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The quest for an objective measure of patent quality continues. Scholars have attempted many, many ways to calculate such value, including c...

I've long been a fan of Peter Lee's (UC Davis) work at the intersection of IP and organizational theory. His latest article is anoth...

It's a bit weird to write a blog post about something posted at another blog in order to bring attention to it, when that blog has many ...

Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman are well known as the authors of the book,  The Knock-Off Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation (2...

Pierre Azoulay's recent Twitter thread on students from the MIT Sloan TIES PhD program who are currently on the market alerted me to Sa...

The Supreme Court's request for views from the Solicitor General in Ariosa Diagnostics v. Illumina has renewed interest in this nerdy is...

On Wednesday, President Trump signed H.R. 6758, the Study of Underrepresented Classes Chasing Engineering and Science Success Act of 2018 (...

It stands to reason that better attorneys are better at turning patent applications into patents. Theoretically, better arguments about over...

When Justice Gorsuch was confirmed to the Supreme Court, many commentators, well, commented that he was wary of administrative overreach. Bu...

Most academic writing on direct government spending as an innovation policy tool focuses on how this mechanism compares with other policies ...

I have continued to find the issue of post-sale restrictions vexing. On the one hand, I think that there are sound economic reasons for them...

Mike Andrews is a postdoc at NBER, and I recently came across his PhD dissertation, Fuel of Interest and Fire of Genius: Essays on the Econ...

One of the common complaints about weakening patent protection is that it causes reduced R&D in the country with weakened protection. I...

One of the more expensive parts of acquiring global patent protection is having a patent application translated into the relevant language f...

Several years ago, both Lisa and I wrote about Heald, et al.'s study that attempted to value public domain photographs as used on Wik...