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). FULLTEXTSSRN
Inventive Application: A History, 67 Fla. L. Rev. 565 (2015). FULLTEXTSSRN
The Three Faces of Prometheus: A Post-Alice Jurisprudence of Abstractions, 16 N.C. J.L. & Tech. 647 (2015). FULLTEXTSSRN
In re Roslin Institute: Products of Nature and Source Limitations, 3 N.T.U.T. J. Intell. Prop. L. & Mgmt. 95 (2014). URL
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). FULLTEXTSSRN
The Formal Structure of Patent Law and the Limits of Enablement, 23 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1141 (2008). FULLTEXTSSRN
Claim Construction, Appeal, and the Predictability of Interpretive Regimes, 61 U. Miami L. Rev. 1033 (2007). FULLTEXTSSRN
The Measure of the Doubt: Dissent, Indeterminacy, and Interpretation at the Federal Circuit, 58 Hastings L.J. 1025 (2007). FULLTEXTSSRN
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). URL
Allosteric Effects of DNA on Transcriptional Regulators, 392 Nature 885 (1998) (with Keith R. Yamamoto). URL
Influence of a Steroid Receptor DNA–Binding Domain on Transcriptional Regulatory Functions, 8 Genes & Dev. 2842 (1994) (with Jay R. Thomas & Keith R. Yamamoto). URL
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.). URL
Chapters In Books
Subject Matter Eligibility, inPatent Law: An Open-Source Casebook Chap. 2 (Mark D. Janis & Ted Sichelman eds. 2021) (editor).
Neilson v. Harford: Shape and Form in Patent Law, inForgotten Intellectual Property Lore: Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property 55 (Shubha Ghosh ed., Edward Elgar Pub. 2020) (Elgar Law and Entrepreneurship series). URL
Other Publications
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). URL
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). URL
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)
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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). URL
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. URL
Student Notes/Comments
Note, Does the First Amendment Bar Cancellation of REDSKINS?, 52 Stan. L. Rev. 665 (2000). HEINWLSSRN
Dissertations & Theses
Allosteric Modulation of Transcriptional Activation Functions by the DNA–Binding Domain of the Glucocorticoid Receptor (1997) (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, San Francisco) (on file with the Northern Regional Library Facility).