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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Jeanne Fromer: Patentography

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Would stricter venue rules improve patent law? In Patentography (NYU L. Rev. 2010), Professor Jeanne Fromer (Fordham Law) argues that cons...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Michael Risch on Patent Trolls and Utility

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Michael Risch (Villanova Law) has posted two new articles on SSRN that are related to recent Written Description posts. The first is Patent...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Do Patents Disclose Useful Information?

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I recently uploaded a revised draft of my current working paper,  Do Patents Disclose Useful Information? , on SSRN. I am grateful for all t...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Tim Holbrook: Can presumptions save patents' technical nature?

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Are patents legal documents or part of the technical literature? Both, but the balance is currently skewed, says Professor Timothy Holbrook ...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Allison, Lemley & Walker: Repeat Patent Litigants

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Do repeat patent plaintiffs have stronger patents? Are they more likely to settle to prevent these patents from being invalidated? John Alli...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Samuelson & Schultz: What business methods are patentable after Bilski?

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The final paper presented at Stanford's Bilski Symposium was "Clues" for Determining Whether Business and Service Innovation...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

John Duffy on Business Method Patents

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"[W]hy did business patents arise, and why did they survive?" John Duffy (GW Law) seeks to answer these questions in Why Business...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Dmitry Karshtedt: Samsung-Stanford Symposium on Patent Remedies

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This is a guest post by Dmitry Karshtedt, a 3L at Stanford with a Ph.D. in chemistry . Karshtedt is the Stanford Law Review Senior Symposiu...
Monday, March 7, 2011

Robin Feldman on Owning You

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The fourth paper in my review of Stanford's Bilski Symposium is Whose Body Is It Anyway? Human Cells and the Strange Effects of Proper...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Dreyfuss & Evans: Bilski and Gene Patents

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Does Bilski bar patents on genetic diagnostics? All the Justices in Bilski agreed that patents may not "preempt" (or "pre-e...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Peter Menell on Bilski Methodology

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How should courts think about interpreting the Patent Act? Although it has one of the more awkward titles I've seen recently, I enjoyed ...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Lemley, Risch, Sichelman & Wagner on Bilski

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Bilski v. Kappos was one of the most anticipated patent cases in recent history. Almost all observers agreed that Bilski's method of h...
Monday, February 21, 2011

John Golden: Innovation Dynamics

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Can fluid mechanics aid our understanding of how patents promote (or impede) innovation? This is the premise of a recent article, Innovation...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Fighting Over Green Patents: How To Appease China & India Without Hurting U.S. Business

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Tomorrow at the  Yale Climate & Energy Congress Symposium , I will be presenting on a Comment I published in the  Yale Law Journal  last...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Why the Best Law Review Articles Deserve Patents

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As new articles editors begin screening the current wave of law review submissions, I have been thinking about when I was in their position ...