Written Description

I just posted a new essay, Cultural Cognition of Patents , which is forthcoming in IP Theory . Here is the abstract: Simply making empiric...

"M&M chocolate candies are made with a precision far beyond the capabilities of many drug manufacturers." This is the intrigui...

"I think I'm here because I wrote an article called The Nature and Function of the Patent System ..." This is how Edmund Kitch...

Here's an updated list of the most downloaded IP papers that were posted on SSRN in the past 60 days (and I'm happy to be at #4!): ...

Do state incentives for innovation work? As I recently discussed in a short presentation at IP Scholars on August 8 , state and local incent...

I am delighted to welcome Camilla Hrdy as a new Written Description blogger for the coming year. Camilla is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the ...

Does the Federal Circuit really ignore patent policy, as many of the court's judges have claimed?  In The Federal Circuit as a Federal C...

The next contribution to the Classic Patent Scholarship Project is from Professor Robert Merges at Berkeley Law, another giant in intellec...

There are far more interesting IP papers posted than I have time to read carefully and blog about, so I thought I'd just highlight some ...

I'm in NYC for the IP Scholars Conference (IPSC) at Cardozo Law , and one of the (many) article presentations I'm really looking for...

I haven't had much time for blogging recently because I've been writing and revising a new article, Patent Experimentalism , which I...

Do the costs of U.S. patents exceed their benefits for publicly traded firms? This is the claim of John Turner , James Bessen , Peter Neuhäu...

Next spring (on 3/30/14), the Yale Law School Information Society Project will host a one-day conference, Innovation Law Beyond IP : Intel...

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

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