New Working Papers
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- 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
- Communicating Technical Knowledge
In the News
- The Smartphone Patent War, Boston Globe, New York Times, Corporate Counsel, Economist, AP, KQED, Corporate Counsel, WNYC, The Takeaway, American Prospect, Huffington Post, Süddeutschen Zeitung
- Patent Trolls, Reason, Boston Globe, PC World, Popular Mechanics, BBC, Infoworld, Washington Post, CNN Money, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Techdirt, ComputerWorldUK, Slate
- Patent litigation toll, New York Times
- Patents on abstract ideas, Businessweek, HBR, Scientific American, Nature, Forbes
- Patent reform bill, Harvard Business, NPR Talk of the Nation, Washington Post, CNN Money, Huffington Post, Update
- 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: Aligning Patent Notice and Remedies with Competition, US Supreme Court Bilski v. Kappos
Patent Absurdity, a film by Luca Lucarini