Books
Advanced Introduction to International Patent Law (with Rochelle C. Dreyfuss), (Edward Elgar forthcoming 2022).
Ruth L. Okediji & Margo A. Bagley (eds.), Patent Law in Global Perspective, (Oxford University Press 2014).
Margo A. Bagley, Ruth L. Okediji & Jay A. Erstling, International Patent Law and Policy (West Publishing 2013).
Book Chapters
Exploring Intellectual Property through the Lens of Religious Thought, in Irene Calboli & Maria Lilla Montagnani eds., Handbook on Intellectual Property Research, Oxford University Press, (forthcoming 2021).
“Beloved, I Wish Above All Things That You May Prosper and Be in Health”: Intellectual Property, Access to Medicines, and Christian Tradition, in Daniel Crane ed. Christian Tradition and Economic Regulation, Cambridge University Press, (forthcoming 2021).
‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’: The Morality of Limits on Pharmaceutical Patents, in Thomas C. Berg, Roman Cholij, Simon Ravenscroft, eds., Patents On Life: Through the Lenses of Law, Religion, and Global Justice, Cambridge University Press, (2019).
Designing Disclosure: Disclosure of Cultural and Genetic Resource Utilisation in Design Protection Regimes, in The Object and Purpose of Intellectual Property, (Susy Frankel ed., Edward Elgar 2019).
Towering Wave or Tempest in a Teapot? Synthetic Biology, Access & Benefit Sharing, and Economic Development, in Intellectual Property on the Internet and the Connection with Human and Economic Development, (Susy Frankel and Daniel Gervais eds., Victoria University Press 2017).
The De-Materialization of Genetic Resources: Synthetic Biology, Intellectual Property, and the ABS Bypass, in Routledge Handbook of Biodiversity and the Law, (Charles McManis and Burton Ong Eds., 2017).
Of Disclosure “Straws” and Patent System “Camels”: Patents, Innovation, and the Disclosure of Origin Requirement, in Protecting Traditional Knowledge: The Wipo Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, (Daniel Robinson, Ahmed Abdel-Latif, Pedro Roffe eds., Routledge Press 2017).
“Grant Me Justice Against My Adversary”: What Parables Can Teach Us About Organic Seed Growers & Trade Assoc. v. Monsanto, in Diversity in Intellectual Property: Identities, Interests, and Intersections, (Irene Calboli and Srividyha Ragavan eds., Cambridge University Press 2015).
Patent Barbarians at the Gate: The Who, What, When, Where, Why & How of U.S. Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Challenges, in Patent Law in Global Perspective, (Ruth L. Okediji & Margo A. Bagley eds., Oxford University Press 2014).
Pharmaceutical Data Exclusivity Protection, in Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition and Patent Law: A Trilateral Perspective, (Josef Drexl and Nari Lee eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2013).
Patents and Technology Commercialization: Issues and Opportunities, in vol. 18, Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth, (Gary Libecap, ed., Elsevier Science and Technology Books 2007).
A Global Controversy: Biotechnology Patents and Morality, in Intellectual Property and Information Wealth, (Peter Yu, ed., Praeger 2007).
Articles
“Just” Sharing, 63 Harvard Int’l L.J. __ (forthcoming 2022)
What’s Yours in Mine and What’s Mine is Mine: Benefit-sharing Obligations and the De-Materialization of Genetic Resources, 63 Harvard Int’l L.J. Online __ (forthcoming 2021).
The Fallacy of Defensive Protection for Traditional Knowledge, 58 Washburn L.J. 323 (2019).
The Morality of Compulsory Licensing as an Access to Medicines Tool, 102 Minn. L. Rev. 2463 (2018).
"Ask Me No Questions": The Struggle for Disclosure of Cultural and Genetic Resource Utilization in Design Applications, 20 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 975 (2018).
The Wheat and the (GM) Tares: Lessons for Plant Patent Litigation from the Parables of Christ, 10 St. Thomas L. J. 683 (2013, symposium issue, 2014 publication).
The New Invention Creation Boundary in Patent Law, 51 William & Mary L. Rev. 577 (2009).
The Need for Speed (and Grace): Issues in a First-Inventor-To-File World, 23 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1035 (2008) (symposium issue)
Academic Discourse and Proprietary Rights: Putting Patents in Their Proper Place, 47 B.C.L. REV. 217 (2006).
Stem Cells, Cloning and Patents: What’s Morality Got to Do With It? 39 New Eng. L. Rev. 501 (2005) (Symposium issue).
Patent First, Ask Questions Later: Morality and Biotechnology in Patent Law, 45 William & Mary L. Rev. 469 (2003).
Legal Movements in IP: TRIPS, Bilateral Agreements, and Access to Essential Medicines, 17 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 781 (2003) (Symposium Issue).
Still Patently Unconstitutional: A Reply to Professor Nard, 88 Minn. L. Rev. 239 (2003).
Patently Unconstitutional: Geographical Limitations on Prior Art in a Small World, 87 Minn. L. Rev. 679 (2003).
Internet Business Model Patents: Obvious by Analogy, 7 Michigan Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. 253 (2001) (Symposium issue).
Comment, Using Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to Block Materially Different Gray Market Goods in the Common Control Context: Are Reports of Its Death Greatly Exaggerated? 44 Emory L.J. 1541 (1995).
Commissioned Works
Margo A. Bagley and Frederick Perron-Welch, Study to Identify Specific Cases of Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge Associated with Genetic Resources that Occur in Transboundary Situations or for Which it is not Possible to Grant or Obtain Prior Informed Consent, as requested by decision 3/13 (paragraph 5(a)) from the Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol, CBD Secretariat (August 2020).
Margo Bagley, Elizabeth Karger, Frederick Perron-Welch, Siva Thambisetty, Fact-finding Study on How Domestic Measures Address Benefit-sharing Arising from Commercial and Non-commercial Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources and Address the Use of Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources for Research and Development, as requested by decision 14/20 (paragraph 11(e)) from the Fourteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), CBD Secretariat (January 2020).
Margo A. Bagley, Toward an Effective Indigenous Knowledge Protection Regime: Case Study of South Africa (Policy Paper, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Paper No. 207, December 2018)
Margo A. Bagley, Illegal Designs? The Draft Design Law Treaty and Disclosure of Origin Requirements (Policy Paper, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Paper No. 155, December 2017)
Eric W. Welch, Margo A. Bagley, Todd Kuiken, Selim Louafi, Potential Implications of New Synthetic Biology and Genomic Research Trajectories on the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA or ‘Treaty’) (for the Secretariat of the UN FAO ITPGRFA)
Margo A. Bagley (for the High-Level Panel Secretariat at UNDP in collaboration with UNAIDS), Background Paper: A Primer on Features of the Intellectual Property System of Relevance to Issues of Access to Medicines (2016) (UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Access to Medicines)
Margo A. Bagley, Digital DNA: Synthetic Biology, Intellectual Property Treaties, and the Nagoya Protocol (2015) (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
Margo A. Bagley & Arti K. Rai, The Nagoya Protocol and Synthetic Biology: A Look at the Potential Impacts (2013) (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars).
Shorter Works
“On Being Human,” Review of Fire in the Blood, Directed by Dylan Mohan Gray, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2016).
“On Shaky Ground?” Review of Rajshree Chandra, Knowledge as Property: Issues in the Moral Grounding of Intellectual Property Rights, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2013).
Review of The Global Governance of Knowledge: Patent Offices and Their Clients, by Peter Drahos, 2 IP Law Book Review 15 (2011).
Patents and Morality: A Role for Congress, The National Law Journal, May 3, 2004.
With Les Bessinger, Intent and the Powerful Defense of Inequitable Conduct in U.S. Patent Litigation, published in the December 1998 Intellectual Property Supplement to the Fulton County Daily Report.
With Joyce B. Klemmer, Judicial Intolerance of Discovery Abuse, 2 Managing Litigation Costs (Corporate Legal Times, Chicago, Illinois) 1, October 1995.
Works in Progress
Making Room at the (Access to Medicines) Table: Is There a Place for Holistic and Traditional Medicine? (forthcoming 2022).