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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Oracle v. Google Again: The Unicorn of a Fair Use Jury Reversal

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It's been about two years, so I guess it was about time to write about Oracle v. Google. The trigger this time: in a blockbuster opinion...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Are We Running out of Trademarks? College Sports Edition

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As I watched the Kansas State Wildcats play the Kentucky Wildcats in the Sweet Sixteen this year, it occurred to me that there are an awful ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Blurred Lines Verdict Affirmed - How Bad is It?

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The Ninth Circuit ruled on Williams v. Gaye today, the "Blurred Lines" verdict that found infringement and some hefty damages. I...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Evidence on Polarization in IP

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Since my coblogger Lisa Ouellette has not tooted her own horn about this, I thought I would do so for her. She, Maggie Wittlin (Nebraska), a...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Which Patents Get Instituted During Inter Partes Review?

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I recently attended PatCon 8 at the University of San Diego Law School. It was a great event, with lots of interesting papers. One paper I e...
Friday, March 9, 2018

Sapna Kumar: The Fate Of "Innovation Nationalism" In The Age of Trump

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One of the biggest pieces of news last week was that President Trump will be imposing  tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum  because, he tw...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

The Quest to Patent Perpetual Motion

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Those familiar with my work will know that I am a big fan of utility doctrine. I think it is underused and misunderstood. When I teach abo...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Intellectual Property and Jobs

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During the 2016 presidential race, an op ed  in the New York Times by Jacob S. Hacker, a professor of political science at Yale, and Paul Pi...
Saturday, March 3, 2018

PatCon8 at San Diego

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Yesterday and today, the University of San Diego School of Law hosted the eighth annual Patent Conference—PatCon8—largely organized by Ted S...
Friday, March 2, 2018

Matteo Dragoni on the Effect of the European Patent Convention

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Guest post by Matteo Dragoni , Stanford TTLF Fellow Recent posts by both Michael Risch and Lisa Ouellette discussed the recent article T...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

How Difficult is it to Judge Patentable Subject Matter?

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I've long argued that the Supreme Court's patentable subject matter jurisprudence is inherently uncertain, and that it is therefor...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Tribal Sovereign Immunity and Patent Law, Part II: Lessons in Shoddy Reasoning from the PTAB

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Guest post by Professor Greg Ablavsky , Stanford Law School Per Lisa's request, I have returned to offer some thoughts on the PTAB...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Contigiani, Barankay & Hsu on the Innovation Costs of Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine

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For those looking on more trade secret empirics after Michael's post on Tuesday : Researchers at the Wharton School—Andrea Contigiani, I...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Data on the first year of the Defend Trade Secrets Act

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In preparing for the Evil Twin Debate on the DTSA, David Levine (Elon) and Chris Seaman (Washington & Lee) were kind enough to share a ...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Hall & Helmers on the European Patent Convention's Impact on Patent Filings and Foreign Direct Investment

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The Impact of International Patent Systems: Evidence from Accession to the European Patent Convention , which Michael Risch posted about ye...