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Agenda: Coalbed Methane Development In The Intermountain West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center Apr 2002

Agenda: Coalbed Methane Development In The Intermountain West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

306 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm

"July 2002"--Cover

Proceedings of a conference held April 4-5, 2002

Listed as no. 28 in the Research Report Series on the NRLC Recent Publications list

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Coalbed methane development in the Intermountain West : a primer / Gary Bryner -- Coalbed methane development in the Intermountain West : case studies. Coalbed methane in the San Juan Basin of Colorado and New Mexico / Catherine Cullicott, Carolyn Dunmire, Jerry Brown, Chris Calwell ; Coalbed methane development in Wyoming's Powder River Basin / Diana Hulme -- Keynote address / Rebecca Watson …


Concluding Comments, Mark Sexton Apr 2002

Concluding Comments, Mark Sexton

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

3 pages.


Concluding Comments, Mark Pearson Apr 2002

Concluding Comments, Mark Pearson

Coalbed Methane Development in the Intermountain West (April 4-5)

3 pages.


Reconsidering Estoppel: Patent Administration And The Failure Of Festo, R. Polk Wagner Jan 2002

Reconsidering Estoppel: Patent Administration And The Failure Of Festo, R. Polk Wagner

All Faculty Scholarship

Last Term, in Festo Corporation v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabashuki Co., the United States Supreme Court missed perhaps the most important opportunity for patent law reform in two decades. At the core of the failure to grasp the implications of "prosecution history estoppel" - a judicially-crafted principle limiting the enforceable scope of patents based on acts occurring during their application process - is the heretofore universal (but ultimately unsupportable) view of the doctrine as an arbitrary ex post limitation on patent scope. This Article demonstrates the serious flaws in this traditionalist approach, and develops a new theory of prosecution history …