Jeffrey Lefstin - Bibliography

Publications

  • Journal Articles

  • Final Report of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Section 101 Workshop: Addressing Patent Eligibility Challenges, 33 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 551 (2018) (with Peter S. Menell & David O. Taylor). Link, SSRN
  • The Three Faces of Prometheus: A Post-Alice Jurisprudence of Abstractions, 16 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 647 (2015). Link, SSRN
  • Inventive Application: A History, 67 Fla. L. Rev. 565 (2015). Link, SSRN
  • In re Roslin Institute: Products of Nature and Source Limitations, 3 N.T.U.T. J. Intell. Prop. L. & Mgmt. 95 (2014).
  • The Hot–Blast Cases Revisited, 43 CIPA J. 400 (2014).
  • The Constitution of Patent Law: The Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and the Shape of the Federal Circuit’s Jurisprudence, 43 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 843 (2010). Link, SSRN
  • The Formal Structure of Patent Law and the Limits of Enablement, 23 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1141 (2008). Link, SSRN
  • Claim Construction.Appeal.and the Predictability of Interpretive Regimes, 61 U. Miami L. Rev. 1033 (2007). Link, SSRN
  • The Measure of the Doubt: Dissent.Indeterminacy.and Interpretation at the Federal Circuit, 58 Hastings L.J. 1025 (2007). Link, SSRN
  • Mutations in the Glucocorticoid Receptor DNA–binding Domain Mimic an Allosteric Effect of DNA, 301 J. Molecular Bio. 947 (2000) (with Marc A.A. van Tilborg et al).
  • Allosteric Effects of DNA on Transcriptional Regulators, 392 Nature 885 (1998) (with Keith R. Yamamoto).
  • Influence of a Steroid Receptor DNA–Binding Domain on Transcriptional Regulatory Functions, 8 Genes & Dev. 2842 (1994) (with Jay R. Thomas & Keith R. Yamamoto).
  • Three–Dimensional Organization of Chromosomes Studied by in situ Hybridization and Optical–Sectioning Microscopy, 1205 Proc. Soc. Photo–Optical Instrumentation Engineers 11 (1990) (with Yasushi Hiraoka et al.).
  • Chapters in Books

  • Subject Matter Eligibility, in Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook Chap. 2 (Mark D. Janis & Ted Sichelman eds. 2021) (editor).
  • Neilson v. Harford: Shape and Form in Patent Law, in Forgotten Intellectual Property Lore: Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property 55 (Shubha Ghosh ed., Edward Elgar Pub. 2020) (Elgar Law and Entrepreneurship series).
  • Student Note/Comment

  • Note, Does the First Amendment Bar Cancellation of REDSKINS?, 52 Stan. L. Rev. 665 (2000). SSRN
  • Miscellaneous

  • American Axle v. Neapco Holdings: Brief of Professors Jeffrey A. Lefstin And Peter S. Menell As Amici Curiae in Support of Petition for a Writ of Certiorari, (2021) (with Peter S. Menell).
  • Athena Rising?, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 392 ( 2020) (Brief of Professors Jeffrey A. Lefstin and Peter S. Menell as Amici Curiae in Support of Petition for a Writ of Certiorari in Athena Diagnostics v. Mayo Collaborative Services).
  • Restoring the Legislative Framework for Patenting Applications of Scientific Discoveries, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2767904 ( 2016) (Brief of Professors Jeffrey A. Lefstin and Peter S. Menell as Amici Curiae in support of Petition for A Writ Of Certiorari in Sequinom v. Ariosa; No. 15-1182).
  • Don’t Throw Out Fetal-Diagnostic Innovation with the Bathwater: Why Ariosa v. Sequenom Is an Ideal Vehicle for Constructing a Sound Patent-Eligibility Framework, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2652452 ( 2015) (Brief of Professors Jeffrey A. Lefstin and Peter S. Menell as Amici Curiae in support of Rehearing En Banc in Ariosa v. Sequenom; Nos. 2014-1139; 2014-1144).
  • Rethinking Patent Eligibility for the Modern Scientific Age, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2402776; UC Hastings Research Paper No. 97 ( 2014) (Brief of Professors Jeffrey A. Lefstin and Peter S. Menell as Amici Curiae in support of Respondents in Alice v. CLS Bank No. 13-289).