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Mark Lemley

@marklemley.bsky.social

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William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School. Partner, Lex Lumina LLP. I teach and write in IP, antitrust, internet, and video game law

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Mark A. Lemley is an American legal scholar known for his studies of American intellectual property law. He is currently the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science & Technology. Lemley is a founding partner of the law firm of Durie Tangri LLP, which he has been practicing with since 2009. .. more

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1h

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No @nonopeandno.bsky.social · 8h

That immigration offenses are not "crimes", but you can be effectively incarcerated indefinitely doesn't pass the sniff test.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 11h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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mookie74-78.bsky.social @mookie74-78.bsky.social · 14h

I’m old enough to remember when the US economy under Biden was the strongest in the world. In 10 months 🍊Mussolini destroyed it.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 14h

The fact that the US stock market hasn't collapsed under the weight of Trump's various lunacies shouldn't obscure the fact that most of the world is doing better than we are

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A Great Year for US Stocks? Not Compared With Rest of the World

Check a ranking of the best-performing equity indexes this year and the US doesn’t crack the Top 10. You won’t find it in the Top 25, either. Double that, and the S&P 500 is still absent.

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Real Robert @roberts-rants.bsky.social · 23h

ICE is the living embodiment of the famous Stanford Prison Experiment. Give people uniforms, weapons, and mirrored sunglasses to promote anonymity and a sense of power. They quickly become sadistic and abusive.

ICE masks = mirrored sunglasses. Psych experiment come to terrible life, and validated.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

ICE drags US citizen out of her car and arrests her because ICE hit HER car

Chicago PD: you can see the license plate of the ICE vehicle. Let's see vehicular assault and kidnapping charges against the Gestapo who did this

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ICE drags US citizen out of her car and arrests her because ICE hit HER car Chicago PD: you can see the license plate of the ICE vehicle. Let's see vehicular assault and kidnapping charges against...

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

I'm pretty sure the issue was finally resolved when they let people be sent to South Sudan to be tortured and killed in violation of a court order. I'm sure it will be great comfort to their families to know that the Court might eventually bother to decide whether it was right to do so

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

Just what the world needs: AI judging a beer tasting

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What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer

A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

I agree. AI is the one thing that has been holding it up this long as everything else has turned sour

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

Securities fraud enforcement no longer exists, anyway

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

Only if you tokenize them on the blockchain

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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 2d

The views are beautiful as we run far off that cliff...

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

650% IS a massive discount. That means they will mail me thousands of dollars with every drug I buy, right?

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

Apple banned an app that just collects videos of ICE abuses

Very sorry to see them abandoning their users to align with Trump

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

I submitted written testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act

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Comments on the Patent Eligibility Reform Act.pdf

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 2d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

2016?

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Not the Onion.

I wonder what will happen when ICE kidnaps all the Qatari soldiers for being brown people in Idaho

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Qatar Air Force facility to be built at USAF base in Idaho, Defense Secretary Hegseth says

Hegseth The Defense secretary made the announcement at a Pentagon press conference with Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar's defense minister.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Dookie Lazer @dookielazer.bsky.social · 3d

See, this is the problem: all over the world, the bad guys are doubling down, while the good guys (or even the neutral guys) are backing away. What Ubisoft SHOULD have said is that in the next game you’re an immigrant running from ICE, and go on a mission to destroy the whole racist administration.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 4d

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

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