Intellectual Property

For very helpful comments on prior drafts, I thank Michael Abramowicz, Robert Brauneis, Margaret Brinig, Kevin Collins, John Duffy, Jeanne Fromer, Timothy Holbrook, Bruce Huber, Dmitry Karshtedt, Daniel Kelly, Bruce Kobayashi, Mark Lemley, Alexandra Levy, Jonathan Masur, Mark McKenna, Robert Merges, Lisa Ouellette, Jason Rantanen, Michael Risch, and Neel Sukhatme. I also thank Joseph Nugent for his excellent research assistance.

I would like to thank Dmitry Karshtedt for his helpful comments and Stephen Yelderman for the opportunity to engage with his paper over the last few months.

The author wishes to thank the faculties of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; Boston University; the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law; Rutgers Law School; Fordham University School of Law; Seton Hall University School of Law; Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University; the University of Washington School of Law; and the University of Miami Law School for helpful conversation. I am especially indebted to Kathryn Abrams, Kenny Alston, Sergio Campos, Mary Anne Case, Paisley Currah, Katie Eyer, Sheila Foster, Katherine Franke, Mary Anne Franks, Andrew Gilden, Zil Goldstein, Gayatri Gopinath, Joanna Grossman, Bruce Hay, Tracy Higgins, Clare Huntington, Molly Van Houweling, Neal Katyal, Alexander Lee, Linda McClain, Melissa Murray, Russell Robinson, Juana Maria Rodriguez, Darren Rosenblum, Simone Ross, Dean Spade, Edward Stein, Leti Volpp, and the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review for their insights and suggestions. I am also particularly grateful for the incredible research assistance of Juli Adhikari, Joseph Galvin, Andrea Hall, Kelly Herbert, Nicole Rivera, and Catherine Song.