Among certain patent lawyers, one number generates some awe and trepidation: 1498. It is
the section number of a statute in Title 28 of the United States Code, a law that provides the …

New technologies disrupt existing industries. They always have, and they probably always
will. Incumbents don't like their industries to be disrupted. And they often rely on intellectual …

Human beings are the central problem of politics because they have personal interests, and
they tend to pursue them, even when they are tasked with pursuing the public interest …

This Article defends the retroactive nature of judicial lawmaking. Recent Supreme Court
judgments have reignited debate on the retroactivity of novel precedent. When a court …

The ultimate end of patent law should be to spur innovations that improve human welfare-
innovations that make people better off But firms will only invest resources in developing …

THE COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP OF PATENT EXAMINATION AND INVALIDATION
Page 1 THE COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP OF PATENT EXAMINATION AND …

In recent months, pharmaceutical manufacturers have brought legal challenges to a
provision of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) empowering the federal government to …

Abstract In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration required the use of chlorofluorocarbon-
free propellants in albuterol inhalers. But 3M held patents on the only US-approved …

Several Supreme Court justices recently expressed concern that a United States patent can
be invalidated years after its issuance despite the patent owner's reliance on the patent's …

1. See Harper v. Va. Dep't of Tax'n, 509 US 86, 107 (1993)(Scalia, J., concurring)(" That
original and enduring American perception of the judicial role sprang not from the …