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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Want to be a Stanford Law Research Fellow in IP Law?

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Official announcement and application information here , and also pasted below. We're looking for someone to start this summer, and the ...
Friday, January 29, 2016

Planning a patent citation study? Read this first.

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Michael's post this morning about how patent citation data has changed over time reminded me of a nice review of the patent citation li...

Rethinking Patent Citations

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Patent citations are one of the coins of the economic analysis realm. Many studies have used which patents cite which others to determine va...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Christopher Funk: Protecting Trade Secrets in Patent Litigation

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What should a court do when attorneys involved in patent litigation get access to the other party's unpatented trade secrets, at the sam...
Monday, January 25, 2016

Consent and authorization under the CFAA

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James Grimmelmann (Maryland) has posted Consenting to Computer Use on SSRN. It's a short, terrific essay on how we should think about s...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

A Literature Review of Patenting and Economic History

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Petra Moser (NYU Stern) has posted Patents and Innovation in Economic History on SSRN. Is is a literature review of economic history papers...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Do Patents Help Startups?

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Do patents help startups? I've debated this question many times over the years, and no one seems to have a definitive answer. My own res...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

A New Source for Using Patent Application Data for Empirical Research

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Getting detailed patent application data is notoriously difficult. Traditionally, such information was only available via Public Pair, the P...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Samuel Ernst on Reviving the Reverse Doctrine of Equivalents

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Samuel Ernst (Chapman University) has recently posted The Lost Precedent of the Reverse Doctrine of Equivalents , which argues that this doc...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Burk: Is Dolly patentable subject matter in light of Alice?

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Dan Burk's work should already be familiar to those who follow patentable subject matter debates (see, e.g., here , here , and here ). I...
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

3 New Copyright Articles: Buccafusco, Bell & Parchomovsky, Grimmelmann

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My own scholarship and scholarly reading focuses most heavily on patent law, but I've recently come across a few interesting copyright p...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Bernard Chao on Horizontal Innovation and Interface Patents

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Bernard Chao has posted an interesting new paper, Horizontal Innovation and Interface Patents   (forthcoming in the Wisconsin Law Review ), ...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Sampat & Williams on the Effect of Gene Patents on Follow-on Innovation

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Bhaven Sampat (Columbia Public Health) and Heidi Williams (MIT Econ) are two economists whose work on innovation is always worth reading. I...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Tim Holbrook on Induced Patent Infringement at the Supreme Court

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Tim Holbrook (Emory Law) has a new article, The Supreme Court's Quiet Revolution in Induced Patent Infringement (forthcoming in the Not...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Decoding the Patent Venue Statute

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Last Friday, Colleen Chien and I published an op-ed in the Washington Post arguing that the courts and/or Congress should take a hard look ...