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The Ip Law Book Review, V9 #1, William T. Gallagher

Intellectual Property Law

PATENT POLITICS: LIFE FORMS, MARKETS, AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE, by Shobita Parthasarathy. Reviewed by Wissam Aoun, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.

EXHAUSTING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS by Shubha Ghosh and Irene Calboli. Reviewed by Samuel F. Ernst, Golden Gate University School of Law.

THE RIGHT OF PUBLICITY: PRIVACY REIMAGINED FOR A PUBLIC WORLD, by Jennifer E. Rothman. Reviewed by Eric E. Johnson, University of Oklahoma College of Law.

February 1, 2019 - Panel 1: When Virtual Meets Real: From Video Games To Fictional Brands, Golden Gate University School Of Law, Mccarthy Institute

McCarthy Institute

• Janice Bereskin, Partner, Bereskin & Parr (moderator)
• J. Thomas McCarthy, Of Counsel, Morrison Foerster
• Mark McKenna, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
• Rick McMurtry, Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Turner (TBS)
• Makalika Naholowaa, Head of Trademarks, Microsoft

On Posner On Copyright, Tim Wu

Faculty Scholarship

The judiciary are different than you and me, not just because they have life tenure, but because they spend years being petitioned by real people. A judge therefore does not face problems as a logistician or an academic does but instead faces a demand to do something for someone, based on events preceding. The resulting posture of decision tends to bring something out, something Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once described as “the secret root from which the law draws all the juices of life.”

We can learn more about this “secret root” of the common law decision-making from Richard Posner’s …