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2015

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The Remains Of Laches In Copyright Infringement Cases: Implications Of Petrella V. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 14 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 432 (2015), Daniel Brainard Jan 2015

The Remains Of Laches In Copyright Infringement Cases: Implications Of Petrella V. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 14 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 432 (2015), Daniel Brainard

UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law

Common law equitable doctrines are fundamentally at odds with modern statutes of limitations. While modern copyright courts found new ways to allow laches and the Copyright Act’s three year statute of limitations to coexist, the foundation for doing so was significantly weakened. The Supreme Court in Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer restricted the use of laches as a defense to copyright infringement to only extraordinary circumstances and provided two Circuit Court cases as demonstrating examples of laches for future use. In actuality, however, it appears the Supreme Court and Circuit Courts failed to analyze the facts in depth and ended up rendering …


The Economics Of Reasonable Royalty Damages: The Limited, Proper Role Of The So-Called “Analytical Method”, 49 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2015), Mark Glick, David Mangum Jan 2015

The Economics Of Reasonable Royalty Damages: The Limited, Proper Role Of The So-Called “Analytical Method”, 49 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2015), Mark Glick, David Mangum

UIC Law Review

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Public Standards And Patent Damages, 14 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 199 (2015), Ben Johnson Jan 2015

Public Standards And Patent Damages, 14 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 199 (2015), Ben Johnson

UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law

Some markets require legislation in order to exist. The products and/or services offered by those markets may be covered by one or more letters patent. In certain of those markets, a situation arises in which a private party owns a right to exclude others from participating in that publicly-enabled market. These situations may be referred to “public standards.” Like their cousins in the private sector, public standards require special consideration when it comes to determining potential compensation to the patentee from its competitors. Following the lead of the Western District of Washington, this paper recommends a modification of the traditional …