Agency Design
- Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, Giving the Federal Circuit a Run for Its Money: Challenging Patents in the PTAB, 91 Notre Dame L. Rev. 235 (2015)
- Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Patent Experimentalism, 101 Va. L. Rev. (2015)
- J.S. Sherkow, Administrating Patent Litigation, 90 Wash. L. Rev. 205(2015)
Agency Procedures
- Melissa F. Wasserman, What Administrative Law Can Teach the Trademark System, 93 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1511 (2016)
- Michael D. Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman, Does Agency Funding Affect Decisionmaking?: An Empirical Assessment of the PTO’s Granting Patterns, 66 Vand. L. Rev. 67 (2013)
- Michael D. Frakes and Melissa F. Wasserman, Patent Office Cohorts, 65 Duke Law Journal 1601 (2016)
- Sean Tu, Understanding the Backlog Problems Associated with Requests for Continued Examination Practice, 13 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 216 (2015)
Agency Rule-making
- John M. Golden, The USPTO’s Soft Power: Who Needs Chevron Deference, 66 S.M.U. L. Rev. 541 (2013)
- Sarah Tran, Patent Powers, 25 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 609 (2012)
Tension Between IP Agencies and Other Parts of the Executive Branch
- Sapna Kumar, The Other Patent Agency: Congressional Regulation of the ITC, 61 Florida Law Review (2009)
- Tejas Narechania, Patent Conflicts, 103 Georgetown Law Journal 1483 (2015)
- Arti K. Rai, Patent Validity Across the Executive Branch: Ex Ante Foundations for Policy Development, 61 Duke L.J. (2011-2012)
- Rebecca S. Eisenberg & Daniel A. Crane, Patent Punting: How FDA and Antitrust Courts Undermine the Hatch-Waxman Act to Avoid Dealing with Patents, 21 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. 197 (2015)
- Sapna Kumar, Regulating Digital Trade, 67 Florida Law Review No. 6 (2015)
Invalidation
- Stuart Minor Benjamin and Arti K. Rai, Administrative Power in the Era of Patent Stare Decisis, 65 Duke L.J. 1563 (2015-2016)
- Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Arti K. Rai, and Jay P. Kesan, Strategic Decision Making in Dual PTAB and District Court Proceedings, 31 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 45 (2016)
- Saurabh Vishnubhakat, The Youngest Patent Validity Proceeding: Evaluating Post-Grant Review, Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal (2016)
- Colleen Chien and Christian Helmers, Inter Partes Review and the Design of Post-Grant Patent Reviews, Stanford Technology Law Review
Judicial Deference
- Melissa F. Wasserman, The Changing Guard of Patent Law: Chevron Deference for the PTO, 54 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1959 (2013)
- Jonathan S. Masur & Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Deference Mistakes, 82 U. Chi. L. Rev. (2015),
- John M. Golden, Working without Chevron: The PTO as Prime Mover, 65 Duke L.J. 1657 (2016)
- Sapna Kumar, The Accidental Agency?, 65 Fla. L. Rev. (2013)
Enforcement Issues
- Christian Helmers, et al. Who Needs a Copyright Small Claims Court? Evidence from the U.K.’s IP Enterprise Court, Berkeley Tech. L. J. (forthcoming 2018)
- Cohen et al., Faux Amis: China⁃U.S.Patent Administrative Enforcement Comparison
- Pamela Samuelson & Kathryn Hashimoto, Scholarly Concerns About a Proposed Small Copyright Claims Tribunal (Oct. 15, 2017)
- Megan M. La Belle, Public Enforcement of Patent Law, 96 B.U. L. Rev. (2016)