Christian Helmers and I have posted a new working paper that assesses Alice's impact on software startups. While we aren't the first to write in this area, our analysis advances the literature in several ways.

Yesterday's insightful thread from @adambonica.bsky.social spurred me to post a new related essay (with Christian Helmers) that uses Adam's ideology measure. We look at suits filed against the Trump admin and assess claims that they have been strategically directed to particularly liberal judges.

In a new working paper, Christian Helmers, Louis-Daniel Pape, and I take a deep dive into the first Trump administration's impact on the ideology of US district courts. We focus on appointments to single-judge divisions and resulting opportunities for ideologically motivated judge shopping.

In a newly revised paper now forthcoming in IRLE, Christian Helmers and I assess whether 4 of the most significant US patent system reforms of the last 20 years (eBay, PTAB, Alice, and TC Heartland) had a measurable impact on innovation: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Last day of class photo for SCU Law's summer abroad program in Singapore (held on the SMU campus). Next week students transition to externships in Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Happy to report that my study (w/ Christian Helmers) of SEP assertion by NPEs is forthcoming in Oxford Economic Papers. We compare opportunism across NPE & op-co cases & find NPEs more likely to leverage declaration process, lack of market transparency, & supply chain papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My paper with Christian Helmers and Yassine Lefouili examining the frequency and determinants of opportunistic conduct in SEP assertion was published this week by the American Law & Economics Review academic.oup.com/aler/advance...

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