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As I mention in my forthcoming book chapter on empirical methods in trade secret research, there's really a dearth of good empirical sc...

Studying the effect of granting vs. rejecting a given patent application can reveal little about the ex ante patent incentive (since ex ante...

In my IP seminar, I ask students to pick an article to present in class for a critical style and substance review. This year, one of my stud...

Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. , is a well-known early  twentieth  century copyright decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. In hi...

Guest post by Professor Greg Ablavsky , Stanford Law School In Property, I frequently hedge my answers to student questions by cautioning ...

It's good to be returning from a longish hiatus. I've just taken over as the Associate Dean for Faculty Research; needless to say, i...

Natalie Ram (Baltimore Law) applies the tools of innovation policy to the problem of criminal justice technology in her latest article, Inn...

There are two dominant utilitarian frameworks for justifying trademark law. Some view trademark protection as necessary to shield consumers ...

I thought this short Twitter thread was such a helpful, concise summary of some of NYU economist Petra Moser's excellent work—and the in...

In prior work such as A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS , Graeme Dinwoodie and Rochelle Dreyfuss have critiqued one-size-fits-all IP regimes a...

Paul Gugliuzza (BU) and Mark Lemley (Stanford) have posted Can a Court Change the Law by Saying Nothing? on the Federal Circuit's many ...

Many IP professors have posted chapters of the  Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law . As described in a 2015 con...

Numerous scholars have examined the various functionality screens that are used to prevent non-utility-patent areas of IP from usurping what...

I've seen a number of recent papers that attempt to algorithmically measure patent scope by counting the number of words in the patent...

Patent scholars are often skeptical of the government "picking winners," but in Innovation Snowballing and Climate Law , Zach Lisc...