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The Ip Law Book Review, Vol. 3 #2, April 2013, William T. Gallagher

Intellectual Property Law

REVIEWS AND REVIEWERS:

Review Symposium: William Patry's How to Fix Copyright
Reviewed by Michael J. Madison, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Reviewed by Alfred C. Yen, Boston College Law School
Author’s Response by William Patry, Google, Inc.

THE KNOCKOFF ECONOMY: HOW IMMITATION SPARKS INNOVATION by Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman. Reviewed by David Fagundes, Southwestern Law School.

DIE GEMEINFREIHEIT: BEGRIFF, FUNKTION, DOGMATIK (THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: CONCEPT, FUNCTION, DOGMATICS) by Alexander Peukert. Reviewed by Marketa Trimble, William S. Boyd School of Law University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Professor William Gallagher: The Practice Of Intellectual Property Law - In The Classroom, Lisa Lomba

Publications

In recent years there has been a lot of buzz in legal education about the need for law schools to produce more “practice ready” graduates. GGU Law has long prided itself on providing rigorous, practical legal education, and Professor William Gallagher’s course, IP Litigation: Trademark and Copyright, is at the forefront of this tradition.

Poisoning The Next Apple? The America Invents Act And Individual Inventors, David S. Abrams, R. Polk Wagner

All Faculty Scholarship

The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, the most significant patent law reform effort in two generations, has a dark side: It seems likely to decrease the patenting behavior of small inventors, a category which occupies special significance in American innovation history. In this paper we empirically predict the effects of the major change in the law: a shift in the patent priority rules from the United States’ traditional “first-to-invent” system to the predominant “first-to-file” system. While there has been some theoretical work on this topic, we use the Canadian experience with a similar change as a natural experiment to shed …