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Wasting Resources: Reinventing The Scope Of Waiver Resulting From The Advice-Of-Counsel Defense To A Charge Of Willful Patent Infringement, David O. Taylor
Wasting Resources: Reinventing The Scope Of Waiver Resulting From The Advice-Of-Counsel Defense To A Charge Of Willful Patent Infringement, David O. Taylor
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Patent infringement cases may be the very definition of “high-stakes litigation.” In addition to issuance of permanent injunctions and high-dollar damage awards, judges have discretion to award treble damages and attorney’s fees in patent cases. Judges may exercise this discretion when infringement is found to be willful. One way for an alleged willful infringer to rebut an allegation of willfulness is to introduce an opinion of counsel evidencing the alleged willful infringer’s good faith effort to investigate the patent at issue after receiving notice of potential infringement. Disclosure of such an opinion, however, waives attorney-client privilege and work-product immunity. District …
Copyright Under Siege: The First Amendment Front, Lackland H. Bloom Jr.
Copyright Under Siege: The First Amendment Front, Lackland H. Bloom Jr.
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Over the past decade, the law of copyright - traditionally an arcane and obscure specialty - has evolved into an extraordinarily controversial legal arena. To a significant extent, though not exclusively, this has been caused by the emerging clashes between copyright on the one hand and digital technology and the internet on the other. Some see copyright as the aggressor in the copyright wars, guilty of threatening the digital revolution, the internet, information policy, privacy, freedom of speech and the public domain. Much of this assault on copyright is culturally driven by the Internet's champions. Inevitably, this cultural challenge is …