Abstract Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) threatens to overwhelm our medical
infrastructure at the regional level causing spikes in mortality rates because of shortages of …

This chapter provides a comprehensive survey of the burgeoning literature on the law and
economics of intellectual property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of …

Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including
what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural …

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 …

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 …

Any elementary school student can recite a number of canonical American invention stories.
Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb from his famous home laboratory in Menlo Park, New …

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

Reverse engineering has a long history as an accepted practice. What it means, broadly
speaking, is the process of extracting know-how or knowledge from a human-made …

This Article proposes that intellectual property's close relationship to property stems from the
role that information costs play in the delineation and enforcement of exclusion rights. As …

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 …