- Declaring Computer Code Uncopyrightable with a Creative Fair Use Analysis, 20 Cato Supreme Court Review 237 (2021).
- The Injunction Function: How and Why Courts Secure Property Rights in Patents, 96 Notre Dame Law Review 1581 (2021).
- O’Reilly v. Morse and Claiming a “Principle” in Antebellum Era Patent Law, 71 Case Western Law Review 735 (2020).
- Patent Injunctions, Economics, and Rights, 50 Journal of Legal Studies 129 (2021) (with Eric R. Claeys) (invited article for festschrift for Richard A. Epstein) (peer review).
- Institutional Design in Patent Law: Private Property Rights or Regulatory Entitlements, 92 Southern California Law Review 921 (2019).
- Statutes, Common-Law Rights, and the Mistaken Classification of Patents as Public Rights, 104 Iowa Law Review 2591 (2019).
- Trademark as a Property Right, 108 Kentucky Law Journal 1 (2018).
- Turning Gold to Lead: How Patent Eligibility Doctrine is Undermining U.S. Leadership in Innovation, 42 George Mason Law Review 939 (2017) (with Kevin Madigan).
- Patent Licensing and Secondary Markets in the Nineteenth Century, 22 George Mason Law Review 959 (2015).
- How Copyright Drives Innovation: A Case Study of Scholarly Publishing in the Digital World, 2015 Michigan State Law Review 955.
- A Brief History of Software Patents (and Why They’re Valid), 56 Arizona Law Review Syllabus 62 (2014).
- The Trespass Fallacy in Patent Law, 65 Florida Law Review 1687 (2013).
- Saving Locke from Marx: The Labor Theory of Value in Intellectual Property Theory, 29 Social Philosophy & Policy 283 (2012) (peer review).
- The Rise and Fall of the First American Patent Thicket: The Sewing Machine War of the 1850s, 53 Arizona Law Review 165 (2011).
- The False Promise of the Right to Exclude, 8 Econ Journal Watch 255 (2011).
- How the “New GM” Can Steal from Toyota, 12 The Green Bag 2d 399 (2010).
- A Simple Conveyance Rule for Complex Innovation, 44 Tulsa Law Review 707 (2009) (invited article in festschrift for Richard A. Epstein).
- The Use and Abuse of IP at the Birth of the Administrative State, 157 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2001 (2009).
- Exclusion and Exclusive Use in Patent Law, 22 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 321 (2009).
- Patents as Constitutional Private Property: The Historical Protection of Patents under the Takings Clause, 87 Boston University Law Review 689 (2007).
- Who Cares What Thomas Jefferson Thought About Patents? Reevaluating the Patent “Privilege” in Historical Context, 92 Cornell Law Review 953 (2007).
- Spam—Oy, What a Nuisance!, 19 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 625 (2004).
- What is Property? Putting the Pieces Back Together, 45 Arizona Law Review 371 (2003).
- Locke’s Labor Lost, 9 University of Chicago Law School Roundtable 155 (2002).
- Rethinking the Development of Patents: An Intellectual History, 1550-1800, 52 Hastings Law Journal 1255 (2001).