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Friday, December 23, 2011

Judge Richard Linn: Changing Times, Changing Demands

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Which cases do the Federal Circuit judges think are the most important right now? On September 27, 2011, the Honorable Judge Richard Linn o...
Monday, December 12, 2011

Jay Kesan et al.--Developing a Comprehensive Patent Related Information Retrieval Tool

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How can one reliably gather and identify pertinent data from such varied sources as litigation history, press releases, news articles, scien...
Monday, December 5, 2011

David L. Schwartz: Prospectivity and Retroactivity in Patent Law

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Should the Federal Circuit issue a higher proportion of non-precedential opinions? In Prospectivity and Retroactivity in Patent Law , Prof...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Peter S. Menell - The Common Law Development of the American Patent System: What History Can Teach Us

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What is the judiciary’s role in developing and evolving patent law? Patent law is essentially a product of the legislature, yet throughout h...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Dan Burk: Do Patents Have Gender?

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This is a guest post by Allison Tait, a Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associate with the Yale Women Faculty Forum , who has previou...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Herbert Hovenkamp: Patent Exclusions and Antitrust After Therasense

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While Therasense has received a significant amount of coverage due to its implications on the inequitable conduct defense, few have discuss...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Jonathan Masur: The Ever Expanding Patent System

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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...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

John M. Golden: Patentable Subject Matter and Institutional Choice

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Is the patentable subject matter requirement obsolete or just underdeveloped? Many criticize the Patent Office for its mounting backlog and ...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Top 10 New IP Paper Downloads

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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 ...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Colleen Chien: Predicting Patent Litigation

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Patent litigation is an expensive headache, especially if the asserted patents seemingly come out of the blue. Patent clearance searches, u...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Blogging Hiatus

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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...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

Steven Horowitz: Copyright's Asymmetric Uncertainty

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If you are trying to catch the attention of student law review editors, write an abstract like Steven Horowitz did for Copyright's Asymm...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

Sarah R.W. Rajec: Tailoring Remedies To Spur Innovation

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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...

Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest

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

Introducing New Written Description Bloggers

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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...