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An injunction in a trade secret case should generally end when the trade secret does. But new empirical research by Professor Lynda Oswald ...

[I asked some of my RAs to write guest posts this summer, lightly edited by me.  This one is by Jennifer Black, a 3L at Villanova University...

Patent pools are agreements by multiple patent owners to license related patents for a fixed price. The net welfare effect of patent pools i...

It's been a while since I've posted, as I've taken on Vice Dean duties at my law school that have kept me busy. I hope to blog m...

I've been busy with grading and end of year activities, which has limited blogging time. I did want to drop a brief note that the Stanfo...

Measuring the effect of patenting on industry R&D is an age old pursuit in innovation economics. It's hard. The latest interesting a...

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

Typically, describing an article as polarizing refers to two different groups having very different views of an article. But I read an artic...

With the Supreme Court agreeing to hear the Brunetti case on the registration of scandalous trademarks, one might wonder whether allowing s...

I've previously recommended subscribing to Jotwell to keep up with interesting recent IP scholarship, but for anyone who doesn't, m...

I'm a big fan of transformative use analysis in fair use law, except when I'm not. I think that it is a helpful guide for determinin...

Just a brief post this week, as I have a perfect storm of non-work related happenings. So, I'll just say that I'm please to announce...

The Stanford Technology Law Review just published an interesting new copyright article, An Empirical Study of Transformative Use in Copyrig...

I am at Texas Law today for a symposium on The Intersection of Administrative & IP Law , and my panel was asked to address the question:...

The conventional wisdom (my anecdotal experience, anyway) is that the availability of insurance fuels lawsuits. People that otherwise might ...

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already gotten Americans to start teaching each other about marginal taxation, and now she has st...

I just finished reading a fascinating draft article about the Eco-Patent Commons, a commons where about 13 companies put in a little fewer t...

As I have previously explained , there is growing interest in gender and racial gaps in patenting from both scholars and Congress—which char...

It's an age-old question that we've blogged about here before - what role do patents have on firm value? And is any effect due to s...

In honor of the oral argument in Helsinn today, I thought I would blog about a study that questions its importance. For those unaware, the ...