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Trade Secrets: How Well Should We Be Allowed To Hide Them? The Economic Espionage Act Of 1996, Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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One Trip To The Dentist Is Enough: Reasons To Strengthen Intellectual Property Rights Through The Free Trade Area Of The Americas, Owen Lippert

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Introduction: Sovereignty And The Globalization Of Intellectual Property, Symposium, Fred H. Cate

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Neocolonialism, Anticommons Property, And Biopiracy In The (Not-So-Brave) New World Order Of International Intellectual Property Protection, Keith Aoki

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Intellectual Property, Human Rights & Sovereignty: New Dilemmas In International Law Posed By The Recognition Of Indigenous Knowledge And The Conservation Of Biodiversity, Rosemary J. Coombe

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Harmonization And The Goals Of Copyright: Property Rights Or Cultural Progress?, Kenneth D. Crews

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Controlling World Wide Web Links, Property Rights, Access Rights And Unfair Competition, Chris Reed

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Owning The Law: Intellectual Property Rights In Primary Law, Deborah Tussey

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Unilateral Refusals To Deal In Intellectual Property After Image Techical Services, Inc. V. Eastman Kodak Co., Brian F. Ladenburg

Washington Law Review

While the Federal Patent and Copyright Acts give patent and copyright holders limited exclusive rights in intellectual property, the Sherman Act prohibits combinations or conspiracies that restrain trade and monopolization. Although firms possessing intellectual property generally exercise their statutory exclusionary rights without running afoul of the antitrust laws, conduct may plausibly be authorized by intellectual property law but forbidden by antitrust. In construing the two statutory schemes, federal courts have generally held that conduct authorized by the intellectual property laws, in the absence of some further inculpatory action, cannot form the basis for antitrust liability. The Ninth Circuit departed from …

In The Wake Of Lough V. Brunswick Corp.: Who Decides Experimental Purpose In 35 U.S.C. § 102(B) Public Use Cases?, Chad P. Webster

Washington Law Review

Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 102(b), a defendant can avoid liability for patent infringement if the patented invention was in public use in the United States more than one year prior to the date of patent application. Although "public use" is broadly construed to include most nonsecret uses, a nonsecret use pursued primarily for bona fide experimental purposes is merely an "experimental use." Experimental use negates the conclusion that an invention was in public use within the meaning of section 102(b). In Lough v. Brunswick Corp., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the issues …

Challenging Defamatory Opinions As An Alternative To Media Self-Regulation, James F. Ponsoldt

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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An Economic Analysis Of Property Rights In Information: Justifications And Problems Of Exclusive Rights, Incentives To Generate Information, And The Alternative Of A Government-Run Reward System, Steve P. Calandrillo

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Illuminating The Law Of Copyright: Holographic Data Storage Takes Intellectual Property To A New Dimension, Patti Burshtyn

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

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Issue 48-49 - September 15, 1998, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Post-Soviet Media Law & Policy Newsletter

Inside:

Signs of the Times

Russia

Reorganization of VGTRK, page 1

Crackdown on Piracy, page 9

Other Media News, page 10

Chechnya, page 13

Estonia, page 15

Kazakhstan, page 16

Tajikistan, page 16

Ukraine, page 16

Uzbekistan, page 16

Bulgaria, page 17

Hungary, page 19

Slovakia

TV Markiza, page 19

Slovak TV's Closure of Hungarian Service, page 21

Other Media News, page 22

Yugoslavia and Former Yugoslavia

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Suspension and Relocation of SRNA, page 23

Croatian TV, page 24

Other Media News, page 30

Serbia, 32

Decree on payment for use of radio frequencies, page 33

Structural Reconstruction of …

Amicus Brief Of Thomas G. Field, Jr., Pro Se Supporting In Principle, On Rehearing The Commissioner Of Patents And Trademarks, Thomas G. Field Jr.

Law Faculty Scholarship

To those unfamiliar with the long, often bitter, struggle over equally compelling needs to provide, on the one hand, innovators with an adequate opportunity to recoup risk capital and to avoid, on the other, erecting unwarranted barriers to competition, a dispute over the proper scope of review for Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) patent appeals will seem both trivial and arcane. This case involves more than semantics -- its resolution turns on the allocation of power among three, and arguably four, branches of government. This Court, itself, has a stake.

Art And Ideology In The Third Reich: The Protection Of Cultural Property And The Humanitarian Law Of War, Matthew Lippman

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

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Fictional Persona Test: Copyright Preemption In Human Audiovisual Characters, Peter K. Yu

Faculty Scholarship

Whether a producer's copyright in human audiovisual characters preempts the actors' rights of publicity claims is the focus of this Note. Part I outlines the framework of state right of publicity law and traces the development of case law involving such a right. Because "[a]dvertisers who want to run a particular advertisement nationally must comply with the law of all fifty states," this Note focuses on the right of publicity of the state with the broadest interpretation-the state of California. This Part shows that, under existing California right of publicity law, virtually anything evoking one's personal identity, including copyrighted materials, …

Fictional Persona Test: Copyright Preemption In Human Audiovisual Characters, Peter K. Yu

Cardozo Law Review

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The Cat In The Hat's Latest Bad Trick: The Ninth Circuit's Narrowing Of The Parody Defense To Copyright Infringement In Dr. Seuss Enterprises V. Penguin Books Usa, Inc., Jason M. Vogel

Cardozo Law Review

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Alternative Dispute Resolution In Commercial Intellectual Property Disputes , Scott H. Blackman, Rebecca M. Mcneill

American University Law Review

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1997 Survey Of Trademark Decisions By The Court Of Appeals For The Federal Circuit , Julia Anne Matheson, Douglas A. Rettew

American University Law Review

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Intellectual Property Rights: Canada And India, Bernard M Wolf

IIMB Management Review

Liberalisation has seen many economies, especially in Asia, opening their hitherto sheltered domestic markets to global competition and providing greater opportunities to trade and foreign investment. The spinoffs of liberalisation bring in new implications, opportunities and challenges for the governments as well as the organisations involved. Round Table features some of the issues discussed in the conference on 'Managing Economic Liberalisation in South Asia : Directions for the 21st Century' held in Chennai, India, from August 10 -13. Selvarajah examines the realignment of economies towards globalisation as a development of regionalism. The shift in economic forces away from multilateral arrangements …

Globalizing Intellectual Property: Linkage And The Challenge Of A Justice-Constituency, Samuel K. Murumba

Faculty Scholarship

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Pregnant With Ambiguity: Credibility And The Pto Utility Guidelines In Light Of Brenner, Andrew T. Kight

Indiana Law Journal

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Beyond The Harvard Mouse: Current Patent Practice And The Necessity Of Clear Guidelines In Biotechnology Patent Law, Carrie F. Walter

Indiana Law Journal

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The Top Ten Intellectual Property Law Questions That Should Be Asked About Any Merger Or Acquisition, Marci A. Hamilton

Articles

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Remedies For The Misappropriation Of Intellectual Property By State And Municipal Governments Before And After Seminole Tribe: The Eleventh Amendment And Immunity Doctrines, Paul J. Heald, Michael L. Wells

Scholarly Works

Part I of this Article addresses relief available to intellectual property owners under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Before Congress's express abrogation of state sovereign immunity in 1992, federal, state, and local governments were nonetheless potentially liable for misappropriations of intellectual property that constituted takings without just compensation. This examination of the Supreme Court's Fifth Amendment jurisprudence is also key to answering the critical question of whether federal patent, copyright, and trademark laws establish rights in “property” for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment, for only under section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment may Congress abrogate a state's …

Scholarly Restraints? Aba Accreditation And Legal Education, George B. Shepherd, William G. Shepherd

Cardozo Law Review

This Article provides an economic and legal analysis of the American Bar Association's system for accrediting law schools. For decades, the ABA has administered the system as, in economic effect, a cartel of law school faculty members. The ABA has exerted monopoly power not only over the market for legal training, but also over three related markets: the market for the hiring of law faculty, the market for legal services, and each university's internal market for funding. Despite the selfless service of many in the system, the system has created large harms, but few benefits. Existing law faculty have gained …

Profits In Cyberspace: Should Newspaper And Magazine Publishers Pay Freelance Writers For Digital Content?, Rod Dixon Esq.

Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review

It is remarkable how fast recent trends have driven an increasing number of publishers of magazines, newspapers, and other similar works to port the print version of their works to digital and electronic format in the form of online computer databases and multimedia CDROM technologies. Online computer databases and CD-ROM media can be exceptionally profitable ventures for publishers who convert a preexisting print work into a digital product. However, publishers' profits from digital media may be impaired if there is a question as to whether the publisher has satisfactorily secured the copyright to the material making up the digital media. …

What State Am I In?: Common Law Trademarks On The Internet , Brian L. Berlandi

Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review

This essay explores the interaction between common law trademarks and the Internet--a relationship that has yet to be scrutinized by the intellectual property and Internet communities. More specifically, it strains to identify a common law mark's territorial zone of protection with respect to the Internet. This is an ambitious endeavor from the start, for there is no case law or published academic material available or directly on-point. As a result, this essay will not be a critique of judicial precedent or academic opinion. Instead, it offers a premonition of future case law and a foreshadowing of legal scenarios that might …