Annenberg Talk
June 18, 2004
Today I gave a brief talk on the current issues surrounding fair use in the scholarly domain. Here's the paper -- just a draft. (PDF)
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I am a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where I research and teach issues relating to law & technology.
- email: polk@law.upenn.edu
- details: curriculum vitae
Recent Posts
- What is the Law of Obviousness?
- New Claim Construction Data
- Good New Obviousness Paper
- eBay v. MercExchange: A Victory for Patent Lawyers (and a loss for everyone else)
- Phillips Analysis, Part 2: What Happened to the Judges?
Archived Posts by Category
Archives
- What is the Law of Obviousness?
- New Claim Construction Data
- Good New Obviousness Paper
- eBay v. MercExchange: A Victory for Patent Lawyers (and a loss for everyone else)
- Phillips Analysis, Part 2: What Happened to the Judges?
Forthcoming Publications
Recent Publications
- The Perfect Storm: Intellectual Property and Public Values, 72 Ford. L. Rev. 423 (2005)
- Reconsidering the DMCA, 42 Hou. L. Rev. 1107 (2005)
- Patent Portfolios, 154 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1 (2005) (with Gideon Parchomovsky).
- On Software Regulation, 78 S. Cal. L. Rev. 457 (2005).
- Exactly Backwards: A Comment on Technological Exceptionalism in the Patent Law, 54 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 749 (2004).
- Is the Federal Circuit Succeeding? An Empirical Assessment of Judicial Performance, 152 U. Penn. L. Rev 1105 (2004) (with L. Petherbridge).
- Of Patents and Path Dependency: A Comment on Burk & Lemley, 18 Berkeley Tech. L. J. 1341 (2004).
- (Mostly) Against Exceptionalism, in F. Scott Kieff, Advances In Genetics 50:367 (2003).
- Information Wants to Be Free: Intellectual Property and the Mythologies of Control, 103 Colum. L. Rev. 995 (2003).
- A slightly more complete list can be found here (SSRN).
Ongoing Research Projects
I've embarked on a number of long-term, data-oriented research projects (in addition to the more typical 'law-review' type articles.)
- The Obviousness Project: describing how § 103 is implemented, and its implications.
- Claim Construction: Ongoing Empirical Assessment of patent claim construction by the courts.
- FedCir: Data-Driven Assessment of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (umbrella group for the above projects)
- The En Banc Project: Looking at the trends in en banc treatment of patent cases. (coming soon)
Classes
- Introduction to Intellectual Property
- Patent Law & Policy
- Advanced Topics in Intellectual Property Law
Credits
- Research librarian: Tim Von Dulm, Biddle Law Library
- Research assistant: Kristina Caggiano, class of 2007
- Web Apps: Christine Droesser, Penn Law ITS
Contact Info
R. Polk Wagner
Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
3400 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia PA 19104
on the web: http://www.polkwagner.com/
email: polk@law.upenn.edu
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