Jerome H. Reichman | Scholars@Duke

Jerome H. Reichman
Bunyan S. Womble Distinguished Professor of Law

Jerome H. Reichman is Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law at Duke Law School. He has written and lectured widely on diverse aspects of intellectual property law, including comparative and international intellectual property law and the connections between intellectual property and international trade law. His articles in this area have particularly addressed the problems that developing countries face in implementing the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). On this and related themes, he and Keith Maskus have recently published a book entitled International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime

Other recent writings have focused on intellectual property rights in data; the appropriate contractual regime for online delivery of computer programs and other information goods; and on the use of liability rules to stimulate investment in innovation. His most recent articles are: “The Globalization of Private Knowledge Goods and the Privatization of Global Public Goods” (co-authored with Keith Maskus), 7 Journal of International Economic Law 279-320 (2004); “A Contractually Reconstructed Research Commons for Scientific Data in a Highly Protectionist Intellectual Property Environment” (co-authored with Paul Uhlir), 66 Law and Contemporary Problems 315-462 (2003); and Using Liability Rules to Stimulate Local Innovation in Developing Countries: Application to Traditional Knowledge (with Tracy Lewis) in International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime (2005).

Professor Reichman serves as special advisor to the United States National Academies and the International Council for Science (ICSU) on the subject of legal protection for databases. He is a consultant to numerous intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations; a member of the Board of Editors, Journal of International Economic Law; and on the Scientific Advisory Board of II Diritto di Autore (Rome).

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Bunyan S. Womble Distinguished Professor of Law, Law School, Duke University 2000
Professor Emeritus of Law, Law School, Duke University 2022
Affiliate, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2008
Faculty Network Member of The Energy Initiative, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative, Initiatives 2015
Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2017

Contact Information

Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Law School Room 3008, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
reichman@law.duke.edu (919) 613-7286
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Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- J.D., Yale University 1979
- B.A., The University of Chicago 1955
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of Law, Law School, Duke University 2000 - 2022
Recognition
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- MAR 28, 2016
  
  Infectious Disease Symposium Convenes at Duke April 1
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Reichman, J., L. Helfer, M. Land, and R. Okediji. The World Blind Union Guide to the Marrakesh Treaty: Facilitating Access to Books for Print-Disabled Individuals. Oxford University Press, 2017.
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  - Reichman, J. H. Foreword, 2016.
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  - Reichman, J., P. Uhlir, and T. Dedeurwaerdere. Governing Digitally Integrated Genetic Resources, Data, and Literature: Global Intellectual Property Strategies for a Redesigned Microbial Research Commons. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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  - Cimoli, M., D. Giovanni, K. E. Maskus, R. L. Okediji, and J. H. Reichman, eds. Intellectual Property Rights: Legal and Economic Challenges for Development. Oxford University Press, 2014.
  - Cimoli, M., D. Giovanni, K. E. Maskus, R. L. Okediji, and J. H. Reichman, eds. Intellectual Property Rights: Legal and Economic Challenges for Development. Oxford University Press, 2014.
  - Reichman, J., and C. Spennemann. Using Intellectual Property Rights To Stimulate Pharmaceutical Production In Developing Countries A Reference Guide. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, 2011.
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  - Reichman, J. International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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  - Reichman, J. International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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  - Reichman, J., and C. Hasenzahl. Non-Voluntary Licensing of Patented Inventions: Historical Perspective, Legal Framework under TRIPS, and an Overview of the Practice in Canada and the United States of America, 2003.
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  - Reichman, J., and C. Hasenzahl. Non-Voluntary Licensing of Patented Inventions: The Canadian Experience, 2002.
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  - Reichman, J., J. Watal, and G. Okediji. Flagship Project on Innovation, Culture, Biogenetic Resources, and Traditional Knowledge. UN Development Programme, 2000.
  - Reichman, J. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), The TRIPS Agreement and Developing Countries, 1996.
  - Reichman, J. Implications of the Draft TRIPS Agreement for Developing Countries as Competitors in an Integrated World Market, 1993.
- Academic Articles
  - Reichman, J., and F. Abbott. “Facilitating Access to Cross-Border Supplies of Patented Pharmaceuticals: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of International Economic Law 23, no. 3 (2020).
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  - Reichman, J., P. Moreno, S. Ali-Khan, B. Capps, T. Caulfield, and D. Chalaud. “Open Science Precision Medicine in Canada: Points to Consider.” Facets 4, no. 1 (2019): 1–19.
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  - Reichman, J., K. McCluskey, K. Barker, H. Barton, K. Boundy-Mills, and D. Brown. “The U.S. Culture Collection Network Responding to the Requirements of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing.” Mbio 8, no. 4 (2017): 1–10.
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  - Contreras, Jorge L., and Jerome H. Reichman. “DATA ACCESS. Sharing by design: Data and decentralized commons.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 350, no. 6266 (December 2015): 1312–14. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa7485.
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  - Reichman, J., and J. Contreras. “Sharing by Design: Data and Decentralized Commons.” Science 350 (2015): 1312–14.
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  - Reichman, J. “Compliance of Canada's Utility Doctrine with International Minimum Standards of Patent Protection.” American Society of International Law Proceedings 108 (2014): 313–17.
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  - Reichman, Jerome H., and Ruth Okediji. “When Copyright Law and Science Collide: Empowering Digitally Integrated Research Methods on a Global Scale.” Minnesota Law Review 96, no. 4 (January 14, 2013).
  - Reichman, J., and R. Okediji. “When Copyright Law and Science Collide: Empowering Digitally Integrated Research Methods on a Global Scale.” Minnesota Law Review 96 (2012): 1362–1480.
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  - Reichman, J., A. Latif, K. Maskus, R. Okediji, and P. Roffe. “Overcoming the Impasse on Intellectual Property and Climate Change at the UNFCCC: A Way Forward” 2011 (2011).
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  - Reichman, J. “Comment: Compulsory Licensing of Patented Pharmaceutical Inventions: Evaluating the Options.” Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics 37 (2009): 247–63.
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  - Reichman, J. “Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century: Will the Developing Countries Lead or Follow?” Houston Law Review 46 (2009): 1115–85.
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  - Reichman, J. “Rethinking the Role of Clinical Trial Data in International Intellectual Property Law: The Case for a Public Goods Approach.” Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 13 (2009): 1–68.
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  - Reichman, J., A. Rai, P. Uhlir, and C. Crossman. “Pathways Across the Valley of Death: Novel Intellectual Property Strategies for Accelerated Drug Discovery.” Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics 8 (2008): 53–89.
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  - Reichman, J., A. So, B. Sampat, R. Cook-Deegan, R. Weissman, and A. Kapczynski. “Is Bayh-Dole Good for Developing Countries? Lessons from the U.S. Experience.” Plos Biology 6 (2008): 2078–84.
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  - Samuelson, P., J. H. Reichman, and G. Dinwoodie. “How to achieve (some) balance in anti-circumvention laws.” Communications of the Acm 51, no. 2 (January 1, 2008): 21–25. https://doi.org/10.1145/1314215.1314220.
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  - Reichman, J. “Richard Lillich Memorial Lecture: Nurturing a Transnational System of Innovaton.” Journal of Transnational Law & Policy 16 (2007): 143–66.
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  - Reichman, J. “Intellectual Property: Does IP Harm or Help Developing Countries?” Journal of Law, Technology & Policy 2007 (2007): 70–74.
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  - Reichman, J. “The Doha Round's Public Health Legacy: Strategies for the Production and Diffusion of Patented Medicines Under the Amended TRIPS Provisions.” Journal of International Economic Law 10 (2007): 921–87.
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  - Reichman, J., G. Dinwoodie, and P. Samuelson. “A Reverse Notice and Takedown Regime to Enable Public Interest Uses of Technically Protected Copyrighted Works.” Berkeley Technology Law Journal 22 (2007): 981–1060.
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  - Reichman, J., P. Uhlir, and H. Ritch. “Access to Scientific and Technological Knowledge: UNESCO's Past, Present and Future Roles,” 2007, 323–50.
  - Reichman, J., T. Lewis, and A. So. “The Case for Public Funding and Public Oversight of Clinical Trials.” Economists Voice 4 (2007): 1.
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  - Reichman, J., and R. Dreyfus. “Harmonization Without Consensus: Critical Reflections on Drafting a Substantive Patent Law Treaty.” Duke Law Journal 57 (2007): 85–130.
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  - Reichman, J. “The International Legal Status of Undisclosed Clinical Trial Data: From Private to Public Goods?” 2006 (2006): 133–50.
  - Maskus, K. E. “Preface.” International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, January 1, 2005, xiii–xv. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511494529.001.
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  - Reichman, J., and K. Maskus. “Introduction to Mini-Symposium: International Public Goods and the Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime.” Journal of International Economic Law 7 (2004): 275–78.
  - Reichman, J., and K. Maskus. “Mini-Symposium: International Public Goods and the Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime.” Journal of International Economic Law 7 (2004).
  - Reichman, J. “A Contractually Reconstructed Research Commons for Scientific Data in a Highly Protectionist Intellectual Property Environment.” Law and Contemporary Problems 66 (2003): 315–440.
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  - Reichman, J. “Saving the Patent Law from Itself: Informal Remarks Concerning the Systemic Problems Afflicting Developed Intellectual Property Regimes,” 2003, 289–303.
  - Reichman, J. “Database Protection in a Global Economy.” La R.I.D.E.: Revue Internationale De Droit Economique 2002 (2002): 455–504.
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  - Reichman, J. “Taking the Medicine with Angst: An Economist's View of the TRIPS Agreement.” Journal of International Economic Law 4 (2001): 795.
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  - Reichman, J. “The TRIPS Agreement Comes of Age: Conflict or Cooperation with the Developing Countries?” Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 32 (2000): 441.
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  - Reichman, J. “Privately Legislated Intellectual Property Rights: Reconciling Freedom of Contract With Public Good Uses of Information.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 147 (1999): 875.
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  - Reichman, J., and P. Uhlir. “Database Protection at the Crossroads: Recent Developments and Their Impact on Science and Technology.” Berkeley Technology Law Journal 14 (1999): 793.
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  - Reichman, J. “Why Science Is Concerned About the Legal Protection of Databases.” Aaas Science & Technology Policy Yearbook, 1998.
  - Reichman, J. “Securing Compliance with the TRIPS Agreement After U.S. v. India.” Journal of International Economic Law 1 (1998): 585–601.
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  - Reichman, J. “Universal Minimum Standards of Intellectual Property Protection under the TRIPS Component of the WTO Agreement.” International Lawyer 29 (1998): 345–88.
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  - Reichman, J. “Industrial Designs and Utility Models under the European Communities' Proposed Initiatives: A Critical Appraisal.” International Intellectual Property Law & Policy 2 (1998).
  - Reichman, J., and D. Lange. “Bargaining Around the TRIPS Agreement: The Case for Ongoing Public-Private Initiatives to Facilitate Worldwide Intellectual Property Transactions.” Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, 1998.
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  - Reichman, J. H., and P. Samuelson. “Intellectual Property Rights in Data?” Vanderbilt Law Review 50, no. 1 (January 1, 1997): 51.
  - Reichman, J. “Enforcing the Enforcement Procedures of the TRIPS Agreement.” Virginia Journal of International Law 37 (1997): 335–56.
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  - Reichman, J., S. Perlmutter, and W. Gray. “Copyright and International TRIPs Compliance.” Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal 8, no. 1 (1997): 83–97.
  - Reichman, J., and P. Samuelson. “Intellectual Property Rights in Data?” Vanderbilt Law Review 50 (1997): 52–166.
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  - Davis, Randall, Pamela Samuelson, Mitchell Kapor, and Jerome Reichman. “A new view of intellectual property and software.” Communications of the Acm 39, no. 3 (March 1996): 21–30. https://doi.org/10.1145/227234.227237.
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  - Reichman, J. “The Duration of Copyright and the Limits of Cultural Policy.” Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 14 (1996): 625.
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  - Reichman, J. “Compliance with the TRIPS Agreement: Introduction to a Scholarly Debate.” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 29 (1996): 363–90.
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  - Reichman, J. “From Free Riders to Fair Followers: Global Competition Under the TRIPS Agreement.” New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 29 (1996): 11–93.
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  - Reichman, J., R. Davis, P. Samuelson, and M. Kapor. “A New View of Intellectual Property and Software.” Communications of the Acm 39, no. 3 (1996): 21–30.
  - Reichman, J. “Charting the Collapse of the Patent-Copyright Dichotomy: Premises for a Restructured International Intellectual Property System.” Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 13 (1995): 475.
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  - Reichman, J. “The Know-How Gap in the TRIPS Agreement: Why Software Fared Badly, and What Are the Solutions.” Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal (Comm/Ent) 17 (1995): 763.
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  - Reichman, J., P. Samuelson, R. Davis, and M. Kapor. “A Manifesto Concerning the Legal Protection of Computer Programs.” Columbia Law Review 94 (1994): 2308.
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  - Reichman, J. “Beyond the Historical Lines of Demarcation: Competition Law, Intellectual Property Rights, and International Trade After the GATT's Uruguay Round.” Brooklyn Journal of International Law 20 (1993): 75.
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  - Reichman, J. “Electronic Information Tools -- The Outer Edge of World Intellectual Property Law.” International Review of Industrial Property & Copyright Law 24 (1993): 446.
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  - Reichman, J. “Past and Current Trends in the Evolution of Design Protection Law--A Comment.” Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal 4 (1993): 387.
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  - Reichman, J. “The TRIPS Component of the GATT's Uruguay Round: Competitive Prospects for Intellectual Property Owners in an Integrated World Market.” Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal 4 (1993): 171.
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  - Reichman, J. “Design Protection and the Legislative Agenda.” Law & Contemporary Problems 55 (1992): 281.
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  - Reichman, J. “Legal Hybrids Between the Patent and Copyright Paradigms,” 1992, 325.
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  - Reichman, J. “Overlapping Proprietary Rights in University-Generated Research Products: The Case of Computer Programs.” Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 17 (1992): 51.
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  - Reichman, J. “Goldstein on Copyright Law: A Realist's Approach to a Technological Age.” Stanford Law Review 43 (1991): 943.
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  - Reichman, J. “Design Protection and the New Technologies: The United States Experience in a Transnational Perspective.” University of Baltimore Law Review 19 (1990): 6.
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  - Reichman, J. “Computer Programs as Applied Scientific Know-How: Implications of Copyright Protection for Commercialized University Research.” Vanderbilt Law Review 42 (1989): 639.
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  - Reichman, J. “Intellectual Property in International Trade: Opportunities and Risks of a GATT Connection.” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 22 (1989): 747.
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  - Reichman, J. “The Enduring Contributions of Professor Nimmer.” Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 5 (1986): 25–31.
  - Reichman, J. “Design Protection After the Copyright Act of 1976: A Comparative View of the Emerging Interim Models.” Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 31 (1984): 267.
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  - Reichman, J. “Design Protection in Domestic and Foreign Copyright Law: From the Berne Revision of 1948 to the Copyright Act of 1976.” Duke Law Journal 1983 (1983): 1143.
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- Book Sections
  - Reichman, J., and R. Dreyfuss. “WIPO’s Role in Procedural and Substantive Patent Law Harmonization.” In Research Handbook on the World Intellectual Property Organization: The First 50 Years and Beyond, 108–30. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020.
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  - Reichman, J. H. “Why the Nagoya Protocol to the convention on biological diversity matters to science and industry everywhere.” In Intellectual Property and Development: Understanding the Interfaces: Liber Amicorum Pedro Roffe, 295–314, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2856-5_14.
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  - Reichman, J. “Reframing Intellectual Property Rights with Fewer Distortions of the Trade Paradigm.” In Framing Intellectual Property Law in the 21st Century, 62–88. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  - Maskus, K. E., and J. H. Reichman. “The globalization of private knowledge goods and the privatization of global public goods.” In The Regulation of Services and Intellectual Property, 355–96, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315085463.
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  - Maskus, K. E., and J. H. Reichman. “The globalization of private knowledge goods and the privatization of global public goods.” In Globalization and Intellectual Property, 335–77, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315254111-14.
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  - Reichman, J. “The Limits of “Limitations and Exceptions” in Copyright Law.” In Copyright Law in an Age of Limitations and Exceptions, 292–314, 2017.
  - Reichman, J. “Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries: Some Conclusions.” In Intellectual Property Rights: Legal and Economic Challenges for Development, 503–13, 2014.
  - Reichman, J. “Intellectual Property in the Twenty-First Century: Will the Developing Countries Lead or Follow?” In Intellectual Property Rights: Legal and Economic Challenges for Development, 111–81, 2014.
  - Reichman, J. “Is Bayh-Dole Good for Developing Countries? Lessons from the U.S. Experience.” In Intellectual Property Rights: Legal and Economic Challenges for Development, 201–15, 2014.
  - Reichman, J. “A Compensatory Liability Regime to Promote the Exchange of Microbial Genetic Resources for Research and Benefit Sharing.” In Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Proceedings of an International Symposium, 43–53, 2011.
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  - Reichman, J. “Lessons to be Learned in Europe from the International Discourse on Patents and Public Health.” In Differential Pricing Of Pharmaceuticals Inside Europe, 2010.
  - Reichman, J. “Preface.” In Intellectual Property and Competition Law: The Innovation Nexus, vii–xi. Edward Elgar, 2006.
  - Maskus, K. E. “The globalization of private knowledge goods and the privatization of global public goods.” In International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, 3–45, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511494529.002.
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  - Reichman, J., and T. Lewis. “Using Liability Rules to Stimulate Local Innovation in Developing Countries: Application to Traditional Knowledge.” In International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, 337–66, 2005.
  - Reichman, J., and P. Uhlir. “A Contractually Reconstructed Research Commons for Scientific Data: International Considerations.” In Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science, 98–102. National Academies Press, 2004.
  - Reichman, J. “Discussion Framework; and A Contractually Reconstructed Research Commons for Science and Innovation.” In The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain, 73–86, 2003.
  - Reichman, J. “The TRIPS Agreement Comes of Age: Conflict or Cooperation in the Post-Transitional Phase?” In Intellectual Property: Trade, Competition, and Sustainable Development, 115–39, 2003.
  - Reichman, J. “Preface.” In Profili Evolutivi Del Diritto Industriale, Vol. 2001, 2001.
  - Reichman, J. “La guerra delle banche dati - Rifflessione sulla situazione americana [The Database Wars - Reflections on the American Situation].” In AIDA [Annali Italiani Del Diritto d’Autore, Della Cultura e Dello Spettacolo], 1997.
  - Reichman, J. “The Trend Toward Strengthened Intellectual Property Rights: A Potential Threat to Public Good Uses of Scientific Data.” In National Research Council, Bits of Power: Issues in Global Access to Scientific Data, 1997.
  - Reichman, J. “Intellectual Property in International Trade and the GATT.” In Exporting Our Technology: International Protection and Transfers of Industrial Innovations, 1995.
  - Reichman, J. “Proprietary Rights in Computer-Generated Productions.” In WIPO World Wide Symposium on the Legal Protection of Artificial Intelligence, 205, 1991.
  - Reichman, J. “Proprietary Rights in the New Landscape of Intellectual Property Law: An Anglo-American Perspective.” In ALAI Congress of the Aegean Sea II, 1991.
- Reports
  - Reichman, J. “Why the Nagoya Protocol to the CBD Matters to Science and Industry in Canada and the United States.” Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2018.
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  - Reichman, J., R. Hilty, M. Lamping, D. Burk, C. Correa, P. Drahos, N. Gopalakrisnan, et al. “Declaration on Patent Protection--Regulatory Sovereignty Under TRIPS,” 2014.
  - Rai, A., R. Newell, J. Reichman, and J. Wiener. “Intellectual Property and Alternatives: Strategies for Green Innovation,” 2008.
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- Conference Papers
  - Reichman, J. “How Trade Secrecy Law Generates a Natural Semicommons of Innovative Know-How,” 185–201, 2011.
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  - Reichman, J., and K. Maskus. “The Globalization of Private Knowledge Goods and the Privatization of Global Public Goods.” In Journal of International Economic Law, 7:279–320, 2005.
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  - Reichman, J. “Of Green Tulips and Legal Kudzu: Repackaging Rights in Subpatentable Innovation.” In Vanderbilt Law Review, 53:1743, 2000.
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