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"Conditional" Functionality: The New Standard For Evaluating "Aesthetic" Functionality Established By The Second Circuit In Wallace International Silversmiths, Inc. V. Godsinger Silver Art Co., Mark I. Peroff, Nancy J. Deckinger Mar 1991

"Conditional" Functionality: The New Standard For Evaluating "Aesthetic" Functionality Established By The Second Circuit In Wallace International Silversmiths, Inc. V. Godsinger Silver Art Co., Mark I. Peroff, Nancy J. Deckinger

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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The Trademark Protection Of Advertising Slogans: A Modern Perspective, Evynne Grover Mar 1991

The Trademark Protection Of Advertising Slogans: A Modern Perspective, Evynne Grover

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: A Study Of Antitrust Jurisprudence In The Federal Circuit, Steven W. Heller Mar 1991

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: A Study Of Antitrust Jurisprudence In The Federal Circuit, Steven W. Heller

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Brief Amicus Curiae Of The Taxpayers Asset Project Of The Center For Study Of Responsive Law In Support Of Petitioners, Genetics Institute, Inc., Et. Al. V. Amgen Inc., 502 U.S. 856 (1991), Michael H. Davis Jan 1991

Brief Amicus Curiae Of The Taxpayers Asset Project Of The Center For Study Of Responsive Law In Support Of Petitioners, Genetics Institute, Inc., Et. Al. V. Amgen Inc., 502 U.S. 856 (1991), Michael H. Davis

Law Faculty Briefs and Court Documents

Although a patent appears to be a private right, that private right is only "secondary," as this Court has stated, to the public bargain of which it is but a part. The focus must always be whether the public has received full information about the nature of the invention so that future inventors may reuse and improve it. The decision below reflects a failure to recognize the patent's monopoly nature and as a result abandons the "best mode" rule forbidding the inventor form concealing the best way of replicating the invention. By turning the subjective test of "best mode" into …