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Is Your Itunes Playlist Worth Six Figures? Due Process, Statutory Damages, And Peer-To-Peer Copyright Infringement , Ryan M. Hrobak
Is Your Itunes Playlist Worth Six Figures? Due Process, Statutory Damages, And Peer-To-Peer Copyright Infringement , Ryan M. Hrobak
Washington and Lee Law Review
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Unenforceability, Lee Petherbridge, Jason Rantanen, R. Polk Wagner
Unenforceability, Lee Petherbridge, Jason Rantanen, R. Polk Wagner
Washington and Lee Law Review
The patent doctrine of inequitable conduct—which allows a patent to be held unenforceable on the basis of misbehavior by the applicant during patent prosecution—has been the subject of intense criticism from the bench and bar alike. And yet to date there has been no systematic attempt to determine whether the doctrine is or is not working as theorized. This study fills that gap. We evaluate the performance of the inequitable conduct doctrine with a novel methodological approach: by empirically characterizing the differences between patents found unenforceable and several other types of patents (unlitigated, litigated, invalid, obvious, and underdisclosed), we use …