Bronwyn Hall
Colleges / Universities: University of California, Berkeley
Patents
Description: A patent provides protection for an invention to the owner of the patent. The protection is granted for a limited period, generally 20 years. Patent protection means that the invention cannot be commercially made, used, distributed or sold without the patent owner's consent.
Patents Scholars
Carl Shapiro
Colleges / Universities: University of California, Berkeley
Colleen Chien
Colleges / Universities: Santa Clara University
Doug Lichtman
Colleges / Universities: UCLA
Recent Patents Blog Posts
Recent Patents Academic Article Summaries
Quotes in the News
Lemley, M. (2018, December 26). Bloomberg Law.“The best way to resolve this issue is not to change policy approaches.”
Mark Lemley
TAP Scholar
William H. Neukom Professor of Law
Director, Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology
School of Law
Stanford University
Schankerman, M. (2018, January 12). CNBC.“If they can screen out bad patents, the application becomes more attractive to potential licensees. The value of his system is how much noise there is. I know there's lots of bad patents out there.”
Mark Schankerman
TAP Scholar
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics Research Fellow, Center for Economic Policy Research Research
Associate, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
London School of Economics and Political Science
Lemley, M. (2017, November 21). The New York Times.“It probably hasn’t made patent trolls go away, but it’s changed their demands. Now they sue and ask for $50,000 rather than sue and ask for $1 million.”
Mark Lemley
TAP Scholar
William H. Neukom Professor of Law
Director, Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology
School of Law
Stanford University
Wagner, R. (2016, August 2). Wired.“The idea of featured ‘Stories’ is not new, so any patents would likely be quite specific to implementation details. And because the implementation/interfaces are slightly different, copyright doesn’t provide any protection. This is an area where IP laws don’t prevent the copying of another’s features or innovations.”
R. Polk Wagner
TAP Scholar
Professor of Law
School of Law
University of Pennsylvania
Chien, C. (2015, November 23). Wall Street Journal.“Research suggests that the harms from patent demands often flow not from the fact of being sued, but from being in a drawn-out, expensive dispute. Stories of small companies winning in the courtroom, but spending so much time and money on a case that they damage their business, are unfortunately commonplace.”
Colleen Chien
TAP Scholar
Professor of Law
School of Law
Santa Clara University
