Conventional wisdom suggests that when institutional logics overlap, the production of
hybrids signifies collapse, blending, or easy coexistence. The author provides an alternative …

Several years ago I told my esteemed and experienced Berkeley colleague Jesse Choper
that I was beginning work on this book. After he heard a bit about my plans, his response …

In Graham v. John Deere Co., the Supreme Court explained that patent law's
nonobviousness doctrine is meant to restrict the award of patents to only" those inventions …

Harvard Journal of Law & Technology Volume 23, Number 2 Spring 2010 THE
MISUNDERSTOOD FUNCTION OF DISCLOSURE IN PATENT LAW A Page 1 Harvard …

Why is our health care system so fragmented in the care it gives patients? Why is there little
coordination amongst the many doctors who treat individual patients, who often even lack …

Changes in technology sometimes raise important public policy choices and require that we
clarify key values and reexamine legal concepts. Such is the case with the development of …

Patents and trade secrets are often considered economic substitutes. Under this view,
inventors can decide either to maintain an invention as a trade secret or to seek a patent and …

It is commonly asserted that innovation markets suffer from excessive intellectual property
protections, which in turn stifle output. But empirical inquiries can neither confirm nor deny …

Who owns a patient's medical information? The patient, the provider, or the insurer? All of
the above? None of the above? In the emerging era of electronic medical records, no legal …

Many advocates for using compulsory licensing (CL) for pharmaceutical patents in
developing countries like Thailand rest their case in part on the purported use of CL in the …