Santa Clara Law Professor Colleen Chien has published a new article discussing the factors that lead to patent litigation. Professor Chien focuses not on patents' intrinsic characteristics but rather on characteristics acquired after the patent is born, such as changes of ownership, continued investment in the patent, and citations to the patent. Her research discovered that patents that end up in litigation possess markedly different acquired characteristics from patents that remain unlitigated. Read More ...

This has been a very interesting year for institutional repositories among law schools. Over the last few years, there has been a trend for academic institutions to create digital repositories both for archival purposes and to provide greater access to their faculty's scholarship. Some solutions that have been in the market include Dspace and Fedora Commons. These systems, however, have proven to be difficult to use for most libraries which have affected their adoption rates. Read More ...

The library technology market is entering an exciting phase as libraries are finally moving past the ILS (integrated library systems) model that has been used for decades. Current ILS products, such as Ex Libris' Voyager, Innovative Interface's Millennium, and Sirsi's Symphony, are being slowly replaced by web- and cloud-based systems. These systems unify ordering, acquisition, cataloging, and even the discovery layer into one service. This will undoubtedly have profound effects on the work of library staff. Read More ...

We are very excited at Santa Clara Law to be launching our new Digital Commons, based on software from BePress. Although we haven't yet begun our major digitization projects, we already have a number of "born-digital" documents hosted on this digital repository. Some collections include published faculty scholarship, working papers, and some special library collections. Read More ...

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We are very saddened to announce that Mary Emery, Library Director at the Heafey Law Library, passed away over the weekend. She will be deeply missed by the entire Santa Clara Law community. Read More ...

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