Bruce Abramson, Founder

The Reinvention Center™

Because You Can Do Better. And We Can Help.

Bruce Abramson holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia and a J.D. from Georgetown. In addition to founding The Reinvention Center, he is the President of Informationism, Inc., a consultancy that helps an international clientele understand the law, the policies, the economics, and the strategic uses of patents, copyrights, and other forms of intellectual property. He also has extensive experience conducting antitrust analyses, damages, remedies, and valuation analyses in both litigation and regulatory settings. Here are his CV and an annotated bibliography describing his scholarly publications.

My first general audience book tackled some key early information economy stories, including the Internet bubble, the Microsoft trial, the fights over music downloads, and the rise of Open Source software. It also explains how the patterns of growth and conflict that we first saw in software and music are harbingers of deeper societal struggles as we move from the age of urban industrialization into the global information age.

Read Digital Phoenix: Why the Information Economy Collapsed and How it will Rise Again (MIT Press, 2005).

My second general audience book describes the history, the law, and the impact of the court at which I clerked, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. While I was working there, I realized that as the exclusive appellate court ruling on issues in patent law, international trade law, and government business law, it played a critical role in innovation, globalization, and government--in short, almost everything that matters to the modern economy. Yet somehow very few people--including very few lawyers--know anything about it.

Read The Secret Circuit: The Little-Known Court where the Rules of the Information Age Unfold (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).