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Patent Law and Innovation


TAP academics have written extensively on patent issues. Here are a few articles that focus on patent law and innovation:
 
IP in Frontier Industries: Software and Biotechnology, by Wesley Cohen, Mark Lemley and Robert W. Hahn, considers the debate on whether patents are good or bad for cutting-edge technology like software and biotech. In Live and Let Live: A Tale of Weak Patents, Jay Pil Choi asks how to get rid of weak patents that hinder innovation. And regarding legal innovation with patent law, John Duffy relates how ideas about what should be patentable have changed over time in Inventing Invention: A Case Study of Legal Innovation.
 
To learn about more TAP scholars with expertise on patent law, take a look at TAP’s post that was published in honor of the America Invents Act earlier this fall: TAP Scholars on Patent Law.