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Intellectual Property Law

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Patent Law

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Third-Party Interests And The Property Law Misfit In Patent Law, Sarah Rajec Jun 2020

Third-Party Interests And The Property Law Misfit In Patent Law, Sarah Rajec

Faculty Publications

Courts and scholars have long parsed the characteristics of patent grants and likened them, alternately, to real or personal property law, monopolies, public franchises and other regulatory grants, or a hybrid of these. The characterizations matter, because they can determine how patents are treated for the purposes of administrative review, limitations, and remedies, inter alia. And these varied treatments in turn affect incentives to innovate. Patents are often likened to real property in an effort to maximize rights and allow inventors to internalize all of the benefits from their activities. And courts often turn first to real property analogies when …


Free Trade In Patented Goods: International Exhaustion For Patents, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec Apr 2014

Free Trade In Patented Goods: International Exhaustion For Patents, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec

Faculty Publications

Modern international trade law seeks to increase global welfare by lowering barriers to trade and encouraging international competition. This “free trade” approach, while originally applied to reduce tariffs on trade, has been extended to challenge non-tariff barriers, with modern trade agreements targeting telecommunication regulations, industrial and product safety standards, and intellectual property rules. Patent law, however, remains inconsistent with free-trade principles by allowing patent holders to subdivide the world market along national borders and to forbid trade in patented goods from one nation to another. This Article demonstrates that the doctrines thwarting free trade in patented goods are protectionist remnants …


An Overview Of Patent Prosecution, Frederick W. Dingledy Jun 2012

An Overview Of Patent Prosecution, Frederick W. Dingledy

Library Staff Publications

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Regulatory And Judicial Implementations Of Patent Law Flexibilities, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec May 2012

Regulatory And Judicial Implementations Of Patent Law Flexibilities, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec

Faculty Publications

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The Festo Decision And The Return Of The Supreme Court To The Bar Of Patents, John F. Duffy Jan 2002

The Festo Decision And The Return Of The Supreme Court To The Bar Of Patents, John F. Duffy

Faculty Publications

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