Mark A. Lemley
William H. Neukom Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Mark A. Lemley, A Rational System of Design Patent Remedies, Stanford Public Law Workign Paper No. 2226508 (2013).
Mark A. Lemley, and 5 others, Brief Amici Curiae of Antitrust Scholars in Support of Respondents: American Express Company, et al., Petitioners, v. Italian Colors Restaurant, on Behalf of Itself and All Similarly Situated Persons, Respondents, No. 122-133 in the Supreme Court of the United States (January 29, 2013).
Michael A. Carrier, Mark A. Lemley, Brief Amici Curiae of 118 Law, Economics, and Business Professors and the American Antitrust Institute in Support of Petitioners: Federal Trade Commission, Petitioner, v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al., Respondents, No. 12-416 in the Supreme Court of the United States (January 29, 2013).
Mark A. Lemley, The Regulatory Turn in IP, 36 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 109 (2013). Also issued as Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper no. 435 and Stanford Public Law Working Paper no. 2172440.
Mark A. Lemley, The Fractioning of Patent Law, in Intellectual Property and the Common Law, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012.
Mark A. Lemley, Ignoring Patents, in The Future of the Patent System, Ryo Shimanami, editor, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2012.
Colleen V. Chien, Mark A. Lemley, Patent Holdup, the ITC, and the Public Interest, 98 Cornell Law Review 1 (2012). Also Legal Scholarship Network: Public Law & Legal Theory Paper Series (2012).
Stacey L. Dogan, Mark A. Lemley, Parody as Brand, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2170498, November 2, 2012.
Mark A. Lemley, Let’s Go Back to Patenting the ‘Solution,’ Not the ‘Problem’, Wired, October 31, 2012.
Joseph A. Grundfest, Mark A. Lemley, George G. Triantis, Getting More Bang for the Fed’s Buck, New York Times, Oct. 23, 2012, p. A25.
Mark A. Lemley, Jaime Kendall, Clint Martin, Rush to Judgment? Trial Length and Outcomes in Patent Cases, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2217690 (2012).
Mark A. Lemley, Mark McKenna, Is Pepsi Really a Substitute for Coke? Market Definition in Antitrust and IP, 100 Georgetown Law Journal 2055 (2012). Previously issued as: Stanford Law and Economics Olin Paper Series No. 424 (2012), Available at SSRN http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=2038039.
Mark A. Lemley & Bhaven N. Sampat, Examiner Characteristics and Patent Office Outcomes, 94 Review of Economics and Statistics 817 (2012).
Robert P. Merges, Peter S. Menell, Mark A. Lemley, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age, 6th ed., New York: Aspen Law & Business, 2012.
Robert P. Merges, Peter S. Menell, Mark A. Lemley, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age. 2012 Statutory Supplement, 6th ed. New York: Aspen, 2012.
Robert P. Merges, Peter S. Menell, Mark A. Lemley, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age. Teacher's Manual. 6th ed. New York: Aspen, 2012.
Mark A. Lemley, Software Patents and the Return of Functional Claiming, Stanford Public Law Working Paper, No. 2117302 (2012).
Mark A. Lemley, The Dubious Autonomy of Virtual Worlds, 2 UC Irvine Law Review 575 (2012). Also Public Law & Legal Theory Paper Series posted to SSRN.
Mark A. Lemley, Fixing the Patent Office, NBER working paper series, no. 18081, May 2012. Previously issued as Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 422, available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2023958.
Mark A. Lemley, Contracting Around Liability Rules, 100 California Law Review 463 (2012). Previously issued as Stanford Law & Economics Olin Paper Series, paper no. 415, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Law School, 2011.

mlemley@law.stanford.edu

650.723.4605

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

BA (with distinction) Stanford University 1988
JD University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) 1991

Expertise:

Antitrust
Intellectual Property (Patents, Trademarks, Copyright)
Patent Law
Technology and the Law