Third-Party Interests and the Property Law Misfit in Patent Law


* Associate Professor of Law, The College of William and Mary School of Law. I am grateful for the thoughtful feedback of Jonas Anderson, Daniel Brean, Nancy Combs, Brendan Costello, Gregory Day, John Duffy, Laura Heymann, Timothy Holbrook, Mark Janis, Dmitry Karshtedt, Amy Landers, Allison Orr Larsen, Mark Lemley, Laura Pedraza-Farina, Joshua Sarnoff, Jake Sherkow, Sean Seymore, Matthew Sipe, Neel Sukhatme, Liza Vertinsky, Deepa Varadarajan, Saurabh Vishnubhakat and participants in the Junior Scholars in Intellectual Property Conference, Patent Scholars Roundtable IV, the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Patent Works-in-Progress Conference, and the Texas A&M Junior Faculty Workshop on the Patent-Tort Interface.