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perspectives on patentable subject matter PerspectivesonPatentableSubjectMatterbringstogetherleadingscholarstoofferdiverse perspectivesononeofthemostpressingissuesinpatentlaw:thebasicquestionabout which types of subject matter are even eligible for patent protection, setting aside the widelyknownrequirementthataclaimedinventionavoidsthepriorartandisadequately disclosed.Someleadingcommentatorsandpolicy-makingbodiesandindividualsenvi- sion patentable subject matter to include anything under the sun made by humans, whereas other thought leaders envision a range of restrictions for particular fields of endeavor,frombusinessmethodsandcomputersoftwaretomattersinvolvinglife,such asDNAandmethodsforscreeningortreatingdisease.Employingapproachesthatare boththeoreticallyrigorousandgroundedintherealworld,thisbookiswellsuitedfor practicinglawyers,managers,lawmakers,andanalysts,aswellasacademicsconducting researchorteachingarangeofcoursesinlaw,business,andpublicpolicyschoolsand ineconomicsandpoliticalsciencedepartments,ateithertheundergraduateorgraduate level. Michael Abramowicz is a professor at the George Washington University Law School in Washington,DC,whospecializes in lawandeconomics,spanningareasincluding intellectualproperty,civilprocedure,corporatelaw,administrativelaw,andinsurance law. His research has been published in the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, New York UniversityLawReview,StanfordLawReview,UniversityofChicagoLawReview,Virginia Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. He is the author of the 2008 book Predictocracy: MarketMechanismsforPublicandPrivateDecisionMaking. JamesE.Dailyisthepostdoctoralresearchassociateforandadministrativedirectorof theHooverProjectonCommercializingInnovation.AsanattorneylicensedinMissouri andapatentagentregisteredwiththeU.S.PatentandTrademarkOffice,hisresearch interests include open source models of innovation, the role of open source in the marketplace,andtheinteractionsbetweenopensourceandintellectualproperty.Heis alsothecreatorandco-authoroftheblog“LawandtheMultiverse”andtheco-author ofthe2012bookTheLawofSuperheroes. F.ScottKieffisonleavefromhispostasFredC.StevensonResearchProfessoratthe GeorgeWashingtonUniversityLawSchoolinWashington,DC,havingbeennominated byPresidentBarackH.Obama,andconfirmedbytheSenate,toserveasacommissioner oftheU.S.InternationalTradeCommission.Beforetakinguphisgovernmentpost,he was also the Ray and Louise Knowles Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution,wherehedirectedtheHooverProjectonCommercializingInnovation.He hasalsoregularlyservedasatestifyingandconsultingexpert,mediator,andarbitratorfor lawfirms,businesses,governmentagencies,andcourtsandonarangeofgovernment panelsrelatingtothebusinessandtechnologysectors.Heworkedonthisbookwhilein hisacademicpositions,beforebeingsworninandtakinghisgovernmentpost. Perspectives on Patentable Subject Matter Editedby MICHAEL ABRAMOWICZ GeorgeWashingtonUniversityLawSchool JAMES E. DAILY WashingtonUniversityinSt.LouisSchoolofLaw F. SCOTT KIEFF GeorgeWashingtonUniversityLawSchool 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107070912 (cid:2)C MichaelAbramowicz,JamesE.Daily,andF.ScottKieff2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Perspectivesonpatentablesubjectmatter/editedbyMichaelAbramowicz,JamesE.Daily, F.ScottKieff. pagescm isbn978-1-107-07091-2(hardback) 1.Patentlawsandlegislation. I.Abramowicz,Michael,editor. 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Contents Contributors pagevii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 MichaelAbramowicz,JamesE.Daily,andF.ScottKieff 1 “Clues”forDeterminingWhetherBusinessandService InnovationsAreUnpatentableAbstractIdeas 8 PamelaSamuelsonandJasonSchultz 2 StillAimingattheWrongTarget:ACaseforBusiness MethodandSoftwarePatentsfromaBusinessPerspective 29 KristenOsenga 3 Semiotics101:TakingthePrintedMatterDoctrineSeriously 45 KevinEmersonCollins 4 PatentEligibilityasaPolicyLevertoRegulatethePatenting ofPersonalizedMedicine 114 ChristopherM.Holman 5 TheInducementStandardofPatentability 151 MichaelAbramowiczandJohnF.Duffy 6 PatentingtheCurveBall:BusinessMethodsandIndustry Norms 225 GerardN.Magliocca v vi Contents 7 BusinessandFinancialMethodPatents,Innovation,and Policy 248 BronwynH.Hall 8 TheLitigationofFinancialInnovations 277 JoshLerner 9 PatentSearchandCumulativeInnovation 303 MichaelJ.Meurer 10 TheVonageTrilogy:ACaseStudyin“PatentBullying” 313 TedR.Sichelman 11 UniversitySoftwareOwnershipandLitigation:AFirst Examination 336 ArtiK.Rai,JohnR.Allison,andBhavenN.Sampat 12 TheIndividualInventorMotifintheAgeofthePatentTroll 376 ChristopherA.Cotropia 13 AnythingUndertheSunMadebyHumans:PatentLaw DoctrinesasEndogenousInstitutionsforCommercializing Innovation 403 JamesE.DailyandF.ScottKieff Index 415 Contributors MichaelAbramowiczProfessor,GeorgeWashingtonUniversityLawSchool John R. Allison Mary John and Ralph Spence Centennial Professor of Business Administration,UniversityofTexasatAustin KevinEmersonCollinsProfessorofLaw,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis Christopher A. Cotropia Professor of Law and Austin Owen Research Fellow, UniversityofRichmond JamesE.DailyResearchTechnologist,WashingtonUniversityinSt.LouisSchool ofLaw,CenterforEmpiricalResearchintheLaw John F. Duffy Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law and Armistead M. Dobie ProfessorofLaw,UniversityofVirginia Bronwyn H. Hall Professor of Economics, Emerita, University of California, Berkeley ChristopherM.HolmanProfessorofLaw,UniversityofMissouri–KansasCity F.ScottKieffProfessor,GeorgeWashingtonUniversityLawSchool,andRayand Louise Knowles Senior Fellow at Stanford University Hoover Institution on War, Revolution,andPeace* * KiefftookaleaveofabsencefromGeorgeWashingtonUniversityLawSchoolandresignedfrom StanfordUniversityHooverInstitutiontotakeuphispostasacommissionerattheU.S.International TradeCommission(USITC).Heworkedonthisbookbeforetakinguphisgovernmentpost.The viewsexpressedinthisbookarethoseoftheauthorsofthevariouschaptersanddonotnecessarily reflectthoseoftheco-editors.Noraretheviewsexpressedinthisbookproperlyattributabletothe USITC. vii viii Contributors JoshLernerJacobH.SchiffProfessorofInvestmentBanking,HarvardUniversity GerardN.MaglioccaSamuelR.RosenProfessorofLaw,IndianaUniversity Michael J. Meurer Abraham and Lillian Benton Scholar and Professor of Law, BostonUniversity KristenOsengaProfessorofLaw,UniversityofRichmond ArtiK.RaiElvinR.LattyProfessorofLaw,DukeUniversity Bhaven N. Sampat Associate Professor at the Mailman School of Public Health, ColumbiaUniversity PamelaSamuelsonRichardM.ShermanDistinguishedProfessorofLaw,University ofCaliforniaatBerkeley JasonSchultzAssociateProfessorofClinicalLaw,NewYorkUniversity TedR.SichelmanProfessorofLaw,UniversityofSanDiego
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