The following is a first cut at a list of Lost Classics of Intellectual Property Law – Patent.
For background and explanation of the Lost Classics series, read this earlier post.
(Ordered alpha by author)
Donald W. Banner, Innovation, Patents and the National Interest, 12 Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 37 (1980)
Ward S. Bowman, Jr., Patent and Antitrust: A [...]

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Some time ago on this blog, I ranted a bit about how younger IP scholars either have lost the knack of knowing something about the history of the discipline – or never acquired it in the first place.
Off and on over the last year, I assembled lists of key pieces of scholarship and key [...]

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Like many IP colleagues, I have now seen the movie Flash of Genius dealing with an inventor who dedicated much of his life to suing Ford and eventually other motor car companies for infringing his patents on intermittent window wiper technology.  But after watching the movie I was left with some technical questions, and [...]

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First, let me thank Mike and his crew for having me here.  I’ve often read Madisonian and am honored to be among the new participants.
I thought I’d start off talking about my increasingly inaccurately referenced “summer reading list”.  In other words, I bought a pile of books over the summer, didn’t read them and am [...]

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Via.

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Dennis Crouch explains here.

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Yesterday I saw an article about a jewelry heist in London where two men in nice suits got away with $65 million of merchandise. The weird part to me was that the store had a similar event in 2003 where 23 million pounds worth of jewels were taken, and more recently in 2007 a branch [...]

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From here:
I went to the Patent Office trying to register some of my inventions. I went to the main desk to sign in and the lady at the desk had a form that had to be filled out. She wrote down my personal info and then asked me what I had invented.
I said, “A folding [...]

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