Frontiers in Empirical Patent Law Scholarship
North Carolina Law Review Symposium Issue: Volume 87
October 24, 2008
Policymakers have urgently called for predictions and prescriptions regarding the effectiveness of the U.S. patent system in promoting 21st-century innovation in an international environment. In many cases, empirical scholarship can go beyond more traditional modes of legal analysis to identify significant problems and to propose concrete, feasible solutions.
The 2008 North Carolina Law Review Symposium will showcase the remarkable diversity of recent quantitative research on the patent system, and the potential for even broader and deeper interdisciplinary engagement on questions of innovation law and policy. Nationally recognized scholars in law, business and economics will be joined, for perhaps the first time in such a setting, by leading research scientists who have brought distinctive data sets, analytical methodologies, and stakeholder perspectives to their own examinations of the patent system. For all who attend, the resulting conversation is likely to be uniquely challenging and rewarding.