A Patent Policy Proposal for Global Diseases 1 (2007)
Jean O. Lanjouw, Michael Kremer, Peter Lanjouw, Mark Lemley, Josh Lerner, Keith Maskus, ...
There are two identifiable types of diseases in developing countries. Some, such as malaria, are specific to poor countries, but many others, such as cancer, have a high incidence in all countries....
How Strong Are Weak Patents (2005)
Joseph Farrell, Carl Shapiro, Michael Katz, Mark Lemley, Josh Lerner, Robert Merges, ...
ABSTRACT. We analyze patent licensing by a patent holder to downstream technology users. We study how the structure and level of royalties depends on the patent’s strength, i.e., the probability it...
Reducing Digital Copyright Infringement Without Restricting Innovation (2004)
Suing actual infringers is passe in copyright law. In the digital environment, the real stakes lie in suing those who facilitate infringement by others. There is of course a good reason copyright...
A Quick and Inexpensive System for Resolving Digital Copyright Disputes (2004)
We have argued elsewhere that peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing poses significant new challenges to the enforcement of copyright law. Copyright owners' initial response to these challenges - to try to...
Allison, John R., Lemley, Mark, Moore, Kimberly A., Trunkey, Derek
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Are the U.S. Patent Priority Rules Really Necessary? (2003)
Lemley, Mark, Chien, Colleen V.
The United States is the only country in the world that awards patents to the first person to invent something, rather than the first to file a patent application. In order to determine who is first...
The Growing Complexity of the United States Patent System (2001)
In this Article, we compare a data set of 1000 U.S. patents issued between 1996 and 1998 to a similarly random sample of 1000 patents issued twenty years earlier, between 1976 and 1978. By studying...
Rational Ignorance at the Patent Office (2000)
It is common to assert that the Patent and Trademark Office does a bad job of examining patents, and that it should spend more time and money weeding out bad patents. In this article, Professor...
The Law and Economics of Internet Norms (1999)
Private ordering is in vogue in legal scholarship. Nowhere is this clearer than on the Internet. Legal scholars who study the Internet talk freely about new forms of governance tailored to the...
Rational Ignorance at the Patent Office
It is common to assert that the Patent and Trademark Office does a bad job of examining patents, and that it should spend more time and money weeding out bad patents. In this article, Professor...
The Law and Economics of Internet Norms
Private ordering is in vogue in legal scholarship. Nowhere is this clearer than on the Internet. Legal scholars who study the Internet talk freely about new forms of governance tailored to the...