Professor Lee included in best-of intellectual property anthology for third time

Professor Peter Lee’s article “Reconceptualizing the Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Shaping Industry Structure,” published last year in the Vanderbilt Law Review, recently was recognized as “one of the best law review articles related to intellectual property law published within the last year” by Thomson Reuters. As such, it was selected for inclusion in the 2020 edition of the Intellectual Property Law Review, Thomson Reuters’ annual anthology of intellectual property scholarship.

This marks Lee’s third appearance in the Intellectual Property Law Review. His 2017 collaboration with then-UC Davis Law Senior Associate Dean Madhavi Sunder, “The Law of Look and Feel” (Southern California Law Review), and his 2010 article “Patent Law and the Two Cultures” (Yale Law Journal) also made the annual best-of anthology.

“Reconceptualizing the Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Shaping Industry Structure” argues that the effects of patents and copyrights on industry structure depend significantly on context. In particular, it shows that intellectual property rights tend to contribute to industry fragmentation in “upstream” areas of value chains focused on initial invention and creation while contributing to industry concentration in “downstream” areas of value chains focused on commercializing technologies and creative goods.

Professor Lee's scholarly work addresses the intersection of science and society, particularly exploring the patent system's impact on scientific and technological progress.

 

 

 

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