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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Allison, Tiller, Zyontz, & Bligh: Patent Litigation and the Internet

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Following State Street Bank and now Bilski , certain Internet business methods remain “patentable subject matter” under Section 101 . Given...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Sapna Kumar: The Accidental Agency?

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Has the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit stripped the Patent Office of its administrative power? Professor Sapna Kumar’s article, T...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

Ted Sichelman: Purging Patent Law of 'Private Law' Remedies

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Do current patent law remedies efficiently promote innovation? In his article Purging Patent Law of ‘Private Law’ Remedies , Professor Ted S...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Michael Frakes & Melissa Wasserman – Does Agency Funding Affect Decision Making?: An Empirical Assessment of the PTO’s Granting Patterns

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Does the Patent and Trademark Office's (PTO’s) budgetary structure influence the rate at which patents are granted? In Does Agency Fundi...
Monday, April 2, 2012

Christopher Buccafusco: Making Sense of Intellectual Property Law

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Does the human sensory experience of a product determine whether it is copyrightable or patentable? In his forthcoming article Making Sense ...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Arti Rai – Patent Validity Across the Executive Branch: Ex Ante Foundations for Policy Development

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What can the recent DNA patent controversies teach us about the role of executive agencies in shaping patent policy? In Professor Arti Rai’s...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Gregory Mandel – To Promote the Creative Process: Intellectual Property and the Psychology of Creativity

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Does intellectual property law promote creativity? Professor Gregory N. Mandel (Peter J. Liacouras Professor of Law and Associate Dean for ...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Elizabeth Burleson & Winslow Burleson - Innovation Cooperation: Energy Biosciences and Law

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Can the world avert catastrophic climate change through sustained legal cooperation resulting in environmentally efficient, sustainable tech...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Donald Chisum: Priority Among Competing Patent Applicants Under the America Invents Act

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How will the “First Inventor to File” provisions of the America Invents Act (AIA) impact patent applications filed after the March 16, 2013 ...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Adam Mossoff- The Rise and Fall of the First American Patent Thicket: The Sewing Machine War of the 1850s

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Have scholars and critics misconstrued patent thickets, incremental innovation, and patent trolling as modern phenomena? In The Rise and Fal...
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Great Minds Don’t Always Think Alike: Patent Inflation Sparks Debate Among Scholars

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A couple months ago this blog highlighted an intriguing recent article by Jonathan Masur titled Patent Inflation ( original post ) that pr...
Saturday, February 4, 2012

Jason Rantanen & Lee Petherbridge - Toward a System of Invention Registration: The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act

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Does the America Invents Act create a process for patent amnesty? The economic ramifications of the newly created supplemental examination p...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Mark Lemley: The Fractioning of Patent Law

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Why is it that patent owners, despite seemingly having an abundance of advantages, seem to consistently lose their cases? In The Fractioning...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Scott Kieff – The Perils of Patent Reform & Welcome to Patent Purgatory

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What effect will the recently enacted America Invents Act (AIA) have on the commercialization of patents? Professor Scott Kieff’s  essays, T...
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...