He holds a joint appointment in Texas A&M’s Dwight Look College of Engineering and is a fellow of the Duke Law Center for Innovation Policy. Professor Vishnubhakat’s research has been cited in federal appellate and trial court opinions, agency rulemaking and reports, and nearly twenty Supreme Court briefs. Until 2015, he served in the United States Patent and Trademark Office as the principal legal advisor to that agency’s first two chief economists and served as a faculty fellow at the Duke Law School. He is admitted to the state bars of Texas and Illinois.