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No-Challenge Termination Clauses: Incorporating Innovation Policy And Risk Allocation Into Patent Licensing Law, Christian Chadd Taylor
No-Challenge Termination Clauses: Incorporating Innovation Policy And Risk Allocation Into Patent Licensing Law, Christian Chadd Taylor
Indiana Law Journal
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Access To And Authority To Cite Unpublished Decisions Of The Pto, Thomas G. Field Jr
Access To And Authority To Cite Unpublished Decisions Of The Pto, Thomas G. Field Jr
Law Faculty Scholarship
This paper begins with the Solicitor [of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office]'s explanation of the term "unpublished." It then reviews various kinds of published PTO decisions where the precedential effect of unpublished decisions has been addressed. There, we see that the PTO has generally not ignored unpublished precedent--at least, deliberately--and that the Solicitor agrees that this may not be done. Next, this paper examines the almost universal practice of federal appeals courts disallowing use of their unpublished decisions as precedent--and some of the reasons for widespread criticism of that practice. It also discusses some of the reasons that judges, …