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Is the patentable subject matter requirement obsolete or just underdeveloped? Many criticize the Patent Office for its mounting backlog and ...

It's time to revisit the list of most downloaded IP papers posted on SSRN in the past 60 days . Wagner and Petherbridge on Phillips and ...

Patent litigation is an expensive headache, especially if the asserted patents seemingly come out of the blue. Patent clearance searches, u...

This is a sad time to be leaving the blogosphere, with the  Leahy-Smith America Invents Act just signed into law on Friday . Even if the ch...

If you are trying to catch the attention of student law review editors, write an abstract like Steven Horowitz did for Copyright's Asymm...

Will we ever find a perfect remedial scheme in patent law? Ever since the dawn of the patent system , our law has sought to tailor the paten...

What do over 180 experts from 35 countries agree is the most pressing global issue for intellectual property policy? The Washington Declarat...

I am delighted to welcome three new bloggers on Written Description, who will share their thoughts on recent IP scholarship while I take a o...

How do practicing and non-practicing entities differ in when they initiate patent litigation? Brian Love , a fellow at Stanford Law School, ...

Two more conference announcements: on Sept. 10-12, New York Law School is hosting the Open Video Conference , and on Nov. 4, Whittier Law Sc...

In The Null Patent , Sean Seymore (Vanderbilt Law and Chemistry) makes the creative proposal that the patent system could help solve the pr...

Some IP conferences and seminars in the 2011-12 academic year, as reported by Madisonian :

Although one might expect universities to seldom initiate patent litigation, Jacob Rooksby reports that they filed over 50 patent cases in ...

What are the most downloaded IP papers that were posted on SSRN in the past 60 days ? Aside from Bessen's article, the list is entirely ...

Could the Federal Circuit fix the empirical stalemate in patent law by moving toward a more candid, pragmatic, and information-eliciting app...