Patzke_Chapters


 * CHAPTER SUMMARIES**

A. What is the gap in STS scholarship that I am filling? - socio-legal scholarship B. Thesis and Aim of the work - the production of order is not just about scientific and legal co-production of knowledge and understanding about the world, but order comes about through..(which is, unfortunately, not reflected in the outline) C. Outline the chapters
 * CHAPTER SUMMARIES**
 * 1. Introduction:**

A. Site is: (US) courts, cases, and so-called legal technologies B. Methods are ethnography, discourse analysis, participant observation…. C. Theory is social science… !
 * 2. Description of the site, methods, and theoretical background**

A. Connection between scientific discovery and property law - discoveries are commodified as legit manufactures B. Intangible property 'rights' produce innovation - Patents and Trade Secrets and Biotechnology C. Case Study #1: AMP v. USPTO - understand the case with a brief summary of precedential cases that inform the ruling.
 * 3. Innovation and Products of Nature: The (relevant) history of science and law**

this section present a rough trail of how discoveries go from the laboratory to the market. A. Opinions and Dissents: Who determines innovation? - special emphasis is placed on understanding the 'gatekeepers' - those individuals and practices that influence how one artifact turns to a commodity C. Case Study #3: Comparison of Lab.Corp. Dissent and //Park-Davis v. Mulford//
 * 4. Products of Nature and Its Discontents: Dissent and Dicta**

A. Patent v. Trade Secret - as patents become more restrictive, categorizing discoveries as trade secrets becomes a means to maintain control over artifacts deemed financial viable. B. The changing terrain of funding in the life sciences - what is the link between university research and industrial research. - return to AMP v. USPTO to outline this link. C. Case Study #4: Judges Step Down - The 'Case' of the Honorable Richard Posner - there are mechanisms across the system that allow for disruptive characters and practices to intervene at earlier stages in the development of a commodity (or, to put another way, to legitimize a discovery).
 * 5. Discontent and Deception: The Biotech Industrial response to current trends**