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Professor Mark Lemley (Stanford Law) needs no introduction; as noted by Ted Sichelman in his contribution to the Classic Patent Scholarshi...

What's the best search tool for finding the most relevant case law on some legal topic? WestlawNext and LexisAdvance both claim to all...

Unpatentable Drugs and the Standards of Patentability , by Ben Roin (Harvard Law), is older than most articles I blog about (published in 2...

The Supreme Court hears argument Wednesday in Gunn v. Minton , concerning whether federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over state law ...

What kinds of patents does the pharmaceutical industry seek besides patents on the active molecule itself, and how common are these "se...

The next addition to the Classic Scholarship Project is by Professor Jonathan Masur of the University of Chicago Law School, whose extensiv...

I just posted The Google Shortcut to Trademark Law on SSRN, which I presented last month at a workshop on empirical trademark studies at Ox...

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 ...