About
Jonathan M. Barnett is the Torrey H. Webb Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, and director of the law school’s Media, Entertainment and Technology Law Program. He specializes in innovation law and policy, including antitrust, competition, corporate, and intellectual property law. He is the author of several books, including The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property (Oxford Univ. Press 2024), and Innovators, Firms, and Markets: The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property (Oxford Univ. Press 2021). He has also published widely on these topics in scholarly and policy publications and comments regularly on innovation and competition policy in the press and at professional conferences.
Featured Work
The Big Steal: Ideology, Interest, and the Undoing of Intellectual Property
In The Big Steal, Jonathan Barnett uncovers the overlooked synergies between ideological and business interests behind the weakening of U.S. patent and copyright protections over approximately the past two decades, in conjunction with the emergence of digital platforms in content and tech environments. An intellectual climate, business environment, and policy decisions that sought to constrain intellectual property rights have produced a skewed ecosystem that favors platform-based and other integrated business models over the technology and content originators that drive and sustain the U.S. and global innovation economies.
Other Works
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5G and Beyond: Intellectual Property and Competition Policy in the Internet of Things
2023
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Patent Tigers: The New Geography of Global Innovation
2021
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Innovators, Firms, and Markets: The Organizational Logic of Intellectual Property
2020
