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The annual IP Scholars Conference is at DePaul this August, and the abstracts of accepted papers have been posted. According to the latest...

Does nonobviousness favor "flash of genius" inventions over laborious ones, despite Congress's explicit declaration that ...

What are the most downloaded IP papers that were posted on SSRN in the past 60 days ? There are five new papers on the list since I posted i...

I'm studying for the NY bar this summer, which means I spend every morning as a BARBRI girl , watching helpful reviews of things like th...

In 2000, Dean Maureen O'Rourke (BU Law) published Toward a Doctrine of Patent Fair Use  in the Columbia Law Review , in which she argue...

Historical sources can help in "rediscovering the fundamental commercialization policy within patent law," argues Professor Adam M...

" Prospecting " by generic pharmaceutical companies—raising patent challenges to high-sales branded drugs—is on the rise, but thes...

While I was in law school, I worked on survey design and data analysis for the Cultural Cognition Project , led by Professor Dan Kahan . We ...

Which patent law professors had the most SSRN downloads in the past year? While there are certainly many problems with using SSRN downloads ...

"What can justify another paper about patent quality?" ask Ronald Mann (Columbia Law) and Marian Underweiser (IBM) at the beginn...

Over at TaxProf Blog (which has interesting posts about legal education as well as about tax law), Paul Caron has been posting weekly updat...

The "patent ecosystem" is defined by the complex interactions between two seemingly disparate paradigms—the defensive amassing of ...

Edison invented the light bulb, right? No, explains Mark Lemley (Stanford Law) in his newly posted article, The Myth of the Sole Inventor ...

What is an "invention"? The Wright brothers received a patent for building one embodiment of an "invention" ("a s...

We often refer to patents as "property," so can traditional property remedies teach us something about appropriate remedies in pat...