond A. Mercado, Ensuring the Integrity of Administrative Challenges to Patents: Lessons from Reexamination, Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, Vol. 14 (2013), pp. 558-610. [14 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 558 (2013)]
- Distributed by Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP at firm’s one-day meeting on recent developments in intellectual property, held Dec. 4, 2014.
Raymond A. Mercado, The Use and Abuse of Patent Reexamination: Sham Petitioning Before the USPTO, Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, Vol. 12 (2011), pp. 92-158. [12 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 93 (2011)]
- Cited by the court in Nat’l Prods. v. Gamber-Johnson, LLC, 2012 WL 3527938, at *1 (W.D. Wash. Aug. 14, 2012).
- Subject of a CLE [Continuing Legal Education] Course held Mar. 18, 2011 (organized by Dale R. Cook, esq. and Craig Rochester, esq.).
AMICUS BRIEFS
Author, Brief of Amicus Curiae Raymond A. Mercado, Ph.D., Supporting Defendants-Appellants and Reversal (October 17, 2016), GoDaddy.com, LLC v. RPost Communications Limited, No. 16-2335 (Fed. Cir. 2016).
Author, Brief of Amicus Curiae Raymond A. Mercado, Ph.D., in Support of Petitioner (October 11, 2016), Cooper v. Square, Inc., No. 16-76 (U.S. 2016).
Author, Brief of Amicus Curiae Raymond A. Mercado, Ph.D., in Support of Petitioner (September 14, 2016), Pactiv, LLC v. Lee, No. 16-205 (U.S. 2016).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Book Reviews
(in academic journals)
Review of Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, eds., How People View Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) in Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Summer 2009), pp. 183-184.
(in newspapers)
“WWI General Portrayed As Unsung Hero in U.S. History,” Review of Jim Lacey,Pershing (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) in The Virginian-Pilot, August 2, 2009, p. 9.
Magazine Articles (Journalism)
“New Light on the BlackBerry Litigation,” IP Law & Business Magazine (August 2008) pp. 11-14.
Op-Eds
“Inventors Deserve Equal Protection, Not Double Standards,” The Hill (June 24, 2013).
“Stop Endless Second-Guessing,” Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (June 27, 2010).
“No Need for New Rules,” Raleigh News & Observer (March 12, 2008).
“Shields for Europe,” Raleigh News & Observer (November 5, 2007).
Letters to the Editor
“Kingsolver is Distinguished,” Duke Chronicle (November 26, 2007).
Encyclopedia Entries
“The Cambridge School,” in George T. Kurian, ed., The Encyclopedia of Political Science (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2010).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Duke University, Department of Political Science
Instructor
PS 123: Introduction to Political Philosophy, Summer 2011.
PS 109: Left, Right, and Center, Summer 2010.
Teaching Assistant
PS 123: Introduction to Political Philosophy, Spring 2012; Fall 2009.
PS 159: Ambition and Politics, Spring 2011.
Duke Athletics
Academic Mentor, Fall 2012 - Spring 2013
Mentored incoming student-athlete member of the football team during his freshman year.
HONORS & FELLOWSHIPS
Duke University
Research Fellowship, Center for European Studies
(2012-2013)
Doctoral Fellowship, Department of Political Science
(2007-2012)
Earhart Foundation
H.B. Earhart Fellowship
(2008-2010)
Ford Foundation
Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Honorable Mention
(2008)
ADDITIONAL EDUCATION & TRAINING
Northwestern University, Summer Rhetoric Institute, July 2008
Topic: Political Thought and Rhetoric in the Classical World
(Seminar co-sponsored by Center for Global Culture and Dept. of Communication Studies at Northwestern University)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Treason as Love of Country: Plato’s Crito and Alcibiades’ Speech at Sparta,”
New England Political Science Association Conference in Providence, RI, April 25, 2008
(Presented on Panel 2-H, “Citizenship and Virtue”)
“Sallust’s Politics of Revolution,”
Georgia Political Science Association Conference in Savannah, GA, November 17, 2006
(Presented on Panel 3-E, “Aesthetics, Theology, and Revolution”)
“Sallust’s Politics of Revolution,”
Northeastern Political Science Association Conference in Boston, MA, November 9, 2006
(Presented on Panel F19, “Athens, Persia, and Rome”)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Political Science Association (2007 – Present)
(Section Memberships: Foundations of Political Theory)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political Philosophy; Deliberative Democracy; Hermeneutics; Psychoanalysis; Philosophy of Science; Greek and Roman Historiography; International Relations Theory; Patent Law and Policy