Miller (Lewis & Clark Law School) collects 16 seminal journal articles from the field of patent law, selecting the papers based on the central criterion of their pertinence to long-running questions about the most basic aspects of the US patent law system that have been central in this decade, as well as on expected criteria of influence and importance, clarity of expression, diversity of ideas and sources, etc. The papers are organized into sections on patent law history, nonobviousness, economic analysis of patent law, the patentability of software or business methods, and empirical analysis of patent law. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)