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A Patent Reformist Supreme Court And Its Unearthed Precedent, Samuel F. Ernst
A Patent Reformist Supreme Court And Its Unearthed Precedent, Samuel F. Ernst
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
How is it that the Supreme Court, a generalist court, is leading a project of innovation reform in our times while the court of appeals established to encourage innovation is having its precedent stricken down time and again? This decade the Supreme Court has issued far more patent law decisions than in any decade since the passage of the Patent Act of 1952. In doing so, the Supreme Court has overruled the Federal Circuit in roughly threequarters of the patent cases in which the Supreme Court has issued opinions. In most of these cases, the Supreme Court has established rules …
Standing With A Bundle Of Sticks: The All Substantial Rights Doctrine In Action, Mark J. Abate, Christopher J. Morten
Standing With A Bundle Of Sticks: The All Substantial Rights Doctrine In Action, Mark J. Abate, Christopher J. Morten
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
This Article provides an overview of the Federal Circuit’s all substantial rights doctrine. Surveying decades of case law, this Article seeks to clarify this confusing area of the law and set out the essential rules for those engaged in patent licensing, patent assignment, and patent litigation. This Article begins by explaining why effective ownership of a patent is critical to standing, and then describes the framework through which courts determine whether a party is, in fact, in possession of all substantial rights and is therefore the effective owner. While there are many factors that courts may consider, certain rights take …
What’S So Special About Patent Law?, Michael Goodman
What’S So Special About Patent Law?, Michael Goodman
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
The widespread belief that patent law is special has shaped the development of patent law into one of the most specialized areas of the law today. The belief in patent law’s exceptionalism manifests itself as two related presumptions with respect to the judiciary: first, that generalist judges who do not have patent law expertise cannot effectively decide patent cases, and second, that judges can develop necessary expertise through repeated experience with patent cases. Congress showed that it acquiesced to both views when it created the Federal Circuit and the Patent Pilot Program. In recent years, however, the Supreme Court has …
Extraterritorial Reach Of U.S. Patent Law: Has The Federal Circuit Gone Too Far?, Robert W. Pierson, Jr.
Extraterritorial Reach Of U.S. Patent Law: Has The Federal Circuit Gone Too Far?, Robert W. Pierson, Jr.
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
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