---
title: "Mark A. Lemley"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Mark A. Lemley"
aliases: ["Mark Lemley"]
first_seen: "2026-07-20T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["myth of the sole inventor","multiple discovery","patent law","invention history","attribution and origin myths"]
---


Stanford law professor. His "The Myth of the Sole Inventor" (Michigan Law
Review 110, 2012) is the vault's strongest external, Tier-1, peer-reviewed-
venue anchor for the multiple-discovery / myth-correction cluster — a
documented case, from patent-law scholarship rather than AI or engineering
history, that the canonical lone-genius invention story (Edison, Bell, the
Wright brothers) is largely false, with near-simultaneous independent
invention as the norm.

## References
- [[claim-lemley-2012-myth-of-sole-inventor]]
- [[moc-attribution-and-origin-myths]]
- Captures: 2026-07-18-does-the-deep-lineage-myth-displacing-contingent-truth