This book takes a fresh look at the most dynamic area of American law today, comprising the
fields of copyright, patent, trademark, trade secrecy, publicity rights, and misappropriation …

A handful of digital platforms mediate a growing share of online commerce and
communications. By structuring access to markets, these firms function as gatekeepers for …

Intellectual property protection in the United States has always been about generating
incentives to create. Thomas Jefferson was of the view that"[i] nventions... cannot, in nature …

135 USC?? 100-376 (2000). 2See, eg, id.? 103 (b)(2000)(special nonobviousness provision
for biotechnology).'Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 US 303, 309 (1980)(citing S. Rep. No. 82 …

Economists often assume that a patent gives its owner a well-defined legal right to exclude
others from practicing the invention described in the patent. In practice, however, the rights …

The standard economic theory of intellectual property (" IP") is well known. Intellectual
creations are public goods that are much easier and cheaper to copy than they are to …

Patents. Inventors. To most, these words conjure a vision of the solitary genius, the heroic
individual-Edison, Bell, Morse-working late into the evening in a garage to perfect a device …

" Knowledge commons" describes the institutionalized community governance of the sharing
and, in some cases, creation, of information, science, knowledge, data, and other types of …

Patent law is crucial to encourage technological innovation. But as the patent system
currently stands, diverse industries from pharmaceuticals to software to semiconductors are …

Patent trolls-patent owners whose primary business is collecting money from others that
allegedly infringe their patents-are on everyone's mind. Complaints that trolls are perverting …