Professor Camilla Hrdy presented new research at the 2025 Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (IPSC) on August 7, held this year at DePaul College of Law in Chicago. Her talk, titled Trade Secret Law’s On-Sale Bar, explores a novel question at the intersection of trade secret and patent law: To what degree should we permit trade … Continue reading Professor Hrdy Presents New Research on Trade Secrets and Patent Law at IP Scholars Conference…
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Prof. Carrier participated in a DOJ/FTC listening session on drug pricing
Professor Carrier participated in a DOJ/FTC listening session on “Lowering Americans’ Drug Prices Through Competition,” https://www.justice.gov/opa/video/dojftc-host-listening-session-lowering-americans-drug-prices-through-competition-part-2
Prof. Carrier publishes article on pharmaceutical industry
Professor Carrier published The Innovation/Access Tradeoff, Part 1000 in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12174807/
Prof. Hrdy Attends National Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Professor Camilla Hrdy attended the National Conference, an annual symposium hosted by the University of Houston Law Center’s Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law. IPIL’s National Conference was held this year on June 7, 2025 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This year’s topic was patent law. Hrdy and the other invited presenters, Jonas Anderson … Continue reading Prof. Hrdy Attends National Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico…
Do trade secret injunctions last forever?
An injunction in a trade secret case should generally end when the trade secret does. But new empirical research by Professor Lynda Oswald sheds new light on the actual lifetime of these injunctions. The results are surprising. Oswald finds that in the vast majority (~80%) of cases in her dataset, courts simply grant an open-ended injunction without a fixed … Continue reading Do trade secret injunctions last forever?…