Mark A. Lemley

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Mark A. Lemley

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#110

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International Law

#636

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Mark A. Lemley's Degrees

Bachelors Political Science Stanford University
PhD Philosophy Stanford University

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Probabilistic Patents (2005) (485)
Rational Ignorance at the Patent Office (2001) (448)
Patent Holdup and Royalty Stacking (2006) (441)
Intellectual Property Rights and Standard-Setting Organizations (2002) (320)
Property, Intellectual Property, and Free Riding (2004) (255)
The End of End-to-End: Preserving the Architecture of the Internet in the Broadband Era (2000) (219)
Empirical Evidence on the Validity of Litigated Patents (1998) (205)
Patent Scope and Innovation in the Software Industry (2000) (202)
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age (1997) (194)
Examiner Characteristics and Patent Office Outcomes (2009) (189)
Legal Implications of Network Economic Effects (1998) (172)
Valuable Patents (2003) (168)
Policy Levers in Patent Law (2003) (156)
Do Applicant Patent Citations Matter? (2012) (120)
Ten Things to do About Patent Holdup of Standards (and One Not To) (2006) (117)
The Patent Crisis and How Courts Can Solve It (2009) (112)
Is the Patent Office a Rubber Stamp? (2008) (110)
The Economics of Improvement in Intellectual Property Law (2008) (107)
The Myth of the Sole Inventor (2011) (103)
Is Patent Law Technology Specific? (2001) (102)
Reducing Digital Copyright Infringement Without Restricting Innovation (2004) (101)
Ex Ante Versus Ex Post Justifications for Intellectual Property (2004) (99)
Extreme Value or Trolls on Top? The Characteristics of the Most Litigated Patents (2009) (99)
Are Universities Patent Trolls? (2007) (99)
The Modern Lanham Act and the Death of Common Sense (1999) (95)
The Surprising Virtues of Treating Trade Secrets as IP Rights (2008) (95)
A Simple Approach to Setting Reasonable Royalties for Standard-Essential Patents (2013) (90)
Patent Quality and Settlement among Repeat Patent Litigants (2010) (87)
Reconceiving Patents in the Age of Venture Capital (1999) (84)
Ending Abuse of Patent Continuations (2003) (79)
Should Property or Liability Rules Govern Information (2007) (79)
Who's Patenting What? An Empirical Exploration of Patent Prosecution (2000) (76)
The Growing Complexity of the United States Patent System - eScholarship (2001) (70)
Missing the Forest for the Trolls (2013) (69)
Romantic Authorship and the Rhetoric of Property (1997) (65)
Rethinking Patent Law's Presumption of Validity (2007) (64)
IP and Antitrust: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles Applied to Intellectual Property Law (2010) (63)
Beyond Preemption: The Law and Policy of Intellectual Property Licensing (1999) (60)
Reply: Patent Holdup and Royalty Stacking (2007) (59)
Anticompetitive Settlement of Intellectual Property Disputes (2003) (58)
Copying in Patent Law (2008) (57)
Place and Cyberspace (2003) (53)
Property, Intellectual Property, and Free Riding/Comment/Reply (2005) (52)
Patenting nanotechnology. (2005) (52)
Fence Posts or Sign Posts: Rethinking Patent Claim Construction (2009) (49)
What to do About Bad Patents (2005) (48)
Understanding the Realities of Modern Patent Litigation (2014) (47)
Should Patent Infringement Require Proof of Copying? (2007) (45)
Trademarks and Consumer Search Costs on the Internet (2004) (43)
Patent Holdup, the ITC, and the Public Interest (2012) (41)
Antitrust and the Internet Standardization Problem (1996) (41)
Faith-Based Intellectual Property (2015) (40)
Examining Patent Examination (2009) (39)
Earning Exclusivity: Generic Drug Incentives and the Hatch-Waxman Act (2011) (38)
Ending Patent Law's Willfulness Game (2003) (38)
IP in a World Without Scarcity (2014) (37)
How to Make a Patent Market (2007) (36)
Rationalizing Internet Safe Harbors (2007) (36)
Ignoring Patents (2007) (33)
Freedom of Speech and Injunctions in Intellectual Property Cases (1998) (33)
The Law and Economics of Internet Norms (2011) (33)
Encouraging Software Reuse (1997) (32)
Could Java Change Everything? The Competitive Propriety of a Proprietary Standard (1998) (30)
Do Patent Licensing Demands Mean Innovation? (2015) (30)
Law, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality (2018) (30)
Software and Internet Law (2000) (29)
Distinguishing Lost Profits from Reasonable Royalties (2008) (29)
Software Patents and the Return of Functional Claiming (2012) (29)
Don't Break the Internet (2012) (29)
An Empirical Study of the Twenty-Year Patent Term (1994) (27)
The Merchandising Right: Fragile Theory or Fait Accompli? (2004) (27)
Patent Licensing, Technology Transfer, & Innovation (2016) (27)
The Ongoing Confusion Over Ongoing Royalties (2011) (25)
Pledging intellectual property for COVID-19 (2020) (25)
Biotechnology's Uncertainty Principle (2003) (25)
Life after Bilski (2010) (24)
Quantum Patent Mechanics (2005) (24)
A Structured Approach to Calculating Reasonable Royalties (2011) (23)
Grounding Trademark Law Through Trademark Use (2007) (23)
Is the Sky Falling on the Content Industries? (2010) (23)
Intellectual Property and Shrinkwrap Licenses (2012) (22)
Examiner Characteristics and the Patent Grant Rate (2009) (22)
How Essential are Standard-Essential Patents? (2018) (22)
What the Right of Publicity Can Learn from Trademark Law (2005) (21)
Antitrust Law and Regulatory Gaming (2008) (20)
Remedies for Robots (2018) (20)
Should a Licensing Market Require Licensing (2006) (20)
Owning Mark(et)s (2010) (19)
Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform (2011) (19)
Our Divided Patent System (2014) (19)
A Rational System of Design Patent Remedies (2014) (18)
Dealing with Overlapping Copyrights on the Internet (1996) (18)
Is Pepsi Really a Substitute for Coke? Market Definition in Antitrust and IP (2012) (18)
Are the U.S. Patent Priority Rules Really Necessary? (2003) (18)
A New Balance between IP and Antitrust (2007) (18)
Foreseeability in Patent Law (2001) (17)
Where to File Your Patent Case (2010) (15)
Categorical Analysis in Antitrust Jurisprudence (2007) (15)
Standardizing Government Standard-Setting Policy for Electronic Commerce (1999) (15)
The Changing Meaning of Patent Claim Terms (2005) (15)
Valuable Patents - eScholarship (2003) (14)
DISCLOSURE AND INVESTMENT AS STRATEGIES IN THE PATENT RACE (2003) (14)
How Often Do Non-Practicing Entities Win Patent Suits? (2016) (13)
UNILATERAL REFUSALS TO LICENSE (2006) (13)
The Economic Irrationality of the Patent Misuse Doctrine (1990) (13)
The Surprising Resilience of the Patent System (2016) (12)
The (Unnoticed) Demise of the Doctrine of Equivalents (2007) (12)
The Trademark Use Requirement in Dilution Cases (2011) (12)
How Federal Circuit Judges Vote in Patent Validity Cases (1999) (11)
Fair Learning (2020) (11)
The 2006 Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act—A Law to Save Lives (2007) (11)
Antitrust Analysis of Patent Settlements between Rivals Is the Settlement Better for Consumers than Ongoing Litigation? (11)
A Search-Costs Theory of Limiting Doctrines in Trademark Law (2007) (11)
Unilateral Refusals to License in the U.S. (2005) (11)
Contracting Over the Disclosure of Scientific Knowledge: Intellectual Property Protection and Academic Publication (2010) (10)
A Cautious Defense of Intellectual Oligopoly With Fringe Competition (2009) (10)
The Patent Enforcement Iceberg (2017) (10)
Why Do Juries Decide If Patents are Valid (2013) (9)
Do Patent Holdup and Royalty Stacking Lead to Systematically Excessive Royalties? (2008) (9)
Intellectual Property Rights , Input Markets , and the Value of Intangible Assets (1999) (9)
Who Chooses Open Source Software? (2009) (9)
ICANN and Antitrust (2001) (9)
Does Familiarity Breed Contempt Among Judges Deciding Patent Cases? (2014) (8)
Shrinkwraps in cyberspace (1995) (8)
The Splinternet (2020) (8)
Contracting Around Liability Rules (2012) (8)
Intellectual property in the new technological age : 2002 case and statutory supplement (2001) (8)
Understanding the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (1997) (8)
A Realistic Approach to the Obviousness of Inventions (2008) (8)
Fixing the Patent Office (2012) (7)
Industry-Specific Antitrust Policy for Innovation (2010) (7)
Does 'Public Use' Mean the Same Thing It Did Last Year? (2014) (7)
3D Printing and Beyond: Intellectual Property and Regulation (2019) (7)
Antitrust, intellectual property and standard setting organizations (2001) (7)
Designing Optimal Software Patents (2005) (6)
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2019 - Chapters 1 and 2 (2016) (6)
Taking the Regulatory Nature of IP Seriously (2014) (6)
Irrelevant Confusion (2010) (6)
An Antitrust Assessment of the Google Book Search Settlement (2009) (6)
Probabilistic Patents 1 (2004) (6)
Unfair Disruption (2019) (5)
The Role of Antitrust in Preventing Patent Holdup (2020) (5)
Open Letter on Ethical Norms in Intellectual Property Scholarship (2016) (5)
You Might Be a Robot (2019) (5)
Does Alice Target Patent Trolls? (2020) (5)
3D Printing and Beyond (2019) (5)
Intellectual property in the new technological age : 2007 statutory supplement (2006) (5)
The Fruit of the Poisonous Tree in IP Law (2016) (4)
Antitrust Law and Regulatory Gaming[dagger] (2009) (4)
The Regulatory Turn in IP (2012) (4)
Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse: Data Overview (2007) (4)
Divided Infringement Claims (2004) (4)
Platforms and Interoperability in Oracle v. Google (2018) (4)
Point of Novelty (2012) (4)
Can a Court Change the Law by Saying Nothing? (2017) (4)
Ready for Patenting (2015) (3)
Inducing Patent Infringement (2005) (3)
Is patent enforcement efficient? (2018) (3)
The Audience in Intellectual Property Infringement (2014) (3)
Trademarks, Unfair Competition, and Business Torts (2011) (3)
The Constitutionalization of Technology Law (2000) (3)
A Quick and Inexpensive System for Resolving Digital Copyright Disputes (2004) (3)
Things You Should Care About in the New Patent Statute (2011) (3)
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017, Volume I: Perspectives, Trade Secrets and Patents (2017) (3)
4/7/2005 PRELIMINARY DRAFT—PLEASE DO NOT CITE OR QUOTE WITHOUT PERMISSION (2005) (3)
Functionality Screens (2017) (3)
Can the Patent Office Be Fixed (2010) (3)
Conclusion: New Directions (2009) (2)
Rush to Judgment? Trial Length and Outcomes in Patent Cases (2012) (2)
Patent Purchases and Litigation Outcomes (2016) (2)
The Future of Printcrime: Intellectual Property, Innovation Law, and 3d Printing (2019) (2)
The Dubious Autonomy of Virtual Worlds (2012) (2)
What Litigators Can Teach the Patent Office About Pharmaceutical Patents (2021) (2)
The Scope of IP Rights (2015) (2)
IP and Other Regulations (2015) (2)
The Contradictions of Platform Regulation (2021) (2)
Balancing Ease and Accuracy in Assessing Pharmaceutical Exclusion Payments (2004) (2)
Playing Both Sides: Branded Sales, Generic Drugs, and Antitrust Policy (2019) (2)
Antitrust Arbitration and Illinois Brick (2014) (2)
The Sound and Fury of Patent Activity (2018) (2)
Antitrust Immunity: State Action and Federalism, Petitioning and the First Amendment (1994) (2)
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em? How Sitting by Designation Affects Judicial Behavior (2014) (2)
Tailoring Patents to Different Industries (2011) (2)
The Real Law of Virtual Reality (2017) (2)
Understanding the Realities of Modern Patent Litigation 1 (2014) (2)
Disappearing Content (2020) (2)
The Fractioning of Patent Law (2012) (1)
Antitrust How essential are standard-essential patents ? (2018) (1)
Brief Amici Curiae of Intellectual Property Professors in Support of Appellees, Regents of the University of Minnesota v. LSI Corp., Nos. 2018-1559, -1560, -1561, -1562, -1563, -1564, -1565 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 7, 2018) (2018) (1)
Antitrust Arbitration and Merger Approval (2015) (1)
UC Berkeley Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series (2003) (1)
The Death of the Genus Claim (2020) (1)
George Mason University SCHOOL of LAW Valuable Patents (2003) (1)
Comments of Law and Business Scholars Submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Regarding a Proposed Update to the Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property (2016) (1)
Atomistic Antitrust (2021) (1)
The Limits of Claim Differentiation (2007) (1)
Courts and the Patent System (2009) (1)
Brief Amici Curiae of 118 Law, Economics, and Business Professors and the American Antitrust Institute in Support of Petitioners (2013) (1)
Introduction – From the Maker Movement to the 3D printing era: opportunities and challenges (2019) (1)
Banning Noncompete Agreements to Create Competitive Job Markets (2021) (1)
The Antitrust Liability of Labor Unions for Anticompetitive Litigation (1992) (1)
Software & Internet Law, 2d ed. (2003) (1)
Abandoning Trade Secrets (2020) (1)
Why Courts and Not Congress Offer a Way Out of the Crisis (2009) (1)
The Medicare Innovation Subsidy (2019) (1)
Beyond Preemption: The Federal Law and Policy of Intellectual Property Licensing (1998) (1)
Trademark Spaces and Trademark Law's Secret Step Zero (2022) (1)
HETEROGENEITY AMONG PATENT OWNERS IN LITIGATION: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF SETTLEMENT, CASE PROGRESSION, AND ADJUDICATION (2016) (1)
Expecting the Unexpected (2015) (1)
Intellectual property : keyed to courses using : Merges, Menell, and Lemley's intellectual property in the new technological age, sixth edition (2013) (1)
Scarcity, Regulation, and the Abundance Society (2022) (1)
Parody as Brand (2012) (1)
Interfaces and Interoperability After Google v. Oracle (2021) (1)
Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2017, Volume II: Copyrights, Trademarks, and State IP Protections (2017) (1)
Did eBay Irreparably Injure Trademark Law? (2016) (1)
Levers at Work—the IT Industry (2009) (0)
The Exclusive Right to Customize? (2022) (0)
The Benefit of the Bargain (2022) (0)
Competition Policy and Patent Law under Uncertainty: Presume Nothing (2011) (0)
2020 Antitrust Writing Awards (2019) (0)
Testifying in support of SB 906: AN ACT CONCERNING NON-COMPETES (2021) (0)
Conclusion – The future of printcrime: intellectual property, innovation law, and 3D printing (2019) (0)
Patent Law and the Two Cultures (2010) (0)
Heterogeneity in Patent Theory: Why We Can't Agree Why We Patent (2009) (0)
Myths and Reality of Patent Law at the Supreme Court (2022) (0)
Instead of legislation , Congress should let the courts continue to resolve the patent crisis . Courts and the Patent System (2009) (0)
Amicus Brief of 29 IP, Internet Law, & Antitrust Professors in 1-800 Contacts v. F.T.C. (2019) (0)
Brief of Amici Curiae Law and Economics Scholars in Support of Appellee and Affirmance (2019) (0)
Recent Developments in Patent Law (Spring 2016) (2016) (0)
Amicus Brief of Law and Economics Scholars Supporting the Federal Trade Commission in FTC v Qualcomm (2019) (0)
'Characteristic of a Pirate': Willfulness and Treble Damages (2016) (0)
The Industry-Specific Nature of the Patent System (2009) (0)
Inventor Sued for Infringing His Own Patent. You Won't Believe What Happened Next (2016) (0)
Response to the Proposed Changes to the Claim Construction Standard for Interpreting Claims in Trial Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (2018) (0)
Exit Strategy (2019) (0)
Coalition Letter to United States International Trade Commission Urging Reconsideration of its Decision on Pure Data Transmissions (2014) (0)
Privacy, Property, and Publicity (2018) (0)
ISSUES IN IT LAW (2007) (0)
Intellectual Property and the Common Law: The Fractioning of Patent Law (2013) (0)
Patent Law Symposium (2008) (0)
The Antibody Paradox (2022) (0)
Brief of Thirty-Four Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellants in Altera Corp. v. Papst Licensing GMBH (2015) (0)
Brief of Patent Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners (Apple Inc. et al. v. California Institute of Technology) (2022) (0)
Brief of Amici Curiae 56 Professors of Law and Economics in Support of Petition for Writ of Certiorari in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, No. 16-341 (2016) (0)
Chief Justice Webster (2020) (0)
Innovation Policy Pluralism (2019) (0)
Suggestions for a Model Flood Plain Zoning Ordinance (1970) (0)
Brief Amici Curiae of 37 Intellectual Property Professors in Support of Petition for Certiorari (2016) (0)
Functional Claiming and Software Patents (2016) (0)
Without Preamble (2019) (0)
Cracks in the Foundation (2009) (0)
Parts of the Elephant: How Industry Perspective Drives Patent Theory (2009) (0)
AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF PATENTHOLDUP (2015) (0)
Analysis of Over 2,200 Life Science Companies Reveals a Network of Potentially Illegal Interlocked Boards (2022) (0)
Software and Internet Law 2000 (2000) (0)
Patenting Nanotechnology (Program) (2005) (0)
Recent Developments in Patent Law (Spring 2017) (2017) (0)
Rethinking Assignor Estoppel (2016) (0)
How much time and money should the Patent and Trademark Office spend deciding whether to issue a patent ? (2001) (0)
“Playing Both Sides?” Branded Sales, Generic Sales and Patent Policy (2019) (0)
From the Maker Movement to the 3D Printing Era: Opportunities and Challenges (2019) (0)
Rethinking Patent Laws Presumption of Validity (2016) (0)
CPC 04-46 Probabilistic Patents (2004) (0)
Policy Levers in Existing Patent Cases (2009) (0)
Preserving the Royalty-Free Standards Ecosystem (2022) (0)
Stanford Interdisciplinary Working Group on Interoperability: Report and Preliminary Recommendations (2023) (0)
HOW OFTEN DO NON-PRACTICING ENTITIES WIN (2017) (0)
Foundation Models and Fair Use (2023) (0)
Brief of Amici Curiae on Behalf of Intellectual Property Professors in Support of Petitioner (2016) (0)
Summary Judgment in Antitrust Cases: Understanding Monsanto and Matsushita (1991) (0)
Scope (2015) (0)
Red Courts, Blue Courts (2022) (0)
Fame, Parody, and Policing in Trademark Law (2018) (0)
SITTING BY DESIGNATION ] (2014) (0)
The Interpretation-Construction Distinction in Patent Law (2013) (0)
Brief Amici Curiae of 20 Law and Business Professors in Support of Neither Party in Bilski v. Doll (2009) (0)
Software & Internet Law, 1st ed. (2000) (0)
Levers in a Specific Industry—Biotechnology (2009) (0)
FTC v. Actavis, Inc. (2013) (0)
Foundations of the Patent System (2009) (0)
IRREPARABLY INJURE TRADEMARK LAW ? (2017) (0)
Muddy Rules for Cyberspace (2015) (0)
Anticompetitive Settlement of Intellectual Property Disputes - eScholarship (2003) (0)
Recent Developments in Patent Law 2020 (2018) (0)
The Diversity of Innovation (2009) (0)
1-1-2011 Life After Bilski (2014) (0)
Patentando la Nanotecnología (2008) (0)
The Imperial Supreme Court (2022) (0)
Brief for 72 Professors of Intellectual Property Law as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents in Oil States Energy v. Greene's Energy (2017) (0)
Editorial: Scarcity, regulation, and the abundance society (2023) (0)
Brief of Amici Curiae 56 Professors of Law and Economics in Support of Petition of Writ of Certiorari (2016) (0)
BRIEF OF AMICUS CURIAE ADMINISTRATIVE, CONSTITUTIONAL, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW PROFESSORS URGING REVERSAL AND SUPPORTING PETITIONERS In 19-1434 & 19-1452 (U.S. Supreme Court) (2020) (0)
Software and Internet Law (2000), First ed. (2000) (0)
Intellectual property : 1999-2000 case and statutory supplement (1999) (0)
Casenote legal briefs : software and internet law (2003) (0)
Patent settlements in the pharmaceutical industry : an antitrust perspective (2013) (0)
The Sound & Fury of Patent Activity (2018) (0)
Software & Internet Law (2003) (0)
Senate Testimony on Patentable Subject Matter Reform (2019) (0)
California Restrictive Employment Covenants after Edwards (2008) (0)
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal (2008) (0)
More We Can Do: Potential New Policy Levers (2009) (0)
Intellectual Property Statutes 2017 (2017) (0)

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