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Sources Of Prior Art In Patent Law, Donald S. Chisum

Washington Law Review

The question of what is prior art involves at least four different dimensions. The first is the dimension of time. When does art become "prior"? When, if ever, is it too old and forgotten to be considered prior art? The second is the dimension of place. The patent statutes make both United States and foreign patents and publications prior art, but limit knowledge, use, and invention to "in this country." When is something "in this country," and why is this distinction made? The third is the dimension of scope. What is the pertinent art to which the invention pertains? How ...

Private Copyright And Public Communication: Free Speech Endangered, Lyman R. Patterson

Vanderbilt Law Review

Copyright as it has developed is essentially a private copyright for private communications made public for profit. Theoretically,the right to copyright is derived from the act of creation, and the choice of making his creations public is that of the author. As the copyright clause makes clear, the purpose of the private monopoly of copyright is to encourage the author to make his creations available for public learning. Television, on the other hand, is primarily a medium of public communication that has as a major function the transmission of public information to the public. To apply the present law ...

Res Judicata Effect Of Consent Judgments In Patent Litigation, Alexandra Leake

Boston College Law Review

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Copyright Law — Definition Of "Posthumous Work" Under Section 24 Of The Copyright Act Of 1909 — Bartok V. Boosey & Hawkes, Ellen Miller Wachtel

Boston College Law Review

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Vindicating The Public Interest Through The Courts: A Comparativist's Contribution, Mauro Cappelletti

Buffalo Law Review

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Copyright Law — Validity Of Copyright Renewal — Evidentiary Effect Of Renewal Certificate —Epoch Producing Corp. V. Killiam Shows, Inc, Anne Elizabeth Rogers

Boston College Law Review

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Further Unraveling Of Sears-Compco: Of Patches, Paladin And Laurel & (And) Hardy, Charles A. Laff, Larry L. Saret

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

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Pitfalls Of Foreign Patent Filing, Michael K. Bosworth

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

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The Corporate Patent - Reform Or Retrogression, Mary Helen Sears

Villanova Law Review

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The Patentee's Gains From Royalty Differentiation Under Exclusive Territorial Licensing, William G. Snead

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Royalty differentiation under exclusive territorial grants is a device which a patent owner, given proper conditions, can use to maximize his profits from licensing the patent rights to an invention. The patentee creates exclusive territories by granting only one license per territory, and then sets different royalties for each territory in accordance with the differing price elasticities of demand for the patented end product. Commentators have taken various stands on how the interests of the patentee and the public should be balanced in determining the desirability of permitting such exclusive territorial grants. One analysis purports to show that permitting a ...

Patent Cases In The District Courts-Who Should Hear Them, Abraham Lincoln Marovitz

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Problems of the Federal Judiciary: A View from the Bench

The Tape Piracy Cases: Judicial Creations Of A Federal Copyright Interest In Sound Recordings, John P. Messina

Boston College Law Review

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First Amendment Protection For Commercial Advertising: The New Constitutional Doctrine, Thomas W. Merrill

Faculty Scholarship

Governmental regulation of commercial advertising has become a major focus of challenges to established first amendment doctrine. An increasing number of suits have raised constitutional objections to regulations of false or deceptive advertising, regulations of offensive advertising, prohibitions of commercial advertising in certain forums, prohibitions of price advertising for particular products or services, and prohibitions of all advertising for particular products or services.' Until recently, the majority of courts upheld such regulations under the Supreme Court's ruling in Valentine v. Chrestensen that "purely commercial advertising" is unprotected by the first amendment.

In the last two years the Court has ...

The Antibiotics Class Actions, Charles W. Wolfram

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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