Professor Andres Sawicki has published his article, “Buying Teams,” in the Seattle University Law Review. The article was written for the Sixth Annual Berle Symposium. In it, Professor Sawicki analyzes the motivations for Silicon Valley acqui-hires—a new kind of transaction in which a large technology firm purchases a start-up, discards its assets, and retains only the core engineering team. Professor Sawicki shows that patent rights play an important role in the rise of the acqui-hire. Professor Sawicki researches and teaches in the area of intellectual property. Professor Sawicki's research explores the impact of intellectual property law on creativity in the arts and sciences.
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