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Perspectives on Commercializing Innovation, a new book co-edited by F. Scott Kieff, is now available from Cambridge University Press, Amazon.com, and many other booksellers. See this link for more information and a discount code on orders placed through Cambridge University Press.

Rainfall, Human Capital, and Democracy, a paper by Stephen Haber and Victor Menaldo was cited in The Economist on April 7, 2012. Haber has expanded upon that work in a new working paper, Climate, Technology, and the Evolution of Economic and Political Institutions.

Richard A. Epstein, F. Scott Kieff, and Richard Spulber's latest paper, The FTC, IP, and SSOs: Government Hold-up Replacing Private Coordination, was published in the March, 2012 volume of the Journal of Competition Law & Economics.

F. Scott Kieff was consulted for the New York Times article "Trademarks Take on New Importance in Internet Era," published on February 20, 2012.

The European Academy of Sciences and Arts has elected F. Scott Kieff for membership in the Academy for his work in the fields of the social sciences, law, and economics.

On November 24, 2011, Joseph Straus was awarded the title Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia by the government of Slovenia.

F. Scott Kieff was interviewed on the John Batchelor Show on November 22, 2011 (skip to 29:30 to hear the interview).

Defining Ideas has published Patently Bad Policy, an essay by F. Scott Kieff on two upcoming Supreme Court patent cases, Hyatt v. Kappos and Mayo v. Prometheus.

F. Scott Kieff was selected as a finalist for the 2011 World Technology Award for Law, presented in association with TIME, Fortune, CNN, MIT Technology Review, and Science.

Richard A. Epstein, F. Scott Kieff, and Daniel F. Spulber submitted a white paper entitled The FTC's Proposal for Regulating IP through SSOs Would Replace Private Coordination with Government Hold-Up in response to the FTC’s Request for Comments and Announcement of Workshop on Standard-Setting Issues.

A statement by Geoffrey A. Manne and Joshua D. Wright on the recent FTC antitrust investigation of Google was cited in numerous publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, the National Journal, and InformationWeek.

A new four-part series of essays by F. Scott Kieff on proposed patent reform in the US has been published by Defining Ideas: The Perils of Patent Reform, Welcome to Patent Purgatory, Patent Reform Goes Haywire, and File First, Invent Later?. The essays were cited by Representative Dana Rohrabacher in a speech on the House floor on June 22, 2011 and in the New York Times Dealbook column.

A draft paper co-authored by Stephen Haber, Rainfall, Human Capital, and Democracy, was featured in a Bloomberg article on April 4, 2011. Mr. Haber was interviewed about the paper on Bloomberg TV's Street Smart. The paper was also featured in the Wall Street Journal's Week in Ideas for April 9, 2011.

A new paper co-authored by Stephen Haber, Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism? A Reappraisal of the Resource Curse, was featured in the Freakonomics blog on April 4, 2011.

F. Scott Kieff and Henry E. Smith provided invited testimony before the FTC Hearings on The Evolving IP Marketplace: Aligning Patent Notice and Remedies with Competition; and their works were also cited in the report recently published by the FTC on March 7, 2011.

F. Scott Kieff was interviewed on the John Batchelor Show about the article Why Business Isn't Getting in The Game. The interview begins at 1:40.

An article by Stephen H. Haber and F. Scott Kieff on Why Business Isn't Getting 'In The Game' was published by Investor's Business Daily on February 11, 2011.

The work of Stephen Haber, together with Victor Menaldo, was cited in an article published by Foreign Policy on December 6, 2010.

An article by F. Scott Kieff on The Importance of Finality in Patent Litigation was published by The National Law Journal on December 6, 2010.

An article by Richard Epstein on Patent Injunctions and Repeat Offenders was published by the Financial Times on November 6, 2010.

Perspectives on Corporate Governance, a new book edited by F. Scott Kieff and Troy A. Paredes and published by Cambridge University Press, became available in August 2010.

F. Scott Kieff participated in a panel discussion on Supporting Creativity and its Dissemination, part of Justice Stephen G. Breyer's "The Uneasy Case for Copyright": A 40th Anniversary Symposium.

Richard A. Epstein and F. Scott Kieff's new paper, Questioning the Frequency and Wisdom of Compulsory Licensing for Pharmaceutical Patents, is now available through the University of Chicago Law & Economics Olin Working Paper Series on SSRN.

Announcing the Workshop-Style Conference on the Law, Economics, Business, and Policy Implications for Innovation and Competition of Diverse Business Models for Using Patents to be held Friday, June 25, 2010 at the Stanford University Hoover Institution. conference information and schedul

F. Scott Kieff, Geoffrey A. Manne, Michael E. Sykuta, and Joshua D. Wright submitted their Comment on Intellectual Property, Concentration and the Limits of Antitrust in the Biotech Seed Industry to the Department of Justice Antitrust Division on December 31, 2009. view the comment

Geoffrey A. Manne has joined the Project on Commercializing Innovation as a contributor.

F. Scott Kieff gave a talk at the AIPLA annual meeting in Washington, D.C. view the presentation slides and AIPLA Daily Report Article