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According to the 2016 self-reported entry-level hiring report , 66 out of 83 (about 80%) new tenure-track law faculty had a fellowship, and ...

Thanks to those of you who attended the "Intellectual Property & Federalism" panel at AALS, moderated by Jennifer Rothman and ...

For the small subgroup of people who read this blog, but don't read Patently-O, I thought I would point to a new article that I've p...

After the Senate's failure to move forward with Judge Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court, the conventional wisdom was that th...

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Samsung v. Apple today. The opinion was short and straightforward: an article of manufacture under 3...

Since the Federal Circuit's formation in 1982, Rochelle Dreyfuss has witnessed patent law go through some significant changes, and the c...

Guest post by Greg Reilly (IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law), whose work on patent "forum selling" and patent discovery has prev...

My colleague and friend Josh Sarnoff (DePaul) sent me a review copy of the book he edited: Intellectual Property and Climate Change, even th...

The Supreme Court heard Apple v. Samsung (technically Samsung v. Apple) today. The transcript is here . This post is short and assumes some ...

I've lost count of the rounds back and forth in Apple v. Samsung. But another opinion issued today, and it was a doozy. When we last le...

After months of speculation that the FTC's long awaited FTC study on patent assertion entities was going to issue any day now , the stud...

In March, I posted about an amicus brief filed by 42 IP profs in Helsinn v. Teva , which argued that contrary to the district court's o...

Elizabeth Rowe (Florida) has shared a draft of "Unpacking Trade Secret Damages" on SSRN . The paper is an ambitious one, examining...

I've been remiss in blogging of late; I had a really busy summer and beginning of Fall. I have a bit more time now and hope to resume so...

If you're interested in the fate of trade secrets law, and you like conflicts of law, I recommend taking a look at Sharon Sandeen and Ch...