Peter Lee

University of California, Davis - School of Law

Professor of Law

Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall

Davis, CA CA 95616-5201

United States

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1.

Patent Law and the Two Cultures

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 120, 2010, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 206
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 04 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2010
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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patents, culture, Two Cultures, STS, psychology, Federal Circuit, Supreme Court, formalism, holism, deference, expertise, judges

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Toward a Distributive Commons in Patent Law

Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2009, p. 917, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 177
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 23 May 2009 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2013
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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patents, biomedical, research, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, agriculture, biotechnology, distributive justice, commons, public institutions, NIH, CIRM, nonprofits, universities, disease advocacy, biobanks, technology transfer, licensing

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The Evolution of Intellectual Infrastructure

Washington Law Review, Vol. 83, p. 39, 2008, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 137
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 11 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2013
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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trademark, copyright, patent, infrastructure, ebay, remedies, liability rule, property rule

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Contracting to Preserve Open Science: Consideration-Based Regulation in Patent Law

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 58, p. 889, 2009, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 153
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 22 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 25 May 2014
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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private ordering, norms, biomedical research, research tools, patent law, commons

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The Law of Look and Feel

90 Southern California Law Review, 2017 (Forthcoming), UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 482
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 19 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2016
Peter Lee and Madhavi Sunder
University of California, Davis - School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
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Look and feel, design, design theory, intellectual property, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, utility patents, design patents

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Transcending the Tacit Dimension: Patents, Relationships, and Organizational Integration in Technology Transfer

California Law Review, Vol. 100, pp. 1503, 2012, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 287
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 11 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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patents, technology transfer, theory of the firm, tacit knowledge, science and technology studies, licensing, relationships, faculty inventors, sponsored research, startups, spinouts

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Patents and the University

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 63, 2013, Forthcoming, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 324
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 14 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2013
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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patents, intellectual property, technology transfer, universities, academic science, law and science, licensing, Federal Circuit, patent reform, America Invents Act, university patenting, law and norms

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Social Innovation

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 92, No. 1, 2014, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 407
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 07 Dec 2014
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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social innovation, innovation, patent law, intellectual property, innovation dynamics, government funding, prizes, nonprofits, social capital, infrastructure, commons, theory of the firm, user innovation

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Innovation and the Firm: A New Synthesis

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 70
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 30 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2018
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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Patents, vertical integration, industrial organization, theory of the firm, tacit knowledge, technology transfer, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, agricultural biotechnology, information technology, startups, university patenting, antitrust

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The Accession Insight and Patent Infringement Remedies

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 110, p. 175, 2011, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 246
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 27 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2015
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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patents, property, accession, technological improvement, blocking patents, reverse doctrine of equivalents, property rules, liability rules, remedies, infringement, eBay, injunctions, damages, ongoing royalties

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Inverting the Logic of Scientific Discovery

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 19, p. 79, 2005, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 92
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Apr 2006
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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patents, research tools, biotechnology, intellectual property, common law, natural law, natural phenomena, abstract principles, patentable subject matter, stem cells

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Patents, Paradigm Shifts, and Progress in Biomedical Science

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 114, pp. 659-695, 2004
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Apr 2006
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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patents, paradigm shifts, science, biomedical science, Kuhn, stem cells

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Design Patents: Law Without Design

Stanford Technology Law Review, Vol. 17, p. 277, 2013, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 380
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 09 May 2014
Peter Lee and Madhavi Sunder
University of California, Davis - School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
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IP theory, design patents, design theory, intellectual property, copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, patents, standardization

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Interface: The Push and Pull of Patents

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 77, p. 2225, 2009, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 165
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2015
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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patents, research tools, universities, technology transfer, licensing, equitable access, commercialization

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The Supreme Assimilation of Patent Law

114 Mich. L. Rev. (2016, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 10 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2015
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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patent law, intellectual property, Supreme Court, Federal Circuit, formalism, realism, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Administrative Procedure Act, jurisdiction, remedies, injunctions, induced infringement, attorney’s fees, antitrust, universality, exceptionalism

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The Supreme Court's Myriad Effects on Scientific Research: Definitional Fluidity and the Legal Construction of Nature

5 U.C. Irvine Law Review, 2015, Forthcoming, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 431
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 31 May 2015 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2016
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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Patents, patent law, intellectual property, scientific research, gene patents, biomedical research, Supreme Court, Myriad Genetics, patentable subject matter, physical phenomena, DNA, isolated DNA, cDNA

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Substantive Claim Construction as a Patent Scope Lever

IP Theory, Vol. 1, p. 100-114, 2011, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 245
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2015
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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Toward a Distributive Agenda for U.S. Patent Law

55 Houston Law Review 321 (2017)
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 20 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2018
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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Patents, Utilitarianism, Pharmaceuticals, Inventors, Diversity, Distributive Justice, USPTO

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Centralization, Fragmentation, and Replication in the Genomic Data Commons

Centralization, Fragmentation, and Replication in the Genomic Data Commons, in Governing Medical Knowledge Commons (Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J. Strandburg eds., Cambridge University Press 2017), UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 448
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2018
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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commons, genomics, GenBank, data, databases, biocuration, wikification, gene browsers, NIH

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Innovating Between and Within Technological Paradigms: A Response to Samuelson

Minnesota Law Reveiw Headnotes, Vol. 94, No. 1, 2009, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 192
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 22 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2010
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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patents, interfaces, interoperability, paradigms, formats, platforms, software, information technology

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Antiformalism at the Federal Circuit: The Jurisprudence of Chief Judge Rader

Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts, Vol. 7, pp. 405, 2012, UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 288
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 30 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2015
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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Patents, intellectual property, Federal Circuit, formalism, Chief Judge Rader, courts, claim construction, patentable subject matter, written description requirement

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Retheorizing the Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Industry Structure

72 Vanderbilt Law Review (2019 Forthcoming) , UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 23 Oct 2018
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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intellectual property, patents, copyrights, vertical integration, market entry, fragmentation, concentration, antitrust, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, agricultural biotechnology, seeds software, movies, music, books, publishing

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Democratic Engagement and the Republic of Science

51 UC Davis Law Review 617 (2017)
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 28 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2018
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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science policy, basic research, Donald Trump, commercialization, Bayh-Dole Act, climate change, patents, Republic of Science, science communication, federal funding

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'All Life is an Experiment': Research Tool Patents, Epistemological Monopolies, and the First Amendment

UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 348
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Aug 2013
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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patents, First Amendment, research tools, biomedical science, tragedy of the anticommons, legal theory

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Distinguishing Damages Paid from Compensation Received: A Thought Experiment

Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal (2017, Forthcoming), UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 Aug 2017
Peter Lee
University of California, Davis - School of Law
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patents, infringement, damages, remedies, inducement, decoupling, settlement