Written Description

Before its ratification, the U.S. Constitution was translated for the German- and Dutch-speaking populations of Pennsylvania and New York, b...

Guest post by Professor Michael Risch (Villanova University). I’d like to thank Lisa and Camilla for the opportunity to write a short gue...

I'm thrilled to be here! Lisa’s list of non-faculty presenters at IPSC prompted me to check out a nifty new paper by Mark Lemley and ...

I am thrilled to welcome Maggie Wittlin as a new Written Description blogger. After graduating from Yale Law School, Maggie clerked on the ...

The annual IP Scholars Conference is this week at Berkeley, and it includes over 150 presenters and up to six parallel tracks of presentati...

For blog readers who aren't on Twitter, here are 10 recent Tweets on IP-related scholarship that caught my eye. As I transition from cle...

After Dan Burk calculated the top IP scholars by h -index using Scholarometer, several scholars suggested to him that it would be interesti...

I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in the George Mason University School of Law's Law and Economics Center's (LEC) Econo...

While there have been extensive debates about patenting federally funded research under the Bayh-Dole Act, there is little evidence about wh...

For blog readers who aren't on Twitter, here are 10 recent IP papers that caught my eye.

This is a guest post by Ben Picozzi, a J.D. Candidate at Yale Law School. Is the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) entitled to Chevro...

Scholarometer is a citation-analysis tool developed by researchers at Indiana University Bloomington. It mines Google Scholar data to gener...

In his new article, The Case Against Federalizing Trade Secrecy , forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review ,  Chris Seaman does what the ti...

Robert Merges originally wrote this essay, previously unpublished, on the thirtieth anniversary of Chisum on Patents: A Treatise on the Law ...

I was thrilled to participate this past Sunday in the Innovation Law Beyond IP Conference at Yale Law School hosted by the Information Soci...