Patents Research Portal Navigation (Use ctrl+f or cmd+f to search for authors or keywords) Title Year Author Does Familiarity Breed Contempt Among Judges Deciding Patent Cases? 2013 Jennifer Urban Reconsidering Cybor: A Hybrid Standard of Appellate Review of Patent Claim Construction Rulings 2013 Peter S. Menell Patents in the University: Priming the Pump and Crowding Out 2013 Suzanne Scotchmer The Continuum of Excludability and the Limits of Patents 2013 Amy Kapczynski, Talha Syed Promoting Patent Claim Clarity 2012 Peter S. Menell Priority and Novelty under the AIA 2012 Robert P. Merges RAND Patents and Exclusion Orders: Submission of 19 Economics and Law Professors to the International Trade Commission 2012 Jason Schultz Operating Efficiently Post-Bilski by Ordering Patent Doctrine Decision-Making 2011 Robert P. Merges The Challenges of Reforming Intellectual Property Protection for Computer Software 2011 Peter S. Menell The Mixed Heritage of Federal Intellectual Property Law and Ramifications for Statutory Interpretation 2011 Peter S. Menell Justifying Intellectual Property 2011 Robert P. Merges Patent Claim Construction: A Modern Synthesis and Structured Framework 2011 Peter S. Menell Forty Years of Wondering in the Wilderness and No Closer to the Promised Land: Bilski’s Superficial Textualism and the Missed Opportunity to Ground Patent Law Interpretation and Return Patent Law to its Technology Mooring 2010 Peter S. Menell ‘Clues’ for Determining Whether Business and Service Innovations are Unpatentable Abstract Ideas 2010 Governance of Intellectual Resources and Disintegration of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age 2010 Peter S. Menell Section 337 Patent Investigation Management Guide 2010 Peter S. Menell Bankruptcy Treatment of Intellectual Property Assets: An Economic Analysis 2009 Peter S. Menell Unwinding Sony 2009 Peter S. Menell Nonpatentability of Business Methods: Legal and Economic Analysis 2009 Peter S. Menell High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System: Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey 2009 Robert P. Merges The New Servitudes 2009 Molly S. Van Houweling Patent Case Management Judicial Guide 2009 Peter S. Menell The Trouble with Trolls: Innovation, Rent-Seeking and Patent Law Reform 2009 Robert P. Merges Are Patents on Interfaces Impeding Interoperability? 2009 Pamela Samuelson The Continuing Vitality of Music Performance Rights Organizations 2008 Robert P. Merges An Estoppel Doctrine for Patented Standards 2008 Robert P. Merges Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary Between Antitrust Law and Patent Law 2008 Suzanne Scotchmer Why Copyright Law Excludes Systems and Processes from the Scope of its Protection 2007 Pamela Samuelson Software and Patent Scope: A Report from the Middle Innings 2007 Robert P. Merges The Proper Scope of the Copyright and Patent Power 2007 Robert P. Merges Now and Then, Here and There: A Review Essay on Khan, the Democratization of Invention, and Blind, et al., Software Patents 2007 Robert P. Merges The Property Rights Movement’s Embrace of Intellectual Property: True Love or Doomed Relationship? 2007 Peter S. Menell A Method for Reforming the Patent System 2007 Peter S. Menell Patents, Entry and Growth in the Software Industry 2006 Robert P. Merges Still Looking for Lost Profits: The Case of Horizontal Competition 2006 Suzanne Scotchmer Intellectual Property 2005 The Story of Baker v. Selden: Sharpening the Distinction Between Authorship and Invention 2005 Pamela Samuelson Indirect Copyright Liability: A Re-examination of Sony’s Staple Article of Commerce Doctrine 2005 Peter S. Menell From Medieval Guilds to Open Source Software: Informal Norms, Appropriability Institutions, and Innovation 2005 Robert P. Merges Incentives to Challenge and Defend Patents: Why Litigation Won’t Reliably Fix Patent Office Errors and Why Administrative Patent Review Might Help 2004 Robert P. Merges The Uninvited Guest: Patents on Wall Street 2003 Robert P. Merges As Many as Six Impossible Patents Before Breakfast: Property Rights for Business Concepts and Patent System Reform 1999 Robert P. Merges The Independent-Invention Defense in Intellectual Property 1999 Suzanne Scotchmer On the Optimality of the Patent Renewal System 1999 Suzanne Scotchmer Patent Breadth, Patent Life, and the Pace of Technological Progress 1999 Suzanne Scotchmer Protecting Early Innovators: Should Second-Generation Products be Patentable? 1998 Suzanne Scotchmer The End of Friction? Property Rights and Contract in the ‘Newtonian’ World of On-Line Commerce 1997 Robert P. Merges