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David Taylor (SMU) was interested in how patent eligibility decisions at the Supreme Court affected venture investment decisions, so he thou...

It's a bit weird to write a blog post about something posted at another blog in order to bring attention to it, when that blog has many ...

In remarks at the annual IPO meeting today , USPTO Director Andrei Iancu said "the USPTO cannot wait" for "uncertain" le...

Last April, I had the good fortune to participate in a symposium at Penn Law School. The symposium gathered a variety of IP scholars to focu...

Those familiar with my work will know that I am a big fan of utility doctrine. I think it is underused and misunderstood. When I teach abo...

I've long argued that the Supreme Court's patentable subject matter jurisprudence is inherently uncertain, and that it is therefor...

Last Thursday I gave a 25-min recap patent law update to judges and practitioners at the Northern District Practice Program Patent Law Sympo...

Paul Gugliuzza (BU) and Mark Lemley (Stanford) have posted Can a Court Change the Law by Saying Nothing? on the Federal Circuit's many ...

Dan Burk's work should already be familiar to those who follow patentable subject matter debates (see, e.g., here , here , and here ). I...

I signed onto two amicus briefs last week, both related to the tightening noose of patentable subject matter. Those familiar with my article...

I highly recommend two recently posted articles on declining innovation incentives for diagnostic tests, particularly due to changes in pate...

The George Washington Law Review  has published its symposium on " Cracking the Code: Ongoing § 101 Patentability Concerns in Biotechno...

This is a guest post by Vikram Iyengar, a J.D. student at Stanford Law School. He thanks Prof. Mark Lemley for introducing him to Patent Law...

Patent law is usually justified on utilitarian grounds. To be sure, significant contrary views have appeared in recent scholarship. For exam...

I just posted my symposium essay from U.C. Irvine's Meaning of Myriad Conference: Patentable Subject Matter and Non-Patent Innovation I...

Last Friday I presented my latest essay, Patentable Subject Matter and Non-Patent Innovation Incentives , at UC Irvine's Meaning of Myri...

Software patents are a hot topic these days! Three weeks ago, I posted about Lemley's proposal to fix software patents with functional c...

Tan Mau Wu's post yesterday on Mark Lemley's Software Patents and the Return of Functional Claiming questions whether restricting ...

Following State Street Bank and now Bilski , certain Internet business methods remain “patentable subject matter” under Section 101 . Given...

Could the commonly cited flaws of the patent system be caused by the underlying relationship of its two main players, the PTO and the Federa...