For your amusement, a 45 page legal treatise by Andrew Beckerman Rodau entitled "The Supreme Court Engages in Judicial Activism in Interpreting the Patent Law in eBay ,Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C." The treatise opens with a long, cursory, and misinformed discussion about the economics of patents - misinformed not in the sense that Michele and I disagree with the economics, but that all economists would disagree with the economics. But the amusing part is the criticism of the Supreme Court for judicial activism. Their activism? Not respecting a long tradition of allowing permanent injunctive relief. The humor: the patents in question are business practice patents - for conducting auctions, no less - the real activism was of course the activism of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which created business practice patents whole cloth against an equally long tradition of not allowing them. Not surprisingly I didn't see any mention of this by Rodau in his article.

If you are looking for more IP humor, you might try this. Here is a bit from the abstract:

Origin stories serve both ontological and epistemological functions. They in- fuse everyday life and relations with significance by explaining why things are as they are and by providing guidance for how things should evolve based on what we already understand about our world. Origin stories also literally give a culture life by designating a beginning and a history. Finally, most origin sto- ries are political, legitimating or justifying certain relations of power in society. This Article is a comparative analysis of the "origin stories" that structure several branches of United States intellectual property protection: copyright, trademark and patent law.

Sadly this paper by Silbey is probably closer to the mark than Rodau's.