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Kara W. Swanson, Centering Black Women Inventors: Passing and the Patent Archive, 25 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 305 (2022).Jessica SilbeyProfessor Kara Swanson’s latest article is a remarkable example of legal historical scholarship that excavates stories from the past to illuminate the present. It is chock full of archival evidence and historical analysis that explains gaps and silences in the United States patent registry as evidence of marginalized inventors–particularly Black women–who should be named inventors but are not. The article is [...]

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