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Mark Mckenna Quoted In Usa Today Article Apple Gets $290m In Samsung Patent Dispute, Mark Mckenna
Mark Mckenna Quoted In Usa Today Article Apple Gets $290m In Samsung Patent Dispute, Mark Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
Mark McKenna was quoted in the USA Today article Apple gets $290 million in Samsung patent dispute by Scott Martin. "Today's damage award was much larger than Samsung had argued for, but still significantly less than the $400 million vacated by Judge Koh after the first trial," said Mark McKenna, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame.
The Leaky Common Law: An "Offer To Sell" As A Policy Tool In Patent Law And Beyond, Lucas S. Osborn
The Leaky Common Law: An "Offer To Sell" As A Policy Tool In Patent Law And Beyond, Lucas S. Osborn
Lucas S. Osborn
No abstract provided.
Trademark As Promise, Laura A. Heymann
Digital Copyright Enforcement Measures And Their Free Speech Harms, Peter Yu
Digital Copyright Enforcement Measures And Their Free Speech Harms, Peter Yu
Peter K. Yu
No abstract provided.
Incentives To Create Under A "Lifetime-Plus-Years" Copyright Duration: Lessons From A Behavioral Economic Analysis For Eldred V. Ashcroft, Avishalom Tor, Dotan Oliar
Incentives To Create Under A "Lifetime-Plus-Years" Copyright Duration: Lessons From A Behavioral Economic Analysis For Eldred V. Ashcroft, Avishalom Tor, Dotan Oliar
Avishalom Tor
In this Article, we highlight for the first time some of the significant but hitherto unrecognized behavioral effects of copyright law on individuals' incentives to create and then examine the implications of our findings for the constitutional analysis of Eldred v. Ashcroft. We show that behavioral biases - namely, individuals' optimistic bias regarding their future longevity and their subadditive judgments in circumstances resembling the extant rule of copyright duration - explain the otherwise puzzling lifetime-plus-years basis for copyright protection given to individual authors, and reveal how this regime provides superior incentives to create. Thus, insofar as the provision of increased …
(Dys)Functionality, Mark Mckenna
(Dys)Functionality, Mark Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
The functionality doctrine serves a unique role in trademark law: unlike virtually every other doctrine, functionality can trump consumer confusion (or so it seems, at least in mechanical-functionality cases). In this sense, functionality may be the only doctrine in trademark law that can truly be considered a defense. But despite its potential power, the functionality doctrine is quite inconsistently applied. This is true of mechanical functionality cases because courts differ over the extent to which the doctrine focuses on competitors’ right to copy unpatented features as opposed to their need to copy. And aesthetic functionality cases are even more scattered: …
Testing Modern Trademark Law's Theory Of Harm, Mark Mckenna
Testing Modern Trademark Law's Theory Of Harm, Mark Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
Modern scholarship takes a decidedly negative view of trademark law. Commentators rail against doctrinal innovations like dilution and initial interest confusion. They clamor for clearer and broader defenses. And they plead for greater First Amendment scrutiny of various applications of trademark law. But beneath all of this criticism lies overwhelming agreement that consumer confusion is harmful. This easy acceptance of the harmfulness of confusion is a problem because it operates at too high a level of generality, ignoring important differences between types of relationships about which consumers might be confused. Failure to differentiate between these different relationships has enabled trademark …
An Alternate Approach To Channeling?, Mark P. Mckenna
An Alternate Approach To Channeling?, Mark P. Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
Intellectual property law has developed a variety of doctrines to police the boundaries between various forms of protection. Courts and scholars alike overwhelmingly conceive of these doctrines in terms of the nature of the objects of protection. The functionality doctrine in trademark law, for example, defines the boundary between trademark and patent law by identifying and refusing trademark protection to features that play a functional role in a product’s performance. Likewise, the useful article doctrine works at the boundary of copyright and patent law to identify elements of an article’s design that are dictated by function and to channel protection …
Teaching Trademark Theory Through The Lens Of Distinctiveness, Mark P. Mckenna
Teaching Trademark Theory Through The Lens Of Distinctiveness, Mark P. Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
This contribution to the annual teaching edition of the Saint Louis University Law Journal encourages teachers to begin trademark law courses using the concept of distinctiveness as a vehicle for articulating producer and consumer perspectives in trademark law. Viewing the law through these sometimes different perspectives helps in approaching a variety of doctrines in trademark law, and both perspectives are relatively easy to grasp in the context of distinctiveness.
Trademark Law's Faux Federalism, Mark Mckenna
Trademark Law's Faux Federalism, Mark Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
Federal and state trademark laws regulate concurrently: The Lanham Act does not preempt state law, and in fact many states have statutorily and/or judicially developed trademark or unfair competition laws of their own. This state of affairs, which is now well-accepted even if it has not always been uncontroversial, distinguishes trademark law from patent and copyright law, since federal patent and copyright statutes preempt state law much more broadly. The Patent Act entirely preempts state law with respect to non-secret inventions and the 1976 Copyright Act preempts state copyright law with respect to all works fixed in a tangible medium …
Dastar's Next Stand, Mark Mckenna
Intergenerational Progress, Brett Frischmann, Mark P. Mckenna
Intergenerational Progress, Brett Frischmann, Mark P. Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
This Essay prepared for the Wisconsin Law Review’s symposium on Intergenerational Equity lays the groundwork for a broader understanding of the goals of IP law in the United States by arguing that there is room for a normative commitment to intergenerational justice. First, we argue that the normative basis for IP laws need not be utilitarianism. The Constitution does not require that we conceive of IP in utilitarian terms or that we aim only to promote efficiency or maximize value. To the contrary, the IP Clause leaves open a number of ways to conceive of Progress; courts’ and scholars’ overwhelming …
What's The Frequency, Kenneth? Channeling Doctrines In Trademark Law, Mark Mckenna
What's The Frequency, Kenneth? Channeling Doctrines In Trademark Law, Mark Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
This paper was published as a chapter in Intellectual Property and Information Wealth (Peter Yu, ed., Praeger 2007). The chapter describes several doctrines that courts have developed to limit the scope of trademark protection where there is a risk of interference with the patent or copyright schemes. It also suggests that courts have in some cases overemphasized the subject matter of protection and underemphasized parties' ability to use trademark law to capture the types of economic benefits for which patent and copyright protection are presumed necessary.
An Alternative Approach To Channeling?, Mark P. Mckenna
An Alternative Approach To Channeling?, Mark P. Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
Intellectual property law has developed a variety of doctrines to police the boundaries between various forms of protection. Courts and scholars alike overwhelmingly conceive of these doctrines in terms of the nature of the objects of protection. The functionality doctrine in trademark law, for example, defines the boundary between trademark and patent law by identifying and refusing trademark protection to features that play a functional role in a product's performance. Likewise, the useful article doctrine works at the boundary of copyright and patent law to identify elements of an article's design that are dictated by function and to channel protection …
Fixing Copyright In Three Impossible Steps: Review Of How To Fix Copyright By William Patry, Mark Mckenna
Fixing Copyright In Three Impossible Steps: Review Of How To Fix Copyright By William Patry, Mark Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
This review of William Patry’s How to Fix Copyright highlights three of Patry's themes. First is Patry’s insistence that copyright policy be based on real-world evidence, a suggestion that should be uncontroversial but instead runs headlong into the near-religious commitments of copyright stakeholders. Second is Patry’s emphasis on the difference between the interests of creators, on the one hand, and owners of copyright interests, on the other. Third, and finally, is Patry’s focus on the copyright system’s strong tendency to entrench business models and resist change, particularly in the face of new technology.
The Rehnquist Court And The Groundwork For Greater First Amendment Scrutiny Of Intellectual Property, Mark P. Mckenna
The Rehnquist Court And The Groundwork For Greater First Amendment Scrutiny Of Intellectual Property, Mark P. Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
This contribution to the Washington University School of Law conference on the Rehnquist Court and the First Amendment addresses the Rehnquist Court's view of the role of the First Amendment in intellectual property cases. It argues that, while the Rehnquist Court was not eager to find a conflict between intellectual property laws and the First Amendment, there is reason to believe that it set the stage for greater First Amendment scrutiny of intellectual property protections. At the very least, the Court left that road open to future courts, which might be inclined to view intellectual property more skeptically.
Intellectual Property, Privatization And Democracy: A Response To Professor Rose, Mark P. Mckenna
Intellectual Property, Privatization And Democracy: A Response To Professor Rose, Mark P. Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
No abstract provided.
The Right Of Publicity And Autonomous Self-Definition, Mark P. Mckenna
The Right Of Publicity And Autonomous Self-Definition, Mark P. Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
Legal protection against unauthorized commercial uses of an individual's identity has grown significantly over the last fifty years as it has relentlessly pursued economic value. It was forced to focus on value because a false distinction between the harms suffered by private citizens and celebrities seemingly left celebrities without a privacy claim for commercial use of their identities. But the normative case for awarding individuals the economic value of their identity is weak, since celebrities do not need additional incentive to invest in either their native skill or in developing a persona. Still, while the prevailing justification is inadequate, as …
Symposium: Creativity And The Law: Introduction, Mark P. Mckenna
Symposium: Creativity And The Law: Introduction, Mark P. Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
No abstract provided.
Is Pepsi Really A Substitute For Coke? Market Definition In Antitrust And Ip, Mark Mckenna
Is Pepsi Really A Substitute For Coke? Market Definition In Antitrust And Ip, Mark Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
No abstract provided.
Probabilistic Knowledge Of Third-Party Trademark Infringement, Mark Mckenna
Probabilistic Knowledge Of Third-Party Trademark Infringement, Mark Mckenna
Mark P. McKenna
No abstract provided.
Do Npes Matter? Non-Practicing Entities And Patent Litigation Outcomes, Samantha Zyontz, Michael J. Mazzeo, Jonathan H. Ashtor
Do Npes Matter? Non-Practicing Entities And Patent Litigation Outcomes, Samantha Zyontz, Michael J. Mazzeo, Jonathan H. Ashtor
Faculty Scholarship
It is widely argued that so-called “patent trolls” are corrupting the U.S. patent system and endangering technology innovation and commercialization at large. For example, a recent White House report argued that “trolls” hurt firms of all sizes and advocated for specific policies aimed at curtailing practices thought to be particularly harmful. Yet the existence and extent of any systematic effects of so-called “troll-like” behavior, and the implications of modern patent assertion practices by Non-Practicing Entities (“NPEs”), remains unclear. This article develops novel empirical evidence to inform the debate over NPEs on patent litigation. Specifically, we conduct a large-scale empirical analysis …
Copyright For Academics (Comparative Literature Dept.), Laura Quilter
Copyright For Academics (Comparative Literature Dept.), Laura Quilter
Laura Quilter
No abstract provided.
Extraterritoriality Of State Trade Secret Law, Kwangho Jang
Extraterritoriality Of State Trade Secret Law, Kwangho Jang
Kwangho Jang
According to recent surveys, businesses prefer trade secret protection to patent protection. While many scholars have debated about issues of extraterritoriality of patents, copyrights, and trademarks, scholars relatively alienated the question of the geographic scope of trade secret law. In the absence of clear guidance from either the Supreme Court or both state and federal legislatures, some courts ruled in favor of extending the scope of state trade secret law to conduct abroad. This practice can cause problems in foreign relations, such as the foreign offense or interference with the sovereignty of the foreign nations. To avoid unintended conflicts with …
Exhausted? Video Game Companies And The Battle Against Allowing The Resale Of Software Licenses, Alice J. Won
Exhausted? Video Game Companies And The Battle Against Allowing The Resale Of Software Licenses, Alice J. Won
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
No abstract provided.
Brand Name Or Generic? A Case Note On Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories V. Novo Nordisck , Michael Vincent Ruocco
Brand Name Or Generic? A Case Note On Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories V. Novo Nordisck , Michael Vincent Ruocco
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
No abstract provided.
Global Patents: Limits Of Transnational Enforcement, Marketa Trimble
Global Patents: Limits Of Transnational Enforcement, Marketa Trimble
Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars
Professor Marketa Trimble presented these materials at the University of Macerata on November 6, 2013. The presentation discussed the increase in transnational patent litigation and what governments must do to protect patent owners in a globalized economy.
Patent Value And Citations: Creative Destruction Or Strategic Disruption?, David S. Abrams, Ufuk Akcigit, Jillian Popadak
Patent Value And Citations: Creative Destruction Or Strategic Disruption?, David S. Abrams, Ufuk Akcigit, Jillian Popadak
All Faculty Scholarship
Prior work suggests that more valuable patents are cited more and this view has become standard in the empirical innovation literature. Using an NPE-derived dataset with patent-specific revenues we find that the relationship of citations to value in fact forms an inverted-U, with fewer citations at the high end of value than in the middle. Since the value of patents is concentrated in those at the high end, this is a challenge to both the empirical literature and the intuition behind it. We attempt to explain this relationship with a simple model of innovation, allowing for both productive and strategic …
Confusion Isn't Everything, William Mcgeveran, Mark P. Mckenna
Confusion Isn't Everything, William Mcgeveran, Mark P. Mckenna
Notre Dame Law Review
The typical shorthand justification for trademark rights centers on avoiding consumer confusion. But in truth, this encapsulation mistakes a method for a purpose: confusion merely serves as an indicator of the underlying problems that trademark law seeks to prevent. Other areas of law accept confusion or mistake of all kinds, intervening only when those errors lead to more serious harms. Likewise, every theory of trademark rights considers confusion troubling solely because it threatens more fundamental values such as fair competition or informative communication. In other words, when it comes to the deep purposes of trademark law, confusion isn’t everything.
Yet …
Propuestas Para Ampliar El Acceso A Los Bienes Públicos En Argentina Estableciendo El Necesario Balance Entre Derechos De Propiedad Intelectual Y Dominio Público, Maximiliano Marzetti
Propuestas Para Ampliar El Acceso A Los Bienes Públicos En Argentina Estableciendo El Necesario Balance Entre Derechos De Propiedad Intelectual Y Dominio Público, Maximiliano Marzetti
Maximiliano Marzetti
Aplicamos un sistema de propiedad intelectual nacido en los albores de la revolución industrial a una sociedad del conocimiento global. Un régimen de escasez artificial choca contra la abundancia digital. Es hora de reequilibrar el balance perdido entre medios y fines, a la altura de los tiempos digitales que corren.