Brian Kahin: Selected Publications
Amicus Brief of CCIA before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sitting en banc, CLS Bank v. Alice, December 7, 2012 (submitted by Matthew Schruers)
David Carey, Christopher Hill, and Brian Kahin, Strengthening Innovation in the United States, OECD Economics Department Working Paper 1001, November 22, 2012
Brian Kahin, Progress in a Time of War, Patent Progress (blog), November 14, 2012
Brian Kahin, Patent Pragmatism and Patent Ideology, Disruptive Competition Project (blog), October 1, 2012
Brian Kahin, A Movie Not Seen: Apple’s War, Disruptive Competition Project (blog), August 3, 2012
Brian Kahin, Proving Damages in a Thermonuclear War, Disruptive Competition Project (blog), June 29, 2012
Brian Kahin, Innovation: Paradox, Paradigms, and Politics, Disruptive Competition Project (blog), June 11, 2012
Brian Kahin, Patents: A Singular Law for the Diversity of Innovation, Issues in Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution, June 2011
CCIA Amicus Brief in support of petitioner, Microsoft v. i4i, U.S. Supreme Court, January 2011
Brian Kahin, Common and Uncommon Knowledge: Reducing Conflict between Standards and Patents, Laura DeNardis, ed., Opening Standards: The Global Politics of Interoperability, MIT Press, 2010
Brian Kahin and Christopher T. Hill, Innovation Policy around the World: United States – The Need for Continuity, Issues in Science and Technology, Spring 2010
Brian Kahin, Knowledge
Markets in Cyberspace?, in The Multiple Faces of Globalization.
Madrid: BBVA, 2009
CCIA
Amicus Brief in Support of USPTO, Bilski v. Kappos, U.S. Supreme
Court, October 2, 2009
Susana Borrás and Brian Kahin, Patent
Reform in Europe and the United States, Science and Public Policy,
vol. 36 no. 8, October 2009.
Brian Kahin, Beyond
the Box: Innovation Policy in an Innovation-Driven Economy, Science
Progress, July 2009
CCIA Comments to the European Patent Office on Patentability of
Computer Programs, April 30, 2009 (submitted by Ed Black)
Brian Kahin, The
Patent Ecosystem in IT: Business Practice and Arbitrage, submission to
the Federal Trade Commission, based on presentation at FTC hearings, “The
Evolving IP Marketplace,” December 5, 2008
Robert Hunt and Brian Kahin, Reexamining
the Patent System, Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 2008
Amicus
Brief of CCIA before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sitting en
banc, In re Bilski, April 7, 2008 (submitted by Matthew Schruers)
Huffington
Post Blog:
Microsoft
Roils the World with FAT Patents March 6, 2009
NPEs
and Abstract Patents January 8, 2009
The Patent Bubble... Still Growing September 26, 2008
Under the Radar: Two Tales from the Secret Life of Patents
July 25, 2008
Patents
for All: The System that Could Not Contain Itself June 10, 2008
At
the Heart of the Knowledge Economy: Should Patents Be Limited To Technology?
May 6, 2008
Too Many Patents? How Patent Inflation Plagues Information
Technology February 7, 2008
Amicus
Brief of CCIA in Quanta Computer v. LG Electronics, U.S. Supreme Court,
Docket No. 06-937, November 2007
Brian Kahin, “Common
and Uncommon Knowledge: Reducing Conflict between Standards and Patents,”
revised version, Laura DeNardis, ed., Opening Standards: The Global Politics
of Interoperability, NYU Press, 2009 (forthcoming)
Brian Kahin, “Reformers
must alter one-size-fits-all patents,” C|NET News, July 18, 2007
Brian Kahin, "Cyberinfrastructure
and Innovation Policy," First Monday, Vol. 12, No. 6, June 2007
Brian Kahin and Steven J. Jackson, eds., Cyberinfrastructure for
Collaboration and Innovation, special conference issue of First Monday,
Vol. 12, No. 6, June 2007
Brian Kahin, "Patents
and Diversity in Innovation," Michigan Telecommunications and
Technology Law Review, Vol. 13 No. 2, pp 389-399, Winter 2007
Brian Kahin, Patent
Reform for a Digital Economy, CCIA white paper, November 2006
Amicus
Brief filed on behalf of CCIA in KSR International v. Teleflex, U.S.
Supreme Court, Docket No. 04-1350, August 2006
Brian Kahin, “Perspective:
How Washington Reinvented Invention,” C|NET News, April 5, 2006
Brian Kahin, “Common and Uncommon Knowledge: Reducing Conflict between
Standards and Patents” in Sherrie Bolin, ed., The Standards Edge: Golden
Mean, 2007 [see revised version above]
Amicus
Brief filed on behalf of CCIA in Laboratory Corp. of America v. Metabolite Laboratories,
U.S. Supreme Court, Docket No. 04-607, December 2005 [principal author]
Amicus Briefs filed on behalf of CCIA in eBay v. MercExchange, U.S
Supreme Court, Docket No. 05-130, September 2005 (petition
for certiorari) and January 2006 (merits).
[principal author]
Brian Kahin, “Prospects
for Knowledge Policy,” Dominique Foray and Brian Kahin, eds., Advancing
Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy, MIT Press, 2006
Dominique Foray and Brian Kahin, eds., Advancing
Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy, MIT Press, 2006
Brian Kahin, “Software
Is Not an Industry," Managing Intellectual Property, April 2005
William Dutton, Brian Kahin,
Ramon O’Callaghan, & Andrew Wyckoff, eds., Transforming Enterprise,
MIT Press 2004
Brian Kahin, "Through the Lens of
Intangibles,” in Patents, Innovation and Economic Performance, OECD
2004
Brian Kahin, "Why Europe Should Be Wary of
Software Patents," Managing Intellectual Property, December
2003
Paul A. David, Bronwyn H. Hall, Brian Kahin, and W. Edward Steinmueller,
"A
critique of the Rapporteur’s Explanatory Statement accompanying the JURI Report
to the European Parliament on the proposed Directive on the Patentability of
Computer-Implemented Inventions," August 2003
Brian Kahin, “Codification in Context,” in Sandra
Braman, ed., The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime, Palgrave,
2003
Brian Kahin, “Information
process patents in the U.S. and Europe: Policy avoidance and policy divergence,”
First Monday, volume 8, number 3, March 2003
Brian Kahin, “The
Paradox of Private Regulation: Business, Economic, and Political Effects of
Patents on Information Processes,” Green/EFA conference, “Is Software
Patentability Necessary?” European Parliament, November 26, 2002
Brian Kahin, “What’s Wrong with
the Development of Intellectual Property Policy?” Heinrich Böll Stiftung,
Berlin, November 8, 2002; translated and published as “Auf dem Holzweg: Was
läuft schief in der Politik zum, ‘geistigen Eigentum’?” c’t,
1/2003, pp. 74-79
Brian Kahin, invited testimony,
Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Hearings on Competition and
Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy, March 19,
2002
Brian Kahin, “Making Policy
by Solicitation: The Outsourcing of .us,” July 16, 2001, white paper
Brian Kahin, “The Expansion of
the Patent System: Politics and Political Economy,” First Monday, volume 6,
number 1, January 2001
Brian Kahin, Comments
in response to “The Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions,”
Consultation Paper by the Directorate General for the Internal Market,
December 15, 2000
Erik Brynjolfsson and Brian Kahin, eds., Understanding
the Digital Economy, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000
Brian Kahin and Hal Varian, eds., Internet
Publishing and Beyond, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000
Brian Kahin, "A Plan for .us: The
Digital Opportunity Trust," June 2000, white paper prepared for the
Alliance for Community Technology and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Brian Kahin, “Information
Transformed,” Lazerow Lecture, University of Pittsburgh, November 9, 1999
Brian Kahin, "Convergence, Value and Change," in Anne Leer, Masters
of the Wired World, London: Financial Times/Pitman Publishing, 1998,
adapted from "The Internet Business and Policy Landscape" (below).
Brian Kahin, "Beyond the National Information Infrastructure
Initiative," in Lewis M. Branscomb and James H. Keller, eds., Investing in
Innovation, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.
Brian Kahin and James Keller, eds., Coordinating the
Internet, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.
Brian Kahin, "The Internet Business and Policy Landscape," in The Internet
as Paradigm, Aspen Institute for Information Studies, 1997, reprinted
in Jahrbuch Telekommunikation und Gesellschaft 1997, Heidelberg: R. v.
Decker, revised as "Convergence, Value and Change," above.
Brian Kahin and Charles Nesson, eds., Borders in
Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure,
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.
Brian Kahin and Ernest Wilson, eds., National
Information Infrastructure Initiatives: Vision and Policy Design,
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.
Brian Kahin and Bruce McConnell, "Towards a Public
Metanetwork: Interconnection, Leveraging and Privatization of Government-Funded
Networks in the United States," in Eli Noam and Aine Nishuilleabhain,
eds., Private Networks Public Objectives, Elsevier North Holland: N.p.,
1996.
Brian Kahin and Kate Arms, eds., Electronic Commerce for Content: Forum
on Technology-Based Intellectual Property Management, IMA Intellectual
Property Proceedings, Volume 2, 1996.
Brian Kahin, "Auctioning
Global Namespace: A New Form of Intellectual Property, a New Vision of
Universal Service," Cyberspace Lawyer, June 1996. Based on a
presentation to the CIX/Internet Society workshop on Internet Administrative
Infrastructure, Washington, DC, February 2, 1996
Brian Kahin, editor, Special Issue on Interoperability, Information Infrastructure and
Policy, Vol. 4 No. 4, 1995
Brian Kahin and Lewis M. Branscomb, "Standards Processes and Objectives
for the National Information Infrastructure," in Brian Kahin and Janet
Abbate, eds., Standards
Policy for Information Infrastructure, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.
Brian Kahin and James Keller, eds., Public Access
to the Internet. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.
Brian Kahin and Janet Abbate, eds., Standards
Policy for Information Infrastructure, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.
Brian Kahin, "The Internet and the National Information
Infrastructure," in Brian Kahin and James Keller, eds., Public Access
to the Internet, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.
Brian Kahin, "A Cooperative Framework for Enhancing Research Communications
in Science and Technology," Serials Review, volume 20, number 3
(1994).
Brian Kahin, "Networks, Standards, and Intellectual Property: The
Fabric of Information Infrastructure," in 20/20 Vision, Washington,
DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1994.
Brian Kahin, "Developing the Digital Library: Institutional, Legal, and
Policy Issues," in Stephanie Kenna and Seamus Ross, eds., Networking in
the Humanities: Proceedings of the Second Conference on Scholarship and
Technology in the Humanities, London: Bowker Saur, 1994; in Teresa Harrison
and Timothy Stephens, eds., Computer Networks and Scholarly Communications
in the 21st Century University, SUNY Press, 1996; and as “Institutional
and Policy Issues in the Development of the Digital Library” in The
Journal of Electronic Publishing, January 1995.
Brian Kahin, "The Strategic
Environment for Protecting Multimedia," IMA Intellectual Property
Project Proceedings, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 1994. [Proceedings of
IMA/Harvard/MIT/CNI workshop, "Technological Strategies for Protecting
Intellectual Property in the Networked Multimedia Environment,"
Cambridge, MA, April 1993].
Brian Kahin, "Information Technology and Information
Infrastructure," in Lewis M. Branscomb, ed., Empowering
Technology: Implementing a U.S. Policy, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.
Brian Kahin and Lewis M. Branscomb, "The National Infrastructure:
Governance and Funding," in Barbara Evans Markuson, ed., Networks for
Networkers II, Neal-Schumann, 1993.
Brian Kahin, ed., Information Infrastructure Sourcebook, Center for
Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government &
Harvard Office for Information Technology, 1993-1995. (five versions)
Brian Kahin, "CALS in Context," CALS Journal, Vol. 2, No.
1, Spring 1993.
Brian Kahin, "Scholarly
Communication in the Networked Environment: Issues of Principle, Policy, and
Practice,” The Electronic Library, Vol. 10, No. 5, October 1992.
Republished in Robin P. Peek and Gregory B. Newby, eds., Scholarly
Publishing: The Electronic Frontier, Cambridge: ASIS/MIT Press, 1995.
Brian Kahin, "The NREN as Information Market: Dynamics of Public,
Private and Academic Publishing," in Brian Kahin, ed., Building Information
Infrastructure, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992.
Brian Kahin, ed., Building
Information Infrastructure, New York: McGraw-Hill Primis, 1992.
Brian Kahin, "Libraries and Information Infrastructure," Council
on Library Resources Discussion Paper, January 1992.
Brian Kahin, "Information Policy and the Internet: Toward a U.S. Public
Information Infrastructure," Government Publications Review, Vol.
18, No. 6, September/October 1991. Winner of Bernard M. Frye Prize for 1991
(Pergamon Press).
Brian Kahin, "Commercialization of the Internet." Summary Report,
Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, September 1990; published by the Internet Activities Board as RFC 1192.
Brian Kahin, "The Software
Patent Crisis," Technology Review, April 1990.
Brian Kahin, "The Impact of Software Patents," EDUCOM Review,
Vol. 24 No. 4, Winter 1989
