Author Page for Melissa F. Wasserman

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AI-Generated Inventions: Implications for the Patent System

Southern California Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Texas Law, Legal Studies Research Paper

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 12 May 2023 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2024

Gaétan de Rassenfosse, Adam B. Jaffe and Melissa F. Wasserman

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Brandeis University and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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The New World of Agency Adjudication

California Law Review, Vol. 107, pp. 141-197, 2019, Ohio State Public Law Working Paper No. 438, C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State Research Paper No. 18-XX

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 06 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 03 Sep 2020

Christopher J. Walker and Melissa F. Wasserman

University of Michigan Law School and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Does Agency Funding Affect Decisionmaking?: An Empirical Assessment of the PTO’s Granting Patterns

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 66, 2013, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-22, 7th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 18 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 25 May 2014

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Irrational Ignorance at the Patent Office

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 72, 2019, Forthcoming, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-64

Number of pages: 82 Posted: 13 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 07 May 2019

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Is the Time Allocated to Review Patent Applications Inducing Examiners to Grant Invalid Patents?: Evidence from Micro-Level Application Data

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Is the Time Allocated to Review Patent Applications Inducing Examiners to Grant Invalid Patents?: Evidence from Micro-Level Application Data

Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming, Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 14-39, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-16, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS14-39, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 14-44

Number of pages: 93 Posted: 18 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2023

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Is the Time Allocated to Review Patent Applications Inducing Examiners to Grant Invalid Patents?: Evidence from Micro-Level Application Data

NBER Working Paper No. w20337

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 28 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2023

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Citation 28

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Saving Agency Adjudication

Texas Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 24-001, U of Texas Law, Legal Studies Research Paper, BYU Law Research Paper 23-18

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 07 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2024

Aaron L. Nielson, Christopher J. Walker and Melissa F. Wasserman

Brigham Young University - J. Reuben Clark Law School, University of Michigan Law School and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Does the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Grant Too Many Bad Patents?: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 67, 2015, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS14-32, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 14-36

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 18 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2015

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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The Changing Guard of Patent Law: Chevron Deference for the PTO

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 54, 2013, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Research Paper No. LBSS14-06, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 13-25

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 25 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2013

Melissa F. Wasserman

University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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The Failed Promise of User Fees: Empirical Evidence from the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 11, 2014, Cornell Law School Research Paper No. 13-92

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 20 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2015

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Is Too Much Specialization a Bad Thing? Specialization in Specialized Courts

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 115, 2021 Forthcoming

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 22 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2023

Melissa F. Wasserman and Jonathan D. Slack

University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and Independent

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Precedential Decision Making in Agency Adjudication

Final Report to the Administrative Conference of the United States, December 6, 2022, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 23-002

Number of pages: 146 Posted: 21 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2023

Christopher J. Walker, Melissa F. Wasserman and Matthew Lee Wiener

University of Michigan Law School, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Deference Asymmetries: Distortions in the Evolution of Regulatory Law

Texas Law Review, Vol. 93, 2015, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS14-29, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 14-32

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 28 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2015

Melissa F. Wasserman

University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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What Administrative Law Can Teach the Trademark System

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 93, 2016, Forthcoming, University of Illinois College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-25

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 09 May 2015 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2016

Melissa F. Wasserman

University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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The PTO's Asymmetric Incentives: Pressure to Expand Substantive Patent Law

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 72, No. 2, 2011

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Mar 2011

Melissa F. Wasserman

University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Tax Solutions to Patent Damages

Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal, (Invited Symposium Contribution) Forthcoming

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2018

Jennifer Blouin and Melissa F. Wasserman

University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Procrastination at the Patent Office?

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Procrastination at the Patent Office?

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-15

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 21 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2021

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Procrastination in the Workplace: Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office

NBER Working Paper No. w22987

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 27 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2022

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Divided Infringement: Expanding the Extraterritorial Scope of Patent Law

New York University Law Review, Vol. 82, No. 281, 2007

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Mar 2009

Melissa F. Wasserman

University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Patent Office Cohorts

65 DUKE L.J. 1601 (2016)

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2016

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Empirical Scholarship on the Prosecution Process at the Patent Office (PTO)

2 RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE LAW & ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (Peter S. Menell, David L. Schwartz & Ben Depoorter, eds., Edgar Elgar Publishing) (2016, Forthcoming)

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 09 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2016

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Knowledge Spillovers and Learning in the Workplace: Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office

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Knowledge Spillovers and Learning in the Workplace: Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-11

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 12 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2018

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Knowledge Spillovers and Learning in the Workplace: Evidence from the U.S. Patent Office

NBER Working Paper No. w24159

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 03 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2023

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Do Patent Lawsuits Target Invalid Patents

Selection and Decision In The Judicial Process Around The World: Empirical Inquiries (Yun-chien Chang ed., Cambridge University Press 2018 Forthcoming), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-24

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2021

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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The Seven Sins of Personal-Data Processing Systems under GDPR

USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, 2019

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 25 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2019

Supreeth Shastri, Melissa F. Wasserman and Vijay Chidambaram

University of Texas at Austin - Computer Science Engineering, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - Computer Science Engineering

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Are There as Many Trademark Offices as Trademark Examiners?

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 69, 2020, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-1

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Jan 2020

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Investing in Ex Ante Regulation: Evidence from Pharmaceutical Patent Examination

NBER Working Paper No. w27579, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2022-01

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 28 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 11 May 2023

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Analyzing the Impact of GDPR on Storage Systems

USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, 2019

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 02 Aug 2019

Aashaka Shah, Vinay Banakar, Supreeth Shastri, Melissa F. Wasserman and Vijay Chidambaram

University of Texas at Austin - Computer Science Engineering, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, University of Texas at Austin - Computer Science Engineering, University of Texas at Austin - School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - Computer Science Engineering

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Patent Trial and Appeal Board's Consistency-Enhancing Function

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 104, No. 5, 2019, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-61

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Aug 2019

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Deadlines Versus Continuous Incentives: Evidence from the Patent Office

NBER Working Paper No. w32066, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2024-06

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 22 Jan 2024 Last Revised: 07 Feb 2024

Michael Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman

Duke University School of Law and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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Melissa F. Wasserman

University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

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