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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Janis and Holbrook: Who reads patent laws?

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What group of people forms patent law's audience?  In the late eighteenth century, patent law's audience reflected the pre-industria...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Fromer: Expressive Incentives in Intellectual Property

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Are the current incentive structures in American patent and copyright law reaching their maximum utilitarian potential? In her recent artic...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Chief Judge Markey and Doctrinal Development

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As I wrote in What Are the Sources of Patent Inflation? An Analysis of Federal Circuit Patentability Rulings , I think some of the expansion...
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Why Stop at Fees? The Case for Making All Patent Losers Pay, and Pay Heavily

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Guest post by Professor Jonathan Masur , University of Chicago School of Law The excellent op-ed published last week by Chief Judge Rader...
Monday, June 3, 2013

Carrier: Classic Antitrust/IP Scholarship

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The next contribution to the Classic Patent Scholarship Project is from Professor Michael Carrier (Rutgers Camden), a leading expert on th...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Top 10 New IP Paper Downloads

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Here's an updated list of the most downloaded IP papers that were posted on SSRN in the past 60 days (with notes about the ones that we...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Abbott: Incentivizing Production of Drug Safety Information

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Information about drug safety and efficacy is a public good, and it will thus be undersupplied absent government incentives to close the gap...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Are R&D tax credits the software patent solution?

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The Federal Circuit's fractured en banc decision in CLS Bank v. Alice probably pleased only those patent litigators who might benefit f...
Thursday, May 9, 2013

Crews: The Overreaching of Museums Art Image Copyright Policies

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Do copyright and contract licensing policies adopted by art museums to restrict access to reproduced images of original artwork constitute o...
Saturday, May 4, 2013

Hrdy: State Patents

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Yale ISP fellow Camilla Hrdy has just posted Dissenting State Patent Regimes (IP Theory). Here is the abstract: Inventors who believe in...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Galasso & Schankerman: Do Patents Impede Cumulative Innovation?

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In their new working paper, Patents and Cumulative Innovation: Causal Evidence from the Courts , economists Alberto Galasso (Toronto School...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

Top 10 New IP Paper Downloads

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Here's an updated list of the most downloaded IP papers that were posted on SSRN in the past 60 days:
Friday, April 12, 2013

Liveblogging Posner vs. Epstein at PatCon 3

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I'm at PatCon 3 at Chicago-Kent (follow live tweets at #PatCon3 ), where so far we have heard Judge Linn expressing skepticism about th...
Monday, April 8, 2013

Beyond the Patents-Prizes Debate

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Daniel Hemel and I just posted a new draft paper, Beyond the Patents-Prizes Debate , which I'll be presenting on Saturday at PatCon 3 at...
Friday, April 5, 2013

Classic Design Patent Scholarship

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Just in time for Stanford's Design Patents in the Modern World Conference (on Twitter at #designpatents2013 ), we have a new addition t...