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Arti K. Rai

Elvin R. Latty Distinguished Professor of Law
School of Law
Duke Law School Room 3022, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Cryptic Patent Reform Through the Inflation Reduction Act

Journal Article Harvard Journal of Law & Technology · 2023 Link to item Cite

Access to Biomedical Innovation — Inside the Legal Labyrinth

Journal Article New England Journal of Medicine · 2023 Link to item Cite

Post-Grant Adjudication of Drug Patents: Agency and/or Court?

Journal Article Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2022 Link to item Cite

Clearing Opacity Through Machine Learning

Journal Article Iowa Law Review · 2021 Link to item Cite

An Administrative Fix for Manufacturing Process Patent Thicket

Journal Article Nature Biotechnology · 2021 Cite

How Logically Impossible Patents Block Biosimilars

Journal Article Nature Biotechnology · 2019 Cite

Intellectual Property Issues in Genomics

Journal Article Annual Review of Genomics & Human Genetics · 2017 Cite

Open Letter on Ethical Norms in Intellectual Property Scholarship

Journal Article Harvard Journal of Law & Technology · 2016 Link to item Cite

Strategic Decision Making in Dual PTAB and District Court Proceedings

Journal Article Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2016 Link to item Cite

The Changing Life Science Patent Landscape

Journal Article Nature Biotechnology · 2016 Cite

Drug Development. Are trade secrets delaying biosimilars?

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · April 2015 Full text Cite

Are Trade Secrets Delaying Biosimilars?

Journal Article Science · 2015 Cite

When Biopharma Meets Software: Bioinformatics at the Patent Office

Journal Article Harvard Journal of Law & Technology · 2015 Link to item Cite

Diagnostic Patents at the Supreme Court

Journal Article Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

Use Patents Can Be Useful: The Case of Rescued Drugs

Other Science Translational Medicine · 2014 Cite

Competing with the "Patent Court": A Newly Robust Ecosystem

Journal Article Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property · 2014 Link to item Cite

Use Patents Can Be Useful: The Case of Rescued Drugs

Journal Article Science Translational Medicine · 2014 Cite

Biomedical Patents at the Supreme Court: A Path Forward

Journal Article Stanford Law Review Online · 2013 Link to item Cite

Moving Beyond "Isolated" Gene Patents

Journal Article Science · 2013 Cite

Who's Afraid of the Federal Circuit?

Journal Article Yale Law Journal Online · 2011 Link to item Cite

Unstandard Standardization: The Case of Biology

Journal Article Communications of the ACM · 2010 Link to item Cite

Intellectual Property

Journal Article Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice · 2010 Cite

Panel discussion: Specialized courts: Lessons from the federal circuit

Journal Article Journal of Intellectual Property · June 3, 2009 Cite

A kernel for the Tropical Disease Initiative.

Journal Article Nature biotechnology · April 2009 Full text Cite

DNA sequence patents are not in the grave yet.

Journal Article Nature biotechnology · February 2009 Full text Cite

A kernel for open source drug discovery in tropical diseases.

Journal Article PLoS neglected tropical diseases · January 2009 BackgroundConventional patent-based drug development incentives work badly for the developing world, where commercial markets are usually small to non-existent. For this reason, the past decade has seen extensive experimentation with alternative R ... Full text Cite

University Software Ownership and Litigation: A First Examination

Journal Article Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing · 2009 Link to item Cite

Fixing Innovation Policy: A Structural Perspective

Journal Article George Washington Law Review · 2008 Link to item Cite

Fixing Innovation Policy: A Structural Perspective

Journal Article George Washington Law Review · 2008 Link to item Cite

Open Source and Private Ordering: A Commentary on Dusollier

Journal Article Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2007 Cite

The Ends of Intellectual Property: Health as a Case Study

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2007 Link to item Cite

Open source research - The power of us

Journal Article Australian Journal of Chemistry · June 19, 2006 Academic and industrial scientific research operate on powerful and complementary models, consisting of some mix of competitive funding, peer review, and limited inter-laboratory collaboration. Enormous successes have arisen from both models. Yet there are ... Full text Cite

Harnessing and Sharing the Benefits of State Sponsored Research

Journal Article Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2006 Link to item Cite

Bayh-Dole Reform and the Progress of Biomedicine

Journal Article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2003 Link to item Cite

Genome Patents: A Case Study in Patenting Research Tools

Journal Article Academic Medicine · 2002 Cite

Locating Gene Patents Within the Patent System

Journal Article American Journal of Bioethics · 2002 Cite

Specialized Trial Courts: Concentrating Expertise on Fact

Journal Article Berkeley Technology Law Journal · 2002 Link to item Cite

Genes and the Just Society: Preface

Journal Article San Diego Law Review · 2002 Cite

Addressing the Patent Gold Rush: The Role of Deference to PTO Patent Denials

Journal Article Washington University Journal of Law & Policy · 2000 Link to item Cite

The Physician as a Health Care Proxy

Journal Article Hastings Center Report · 1999 Cite

Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analyses in the Medical Literature

Journal Article Annals of Internal Medicine · 1992 Cite