Technologies such as social media, autonomous vehicles, and “big data” analytics generate enormous benefits for society, but they also create substantial harms. Many of these effects take the form of externalities—external benefits and harms that a decisionmaker (such as an inventor)...

Patents on biomedical research tools - technological inputs to experimentation - may inhibit scientific inquiry and the development of life-enhancing therapies. Various "public law" approaches to address this challenge, such as a common law experimental use exception to patent infringement, have...

Design patents have recently burst onto the intellectual property stage, but they are surprisingly underdeveloped for a body of law that is more than a century and a half old. Design patents are, quite simply, a body of law without design: there is little coherent theoretical underpinning for...