John F. Duffy

University of Virginia School of Law

Professor of Law

580 Massie Road

Charlottesville, VA 22903

United States

http://www.law.virginia.edu/lawweb/faculty.nsf/FHPbI/2141954

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1.

Are Administrative Patent Judges Unconstitutional?

GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 419, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 419
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 06 May 2008
John F. Duffy
University of Virginia School of Law
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Constitutional Law, Appointments Clause, Patent and Trademark Office, Administrative Patent Judges

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Rethinking Patent Law's Uniformity Principle

Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-17, George Washington University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 225, Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 101, No. 4, 2007
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 06 Sep 2006
Craig Allen Nard and John F. Duffy
Case Western Reserve University School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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A Minimum Optimal Patent Term

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 09 Jan 2003
John F. Duffy
University of Virginia School of Law
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patents, patent term, optimal patent term, optimal patent life

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Statutory Domain and the Commercial Law of Intellectual Property

102 Virginia Law Review, No. 1, March 2016, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2015-25, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2015-13
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 28 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2017
John F. Duffy and Richard M. Hynes
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Copyright Law, Commercial Law, First-Sale Doctrine, Exhaustion Doctrine, Statutory Interpretation

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Inventing Invention: A Case Study of Legal Innovation

Texas Law Review, Vol. 86, No. 1, 2007
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 03 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2009
John F. Duffy
University of Virginia School of Law
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Patents, Invention, Innovation, Obviousness, Nonobviousness, History, Positive Theory of Economic Analysis of Law

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Intellectual Property for Market Experimentation

New York University Law Review, Forthcoming, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 396, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 396
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 06 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2017
Michael Abramowicz and John F. Duffy
George Washington University Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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Intellectual Property, Innovation, Market Experimentation, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial, Hayek, Schumpeter, Knight, Patent, Copyright, Trademark, Trade Secret, Development, First-mover advantage

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Executive Decisions After Arthrex

Supreme Court Review, Forthcoming , George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 22-10
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2022
Jennifer Mascott and John F. Duffy
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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Supreme Court, Appointments Clause, Article II, administrative law, patent law, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, administrative patent judges, Federal Circuit, executive agencies, separation of powers, principal officers, inferior officers

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The Inducement Standard of Patentability

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 120, 2010
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 21 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2015
Michael Abramowicz and John F. Duffy
George Washington University Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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patent nonobviousness

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The Marginal Cost Controversy in Intellectual Property

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 71, No. 1, 2004
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 Feb 2008
John F. Duffy
University of Virginia School of Law
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innovation, prizes, subsidies, patents, intellectual property, marginal cost, Coase

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Why Business Method Patents?

GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 484
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2014
John F. Duffy
University of Virginia School of Law
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Rules and Standards on the Forefront of Patentability

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2009, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 483
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 11 Nov 2009
John F. Duffy
University of Virginia School of Law
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patents, business method patents, rules, standards

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Asymmetric Subsidies and the Bail Crisis

88 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1285 (2021), University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 88, No. 1285, 2021, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2021-49, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2021-24
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 18 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2021
John F. Duffy and Richard M. Hynes
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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Law and economics, legal history, bail, criminal procedural, bonding, sureties, legal innovation, law and technology

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Common Law vs. Statutory Bases of Patent Exhaustion

Virginia Law Review Online Vol.103, April 2017, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2017-04
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2017
John F. Duffy and Richard M. Hynes
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Commercial Law, Common Law, Statutory Interpretation, Exhaustion Doctrine

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Counterproductive Notice in Literalistic versus Peripheral Claiming

Boston University Law Review, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2016-37
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2016
John F. Duffy
University of Virginia School of Law
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Property rights, notice, patents, peripheral claiming, literalistic claiming, functional claiming, doctrine of equivalents

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Ending the Patenting Monopoly

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, No. 6, 2009, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2013-99, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-99
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 06 Mar 2015
Michael Abramowicz and John F. Duffy
George Washington University Law School and University of Virginia School of Law
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patents, USPTO, United States Patent and Trademarks Office, patent filing, patentability monopoly, intellectual property

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The Federal Circuit in the Shadow of the Solicitor General

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 78, No. 3, 2010
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 May 2018
John F. Duffy
University of Virginia School of Law
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