Calculative Patents

Patents are legal delinquents. Drawing on insights from the sociology of markets, I argue that patents are surreptitiously performing functions familiar from the grocery store, the vegetable stand, or the barbershop. I suggest that patents are calculative, not in the mathematical sense, but in the sociological sense of structuring and facilitating market relations.

Join Professor Dan L. Burk for a discussion about Calculative Patents.

This presentation is part of the IP Speaker Series organized and hosted by PIJIP. 

Registration is Required!  https://tinyurl.com/Ipspeakerdanburk