Written Description

2012 was a fun year at Written Description; there were fantastic posts by Sarah Tran and her RAs , Chris Suarez , and Tan Mau Wu while I fi...

As reported by the newly redesigned madisonian.net, the annual Works in Progress Intellectual Property (WIPIP) conference will be held at S...

The next addition to the Classic Scholarship Project is by Ted Sichelman , Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, wh...

The America Invents Act (AIA) shifts interpretive authority over patentability standards from the courts to the PTO, argues Melissa Wasserma...

I’m very interested in university patenting and licensing under the Bayh-Dole Act, so I enjoyed the new Nature Biotechnology piece by Ar...

Here's an updated list of the  most downloaded IP papers that were posted on SSRN in the past 60 days:

The next addition to my  Classic Scholarship Project is from Professor Michael Risch (Villanova Law), whose scholarship has been featur...

What role does property law occupy in hot news misappropriation claims? In ‘Hot News’: The Enduring Myth of Property in News , Shyamkrishna ...

Surprisingly, I have not located any scholarship devoted to the important category of Thanksgiving patents. But you can get your Thanksgivin...

Friday was Santa Clara's Solutions to the Software Patent Problem conference, which I've previously blogged about, and I was able...

Economists from the USPTO (Chief Economist Stuart Graham and former visiting scholar Deepak Hegde ) recently posted a new paper to SSRN:  D...

Colleen Chien still tops the list of the most downloaded IP papers that were posted on SSRN in the past 60 days:

As I described a few weeks ago, over the coming months I will build on Mike Madison's lists of "lost classics" of IP scholarsh...

Patent pools are often touted as a solution to patent thickets and other problems. But pools might actually discourage innovation, argue ec...

How should Nollywood, the rapidly growing film industry in Nigeria, protect its intellectual property (IP)? Professor Olufunmilayo B. Arewa ...