PUBLICATIONS

Professors Jorge Contreras and Joshua Sarnoff are leading academics in IP law, and have published extensively on climate change, green and clean technologies, patent pledges, and technology transfer and sharing.

Climate Change, Green, and Clean Technologies

Joshua D. Sarnoff, A Research Framework for Intellectual Property and Environmental Law, Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Research, Forthcoming (2021)

Joshua D. Sarnoff, Negative-Emission Technologies and Patent Rights after COVID-19, Climate Law, 10 (3-4), 225-265 (2020)

Jorge L. Contreras, Bronwyn H. Hall & Christian Helmers, Pledging Patents for the Public Good: Rise and Fall of the Eco-Patent Commons, 57 Houston L. Rev. 61-109 (2019)

Jesse L. Reynolds, Jorge L. Contreras & Joshua D. Sarnoff. Intellectual Property Policies for Solar Geoengineering. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 1-7 (2018)

Joshua D. Sarnoff ed., Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Climate Change, Edward Elgar Publishing (2018)

Jesse L. Reynolds, Jorge L. Contreras & Joshua D. Sarnoff, Solar Climate Engineering and Intellectual Property: Toward a Research Commons, 18 Minn. J. L. Sci. & Tech. 1-110 (2017) (lead article)

Joshua D. Sarnoff & Margaret Chon, Innovation Law and Policy Choices for Climate Change-Related Public–Private Partnerships, The Cambridge Handbook of Public-Private Partnerships, Intellectual Property Governance, and Sustainable Development (Chon, Roffe & Abdel-Lateef eds.) (2018)

Jorge L. Contreras, Standards and Related Intellectual Property Issues for Climate Change Technology, in Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Climate Change at 414-436 (Joshua D. Sarnoff, ed., Edward Elgar) (2016)

Joshua D. Sarnoff, The Likely Mismatch Between Federal Research & Development Funding and Desired Innovation, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law, Vol. 18, No. 2 (2016)

Jorge L. Contreras & Charles R. McManis, Intellectual Property Landscape of Material Sustainability Standards, 14 Columbia Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 485-513 (2013)

Joshua D. Sarnoff, Government Choices in Innovation Funding (With Reference to Climate Change), Emory Law Journal, Vol. 62, No. 1087 (2013)

Jorge L. Contreras, Standards, Patents and the National Smart Grid, 32 Pace L. Rev. 641 (2012) (symposium issue)

Joshua D. Sarnoff, The Patent System and Climate Change, 16 Va. J. L. & Tech. 301 (2011)

Jorge L. Contreras, In the Village Square: Risk Misperception and Decisionmaking in the Regulation of Low-Level Radioactive Waste, 19 Ecology L.Q. 481 (1992)

Patent Pledges

Jorge L. Contreras & Meredith Jacob, eds., Patent Pledges: Global Perspectives on Patent Law's Private Ordering Frontier (2018). Reviewed: 13(5) J. Intell. Prop. L. & Practice 423-24; IPKAT Blog, May 4, 2018; 14(3) Manchester J. Intl. Econ. L. 397-399 (2017)

Jorge L. Contreras & Meredith Jacob, eds., A Patent Pledge Taxonomy in Patent Pledges: Global Perspectives on Patent Law's Private Ordering Frontier, Ch. 1 (Edward Elgar) (2017)

Jorge L. Contreras & Meredith Jacob, eds., Patent Pledge Enforcement Theories in Patent Pledges: Global Perspectives on Patent Law's Private Ordering Frontier, Ch. 5 (Edward Elgar) (2017)

Jorge L. Contreras & Meredith Jacob, eds., A Registry for Patent Pledges in Patent Pledges: Global Perspectives on Patent Law's Private Ordering Frontier, Ch. 18 (Edward Elgar) (2017)

Jorge L. Contreras, The Evolving Patent Pledge Landscape, CIGI Papers No. 166 (Apr. 3, 2018)

Jorge L. Contreras, Assessing the Effectiveness of the Eco-Patent Commons: A post-mortem analysis, CIGI Papers No. 161 (with Bronwyn Hall and Christian Helmers) (2018)

Jorge L. Contreras, Patent Pledges, 47(3) Ariz. St. L.J. 543-608 (2015)

Jorge L. Contreras, A Market Reliance Theory for FRAND Commitments and Other Patent Pledges, 2015 Utah L. Rev. 479 (2015)