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    • Serkin, Christopher (Michigan Law Review, 2014)
      As conventionally understood, regulatory takings doctrine protects property owners from the most significant costs of legal transitions. Legal change has therefore always been central to regulatory takings claims. This ...
    • Ruhl, J. B. (Public Land and Resources Law Review, 2004)
      this article is designed to convince readers that the past, present, and future trends of the ESA are all the same. To provide context, Part I presents a brief overview of the structure of the statute and the kinds of ...
    • Gervais, Daniel J. (North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, 2019)
      This Article delineates the proper scope of patentable subject matter and the two key exclusions namely scientific discoveries/laws of nature on the one hand, and mental steps/abstract ideas, on the other hand. The Article ...
    • Gervais, Daniel (North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, 2019)
      There is a shift in the shape of intellectual property tools used to strengthen and lengthen the right of pharmaceutical companies to exclude others from making and marketing their products. Patents have traditionally been ...
    • Seymore, Sean B. (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2018)
      Many patents cover inventions that do not work as described. Fingers often point to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Patent Office), which is criticized for doing a poor job of examining patents. But the story is more ...
    • Seymore, Sean B. (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2020)
      A bedrock principle of patent law is that old inventions cannot be patented. And a new use for an old invention does not render the old invention patentable. This is because patent law requires novelty-an invention must ...
    • Seymore, Sean B. (Washington University Law Review, 2019)
      It is a bedrock principle of patent law that an inventor need not understand how or why an invention works. The patent statute simply requires that the inventor explain how to make and use the invention. But explaining how ...
    • Seymore, Sean B. (Washington University Law Review, 2019)
      It is a bedrock principle of patent law that an inventor need not understand how or why an invention works. The patent statute simply requires that the inventor explain how to make and use the invention. But explaining how ...
    • Seymore, Sean B., 1971- (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2011)
      The quest to achieve the impossible fuels creativity, spawns new fields of inquiry, illuminates old ones, and extends the frontiers of knowledge. It is difficult, however, to obtain a patent for an invention which seems ...
    • Clayton, Ellen Wright; Brothers, Kyle B.; Westbrook, Matthew J.; Wright, M. Frances; Myers, John A.; Morrison, Daniel R.; Madison, Jennifer L.; Pulley, Jill M. (Personalized Medicine, 2013)
      Aim: In this study, we sought to assess patient awareness and perceptions of an opt-out biorepository. Materials & methods: We conducted exit interviews with adult patients and parents of pediatric patients having their ...
    • Clayton, Ellen Wright (Villanova Law Review, 2006)
      The question about the privacy of medical information can be stated simply: To what extent can and should patients control what the medical record contains and who has access to it and for what purposes? Patients often ...
    • Skiba, Paige Marta; Carter, Susan Payne (Review of Banking & Financial Law, 2012)
      Pawnbroking is the oldest source of credit. There is growing public interest in day-to-day pawnbroking operations, as evidenced by the popularity of reality shows such as “Pawn Stars” and “Hardcore Pawn.” Television viewers’ ...
    • Skiba, Paige Marta; Agarwal, Sumit; Tobacman, Jeremy (American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2009)
      Using a unique dataset matched at the individual level from two administrative sources, we examine household choices between liabilities and assess the informational content of prime and subprime credit scores in the ...
    • Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- (Minnesota Law Review, 2002)
      This article suggests that the Supreme Court's decision in Kyllo v. United States may not be as protective of the home as it first appears. Kyllo held that use of a thermal imager to detect heat sources inside the home is ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip (The Journal of Legal Studies, 1990)
      The liability crisis of the mid-1980s has led to an extensive reexamination of the liability system. A number of explanations have been offered for the substantial increase in insurance premiums and, in some cases, a decline ...
    • Cheng, Edward K. (Virginia Law Review, 9/24/2007)
      The use of evidentiary rules to achieve substantive goals strikes me as a Faustian bargain, and, given Bierschbach and Stein's acknowledgedly tentative position, I hope to dissuade them of the virtues of the practice. My ...
    • Ruhl, J.B.; Biber, Eric (Duke Law Journal, 2014)
      Two decades ago, Professor Richard Epstein fired a shot at the administrative state that has gone largely unanswered in legal scholarship. His target was the “permit power,” under which legislatures prohibit a specified ...
    • Maroney, Terry A. (California Law Review, 2011)
      In contemporary Western jurisprudence it is never appropriate for emotion - anger, love, hatred, sadness, disgust, fear, joy - to affect judicial decision-making. A good judge should feel no emotion; if she does, she puts ...
    • Sherry, Suzanna (Constitutional Commentary, 1985)
      Being a Supreme Court justice must have been more fun in the eighteenth century than it is today. The caseload was lighter, and the Court was a social as well as a political center., The justices also apparently felt ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip (Regulation, 1984)
      The environmental rationale for a detergent phosphate ban is straightforward enough. Phosphates are pollutants because, ironically enough, they are biodegradable. In fact, living things thrive on them. Excessive phosphate ...