OLD ACCOUNT - Nicholson PriceApr 19, 2023

When trusted government agencies share information on their websites—like pollution reports, patents, or vaccine reactions—how trustworthy is it? Depressingly often, not very!

Thrilled to review Janet Freilich's excellent piece, Government Misinformation Platforms, in JOTWELL (the Journal of Things We Like Lots!) today:

https://cyber.jotwell.com/trust-trustworthiness-and-misinformation-shared-by-the-government/

#lawfedi #jotwell #academia #misinformation #womenalsoknowlaw #law #patents

Trust, Trustworthiness, and Misinformation Shared by the Government - Technology Law

Janet Freilich, Government Misinformation Platforms, __U. Pa. L. Rev. __(forthcoming 2023), draft available at SSRN (Feb. 27 2023).Nicholson PriceWhere does trusted information come from? In a world of misinformation, where everyone is skeptical of everything, at least we can rely on expert, authoritative government agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control, the Patent Office, and the Food and Drug Administration, right? Right? Not so fast, Professor Janet Freilich persuasively but depressingly argues in the smart, eye-opening, [...]

Technology Law
Kara W. SwansonApr 4, 2023
Exciting research re gender disparities in US patenting -- start with #Jotwell review by @PatentScholar, then dive into the #uspto paper: https://ip.jotwell.com/policy-experimentation-to-address-inequality-among-innovators/
Policy Experimentation to Address Inequality Among Innovators - Intellectual Property

Nicholas A. Pairolero, Andrew A. Toole, Peter-Anthony Pappas, Charles A.W. deGrazia & Mike H.M. Teodorescu, Closing the Gender Gap in Patenting: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial at the USPTO (Nov. 1, 2022), available at SSRN.Lisa Larrimore OuelletteInequality among innovators is a substantial social problem in terms of both equity and economic growth. For instance, Raj Chetty’s Opportunity Insights group has documented that if women, racial minorities, and low-income Americans invented at the same rate as high-income white men, [...]

Intellectual Property
Sarah FackrellFeb 5, 2023

New IP JOTWELL post by Laura Pedraza-Fariña: "How Do Patents Influence Cumulative Innovation?"

"In their excellent paper, Measuring Follow-On Innovation, Janet Freilich and Sepehr Shahshahani contribute to this debate by bringing together both a deep understanding of patent law doctrine and precise econometrics research."

https://ip.jotwell.com/how-do-patents-influence-cumulative-innovation/

#Scholarship #LawProfs #JOTWELL #Patents

How Do Patents Influence Cumulative Innovation? - Intellectual Property

Janet Freilich & Sepehr Shahshahani, Measuring Follow-On Innovation (Feb. 20, 2022), available at SSRN.Laura Pedraza-FariñaAsk any patent law student why we have a patent system, and they are likely to answer that patent law addresses a fundamental market failure: the free-riding by non-inventors on the inventions of others. A patent holder’s right to exclude others from making and using her patented invention addresses free-riding directly, restoring ex ante incentives to invest in innovation. But in solving the free-riding problem, [...]

Intellectual Property