New Working Papers
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- From Knowledge to Ideas: The Two Faces of Innovation
- Knowledge Sharing Among Inventors: Some Historical Perspectives
- The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls, also in Regulation
- Was Mechanization De-Skilling? The Origins of Task-Biased Technical Change
In the News
- Patent arsenals and more, NY Times (1) (2), Wash. Post, SF Chronicle (1) (2), NYT Magazine, MSNBC, Wash. Post, AP, MPR, Wash. Times
- Patent reform, The Hill, Sydney, Harvard Business, NPR Talk of the Nation, Washington Post, CNN Money, Huffington Post, (2)
- The Smartphone Patent War, Boston Globe, New York Times, Corporate Counsel, Economist, AP, KQED, Corporate Counsel
- Patent Trolls, Fox, Ars, Legal
Talk Podcast, Reason, Boston Globe, PC World, Popular Mechanics, BBC, Infoworld, Washington Post
- Patents on abstract ideas, Ars, HBR, Scientific American, Nature, Forbes
- The Patent War NPR Planet Money, When Patents Attack This American Life

- Interview: James Bessen on the Great Stagnation, Bottom-Up, Timothy B. Lee
- Cited in UK Hargreaves Report on IP and Growth,
US FTC The Evolving IP Marketplace, US Supreme Court Bilski v. Kappos
Patent Absurdity, a film by Luca Lucarini