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Giving The Federal Circuit A Run For Its Money: Challenging Patents In The Ptab, Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss
Giving The Federal Circuit A Run For Its Money: Challenging Patents In The Ptab, Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss
Notre Dame Law Review
My main objective is directed at institutional questions, to help the PTO and Congress as each considers changes to the system and to gauge how well the PTAB could function to ameliorate the effect of Federal Circuit isolation and provide a basis for the court to consider new perspectives, write more persuasively, and provide better guidance. A second goal is to draw greater academic attention to the potential these procedures have for changing the patent system and to provoke discussion—outside the emerging PTAB bar—on how they ought to operate. In particular, the statute layers inter partes review in a specialized …
Copyright Protection For Tattoos: Are Tattoos Copies?, Michael C. Minahan
Copyright Protection For Tattoos: Are Tattoos Copies?, Michael C. Minahan
Notre Dame Law Review
This Note argues that, although “flash art” and other drawings upon which a tattoo may be based are likely copyrightable subject matter under the Copyright Act of 1976 (Copyright Act), the policy implications of granting copyright protection to tattoos militate against extending such protection. To avoid these consequences, the copyright statute should be interpreted as failing to include the human body as a “copy” within the scope of the Copyright Act and, therefore, tattoos would not be subject to the protection of the Act. Part I provides a background on the statutory framework of the Copyright Act, including the requirements …
Determining Trademark Standing In The Wake Of Lexmark, John L. Brennan
Determining Trademark Standing In The Wake Of Lexmark, John L. Brennan
Notre Dame Law Review
This Note examines relevant statutory language, case law, and scholarly criticism, and ultimately contends that the standard articulated in Lexmark should apply to both types of claims. Part I provides background regarding the history of the Lanham Act, looking particularly at the ways in which courts have treated trademarks and false advertising differently. Part II discusses the Lexmark decision and the recent district court cases that have addressed its holding. Part III examines the text of both the Lanham Act and the Supreme Court’s opinion in Lexmark in order to determine the decision’s scope, and concludes that Lexmark’s holding …
Reconciling Intellectual And Personal Property, Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz
Reconciling Intellectual And Personal Property, Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz
Notre Dame Law Review
This Article builds on our earlier work on exhaustion. We have previously emphasized the common law origins of copyright exhaustion, arguing for a judicial interpretation that is more expansive than the narrow statutory first sale rule. Subsequently, we have advocated increased reliance on exhaustion to resolve a range of disputes over personal use by consumers that are typically analyzed through the lenses of fair use and implied license. And, most recently, we have outlined two competing legislative frameworks for a contemporary exhaustion regime as a part of the broader copyright reform effort. This Article examines both the forces undermining copy …
Foresight Bias In Patent Law, Sean B. Seymore
Foresight Bias In Patent Law, Sean B. Seymore
Notre Dame Law Review
Much of patent reform has focused on efforts to make it harder to obtain and enforce low-quality patents. The most straightforward way to achieve this goal is to raise the substantive standards of patentability. What is often ignored in discussions about raising patentability standards is that high-quality inventions can slip through the cracks. What is more troubling is that sometimes this happens because of bias. This Article draws attention to foresight bias, which occurs when a decision-maker lets over-pessimism and an oversimplified view of the future influence the patentability determination. Foresight bias leads to a patent denial regardless of the …