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Professor Lisa Larrimore Ouellette from Stanford Law, alongside colleague Jonathan S. Masur of UChicago Law, has been paving the way for meaningful discussions in patent law with their recent article, “Real-World Prior Art.” They argue that private third-party sales should not unjustly inhibit ...unrelated inventors from securing their patents.
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Robert Mahari, Associate Director of CodeX Stanford, wrote a blog post for CodeX revealing a significant shift in how litigants should choose outside counsel. Relying on law firm prestige, size, and revenue often leads to poor predictions of courtroom success. Mahari’s research published in ..."Nature Computational Science" introduces a data-driven model based on over 60,000 case results, offering about 60% accuracy in predicting winning outcomes. It's time for clients to adopt smarter litigation strategies that highlight empirical performance metrics over traditional ranking indicators. https://brnw.ch/21wXesf
Could synthetic life wipe out real life? In 2024, leading scientists warned that “mirror bacteria”—organisms built entirely from mirror-image biomolecules—could one day threaten all life on Earth. As gene editing advances, so do the risks of engineered pathogens—bacteria resistant to ...every antibiotic or viruses designed for extreme transmissibility by bad actors. How can policymakers protect global health while preserving the immense therapeutic promise of these technologies?
🧬 Join Stanford experts on November 16 at 11am (PST), including Stanford Law Professor Hank Greely, for a riveting talk on the risks and rewards of engineered bacteria and viruses—and the policies needed to protect global health. https://brnw.ch/21wXc5F
Stanford Law School's Sam McClure and Keegan Cooke from the Stanford Graduate School of Business have released an interdisciplinary guide aimed at empowering academic innovators. Supported by Stanford Ecopreneurship and the Sustainability Accelerator within the Stanford Doerr School of ...Sustainability, this guide explores five key translation pathways: traditional for-profit startups, Public Benefit Corporation startups, nonprofits, licensing, and university-housed initiatives.
By providing valuable case studies from successful Stanford faculty, it serves as an essential resource for research faculty, postdocs, and PhD students eager to turn their innovations into tangible impact. Explore this crucial guide to discover how to successfully navigate the landscape of academic entrepreneurship.
This guide supports academic innovators (e.g., research faculty, postdocs, and PhD students) who want to translate their innovations into impact, but...
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