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Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · 10d

Exciting news: Santa Clara Law's High Tech Law Institute (@scuhtli.bsky.social) will become the Datta Center for High Tech Law, thanks to an incredibly generous gift from alum Madhumita Datta!

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Santa Clara Law School Alumna Makes Monumental Gift to Support Excellence in High Tech Law

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Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Oct 14

In the end, regardless of the methods we choose, we find no evidence that Alice harmed software startups. If you'd like to take a look, the paper is now available on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Patent Protection and Software Firm Financing

We study the relationship between patent protection and the success of new software firms. Our empirical approach exploits the U.S. Supreme Court's 2014 ruling

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Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Oct 14

Most notably, we use detailed deal-level data sourced from PitchBook to construct a wide variety of startup success metrics. We also try different ways of sorting startups into treatment and control groups.

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Oct 14

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.

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Jun 13

The SCU Leavey School of Business posted an article about the research Christian Helmers and I have been doing on ideologically motivated judge shopping at the district court level.

Santa Clara Law Research Dean @sculawresearch.bsky.social · Jun 12

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Leavey Professor Christian Helmers Teams with Santa Clara Law Professor Brian Love to Examine Judge Shopping in the Age of Trump 2.0

In the short time since taking office, the Trump 2.0 administration has been hit with hundreds of lawsuits, many of which aim to block its most controversial policy moves.

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Santa Clara Law Research Dean @sculawresearch.bsky.social · Jun 12

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Leavey Professor Christian Helmers Teams with Santa Clara Law Professor Brian Love to Examine Judge Shopping in the Age of Trump 2.0

In the short time since taking office, the Trump 2.0 administration has been hit with hundreds of lawsuits, many of which aim to block its most controversial policy moves.

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Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Mar 19

For a much deeper dive into Trump-nominated judge shopping by litigants challenging Biden administration policies, check out our recent working paper with @pape-econ.bsky.social available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Judge (Ideology) Shopping

In his first term in office, President Donald Trump appointed 174 judges to U.S. District Courts. We analyze the impact of these appointments on the ideology of

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Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Mar 19

A draft is now available on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Public Policy and the Courts under Trump 2.0: A First Look

We examine empirically the large and growing wave of legal challenges to Trump administration policies, with a particular focus on assessing the administration'

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Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Mar 19

We find no evidence of judge shopping and show, to the contrary, that litigation opposing Trump admin policies has mostly been filed in relatively ideologically balanced venues, where it has been decided both for and against the admin by relatively liberal and relatively conservative judges alike.

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Mar 19

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.

SCU Law HTLI @scuhtli.bsky.social · Mar 8

A Truly Global Event! 🌍 Participants traveled from all over the country and the world to present at Santa Clara Law's Internet Law Works-in-Progress. 16 US states/districts and 5 continents are represented. #InternetLawWIP25 #HTLI #SantaClaraLaw

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Feb 25

The full paper is available on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Judge (Ideology) Shopping

In his first term in office, President Donald Trump appointed 174 judges to U.S. District Courts. We analyze the impact of these appointments on the ideology of

papers.ssrn.com

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Feb 25

In contrast, cases currently challenging Trump admin policies do not follow the same pattern of judge shopping. One reason, which we explore in the paper, is that single-judge divisions largely exist in "red" states, where (thanks to the blue slip process) judges are more conservative on average.

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Feb 25

We find that the Trump administration selected particularly conservative judges to serve in divisions that traditionally assign all (or nearly all) cases to a single judge, and we find that following a Trump nominee's confirmation single-judge divisions saw an increase in politically motivated cases

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Feb 25

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.

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Jan 22

BTW, I just discovered that videos from BU's 2024 IP Day conference are available online here: sites.bu.edu/tpri/news-an.... You can watch me present this paper in the Session 4 video beginning at 19:10 (sound drops for a bit, but returns at 20:24), followed by comments from Francine Lafontaine.

IP Day 2024 | Technology & Policy Research Initiative

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Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Jan 8

My paper (with Christian Helmers) comparing US SEP enforcement by NPEs vs. operating tech companies is now available in final published form in volume 77 of Oxford Economic Papers.
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Are non-practising entities opportunistic? Evidence from litigation of standard essential patents

Abstract. Are non-practising entities (NPEs)—firms that specialize in the enforcement of patent rights rather than the commercialization of patented techno

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SCU Law HTLI @scuhtli.bsky.social · Nov 20

Feeling stressed by the end-of-semester crush or state of the world in general? HTLI is here help. Throughout the coming holiday season we'll be spreading cheer by sharing the results of some recent `The Office'-inspired faculty "portraiture." Stay tuned to see the results! You won't want to miss it

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Jun 26

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....

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Jun 5

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.

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · May 30

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....

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Mar 13

Could this policy apply to IP cases, which strictly speaking can lead to "nationwide orders"? I can't find the text, only a press release (www.uscourts.gov/news/2024/03... ) which says policy applies to cases that "seek to bar or mandate state or federal actions"

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Federal judiciary clamps down on ‘judge-shopping’ tactics that have helped Texas block Biden and liberal policies | CNN Politics

The policy-making body of the federal judiciary is clamping down on the system that conservatives have successfully used in recent years to hamstring President Joe Biden’s agenda and other federal pol...

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SCU Law HTLI @scuhtli.bsky.social · Feb 3

#WIPIP2024

SCU Law HTLI @scuhtli.bsky.social · Feb 2

WIPIP 2024 is underway! #WIPIP2024

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Jan 25

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...

SCU Law HTLI @scuhtli.bsky.social · Dec 23

Happy Holidays from HTLI! 🎁

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Dec 13

Remember, folks, there's only 50 shopping days remaining until WIPIP 2024! #GameOfDrones #WIPIPisComing

Brian J Love @brianjlove.bsky.social · Nov 17

Coming soon to an office near me: Zahr Said and @edleeprof.bsky.social!!!

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