Ted M. Sichelman

University of San Diego School of Law

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5998 Alcala Park

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United States

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1.

High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System: Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey

Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 255-327, 2009, CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 04 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2015
Stuart J.H. Graham, Robert P. Merges, Pamela Samuelson and Ted M. Sichelman
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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Entrepreneurship, Patents, Innovation, Intellectual Property

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Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Entire Book)

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Fall 2023)
Number of pages: 1085 Posted: 06 May 2021 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2023
Mark D. Janis, Ted M. Sichelman, John R. Allison, Thomas F. Cotter, Christopher Anthony Cotropia, Dmitry Karshtedt, Jeffrey A. Lefstin, Jason Rantanen, David O. Taylor and S. Sean Tu
Indiana University Maurer School of Law, University of San Diego School of Law, University of Texas - McCombs School of Business, University of Minnesota Law School, University of Richmond - School of Law, George Washington University - Law School, UC Law, San Francisco, University of Iowa - College of Law, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law and West Virginia University College of Law
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patent law, patents, patent system, casebook, open source, history of patent law, economics of patent law, patent document and its claims, subject matter eligibility, utility, disclosure, anticipation, obviousness, infringement, defenses, remedies

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Ranking the Academic Impact of 100 American Law Schools

60 Jurimetrics 1 (Fall 2019), San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 20-433, University of Illinois College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-11
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2020
Paul J. Heald and Ted M. Sichelman
University of Illinois College of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
Downloads 2,234 (11,815)
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law school rankings, citations, bibliometrics, us news rankings, ssrn, HeinOnline

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USPTO Patent Number and Case Code File Dataset Documentation

USPTO Economic Working Paper No. 2019-05, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 19-12, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 20-435
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 23 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2020
David L. Schwartz, Ted M. Sichelman and Richard Miller
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law, University of San Diego School of Law and United States Patent and Trademark Office
Downloads 1,718 (17,865)
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Patents, Litigation, Intellectual Property

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Commercializing Patents

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 341-413, 2010
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 27 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 01 May 2013
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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patent, invention, commercialization, innovation, reward theory, prospect theory

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Life after Bilski

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 63, pp. 1315-1347, 2011, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 1725009, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 11-046, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 11-02, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-05, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2012-2003
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 17 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2020
Mark A. Lemley, Michael Risch, Ted M. Sichelman and R. Polk Wagner
Stanford Law School, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, University of San Diego School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School
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patents, law, Bilski, invention, MOT, patentable subject matter, 101, Diehr, business methods, software, Federal Circuit

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Patenting by Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Study

Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, Vol. 17, pp. 111-180, 2010
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 04 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2015
Stuart J.H. Graham and Ted M. Sichelman
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and University of San Diego School of Law
Downloads 1,243 (29,043)
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Entrepreneurs, patents, startups, early-stage companies, venture capital

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Why Do Start-Ups Patent?

Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 23, 2008
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2015
Stuart J.H. Graham and Ted M. Sichelman
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and University of San Diego School of Law
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patent, patenting, entrepreneur, start-up, early-stage, survey

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RAND Patents and Exclusion Orders: Submission of 19 Economics and Law Professors to the International Trade Commission

Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-12, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2102865
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 10 Jul 2012
Colleen V. Chien, Richard Gilbert, Carl Shapiro, Thomas F. Cotter, Stefania Fusco, Shubha Ghosh, Eric Goldman, Dan L. Burk, Daniel R. Cahoy, Michael A. Carrier, Jorge L. Contreras, Joseph Scott Miller, Michael Risch, Jason Schultz, Ted M. Sichelman, Arti K. Rai, Katherine J. Strandburg, Esther van Zimmeren and Christal A. Sheppard
Berkeley Law School, University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, University of Minnesota Law School, Notre Dame Law School, Syracuse University College of Law, Santa Clara University - School of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law, Pennsylvania State University - Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal College of Business Administration, Rutgers Law School, University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Georgia School of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, New York University School of Law, University of San Diego School of Law, Duke University School of Law, New York University School of Law, Centre of Excellence GOVTRUST, University of Antwerp, Belgium and University of Nebraska - College of Law
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Wesley Hohfeld's Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning (Annotated and Edited)

Wesley Hohfeld a Century Later: Edited Work, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries (Shyam Balganesh, Ted Sichelman & Henry Smith eds., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2021), San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 21-004
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2021
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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Wesley Hohfeld, fundamental legal conceptions, legal relations, legal realism, legal formalism, rights, powers, duties, deontic logic, private law, property, torts, contracts

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Revisiting Labor Mobility in Innovation Markets

USC CLASS Research Paper No. 16-13, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 16-15
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 06 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2016
Jonathan Barnett and Ted M. Sichelman
USC Gould School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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noncompetes; covenants not to compete; non-competition agreements; innovation; labor mobility; Silicon Valley; Route 128; regional economics

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Patents as Promoters of Competition: The Guild Origins of Patent Law in the Venetian Republic

San Diego Law Review, Vol. 49, 2012
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 10 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2014
Ted M. Sichelman and Seán M. O'Connor
University of San Diego School of Law and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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history of patent law, Venice, Venetian patent system, guilds

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Purging Patent Law of ‘Private Law’ Remedies

Texas Law Review, Vol. 92, pp. 516-571, 2014
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 24 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2014
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
Downloads 546 (87,963)
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patents, damages, remedies, injunctions, royalties, licensing, eBay, NPE

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Myths of (Un)Certainty at the Federal Circuit

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (Symposium Volume), Vol. 43, pp. 1161-1194, Spring 2010
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 03 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2013
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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Federal Circuit, patent law, uniformity, uncertainty, reversal rates, forum shopping, predictability

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Data Sources on Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Other Intellectual Property

2 Research Handbook on the Law & Economics of Intellectual Property (Peter S. Menell, David L. Schwartz & Ben Depoorter, eds., Edgar Elgar Publishing) (2018, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2017
David L. Schwartz and Ted M. Sichelman
Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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intellectual property, patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, data sources, dataset, empirical

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The Vonage Trilogy: A Case Study in 'Patent Bullying'

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 2, pp. 543-577, 2014
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2015
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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Patents, Vonage, VoIP, Patent Bullies, Telecommunications

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An Economic Model of Patent Exhaustion

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An Economic Model of Patent Exhaustion

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 816-833, 2020, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-265
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 19 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2020
Olena Ivus, Edwin L.-C. Lai and Ted M. Sichelman
Smith School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Economics and University of San Diego School of Law
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Intellectual Property, Patent Exhaustion, First Sale Doctrine, Patent Licensing

An Economic Model of Patent Exhaustion

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6638
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 Jun 2020
Olena Ivus, Edwin L.-C. Lai and Ted M. Sichelman
Smith School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Economics and University of San Diego School of Law
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intellectual property, patent exhaustion, first sale doctrine, patent licensing

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Why Do Startups Use Trade Secrets?

94 Notre Dame Law Review 751 (2018), San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 18-346
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 25 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2019
David S. Levine and Ted M. Sichelman
Elon University School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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trade secrets, startups, innovation, licensing, software, biotechnology, medical device, patents, intellectual property

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Do Economic Downturns Dampen Patent Litigation?

12 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 481 (2015) (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 17 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2015
Alan C. Marco, Shawn P. Miller and Ted M. Sichelman
Georgia Institute of Technology - School of Public Policy, University of San Diego School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
Downloads 393 (130,174)
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Recessions, Downturns, Patent Litigation, GDP, Productivity, Capital, Credit

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Quantum Game Theory and Coordination in Intellectual Property

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 10-035
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 10 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2022
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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quantum game theory, intellectual property, patents, innovation, public goods

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Brief Amici Curiae of 20 Law and Business Professors in Support of Neither Party in Bilski v. Doll

Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 1485043
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 08 Oct 2009
Mark A. Lemley, Michael Risch, Ted M. Sichelman and R. Polk Wagner
Stanford Law School, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, University of San Diego School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School
Downloads 341 (152,149)
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patentable subject matter, Bilski, patent eligibility, business method patents, software patents

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Paving the Path to Accurately Predicting Legal Outcomes: A Comment on Professor Chien’s Predicting Patent Litigation

Texas Law Review See Also, Vol. 90, pp. 97-109, 2012, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 12-079, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 11-12, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS12-09
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2012
Jay P. Kesan, David L. Schwartz and Ted M. Sichelman
University of Illinois College of Law, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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patent litigation, predicting, patent, federal circuit, outcomes, empirical

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Data-Generating Patents

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 111, pp. 377-437, 2017
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 24 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2017
Brenda M. Simon and Ted M. Sichelman
California Western School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
Downloads 326 (159,724)
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patents, trade secrets, big data, medical diagnostic tests, search engines, Myriad, Google

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Startups & the Patent System: A Narrative

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2018
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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Entrepreneurship, Startups, Patents, Innovation, Intellectual Property

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Intellectual Property and Technology Startups: What Entrepreneurs Tell Us

in: Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results, Vol. 2 (Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Economic Growth, Vol. 26, M. Thursby, ed.), pp. 163-199. (2016), Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Research Paper No. 18-5, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 18-335
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 06 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2018
Stuart J.H. Graham and Ted M. Sichelman
Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and University of San Diego School of Law
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Entrepreneurship, Copyrights, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, Patents

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Enforcement as Substance in Tax Compliance

70 Washington & Lee L. Rev. 1679 (2013), San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 13-117, Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 236
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 07 May 2013 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2013
Leandra Lederman and Ted M. Sichelman
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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tax compliance, tax enforcement, probabilistic enforcement, uncertainty

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Very Tight 'Bundles of Sticks': Hohfeld's Complex Jural Relations

The Legacy of Wesley Hohfeld: Edited Major Works, Select Personal Papers, and Original Commentaries, (Shyam Balganesh, Ted Sichelman & Henry Smith eds., Cambridge University Press, 2018, Forthcoming), San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-286
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 11 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2021
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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Wesley Hohfeld, jural relations, legal relations, complex, modularity, real property, liberty, right, constitutional right

28.

The Case for Noncompetes

86 University of Chicago Law Review 953 (2020), USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS20-4, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 20-4, San Diego Legal Studies Paper 20-460
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 22 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2020
Jonathan Barnett and Ted M. Sichelman
USC Gould School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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non-competes, noncompetes, innovation, non-competition covenants, human capital, labor mobility, Silicon Valley, Route 128, covenants not to compete, training, employment law

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Taking Commercialisation Seriously

European Intellectual Property Review, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2011, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 11-050
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 16 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 01 May 2013
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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Patent, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Commercialization, IP Theory

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Letter to Congress from 28 Law Professors & Economists Urging Caution on the VENUE Act

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 30 Jul 2016
Adam Mossoff and Ted M. Sichelman
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and University of San Diego School of Law
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VENUE Act, jurisdiction, Rodney Gilstrap, Roy Payne, Robert Schroeder, Marshall, ED Texas, patent reform, patent litigation explosion, TC Heartland

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Funk Forward

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AT THE EDGE: THE CONTESTED CONTOURS OF IP, Rochelle Dreyfuss, Jane Ginsburg & Carol Rose eds., 2014, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 05 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2014
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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patents, patentable subject matter, Funk Brothers, Prometheus, biotechnology, Supreme Court

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Are Patent Trolls 'Opportunistic'?

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 14-175
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 08 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2016
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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non-practicing entity, NPE, patent troll, patent litigation, innovation

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Letter to Congress from 40 Economists & Law Professors Questioning the Quality of Some Empirical Studies in Patent Law

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 24 Feb 2016
Adam Mossoff and Ted M. Sichelman
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School and University of San Diego School of Law
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patent law; patent reform; legislation; America Invents Act; Innovation Act; HR 9; PATENT Act; S 1137; patent litigation explosion; patent troll; PAE; NPE; empirical legal studies

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Response to ‘Pervasive Sequence Patents Cover the Entire Human Genome’

Genome Medicine, Vol. 6, No. 14, 2014, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 14-07, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 14-148, Loyola-LA Legal Studies Paper No. 2014-19, Georgia State University College of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-16
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 01 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 14 May 2014
S. Sean Tu, Christopher M. Holman, Adam Mossoff, Ted M. Sichelman, Michael Risch, Jorge L. Contreras, Yaniv Heled, Gregory Dolin and Lee Petherbridge
West Virginia University College of Law, University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, University of San Diego School of Law, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law, Georgia State University College of Law, University of Baltimore - School of Law and Loyola Law School Los Angeles
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gene patents, human genome, Myriad Genetics, patent claims, patent scope

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Brief of 44 Law, Economics and Business Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent in Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc.

USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 17-10, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-266
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2017
Jonathan Barnett and Ted M. Sichelman
USC Gould School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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Intellectual Property, Patent Exhaustion, International Exhaustion, Patent Licensing, Downstream Restrictions, Lexmark, Impression Products

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Innovation Factors for Reasonable Royalties

Forthcoming Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal (2017) (Symposium Volume)., San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 16-239
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 07 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2016
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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patent remedies, Georgia-Pacific, reasonable royalty, opportunity cost, patent damages, innovation, R&D

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Cycles of Obviousness

105 Iowa Law Review 107 (2019), San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 20-432
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 20 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2020
Hon. Ryan T. Holte, Hon. Ryan T. Holte and Ted M. Sichelman
United States Court of Federal ClaimsThe University of Akron School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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patents, patent law, obviousness, empirical, Supreme Court, Federal Circuit, district courts, KSR

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Minding Patent Infringement

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 11-051
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 05 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2011
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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patents indirect infringement, inducing infringement, contributory infringement, scienter, state of mind

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Patents, Prizes, and Property

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 30, pp. 279-297, 2017, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-273
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 10 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2017
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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patents; property; prizes; grants; research & development; regulation; invention; innovation; transaction costs; public domain

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Response to the Proposed Changes to the Claim Construction Standard for Interpreting Claims in Trial Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

University of Illinois College of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-32, Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Research Paper No. 18-35, University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper, Stanford Public Law Working Paper, George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 18-28
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 28 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2018
Christopher Anthony Cotropia, Dennis David Crouch, Stuart J.H. Graham, Mark D. Janis, Jay P. Kesan, Mark A. Lemley, Adam Mossoff, Arti K. Rai, Ted M. Sichelman and Saurabh Vishnubhakat
University of Richmond - School of Law, University of Missouri School of Law, Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, University of Illinois College of Law, Stanford Law School, George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Duke University School of Law, University of San Diego School of Law and Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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patent, innovation, intellectual property, PTAB, claim construction, broadest reasonable interpretation, BRI, Phillips

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Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Chapter 8: Defenses)

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Fall 2023)
Number of pages: 103 Posted: 05 May 2021 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2023
Dmitry Karshtedt, Mark D. Janis and Ted M. Sichelman
George Washington University - Law School, Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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patent law, patents, casebook, open source, defenses, inequitable conduct, patent exhaustion, patent misuse, laches, equitable estoppel, experimental use, spoliation

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Markets for Patent Scope

IP Theory, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 42-49, 2011, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 11-053
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 07 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2013
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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patents, scope, Merges, Kitch, Nelson, IP theory

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Commercializing Information with Intellectual Property

Texas Law Review See Also, Vol. 92, pp. 35-44, 2014
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 18 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2014
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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patents, intellectual property, commercialization, commercialization theory, Arrow's Disclosure Paradox, information

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Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Introduction)

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Fall 2023)
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 23 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2023
Mark D. Janis and Ted M. Sichelman
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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patent law, patents, casebook, open source, history of patents, economics of patents, modern patent system, USPTO, patent document

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Why Barring Settlement Bars Legitimate Suits

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 18, 2008
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 May 2007 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2009
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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nuisance suits, frivolous suits, negative expected value suits, settlement, uncertainty, litigation

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Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Cover, Preface, and Table of Contents)

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Fall 2023)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2023
John R. Allison, Thomas F. Cotter, Christopher Anthony Cotropia, Mark D. Janis, Dmitry Karshtedt, Jeffrey A. Lefstin, Jason Rantanen, Ted M. Sichelman, David O. Taylor and S. Sean Tu
University of Texas - McCombs School of Business, University of Minnesota Law School, University of Richmond - School of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, George Washington University - Law School, UC Law, San Francisco, University of Iowa - College of Law, University of San Diego School of Law, Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law and West Virginia University College of Law
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patents, patent law, casebook, open source, patent claims, subject matter eligibility, utility, disclosure, anticipation, obviousness, infringement, defenses, remedies

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The Pathologies of Data-Generating Patents

BIG DATA, HEALTH LAW, AND BIOETHICS (I. Glenn Cohen et al., eds., 2017 Forthcoming) , San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 17-241, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Research Paper No. 2882459
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 13 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
Ted M. Sichelman and Brenda M. Simon
University of San Diego School of Law and California Western School of Law
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patents, trade secrets, big data, medical diagnostic tests, biotechnology, biomedical, Myriad

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Codebooks for Cycles of Obviousness

105 Iowa Law Review 107 (2019), San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 21-002
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 09 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2021
Ted M. Sichelman, Hon. Ryan T. Holte and Hon. Ryan T. Holte
University of San Diego School of Law and United States Court of Federal ClaimsThe University of Akron School of Law
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obviousness, patent law, KSR, codebooks, empirical, Supreme Court, district courts, Federal Circuit

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Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Chapter 5: Anticipation)

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Fall 2023)
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 27 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2023
Mark D. Janis and Ted M. Sichelman
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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patent law, patents, casebook, open source, anticipation, inherency, prior art, public use, on-sale bar, derivation, America Invents Act, novelty

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Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Chapter 2: Subject Matter Eligibility)

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Fall 2023)
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 23 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2023
Jeffrey A. Lefstin, Mark D. Janis and Ted M. Sichelman
UC Law, San Francisco, Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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patent law, patents, casebook, open source, patent eligibility, subject matter eligibility, business methods, DNA, software, Bilski, Alice, Myriad, Mayo

51.

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Chapter 9: Remedies)

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Fall 2023)
Number of pages: 125 Posted: 05 May 2021 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2023
Thomas F. Cotter, Mark D. Janis and Ted M. Sichelman
University of Minnesota Law School, Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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patent law, patents, casebook, open source, remedies, preliminary injunction, permanent injunction, ITC exclusion orders, lost profits, reasonable royalties, ongoing royalties, attorneys’ fees, enhanced damages, patent marking, declaratory judgment

52.

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Chapter 6: Obviousness)

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Fall 2023)
Number of pages: 111 Posted: 27 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2023
Christopher Anthony Cotropia, Mark D. Janis and Ted M. Sichelman
University of Richmond - School of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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patent law, patents, casebook, open source, obviousness, KSR, Graham v. John Deere, secondary factors, nonobviousness

53.

Patent Law Revisionism at the Supreme Court?

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Vol. 45, pp. 307-343, 2013 (symposium volume)
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2014
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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indirect infringement, inducement, patent law, contributory infringement, congressional intent, stare decisis, precedent, scienter

54.

Brief of Law Professors, as Amici Curiae, in Support of Respondent in Global-Tech Appliances v. SEB

San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 11-047
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 04 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2011
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
Downloads 79 (520,330)
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indirect infringement, contributory infringement, scienter, state of mind, patents

55.

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Chapter 7: Infringement)

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Fall 2023)
Number of pages: 158 Posted: 04 May 2021 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2023
Jason Rantanen, Mark D. Janis and Ted M. Sichelman
University of Iowa - College of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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patent law, patents, casebook, open source, infringement, all-elements rule, doctrine of equivalents, indirect infringement, contributory infringement, means-plus-function claims, inducement, divided infringement

56.

Meaning is in the Mind of the Reader: A Rejoinder to Burk, Cotter, and Lemley

Texas Law Review "See Also", Vol. 93, pp. 15-27, 2014, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 2506740
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 08 Oct 2014
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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patent law, patent remedies, injunctions, lost profits, reasonable royalties, patent holdup, damages, NPE

57.

Quantifying Legal Entropy

9 Frontiers in Physics 665054 (2021)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 13 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2021
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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entropy, indeterminacy, legal entropy, legal uncertainty, legal complexity, Shannon entropy, information theory, modularity, Hohfeld

58.

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Chapter 3: Utility)

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Fall 2023)
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 26 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2023
David O. Taylor, Mark D. Janis and Ted M. Sichelman
Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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patent law, patents, casebook, open source, utility, Brenner

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Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Chapter 1: The Patent and Its Claims)

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Fall 2023)
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 23 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2023
Mark D. Janis and Ted M. Sichelman
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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patent law, patents, casebook, open source, patent document, patent claims, claim construction, definiteness, Markman

60.

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Chapter 4: Disclosure)

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Fall 2023)
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 26 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2023
John R. Allison, Mark D. Janis and Ted M. Sichelman
University of Texas - McCombs School of Business, Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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patent law, patents, casebook, open source, disclosure, enablement, written description, best mode

61.

Brief of 22 Law, Economics, and Business Professors As Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 09 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2017
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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patents, patent litigation, venue, personal jurisdiction, forum shopping, forum selling

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Online Appendix for 'An Economic Model of Patent Exhaustion'

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 17 Jul 2020
Olena Ivus, Edwin Lai and Ted M. Sichelman
Smith School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and University of San Diego School of Law
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Intellectual Property, Patent Exhaustion, First Sale Doctrine, Patent Licensing

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Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Chapter 10: Prosecution and Transactions)

Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook (Fall 2023)
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 15 Sep 2023
Shine Tu, Mark D. Janis and Ted M. Sichelman
West Virginia University - College of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law and University of San Diego School of Law
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patent prosecution, patent counseling, IPR, PGR, CBM, patent challenges, patent licensing, double patenting

64.

Patents as Hedges

38 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 515 (2023)
Number of pages: 60
Ted M. Sichelman
University of San Diego School of Law
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patents; Schumpeter; hedges; risk; intellectual property; independent invention; innovation