Research Handbook on the Economics of IP (Depoorter, Menell & Schwartz)

Many IP professors have posted chapters of the Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law. As described in a 2015 conference for the project, it "draws together leading economics, legal, and empirical scholars to codify and synthesize research on the economics of intellectual property law." This should be a terrific starting point for those new to these fields. I'll link to new chapters as they become available, so if you are interested in this project, you might want to bookmark this post.

Volume I – Theory (Ben Depoorter & Peter Menell eds.)

• Rob Merges – Philosophical Foundations of IP Law: The Law and Economics Paradigm
• Christopher Buccafusco & Jonathan Masur – Intellectual Property Law and the Promotion of Welfare
• Peter Menell & Suzanne Scotchmer – Cumulative Creativity
• Peter Menell – Network Effects
• Herbert Hovenkamp – IP and Competition
• Christopher Yoo – Product Differentiation
• Kal Raustiala & Christopher Sprigman – Innovation in IP's Negative Space
• Michael Abramowicz – Prize and Reward Alternatives to Intellectual Property
• Peter Menell – Notice and Disclosure
• Arti Rai – Patent
• Daniel Gervais – Collective Management
• Jennifer Rothman – Custom & Norms

Volume II – Analytical Methods (Peter Menell & David Schwartz eds.)

• Ted Sichelman & David Schwartz – Data Sources

Patents

• John Allison – Patent Value
• Melissa Wasserman & Michael Frakes – The Prosecution Process at the PTO
• Ryan Vacca – The Federal Circuit as an Institution
• Jonas Anderson & Peter Menell – Claim Construction
• Colleen Chien & David Schwartz – International Trade Commission
• Jorge Contreras – Standard-Setting Organizations
• Michael Mattioli – Patent Pools
• Brian Love – Patent Duration
• Lee Petherbridge & Jason Rantanen – Infringement
• Christopher Seaman – Presumption of Validity
• Jason Rantanen & Lee Petherbridge – Inequitable Conduct and Patent Misuse
• Thomas Cotter & John Golden – Remedies
• Rosemarie Ziedonis & Alberto Galasso – Semiconductors

Copyrights

• Matthew Sag – Copyright Litigation
• Dotan Oliar – Copyright Registration
• Christopher Buccafusco & Christopher Sprigman – Experiments in IP

Trade Secrets

• Michael Risch – Empirical Methods in Trade Secret Research

Knowledge Commons

• Michael Madison, Katherine Strandburg & Brett M. Frischmann, Knowledge Commons

Last updated: April 17, 2019