Mark Lemley:

About

Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and affiliated faculty in the Symbolic Systems program. His teaching areas include intellectual property, patent law, trademark law, antitrust, the law of robotics and AI, video game law, and remedies. Lemley is the author of 11 books and 218 articles, including the two-volume treatise IP and Antitrust. His works have been cited over 300 times by courts, including 19 times by the United States Supreme Court, and more than 40,000 times in books and academic articles, making him the most-cited scholar in IP law and one of the ten most cited legal scholars of all time. He has published numerous influential articles in top law reviews and other prestigious journals, with his work translated into multiple languages. Lemley has testified before Congress, filed over 70 amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and other courts, and litigated extensively in federal courts, arguing 30 federal appellate cases and participating in more than three dozen Supreme Court cases. He is a cofounder of Lex Machina, Inc., a litigation data and analytics company acquired by Lexis. Recognized with multiple awards, including California Lawyer’s Attorney of the Year twice and the World Technology Award for Law, Lemley has been named a Young Global Leader by the Davos World…

Research topics

• Political Science
• Economics
• Business
• Law and economics
• Law
• Virology
• Philosophy
• Medicine
• Natural resource economics
• Environmental ethics

Selected publications

• Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2023

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023 · 267 citations

  PublisherDOI

• Pledging intellectual property for COVID-19

  Nature Biotechnology · 2020 · 74 citations

  Voluntary pledges to make intellectual property broadly available to address urgent public health crises can overcome administrative and legal hurdles faced by more elaborate legal arrangements such as patent pools and achieve greater acceptance than governmental compulsory licensing.

  DOI

• The Role of Antitrust in Preventing Patent Holdup

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2020 · 43 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  DOI

• Scarcity, Regulation, and the Abundance Society

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2022 · 4 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

• Extracting memorized pieces of (copyrighted) books from open-weight language models

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01 · 2 citations

  preprintOpen access1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Peter S. Menell

  37 shared

• Robert P. Merges

  32 shared

• Dan L. Burk

  25 shared

• John R. Allison

  The University of Texas at Austin

  16 shared

• Herbert Hovenkamp

  University of Pennsylvania

  13 shared

• Mark Weston Janis

  13 shared

• Daralyn J. Durie

  13 shared

• Carl Shapiro

  University of California, Berkeley

  12 shared

Labs

• Stanford Law and Technology LabPI

Awards & honors

• California Lawyer’s Attorney of the Year (twice)
• California State Bar’s inaugural IP Vanguard Award
• 2018 World Technology Award for Law
• P.J. Federico Award from the Patent and Trademark Office Soc…
• Young Global Leader by the Davos World Economic Forum

Similar researchers at Stanford University

• Eric Hanushek:h-136
• A Polinsky:h-79
• WalterW. Powell:h-62