Brian J Love
@brianjlove.bsky.social
Law Professor at Santa Clara University, teaching Patents, IP, and Remedies
In the end, regardless of the methods we choose, we find no evidence that Alice harmed software startups. If you'd like to take a look, the paper is now available on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Patent Protection and Software Firm Financing
We study the relationship between patent protection and the success of new software firms. Our empirical approach exploits the U.S. Supreme Court's 2014 ruling
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October 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
In the end, regardless of the methods we choose, we find no evidence that Alice harmed software startups. If you'd like to take a look, the paper is now available on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Most notably, we use detailed deal-level data sourced from PitchBook to construct a wide variety of startup success metrics. We also try different ways of sorting startups into treatment and control groups.
October 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Most notably, we use detailed deal-level data sourced from PitchBook to construct a wide variety of startup success metrics. We also try different ways of sorting startups into treatment and control groups.
For a much deeper dive into Trump-nominated judge shopping by litigants challenging Biden administration policies, check out our recent working paper with @pape-econ.bsky.social available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Judge (Ideology) Shopping
In his first term in office, President Donald Trump appointed 174 judges to U.S. District Courts. We analyze the impact of these appointments on the ideology of
papers.ssrn.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
For a much deeper dive into Trump-nominated judge shopping by litigants challenging Biden administration policies, check out our recent working paper with @pape-econ.bsky.social available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A draft is now available on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Public Policy and the Courts under Trump 2.0: A First Look
We examine empirically the large and growing wave of legal challenges to Trump administration policies, with a particular focus on assessing the administration'
papers.ssrn.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A draft is now available on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
We find no evidence of judge shopping and show, to the contrary, that litigation opposing Trump admin policies has mostly been filed in relatively ideologically balanced venues, where it has been decided both for and against the admin by relatively liberal and relatively conservative judges alike.
March 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
We find no evidence of judge shopping and show, to the contrary, that litigation opposing Trump admin policies has mostly been filed in relatively ideologically balanced venues, where it has been decided both for and against the admin by relatively liberal and relatively conservative judges alike.
The full paper is available on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Judge (Ideology) Shopping
In his first term in office, President Donald Trump appointed 174 judges to U.S. District Courts. We analyze the impact of these appointments on the ideology of
papers.ssrn.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The full paper is available on SSRN here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
In contrast, cases currently challenging Trump admin policies do not follow the same pattern of judge shopping. One reason, which we explore in the paper, is that single-judge divisions largely exist in "red" states, where (thanks to the blue slip process) judges are more conservative on average.
February 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
In contrast, cases currently challenging Trump admin policies do not follow the same pattern of judge shopping. One reason, which we explore in the paper, is that single-judge divisions largely exist in "red" states, where (thanks to the blue slip process) judges are more conservative on average.
We find that the Trump administration selected particularly conservative judges to serve in divisions that traditionally assign all (or nearly all) cases to a single judge, and we find that following a Trump nominee's confirmation single-judge divisions saw an increase in politically motivated cases
February 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We find that the Trump administration selected particularly conservative judges to serve in divisions that traditionally assign all (or nearly all) cases to a single judge, and we find that following a Trump nominee's confirmation single-judge divisions saw an increase in politically motivated cases
BTW, I just discovered that videos from BU's 2024 IP Day conference are available online here: sites.bu.edu/tpri/news-an.... You can watch me present this paper in the Session 4 video beginning at 19:10 (sound drops for a bit, but returns at 20:24), followed by comments from Francine Lafontaine.
IP Day 2024 | Technology & Policy Research Initiative
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January 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
BTW, I just discovered that videos from BU's 2024 IP Day conference are available online here: sites.bu.edu/tpri/news-an.... You can watch me present this paper in the Session 4 video beginning at 19:10 (sound drops for a bit, but returns at 20:24), followed by comments from Francine Lafontaine.