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Authorized Generics: Careful Balance Undone, Beth Understahl

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Patent Fences And Constitutional Fence Posts: Property Barriers To Pharmaceutical Importation, Daniel R. Cahoy

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Patent Fences And Constitutional Fence Posts: Property Barriers To Pharmaceutical Importation, Daniel R. Cahoy

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Patents, Essential Medicines, And The Innovation Game, David W. Opderbeck

Vanderbilt Law Review

The once dusty arena of international patent law now hosts a life and death contest. Human rights activists claim patents restrict access to essential technologies in the developing world and skew research and development away from global health and welfare problems. Industrialized countries argue that innovation and development require strong patent protection. Both sides agree that much of the world lacks meaningful access to technologies that are basic to a healthy standard of living.

Current international patent rules strike an uneasy balance between these conflicting views about patents. The precarious nature of this balancing act is illustrated by the recent …

Defining The Limits Of The Eu Essential Facilities Doctrine On Intellectual Property Rights: The Primacy Of Securing Optimal Innovation, James Turney

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

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The End Of Federalism In Telecommunication Regulations?, Douglas C. Sicker

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

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Trademarks Or Copyrights: Which Intellectual Property Right Affords Its Owner The Greatest Protection Of Architectural Ingenuity?, Rashida Y.V. Macmurray

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

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Ambush Marketing: The Off-Field Competition At The Olympic Games, Jason K. Schmitz

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

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Intellectual Property And Genetically Modified Seeds: The United States, Trade, And The Developing World, Haley Stein

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

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Planting A Standard: Proposing A Broad Reading Of In Re Elsner, Alicia L. Frostick

Michigan Law Review

This Note will show that one can read Elsner broadly to encompass both plant-type and widget-type inventions, and that applying Elsner to both plants and widgets is within the current statutory framework and case law. Such a reading would change the § 102 bar for inventions patentable under § 10i29 (hereinafter referred to as "widgets") as well as for plants. Part I of this Note argues that congressional sources require a flexible test-one that does not prejudice any objects under the Patent Act. Part II discusses the judicial interpretation of the Patent Act prior to Elsner in order to argue …