List of top 10 most-cited legal articles in intellectual property law, according to Saphiro

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Below is the ranking of the top 10 most-cited articles of all time to the speciality, according to “The most-cited law review articles of all time”, by Fred R. Shapiro and Michelle Pearse, published in the Michigan Law Review and available at ww.michiganlawreview.org/assets/pdfs/110/8/Shapiro_and_Pearse.pdf:

1. 622 Frank I. Schechter, The Rational Basis of Trademark Protection, 40 Harv. L. Rev. 813 (1927).
2. 547 David R. Johnson & David Post, Law and Border-The Rise of Law in Cyberspace, 48 Stan. L. Rev. 1367
(1996).
3. 532 Stephen Breyer, The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Study of Copyright in Books, Photocopies, and
Computer Programs, 84 Harv. L. Rev. 281 (1970).
4. 515 William M. Landes & Richard A. Posner, An Economic Analysis of Copyright Law, 18 J. Legal Stud. 325
(1989).
5. 512 Pierre N. Leval, Toward a Fair Use Standard, 103 Harv. L. Rev. 1105 (1990).
6. 497 Edmund W. Kitch, The Nature and Function of the Patent System, 20 J.L. & Econ. 265 (1977).
7. 486 Wendy J. Gordon, Fair Use as Market Failure: A Structural and Economic Analysis of the Betamax Case
and Its Predecessors, 82 Colum. L. Rev. 1600 (1982).
8. 472 Robert P. Merges & Richard R. Nelson, On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope, 90 Colum. L.
Rev. 839 (1990).
9. 387 Jessica Litman, The Public Domain, 39 Emory L.J. 965 (1990).
10. (tie) 351 Yochai Benkler, Free as the Air to Common Use: First Amendment Constraints on Enclosure of the Public
Domain, 74 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 354 (1999).
10. (tie) 351 Wendy J. Gordon, A Property Right in Self-Expression: Equality and Individualism in the Natural Law of
Intellectual Property, 102 Yale L.J. 1533 (1993).

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