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Full-Text Articles in Technology and Innovation
Keeping It Physical: Convergence On A Physicality Requirement For Patentability Of Software-Related Inventions Under The European Patent Convention And United States Law, Kevin Afghani, Duke W. Yee
Keeping It Physical: Convergence On A Physicality Requirement For Patentability Of Software-Related Inventions Under The European Patent Convention And United States Law, Kevin Afghani, Duke W. Yee
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
No abstract provided.
An Alternate Functionality Reality, Harold R. Weinberg
An Alternate Functionality Reality, Harold R. Weinberg
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
The Supreme Court last addressed trade dress law’s functionality doctrine in TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc. decided in 2001. This article applies content analysis to data from post-TrafFix functionality cases to provide insights concerning the functionality doctrine. It emphasizes data from cases concerning motions for summary judgment and preliminary injunction. The analysis employs two conceptual constructs: a “useful/aesthetic continuum” and “mixed-character” design features. The article also considers data in light of a “two-bar mandate” and two principles: “useful-scarcity” and “aesthetic-abundance.” It concludes with observations concerning the post-TrafFix functionality doctrine and suggestions for improving its judicial …
Confusion Codified: Why Trademark Remedies Make No Sense, Mark A. Thurmon
Confusion Codified: Why Trademark Remedies Make No Sense, Mark A. Thurmon
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
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Property Or Currency? The Tax Dilemma Behind Bitcoin, Scott A. Wiseman
Property Or Currency? The Tax Dilemma Behind Bitcoin, Scott A. Wiseman
Utah Law Review
At Bitcoin’s peak in November 2013, there were 93,000 global transactions made in a single day. These users purchased everyday items such as personal services, food, and real estate. This alone suggests that Bitcoin is not primarily used as a long-term investment tool, but rather is used as a currency and a vehicle for global transactions. Congress and the IRS should regulate it accordingly. Representative Stockman’s Virtual Currency Reform Act offered an attempt to negate the IRS decision and officially classify Bitcoin and other virtual currencies as currency instead of property. A tax reclassification would alleviate typical users’ many inconveniences …
Alice Was No Rabbit Hole: Why Software Inventors Should Be Neither Surprised, Nor Alarmed, Sherman Helenese
Alice Was No Rabbit Hole: Why Software Inventors Should Be Neither Surprised, Nor Alarmed, Sherman Helenese
Utah Law Review
Trade secrets offer an alternative to patent - ineligible innovations and to the problems and perils of protecting, defending and enforcing patents. Although there is currently limited trade secret legislation on the national level, nearly all states have adopted, with little substantive variation, the Uniform Trade Secrets Act. Unlike patent - eligibility requirements that precluded software in Gottschalk, Diehr, Alice, and Tenon from patent protection, no trade secret is automatically deemed out of scope. Trade secrets encompass anything of value, so long as it is not generally known and reasonable steps are taken, such as the use …
Inclusive Crowdfunding, Andrew A. Schwartz
Inclusive Crowdfunding, Andrew A. Schwartz
Utah Law Review
Retail crowdfunding under Title III of the JOBS Act has a fundamental advantage over accredited crowdfunding and intrastate crowdfunding: the value of inclusivity. What that is worth in a given instance may be difficult to calculate, but it is surely more than zero. This is one reason to expect that retail crowdfunding, once it commences, may prove more successful than many commentators anticipate.