Stephen M. Maurer

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720

United States

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The New (Commercial) Open Source: Does it Really Improve Social Welfare?

Goldman School of Public Policy Working Paper No. GSPP10-001
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 25 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2012
Sebastian von Engelhardt and Stephen M. Maurer
University of Jena - Economics Department and University of California, Berkeley
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Open source, commercial open source, Cournot

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Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary between Antitrust Law and Patent Law

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Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary between Antitrust Law and Patent Law

UC Berkeley, Center for Competition Policy Working Paper No. CPC04-43
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 Feb 2004
Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer
University of California, Berkeley and University of California - Department of Economics (Deceased)
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Antitrust, patents, price fixing, licensing

Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary between Antitrust Law and Patent Law

NBER Working Paper No. w10546
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 21 May 2014
Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer
University of California, Berkeley and University of California - Department of Economics (Deceased)
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Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary between Antitrust Law and Patent Law

American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 8, Issue 3, pp. 476-522, 2006
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer
University of California, Berkeley and University of California - Department of Economics (Deceased)

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The Penguin and the Cartel: Rethinking Antitrust and Innovation Policy for the Age of Commercial Open Source

Goldman School of Public Policy Working Paper No. GSPP10-006
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 03 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2015
Stephen M. Maurer
University of California, Berkeley
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open source, commercial open source, non-cooperative R&D

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Open Source Drug Discovery: Finding a Niche (or Maybe Several)

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 30 Mar 2008
Stephen M. Maurer
University of California, Berkeley
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open source biology, open source drug discovery, open source

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The Essential Facilities Doctrine: The Lost Message of Terminal Railroad

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2407071
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 Mar 2014
Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer
University of California, Berkeley and University of California - Department of Economics (Deceased)
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Competitions policy, antitrust, Sherman Act, essential facility

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Intellectual Property Incentives: Economics and Policy Implications

Rochelle Dreyfuss & Justine Pila (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law, Oxford University Press (2016, Forthcoming).
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2016
Stephen M. Maurer
University of California, Berkeley
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Intellectual property, innovation, patents, copyright, antitrust

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Five Easy Pieces: Case Studies of Entrepreneurs Who Organized Private Communities for a Public Purpose

Goldman School of Public Policy Working Paper No. GSPP10-011
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Nov 2010
Stephen M. Maurer
University of California, Berkeley
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Self-Regulation, Private Standards, Databases Open Source, Nanotechnology, National Security, Dual Use Technology

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Beyond Treaties and Regulation: Using Market Forces to Control Dual Use Technologies

Goldman School of Public Policy Working Paper No. GSPP10-010
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Nov 2010
Stephen M. Maurer
University of California, Berkeley
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Homeland Security, Biosecurity, Bureaucracy, Regulation, Network Effects, Standards, Synthetic Biology

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Ideas into Practice: How Well Does US Patent Law Implement Modern Innovation Theory?

Forthcoming: 12 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. (2013)
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 01 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2013
Stephen M. Maurer
University of California, Berkeley
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Patent Law, Patent Incentives, Probabilistic Patents, Patent Infringement, Blocking Patents, PHOSITA, Reverse Doctrine of Equivalents, Written Description Requirement

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The New Self-Governance: A Theoretical Framework

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 19 May 2015
Stephen M. Maurer
University of California, Berkeley
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Self-governance, self-regulation, legitimacy

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Network Effects in Biology

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 31 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2013
Joachim Henkel and Stephen M. Maurer
TUM School of Management - Technische Universität München (TUM) and University of California, Berkeley
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network effects, learning spill-overs, biology, stem cells

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The Economics of Memory: How Copyright Decides Which Books Do (and Don’t) Become Classics

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Apr 2015
Stephen M. Maurer
University of California, Berkeley
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Copyright, Publishing

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Public Problems, Private Answers: Reforming Industry Self-Governance Law for the 21st Century

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 25 Feb 2014
Stephen M. Maurer
University of California, Berkeley
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Industry Self-Governance, Private Power, Private Politics

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From Bards to Search Engines: Finding What Readers Want from Ancient Times to the World Wide Web

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 12 Jun 2014
Stephen M. Maurer
University of California, Berkeley
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Copyright, Publishing

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Industry Self-Governance and National Security: On the Private Control of Dual Use Technologies

UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy Working Paper No. GSPP12-005
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2013
Sebastian von Engelhardt and Stephen M. Maurer
University of Jena - Economics Department and University of California, Berkeley
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dual use products, self-governance, self-regulation, private regulation, buyer-power

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Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm

NBER Working Paper No. w12148
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 May 2006 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2010
Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer
University of California, Berkeley and University of California - Department of Economics (Deceased)
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Taking Self-Governance Seriously: Synthetic Biology’s Last, Best Chance to Improve Security

University of Califronia, Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy Working Paper No. GSPP12-003
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 01 Dec 2012
Stephen M. Maurer
University of California, Berkeley
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Biosecurity, dual use products, self-governance, self-regulation, synthetic biology, synthetic DNA

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Digital Publishing: Three Futures (and How to Get There)

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 08 Dec 2017
Stephen M. Maurer
University of California, Berkeley
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Copyright, Publishing

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Procuring Knowledge

NBER Working Paper No. w9903
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Aug 2003 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2015
Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer
University of California, Berkeley and University of California - Department of Economics (Deceased)
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'Beauty is Truth and Truth Beauty': How Intuitive Insights Shape Legal Reasoning and the Rule of Law

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 27 Apr 2018
Stephen M. Maurer
University of California, Berkeley
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Law, Law Making, Lawyer, Legal Institutions, Judiciary

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The Independent Invention Defence in Intellectual Property

Economica, Vol. 69, pp. 535-547, 2002
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 10 Feb 2003
Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer
University of California, Berkeley and University of California - Department of Economics (Deceased)
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The Healing Constitution: Updating the Framers' Design for a Hyperpolarized Society

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Apr 2019
Stephen M. Maurer
University of California, Berkeley
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Democratic theory, legislation, US Constitution, Rule of Law

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Industry Self-Governance: A New Way to Manage Dangerous Technologies

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 69(3), 2013, pp. 53-62
Posted: 12 Oct 2013
Stephen M. Maurer and Sebastian von Engelhardt
University of California, Berkeley and University of Jena - Economics Department

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Finding Cures for Tropical Diseases: Is Open Source an Answer?

PLOS Medicine, Vol. 1, p. 183, 2004, Duke Science, Technology & Innovation Paper No. 4
Posted: 06 Apr 2005
Stephen M. Maurer, Arti K. Rai and Andrej Sali
University of California, Berkeley, Duke University School of Law and UC, San Francisco - Dept. of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry

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open source, neglected disease, patent

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The Independent-Invention Defense in Intellectual Property

John M. Olin Law and Economics Working Paper No. 98-11
Posted: 26 Feb 1999
Stephen M. Maurer and Suzanne Scotchmer
University of California, Berkeley and University of California - Department of Economics (Deceased)

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