Here's a description of the program: Over the past several decades, the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) has been increasingly used by businesses to divert claims from the courts into the arbitral forum that they consider more favorable to them, which in many cases means that, as a practical matter, the claims will never be brought. [read post]

Dan Burk/Michael Carroll: process and product are not the same as user and producer—there may be a terminology issue, especially since process has a specific meaning in patent, whereas von Hippel is using it to define whether the innovation is an input to the thing they want to sell. [read post]