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The prescription drug market is a real mess, in my view. At the very least, it is complicated, and prices for drugs seem to be higher in the...

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already gotten Americans to start teaching each other about marginal taxation, and now she has st...

I just finished reading a fascinating draft article about the Eco-Patent Commons, a commons where about 13 companies put in a little fewer t...

Much to my chagrin, my kids like to waste their time not just playing video games, but also watching videos of others playing video games. T...

Winter break has ended and so, too, has my brief blogging break. I've blogged before ( many times ) about the ongoing Oracle v. Google...

I just read Jennifer Szalai's fascinating  review  in the  New York Times  of the French anthropologist and philosopher Bruno Latour...

As I have previously explained , there is growing interest in gender and racial gaps in patenting from both scholars and Congress—which char...

It's a grading/break week, so just a short post. A recent article that I enjoyed a lot, but that hasn't found much love on SSRN is P...

It's an age-old question that we've blogged about here before - what role do patents have on firm value? And is any effect due to s...

I greatly enjoyed Professor Adam Mossoff's new article, Statutes, Common-Law Rights, and the Mistaken Classification of Patents as Publi...

As Michael previewed this morning, the Supreme Court heard argument today in Helsinn v. Teva , which is focused on the post-America Invents...

In honor of the oral argument in Helsinn today, I thought I would blog about a study that questions its importance. For those unaware, the ...

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 ...