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Mark Lemley

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Ronald J. Mann

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Georgetown University
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Software Patents and Their Challenges

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Research Articles On This Issue	Author	Year
Antitrust for Patent Pools: A Century of Policy Evolution	Richard Gilbert	2004
Are Patents on Interfaces Impeding Interoperability?	Pamela Samuelson	2009
Attracting Skeptical Buyers: Negotiating for Intellectual Property Rights	James Anton and Dennis A. Yao	2008
Benefits and Costs of an Opposition Process	Jonathan Levin	2004
Business Method Patent Myth, The	Emerson Tiller and John R. Allison	2003
Can the Patent Office Be Fixed?	Mark Lemley	2010
Case for Registering Patents and the Law and Economics of Present Patent-Obtaining Rules, The	F. Scott Kieff	2004
Comment on 'Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry,' A	James Bessen	2006
Comment on the Tragedy of the Anticommons in Biomedical Research	Edmund Kitch	2003
Comment: Intellectual Property Isolationism and the Average Cost Thesis	John Duffy	2005
Commentary: Patent Trolls and Patent Remedies	John M. Golden	2007
Complements Problem within Standard Setting, The: Assessing the Evidence on Royalty Stacking	Anne Layne-Farrar et al	2008
Cooperative Marketing Agreements Between Competitors: Evidence from Patent Pools	Josh Lerner et al	2003
Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property	Jason Mazzone	2011
Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Related State Doctrines: Cases and Materials on Intellectual Property Law, 6th Ed.	Paul Goldstein and R. Anthony Reese	2007
Death of Google's Patents?, The	John Duffy	2008
Defining Software Patents: A Research Field Guide	Anne Layne-Farrar	2005
Demsetz Goes Digital: Innovation, Rent-seeking, and Patent Law Reform	Robert Merges	2008
Did TRIPS Spur Innovation? An Analysis of Patent Duration and Incentives to Innovate		2009
Discouraging Patent Holdouts through Reciprocal Commitment	Scott A. Baker and Doug Lichtman	2006
Disintegration of Intellectual Property, The	Richard Epstein	2008
Disputed Quality of Software Patents, The	John R. Allison	2007
Distinguishing Lost Profits from Reasonable Royalties	Mark Lemley	2009
Do Companies That Patent More Today Have Higher Revenues Tomorrow: An Empirical Investigation	Anne Layne-Farrar and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz	2007
Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?	Ronald J. Mann	2005
Do Patents Perform Like Property?	James Bessen and Michael Meurer	2008
Does the Market Care About Changes in Patent Law?	Scott A. Baker et al	2009
Don't Fence Me In: Fragmented Markets for Technology and the Patent Acquisition Strategies of Firms	Rosemarie Ziedonis	2004
Draft Patent Law, The	Amy Kapczynski et al	2005
Economic Perils of U.S. Patent Reform: Flexibility's Achilles Heel	F. Scott Kieff	2009
Empirical Study of the Patent Prospect Theory, An: An Evaluation of Antispam Patents	Martin Campbell-Kelly and Patrick Valduriez	2005
Experimentation, Patents and Innovation	Daron Acemoglu et al	2008
Federal Circuit and Patentability: An Empirical Assessment of the Law of Obviousness, The	R. Polk Wagner	2006
Federal Circuit Patent Precedent: An Empirical Study of Institutional Authority and IP Ideology	Emerson Tiller and David R. Pekarek Krohn	2010
Finding the Right Balance on Gene Patents	Richard Epstein	2010
First-to-Invent Versus First-to-File: International Patent Law Harmonization and Innovation	Kaz Miyagiwa	2007
From Arms Race to Marketplace: The New Complex Patent Ecosystem and Its Implications for the Patent System	Colleen Chien	2010
A Generation of Software Patents	James Bessen	2011
Harmonization and its Discontents: A Case Study of TRIPS Implementation in India's Pharmaceutical Sector	Amy Kapczynski	2009
Holdup, Royalty Stacking & the Presumption of Injunctive Relief for Patent Infringement: Reply to Lemley & Shapiro	J. Gregory Sidak	2007
How Not to Invent a Patent Crisis	Henry Smith and F. Scott Kieff	2009
How Reasonable is the "Reasonable" Royalty Rate - Damage Rules and Probabilistic Intellectual Property Rights	Jay Pil Choi	2006
Ignoring Patents	Mark Lemley	2007
Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market for Ideas, The: Evidence for Patent Grant Delays	Joshua Gans et al	2008
Innovation & Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation & Progress, & What to Do About It	Josh Lerner and Adam B. Jaffe	2004
Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 1	Josh Lerner et al	2001
Intellectual Property and the Free Trade Agreements: Information Policy Issues	John R. Thomas	2005
Intellectual Property Regimes and Firm Strategy: Putting Hall and Ziedonis (2001) in Perspective	Rosemarie Ziedonis	2009
Intellectual Property Stories	Jane Ginsburg and Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss	2006
Inventing Invention: A Case Study of Legal Innovation	John Duffy	2007
Legally Speaking: Quantafying the Value of Patent Exhaustion Rules	Pamela Samuelson	2008
Legally Speaking: Revisiting Patentable Subject Matter	Pamela Samuelson	2008
Legally Speaking: Software Patents and the Metaphysics of 271(f)	Pamela Samuelson	2007
Live and Let Live: A Tale of Weak Patents	Jay Pil Choi	2005
Nonobvious Discussion about Patents, A	Suzanne Scotchmer	2008
Not All Bad: An Historical Perspective on Software Patents	Martin Campbell-Kelly	2005
Of Trolls, Davids, Goliaths, and Kings: Narratives and Evidence in the Litigation of High-Tech Patents	Colleen Chien	2008
On Coordinating Transactions in Information: A Response to Smith’s Delineating Entitlements in Information	F. Scott Kieff	2007
On the Apparent Failure of Patents: A Response to Bessen and Meurer	Rosemarie Ziedonis	2008
On the Optimal Novelty Requirement in Patent Protection	Klaus Kultti and Antti Miettunen	2008
On the Optimality of the Patent Renewal System	Suzanne Scotchmer	1999
One Size Fits All, After Tailoring	Rebecca S. Eisenberg	2009
Optimal Patent Jurisprudence	Scott A. Baker and Claudio Mezzetti	2009
Panel 1: KSR v. Teleflex: The Nonobviousness Requirement of Patentability	John R. Thomas	2007
Patent and/or Copyright for Software: What Has Been Done So Far?	Richard Watt	2007
Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It, The	Mark Lemley and Dan Burk	2009
Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk	James Bessen and Michael Meurer	2008
Patent Fair Use 2.0	Katherine Strandburg	2011
Patent Holdouts and the Standard-Setting Process	Doug Lichtman	2006
Patent Law (Concepts and Insights)	R. Polk Wagner and Craig Allan Nard	2007
Patent Law and Policy: Cases and Materials	John Duffy and Robert Merges	2007
Patent Law Viewed Through an Evidentiary Lens: The "Suggestion Test" as a Rule of Evidence	Christopher Cotropia	2006
Patent Lie, A	Paul Goldstein	2008
Patent Litigation in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry	Rosemarie Ziedonis	2003
Patent Oppositions	Jonathan Levin and Richard Levin	2004
Patent Paradox Revisited, The: An Empirical Study of Patenting in the US Semiconductor Industry, 1979-1995	Rosemarie Ziedonis and Bronwyn Hall	2001
Patent Portfolios	R. Polk Wagner and Gideon Parchomovsky	2005
Patent Reform for a Digital Economy	Brian Kahin	2006
Patent Theory versus Patent Law	Alexander Tabarrok	2002
Patent Thickets, Courts, and the Market for Innovation	Mark Schankerman and Alberto Galasso	2010
Patents, Entry and Growth in the Software Industry	Robert Merges	2006
Patents, Venture Capital and Software Startups	Ronald J. Mann and Thomas W. Sager	2007
Pharmacogenomics, Genetic Tests, and Patent-Based Incentives: Perspectives on Properties of the Human Genome Project	Michael Meurer and F. Scott Kieff	2003
Pharma's Nonobvious Problem	Rebecca S. Eisenberg	2008
Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights	James Anton et al	2006
Private Costs of Patent Litigation, The	James Bessen and Michael Meurer	2008
Private Value of Software Patents, The	Bronwyn Hall and Megan MacGarvie	2010
Process as Purpose: Administrative Procedure, Costly Screens, and Examination at the Patent Office	Jonathan S. Masur	2009
Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary Between Antitrust Law and Patent Law	Suzanne Scotchmer and Stephen M. Maurer	2006
Protecting Domestic Industries at the ITC	Colleen Chien	2011
Reforming U.S. Patent Policy: Getting the Incentives Right	Keith Maskus	2006
Reputations for Toughness in Patent Enforcement: Implications for Knowledge Spillovers via Inventor Mobility	Rosemarie Ziedonis and Rajshree Agarwal	2009
Rethinking Patent Law’s Uniformity Principle	John Duffy and Craig Allan Nard	2007
Rethinking Patent Law's Presumption of Validity	Mark Lemley and Doug Lichtman	2007
Review of Bessen and Hunt's Analysis of Software Patents, A	Robert W. Hahn and Scott Wallsten	2003
Role of Patent Rights in Mergers, The: Consolidation in Plant Biotechnology	Gordon C. Rausser and Alan C. Marco	2008
Secret Life of Patents, The	Jason Mazzone	2008
Should Good Patents Come In Small Packages? A Welfare Analysis of Intellectual Property Bundling	Richard Gilbert and Michael L. Katz	2006
Software and Law: Is Regulation Fostering or Inhibiting Innovation?		2005
Software and Patent Scope: A Report From the Middle Innings	Robert Merges	2007
Software Patent Citations: A Consistent Weighted Ranking	Neil Gandal and Chaim Fershtman	2006
Software Patents	Neil Gandal and Chaim Fershtman	2006
Software Patents, Incumbents, and Entry	Ronald J. Mann et al	2007
Some Issues in Patent Harmonization: An Exploratory Note	Kaz Miyagiwa
Statutory Subject Matter in Context: Lessons in Patent Governance from Bilski v. Kappos	John R. Thomas	2011
Story of Diamond v. Chakrabarty, The: Technological Change and the Subject Matter Boundaries of the Patent System	Rebecca S. Eisenberg	2006
Story of Graham v. John Deere Company, The: Patent Law’s Evolving Standard of Creativity (Patents)	John Duffy	2006
Strategic Factor Markets and the Financing of Technology Startups: When do Patents Matter More as Signaling Devices?	Rosemarie Ziedonis and David Hsu	2011
Strategic Patenting and Software Innovation	Mark Schankerman and Michael D. Noel	2006
Stronger Protection of Technological Revolution: What is Behind the Recent Surge in Patenting	Josh Lerner and Samuel Kortum	1997
Supply Side of Innovation, The: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention	William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln	2010
Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit, The: Visitation and Custody of Patent Law	Rebecca S. Eisenberg	2007
Technical Critique of Fifty Software Patents, A	Martin Campbell-Kelly and Patrick Valduriez	2005
Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights	Mark Schankerman et al	2013
Trading Knowledge: An Exploration of Patent Protection & Other Determinants of Market Transactions in Technology and R&D	Wesley Cohen et al	2007
Transaction Costs and Patent Reform	Paul J. Heald	2007
U.S. Intellectual Property Law and Policy	Hugh Hansen	2006
Users as Innovators: Implications for Patent Doctrine	Katherine Strandburg	2008
Using Insights from the History of Science to Redefine Patentable Subject Matter Under the IP Clause...	Sean M. O'Connor	2008
Valuable Patents	Mark Lemley et al	2003
Valuing Attribution and Publication in Intellectual Property	Christopher Sprigman et al	2012
Valuing Patents For Licensing: A Practical Survey of the Literature	Anne Layne-Farrar	2006
What is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland	Josh Lerner and Feng Zhu	2005
What To Do About Bad Patents	Mark Lemley et al	2006