In recent years, business leaders, policymakers, and inventors have complained to the
media and to Congress that today's patent system stifles innovation instead of fostering it …

Patent law is premised on the onward march of science and technology. Patent law
encourages cumulative innovation, both by dangling the patent before the inventor as an …

The role of the patent system in promoting pharmaceutical innovation is widely seen as a
tremendous success story. This view overlooks a serious shortcoming in the drug patent …

This Article takes a fresh approach to Chevron deference. Chevron requires judges to defer
to agency interpretations of statutes and justifies this on a theory of statutory authorization for …

In 1946, the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) set forth the criteria for “formal” adjudication,
requiring an administrative law judge to make the initial determination and the agency head …

Privacy tort law is a product of prior centuries' hazards. In the late nineteenth century, snap
cameras and recording devices provided a cheap way to capture others' private moments …

The post-grant review proceedings set up at the US Patent and Trademark Office's Patent
and Trial Appeal Board by the America Invents Act of 2011 have transformed the …

The United States Patent and Trademark Office is tasked with the job of reading patent
applications and determining which ones qualify for patent protection. It is a herculean task …

The cry to" improve patent quality" is heard anywhere patent law yers gather and is a
centerpiece of many of the political and academ establishments' major reform agendas. 1 …

The modern administrative state is built on the premise that administrative bodies, as a result
of their focus, manpower, and proficiency, will reach more effective decisions than their …