Intellectual Property

Title Year Author
Foundations and Principles Redux: A Reply to Professor Blankfein-Tabachnick 2013 Robert P. Merges
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
Brief of Software Innovators, Start-Ups, and Investors as Amici Curiae in Oracle v. Google 2013 Jennifer Urban
The Continuum of Excludability and the Limits of Patents 2013 Amy Kapczynski, Talha Syed
The Relationship between Foundations and Principles in IP Law 2013 Robert P. Merges
Brief of Amici Curiae National Alliance for Media Art and Culture, the Alliance for Community Media, and Kartemquin Films in Viacom v. YouTube 2013 Jennifer Urban
Solving the Orphan Works Problem for the United States 2013 Pamela Samuelson, Jennifer Urban
Brief of Digital Humanities and Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Authors Guild v. Hathitrust 2013 Jason Schultz
Brief Amici Curiae of 133 Academic Authors in Support of HathiTrust Digital Library 2013 Pamela Samuelson
Brief of Software Innovators, Start-Ups, and Investors as Amici Curiae in Oracle v. Google 2013 Jennifer Urban
Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc., Brief of Amici Curiae Intellectual Property Professors in Support of Defendant-Cross Appellant and Affirmance 2013 Pamela Samuelson
What Constitutes a Diligent Search Under Present and Proposed Orphan Work Regimes? 2013 Jennifer Urban
A Fresh Look at Tests for Nonliteral Copyright Infringement 2013 Pamela Samuelson
Amicus Brief of Law Scholars in Fox v. Dish, No. 12-57048 (9th Cir) 2013 Jason Schultz
A Quick Guide to Software Licensing for the Scientist-Programmer 2012 Jennifer Urban
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
Amicus Brief of Law Scholars in Fox v. Dish, No. 12-57048 (9th Cir) 2013 Jason Schultz
Brief of Amici Curiae Academic Authors in Support of Defendant-Appellant and Reversal 2012 Pamela Samuelson
Oracle v. Google: Are APIs Copyrightable? 2012 Pamela Samuelson
How Fair Use Can Help Solve the Orphan Works Problem 2012 Jennifer Urban
Design for Symbiosis: Promoting More Harmonious Paths for Technological Innovators and Expressive Creators in the Internet Age 2012 Peter S. Menell
Does Copyright Protection Under the EU Software Directive Extend to Computer Program Behaviour, Languages and Interfaces? 2011 Pamela Samuelson
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
Infringement Conflation 2011 Peter S. Menell
The Challenges of Reforming Intellectual Property Protection for Computer Software 2011 Peter S. Menell
An Epitaph for Traditional Copyright Protection of Network Features of Computer Software 2011 Peter S. Menell
An Analysis of the Scope of Copyright Protection for Application Programs 2011 Peter S. Menell
Tailoring Legal Protection for Computer Software 2011 Peter S. Menell
Copyright Exhaustion and the Personal Use Dilemma 2011 Jason Schultz
The Uneasy Case for Software Copyrights Revisited 2011 Pamela Samuelson
The Mixed Heritage of Federal Intellectual Property Law and Ramifications for Statutory Interpretation 2011 Peter S. Menell
The Copyright Principles Project: Directions for Reform 2011 Pamela Samuelson
Legislative Alternatives to the Google Book Settlement 2011 Pamela Samuelson
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
To Waive and Waive Not: Property and Flexibility in the Digital Era 2011 Robert P. Merges
Autonomy and Independence: The Normative Face of Transaction Costs 2011 Robert P. Merges
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
Ideas and Innovations: Which Should Be Subsidized? 2011 Suzanne Scotchmer
Verifiability and Group Formation in Markets 2010 Suzanne Scotchmer
In Search of Copyright’s Lost Ark: Interpreting the Right to Distribute in the Internet Age 2010 Peter S. Menell
Demystifying Fair Use: the Gift of the Center for Social Media Statements of Best Practices 2010 Jennifer Urban
The Google Book Settlement as Copyright Reform 2010 Pamela Samuelson
Sound Recordings, Works for Hire, and the Termination-of-Transfers Time Bomb 2010 Peter S. Menell
Governance of Intellectual Resources and Disintegration of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age 2010 Peter S. Menell
The Past, Present and Future of Software Copyright Interoperability Rules in the European Union and United States 2010 Pamela Samuelson
Knowledge Accessibility and Preservation Policy for the Digital Age 2010 Peter S. Menell
Statutory Damages in Copyright Law: A Remedy in Need of Reform 2010 Pamela Samuelson
Risk Taking and Gender in Hierarchies 2010 Suzanne Scotchmer
First Amendment Defenses in Trade Secrecy Cases 2010 Pamela Samuelson
Governance of Intellectual Resources and Disintegration of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age 2010 Peter S. Menell
Cap-and-Trade, Emissions Taxes, and Innovation 2010 Suzanne Scotchmer
Openness, Open Source, and the Veil of Ignorance 2010 Suzanne Scotchmer
Academic Author Objections to the Google Book Search Settlement 2010 Pamela Samuelson
Google Book Search and the Future of Books in Cyberspace 2010 Pamela Samuelson
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
Pooh-Poohing Copyright Law’s ‘Inalienable’ Termination Rights 2009 Peter S. Menell
Why Plaintiffs Should Have to Prove Irreparable Harm in Copyright Preliminary Injunction Cases 2009 Pamela Samuelson
Legal Realism in Action: Indirect Copyright Liability’s Continuing Tort Framework and Sony’s De Facto Demise 2009 Peter S. Menell
Envisioning Copyright Law’s Digital Future 2009 Peter S. Menell
Unwinding Sony 2009 Peter S. Menell
Bankruptcy Treatment of Intellectual Property Assets: An Economic Analysis 2009 Peter S. Menell
Author Autonomy and Atomism in Copyright Law 2009 Molly S. Van Houweling
Indirect Copyright Liability and Technological Innovation 2009 Peter S. Menell
Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement 2009 Pamela Samuelson
Judicial Resistance to Copyright Law’s Inalienable Right to Terminate Transfers 2009 Peter S. Menell
Unbundling Fair Uses 2009 Pamela Samuelson
Pooh-Poohing Copyright Law’s ‘Inalienable’ Termination Rights 2009 Peter S. Menell
A Prize System as a Partial Solution to the Health Crisis in the Developing World 2009 Talha Syed
Nonpatentability of Business Methods: Legal and Economic Analysis 2009 Peter S. Menell
Author Autonomy and Atomism in Copyright Law 2009 Molly S. Van Houweling
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
What Effects Do Legal Rules Have on Service Innovation? 2009 Pamela Samuelson
Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it or Bank it 2009 Suzanne Scotchmer
Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement 2009 Pamela Samuelson
The Strange Odyssey of Software Interfaces and Intellectual Property Law 2009 Pamela Samuelson
Locke for the Masses: Property Rights and the Products of Collective Creativity 2009 Robert P. Merges
The Continuing Vitality of Music Performance Rights Organizations 2008 Robert P. Merges
Intellectual Property and the Law of Land 2008 Peter S. Menell
An Estoppel Doctrine for Patented Standards 2008 Robert P. Merges
Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary Between Antitrust Law and Patent Law 2008 Robert P. Merges
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
Should Copyright Owners Have to Give Notice about Their Use of Technical Protection Measures? 2007  Suzanne Scotchmer
Space Resources, Common Property, and the Collective Action Problem 2007 Robert P. Merges
Intellectual Property and the Property Rights Movement 2007 Peter S. Menell
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
Cultural Environmentalism and the Constructed Commons Law and Contemporary Problems 2007 Molly S. Van Houweling
The Property Rights Movement’s Embrace of Intellectual Property: True Love or Doomed Relationship? 2007 Peter S. Menell
Locke Remixed 2007 Robert P. Merges
A Method for Reforming the Patent System 2007 Peter S. Menell
A Reverse Notice and Takedown Regime to Enable Public Interest Uses of Technically Protected Copyrighted Works 2007 Pamela Samuelson
Preliminary Thoughts on Copyright Reform 2007 Pamela Samuelson
Why Copyright Law Excludes Systems and Processes from the Scope of its Protection 2007 Pamela Samuelson
The Proper Scope of the Copyright and Patent Power 2007 Robert P. Merges
Locke Remixed 2007 Robert P. Merges
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
The Generativity of Sony V. Universal: The Intellectual Legacy of Justice Stevens 2006 Pamela Samuelson
Questioning Copyright in Standards 2006 Pamela Samuelson
Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products 2006 Suzanne Scotchmer
Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products 2006 Suzanne Scotchmer
Global Justice in Healthcare: Developing Drugs for the Developing World 2006 Talha Syed
Patents, Entry and Growth in the Software Industry 2006 Robert P. Merges
Principles for Resolving Conflicts Between Trade Secrets and the First Amendment 2006 Pamela Samuelson
Enriching Discourse on Public Domains 2006 Pamela Samuelson
The Generativity of Sony V. Universal: The Intellectual Legacy of Justice Stevens 2006 Pamela Samuelson
Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products 2006 Suzanne Scotchmer
Still Looking for Lost Profits: The Case of Horizontal Competition 2006 Suzanne Scotchmer
Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm 2006 Suzanne Scotchmer
Should Economics Play a Role in Copyright Law and Policy? 2005 Pamela Samuelson
Challenges in Mapping the Public Domain 2005 Pamela Samuelson
Intellectual Property 2005  
From Medieval Guilds to Open Source Software: Informal Norms, Appropriability Institutions, and Innovation 2005 Robert P. Merges
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
A Transactional View of Property Right 2005 Robert P. Merges
Challenges in Mapping the Public Domain 2005 Pamela Samuelson
Intellectual Property 2005  
The Story of Baker v. Selden: Sharpening the Distinction Between Authorship and Invention 2005 Pamela Samuelson
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
A New Dynamism in the Public Domain 2004 Robert P. Merges
The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Treaties 2004 Suzanne Scotchmer
Eldred and Lochner: Copyright Term Extension and Intellectual Property as Constitutional Property 2004 Paul M. Schwartz
The Uninvited Guest: Patents on Wall Street 2003 Robert P. Merges
The Constitutional Law of Intellectual Property After Eldred v. Ashcroft 2003 Pamela Samuelson
Procuring Knowledge 2003 Suzanne Scotchmer
Procuring Knowledge 2003 Suzanne Scotchmer
The Constitutional Law of Intellectual Property After Eldred v. Ashcroft 2003 Pamela Samuelson
Pre-existing Confusion in Copyright’s Work-for-Hire Doctrine 2002 Peter S. Menell
Pre-existing Confusion in Copyright’s Work-for-Hire Doctrine 2002 Peter S. Menell
Economic Implications of State Sovereign Immunity from Infringement of Federal Intellectual Property Rights 2001 Peter S. Menell
One Hundred Years of Solicitude: Intellectual Property Law, 1900-2000 2001 Robert P. Merges
Property Rights, Firm Boundaries, and R&D Inputs 2001 Robert P. Merges
Economic and Constitutional Influences on Copyright Law in the United States 2000 Pamela Samuelson
Damages and Injunctions in the Protection of Proprietary Research Tools 2000 Suzanne Scotchmer
Privacy as Intellectual Property? 2000 Pamela Samuelson
Five Challenges for Regulating the Global Information Society 2000 Pamela Samuelson
Who Owns the Charles River Bridge? Intellectual Property and Competition in the Software Industry 2000 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
Contracting into Liability Rules: Intellectual Property Rights and Collective Rights Organizations 1997 Robert P. Merges
Property Rights Theory and the Employed Inventor 1997 Robert P. Merges