Looking forward to welcoming 175 IP scholars from around the world to @law.stanford.edu this week for the 26th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (IPSC). It was fun putting together an agenda with so many interesting presentations! #IPSC2026

To add to all the @ssrn.bsky.social complaints: For the 2 forthcoming articles I posted in May, SSRN deleted publication info until I contacted support. For the agency comment I posted this week, SSRN added fake publication info—and their new chatbot wasn't exactly helpful in resolving the problem 🙄

@BerkeleyLaw is hiring a tenured professor in AI, Law and Society, as part of an interdisciplinary campus-wide cluster. Please spread the word, and consider applying! Deadline is September 4. Happy to field questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05397

Professor - Artificial Intelligence, Inequality, and Society - School of Law

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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I've submitted comments on OMB's proposal for political grant review: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... These draw on my forthcoming article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... If you're interested in research funding, comment period is open until July 13! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Patent folks: Is there no longer a way to search USPTO file wrappers without a login? My casebook exercise previously directed students to Patent Center, but that started requiring an account in fall 2025, so I switched to the Open Data Portal, but now that needs a login too?!

This looks fantastic! I don't qualify to submit, not being faculty, but I can provide a professional sounding board given my software engineering background re: computational law/AI/cryptography/blockchain. I can't tell you how many legal papers I've read where some of the tech details are wrong.

Lisa L. Ouellette@patentscholar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Know a junior scholar who would benefit from the Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM at @law.stanford.edu this fall (cosponsored with @penncareylaw.bsky.social and Northwestern Law)? Please encourage them to submit by June 15! conferences.law.stanford.edu/stanford_jff...

Know a junior scholar who would benefit from the Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM at @law.stanford.edu this fall (cosponsored with @penncareylaw.bsky.social and Northwestern Law)? Please encourage them to submit by June 15! conferences.law.stanford.edu/stanford_jff...

Via @mwshapiro.bsky.social: "The chief judge provided an answer for how to make the court accessible to young people by playing a Schoolhouse Rock-style video. Moore said the court used several artificial intelligence models, which resulted in a video that featured singing judges ..."

Federal Circuit Encourages Amicus Briefs for En Banc Chances

The Federal Circuit recommended amicus briefs that show how the court might clarify a distinct legal issue to increase the likelihood of an en banc review, among other tips and stories during a day wi...

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Lisa L. Ouellette@patentscholar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Federal Circuit has an official theme song?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZjq...

The Federal Circuit has an official theme song?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZjq...

Federal Circuit Theme Song

YouTube video by U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

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Just posted two new articles: "Examining Patent Disclosures" (with Jason Reinecke) (forthcoming @columlrev.bsky.social) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... "Government Research Funding and the First Amendment" (forthcoming @emorylawjournal.bsky.social) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Comments welcome!

New @jotwell.bsky.social post on Dennis Byrski & @lucyxiaoluwang.bsky.social's terrific work on clinical trial transparency and patent prior art: ip.jotwell.com/clinical-tri...

Clinical Trial Transparency and Patent Prior Art - Intellectual Property

Dennis Byrski & Lucy Xiaolu Wang, Marketing Authorization and Strategic Patenting: Evidence from Pharmaceuticals, 247 J. Pub. Econ. 105415 (2025).Lisa Larrimore OuelletteThe push for greater clinical ...

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Tomorrow (4/29) is the first Supreme Court patent argument in 3 years! Wondering what it's all about?

Lisa L. Ouellette@patentscholar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@law.stanford.edu student Kaidi (KD) Zhang has a great preview of the Supreme Court’s 4/29 Hikma v. Amarin argument on patent inducement for generic “skinny labels”—including why neither side’s standard solves the underlying innovation policy problem writtendescription.blogspot.com/2026/04/hikm...

@law.stanford.edu student Kaidi (KD) Zhang has a great preview of the Supreme Court’s 4/29 Hikma v. Amarin argument on patent inducement for generic “skinny labels”—including why neither side’s standard solves the underlying innovation policy problem writtendescription.blogspot.com/2026/04/hikm...

Thanks to Andrew Torrance & KU School of Law for hosting #PatCon 14! Agenda: law.ku.edu/patcon

Patent Conference

April 10-11, 2026 | KU School of Law

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Join us at Stanford April 3 to celebrate 50 years of the Copyright Act of 1976 and nearly 60 years of copyright teaching by Paul Goldstein conferences.law.stanford.edu/copyrightat5...

Yes, indeed. I'm on my seventh dean at SLS (in forty-one years) and Liz was GREAT! That's very good news for Georgetown!

Lisa L. Ouellette@patentscholar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Wow—congrats! Liz Magill was a fabulous dean at Stanford, and I think @georgetownlaw.bsky.social faculty & students are lucky to get her ❤️

Wow—congrats! Liz Magill was a fabulous dean at Stanford, and I think @georgetownlaw.bsky.social faculty & students are lucky to get her ❤️

Anupam Chander@anupamchander.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We now have the most spectacular leadership team at Georgetown Law possible: Eduardo Peñalver as University President, and now Liz Magill as Executive Vice President and Law Dean.

I have long admired my @law.stanford.edu colleagues who have contributed to @ali-org.bsky.social's work, and I'm honored to have the opportunity to join them law.stanford.edu/press/stanfo...

Stanford Law School Professor Lisa Larrimore Ouellette Elected to the American Law Institute | Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School Professor Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, the Deane F. Johnson Professor of Law and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Econom

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A bit of good news: 1st Cir. affirmed the injunction blocking NIH's 15% indirect cost cap! www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...

Lisa L. Ouellette@patentscholar.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks to @prmalone.bsky.social and his team at the @juelsgaardclinic.bsky.social at @stanfordlaw.bsky.social for filing this amicus brief on behalf of myself, @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social, @danielpgross.bsky.social & @sampat.bsky.social in the NIH indirect costs case papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thank you for your work! As you say in your article, "Data transparency should become the norm rather than the exception." I empathize with your experience about having difficulty replicating results and then finding coding errors! Scholarly consensus must start with readily available data!

I'm quoted in this Higher Ed Dive story on the administration's confused threats to Harvard's patents & broader attacks on academic freedom www.highereddive.com/news/whats-a...

What’s at stake as the Trump administration targets Harvard’s patents?

Legal experts are watching whether the federal government will take the unprecedented step of seizing patents from federally funded research.

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Glad to have had a chance to contribute to this project with a short essay: "Make Replication Data Available in a Publicly Accessible Archive"

Thanks to @northwesternlaw.bsky.social's Technology & IP Journal, I am happy to share that the essay Ten Tips for Legal Empiricists, co-edited by me and @christalaser.bsky.social is now published. It is available on SSRN here: lnkd.in/gHbPQVBP.

New Patently-O post with Jonathan Masur on why the Federal Circuit should explicitly clarify that private sales—ones that don't lead to public use or other prior art—are prior art against the seller but not third parties: patentlyo.com/patent/2025/...

Press on Jonathan Masur's and my amicus brief from @law360.bsky.social & @bloomberglaw.com www.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberglaw...

Law360@law360.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Federal Circuit should revive an insulation product maker's patent infringement lawsuit against a competitor, according to a pair of legal scholars who say third-party sales of a product by themselves can't block inventors from patenting their creations. www.law360.com/artic...

Thank you @prmalone.bsky.social, Nina Srejovic & fantastic @law.stanford.edu Juelsgaard Clinic students Jina Zhou and Yiran (Isabella) Yang for filing this amicus brief on Jonathan Masur's & my behalf, explaining why a private third-party sale isn't prior art against an unrelated inventor:

#25 in Cellulose Material Solutions, LLC v. SC Marketing Group, Inc. (Fed. Cir., 25-2000) – CourtListener.com

MODIFIED ENTRY: AMICUS BRIEF FILED by Jonathan Masur and Lisa L. Ouellette, Esq.. Service: 10/28/2025 by email. [1124194]--[Edited 10/29/2025 by GWK - Reason: compliance review complete] [Phillip Malo...

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Jonathan Masur and @patentscholar.bsky.social unravel patent law’s “disclosure puzzles”—the doctrines that demand inventors reveal enough to teach the public while still preserving the value of their inventions.

My paper with @patentscholar.bsky.social on how AI increases plagiarism risk in student and academic writing, what law should do about it (nothing), and what schools should do about it (quite a bit) is now published in the University of Chicago Law Review lawreview.uchicago.edu/online-archi...

FDA has updated their CBER/CDER net hiring data for FY 2025. Although both Centers grew in FY2023 and FY2024, in FY2025 they've lost ~16-18% (respectively) of staff, over a thousand people at CDER alone. www.fda.gov/industry/fda...

Employees inside the FDA and outside experts said they were worried the U.S. is headed toward a new era of drug regulation: one where political decisions lead, and evidence follows www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/f...

Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work

Current and former FDA staff said the level of involvement of political officials in nitty-gritty regulatory matters is unprecedented.

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I submitted written testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act drive.google.com/file/d/1SlL9...