Includes bibliographical references and index.

Judges and property / Hanoch Dagan -- Equitable intellectual property : what's wrong with misappropriation? / Henry E. Smith -- The mixed heritage of federal intellectual property law and ramifications for statutory interpretation / Peter S. Menell -- Interpretive methodology and delegations to courts : are 'common-law statutes' different? / Margaret H. Lemos -- Dynamic claim interpretation / Dan L. Burk -- Did Phillips change anything? Empirical analysis of the federal circuit's claim construction jurisprudence / R. Polk Wagner and Lee Petherbridge -- An empirical look at trade secret law's shift from common to statutory law / Michael Risch -- The impact of codification on the judicial development of copyright / Christopher S. Yoo -- Legal pragmatism and intellectual property law / Thomas F. Cotter -- Copyright, custom, and lessons from the common law / Jennifer E. Rothman -- Common law reasoning and cyber trespass / Emily Sherwin -- The intellectual property clause's pre-emptive effect / Jeanne C. Fromer.

Trademark law's faux federalism / Mark P. McKenna -- The normative structure of copyright law / Shyamkrishna Balganesh -- Trade secret and human freedom / Madhavi Sunder -- Laying bare an ethical thread : from IP to property to private law? / David Lametti -- Technology and tracing costs : lessons from real property / Molly Shaffer Van Houweling -- Intellectual usufructs : trade secrets, hot news, and the usufructuary paradigm at common law / Eric R. Claeys -- The fault liability standard in copyright / Steven Hetcher -- The concept of 'harm' in copyright : deploying the disanalogy of trespass / Wendy J. Gordon -- The role of unfair competition in the common law / Shyamkrishna Balganesh and Gideon Parchomovsky -- The fractioning of patent law / Mark A. Lemley -- Permanent injunctions as punitive damages in patent infringement cases / Paul J. Heald -- Sequential injunctions in patent litigation : the gratuitous novelty of TiVo v. EchoStar / Richard A. Epstein.