Richard R. John I would add Christopher Beauchamp's Invented by Law to your list. In addition to your book and MacDougall's, I found Beauchamp's book to be an excellent manuscript on telephone competition and the broader implications and importance of setting proper scope on IP rights.

On this date in #innovation history: the First Congress enacts the Patent Act of 1790, implementing one of its powers in the Constitution along with creating federal courts, creating admiralty law, creating army & navy, creating bankruptcy code, etc. #PatentsMatter USPTO

Brooklyn Law School rocked the Billboard list of “Leading Law Schools of the Top Music Lawyers,” landing the No. 2 spot! Read more: brooklaw.edu/News-and-Event…

Legal history nerds: Have you ever read 18th & 19th century treatises or cases and see citations to authorities that you don't understand? Here's a wonderfully useful guide to what those citations mean —it gives you the full name of the abbreviated cite. oldbookillustrations.com/dictionary/l/l…

Announcing the ASLH Virtual Book Club! Find more information and how to apply to have your book featured here: aslh.net/aslh-virtual-b… #legalhistory #twitterstorians #lawtwitter

We were totally hooked by utility patent case file 51,651 for #ArchivesUnderTheSea! Inventors William Davis and Job Johnson of Brooklyn, NY, patented their “improvement in fish-hooks” in December 1865. Check out the digitized file here: catalog.archives.gov/id/245003708

Hey law professors, are you looking for an open-access casebook for the upcoming year? Here's a list of them, provided by James Grimmelmann. james.grimmelmann.net/files/casebook…

A proud night for the many friends and admirers crammed into Greenlight Bookstore to hear Brooklyn Law School's Jocelyn Simonson in conversation with Amna A. Akbar about Prof. Simonson's brand new The New Press book "Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People are Dismantling Mass Incarceration."

I spoke on Strangers on the Internet Podcast (Strangers on the Internet) about my experience and how law schools could better protect women during hiring, improve their response to sexual harassment, and more. Thanks to Irina Manta shows.acast.com/strangers-on-t…

Happy 2nd birthday to AMERICAN INDEPENDENT INVENTORS in an ERA of CORPORATE R&D, released two years ago today (17 Aug 2021) in the Lemelson Center series The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social! #inventors🎂

New FJC history feature! A User Guide to the History of the Federal Judiciary Website: fjc.gov/history/user-g…. Check it out for a quick overview of features you may not know about!

Cool thread for legal historians and more. The 1822 rules are here: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=msu.…, the 1842 rules are here: hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951…, and the 1912 rules are here: hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.68294….

Off to American Society for Legal History — if you’re around Friday afternoon, come to the dynamite panel on new legal histories of the progressive era!

It has been the greatest honor of my career to write the Foreword for this term's Harvard Law Review. I am grateful to have been able to tell this story and to tell it from the heart in such a prominent forum. As always, I dream of a day when words can change minds and hearts--and worlds.

Congratulations to our first-ever finals team in the United States Patent and Trademark Office's "National Patent Application Drafting Competition" that was held virtually on March 9. #brooklaw #brooklawstudents

Prof. Vernon Brown's Entertainment Law students welcomed elite athlete, Anthony Richardson, & his agent & financial advisor, Deiric Jackson, to their class yesterday! Richardson is the starting quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts. #brooklaw #brooklynlawstudents #brooklawfaculty

Imagine if your patent was signed by President George Washington. On this date 234 years ago, Washington signed into law “An Act to promote the progress of useful Arts." The bill encouraged new inventions by giving the creator exclusive rights for a limited time.

(1) Thrilled to say that my piece, "Resurrecting the Trinity of Legislative Constitutionalism," is heading to The Yale Law Journal. This piece shows that--contrary to decades of SOP scholarship--Congress had its own equivalent to the DOJ's OLC for 50 years. (link below)

I'm researching a 19th cent piece with Prof Zvi S. Rosen Uni S. Illinois, USA: TMs, crime and Lea & Perrins Worcester sauce! We've got some great research but we're missing the archive that was held by Brian Keogh at Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Original & Genuine - the original factory - in 1990s. Where is it now?

ASLH/Business History Conference Anne Fleming Article Prize to Gerardo Con Díaz dlvr.it/TGGnG8