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A Method For Reforming The Patent System, Peter Menell Aug 2015

A Method For Reforming The Patent System, Peter Menell

Peter Menell

The principal recent studies of patent reform (NAS (2004), FTC (2003), Jaffe and Lerner (2004)) contend that a uniform system of patent protection must (or should) be available for "anything under the sun made by man" based upon one or more of the following premises: (1) the Patent Act requires this breadth and uniformity of treatment; (2) "discriminating" against any particular field of "technology" would be undesirable; (3) discrimination among technologies would present insurmountable boundary problems and could easily be circumvented through clever patent drafting; and (4) interest group politics stand in the way of excluding any subject matter classes …


A Note On Private Versus Social Incentives To Sue In A Costly Legal System, Peter Menell Aug 2015

A Note On Private Versus Social Incentives To Sue In A Costly Legal System, Peter Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Informal Deference: A Historical, Empirical, And Normative Analysis Of Patent Claim Construction , J. Jonas Anderson, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Informal Deference: A Historical, Empirical, And Normative Analysis Of Patent Claim Construction , J. Jonas Anderson, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

The Federal Circuit has been the target of a flurry of criticism regarding its claim construction jurisprudence. District judges, members of the bar, academics, and even the court's own judges have been highly critical of the court's rate of reversal of claim construction appeals, which peaked above 40%. Partially in response to the critics, the Federal Circuit undertook to reassess its claim construction jurisprudence in the Phillips case in 2005. The empirical and theoretical studies that have emerged since Phillips suggest that little has changed: the Federal Circuit's high reversal rate persists and the court's procedures remain unaltered. This Article …


Regulating Spyware: The Limitations Of State Laboratories And The Case For Federal Preemption Of State Unfair Competition Laws, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Regulating Spyware: The Limitations Of State Laboratories And The Case For Federal Preemption Of State Unfair Competition Laws, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


The Challenges Of Reforming Intellectual Property Protection For Computer Software, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

The Challenges Of Reforming Intellectual Property Protection For Computer Software, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


2014: Brand Totalitarianism, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

2014: Brand Totalitarianism, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Foreword, Jeff Brax, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Foreword, Jeff Brax, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

Introduces a series of articles on court cases about environmental and natural resources law.


Forty Years Of Wondering In The Wilderness And No Closer To The Promised Land: Bilski's Superficial Textualism And The Missed Opportunity To Return Patent Law To Its Technology Mooring, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Forty Years Of Wondering In The Wilderness And No Closer To The Promised Land: Bilski's Superficial Textualism And The Missed Opportunity To Return Patent Law To Its Technology Mooring, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Institutional Fantasylands: From Scientific Management To Free Market Environmentalism, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Institutional Fantasylands: From Scientific Management To Free Market Environmentalism, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

Exposes the utopian parallels between scientific management and free market environmentalism by exploring the limitations of an analytical framework. Outcomes of market-like processes; Expression of preferences through democratic processes; Failure to consider the endogeneity of preferences; Model of human nature; Endowment effects associated with allocation of ownership.


Legal Realism In Action: Indirect Copyright Liability's Continuing Tort Framework And Sony's De Facto Demise, Peter S. Menell, David Nimmer Aug 2015

Legal Realism In Action: Indirect Copyright Liability's Continuing Tort Framework And Sony's De Facto Demise, Peter S. Menell, David Nimmer

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Structuring A Market-Oriented Federal Eco-Information Policy, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Structuring A Market-Oriented Federal Eco-Information Policy, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


From De Novo Review To Informal Deference: An Historical, Empirical, And Normative Analysis Of The Standard Of Appellate Review For Patent Claim Construction, Jonas Anderson, Peter Menell Aug 2015

From De Novo Review To Informal Deference: An Historical, Empirical, And Normative Analysis Of The Standard Of Appellate Review For Patent Claim Construction, Jonas Anderson, Peter Menell

Peter Menell

Patent scope plays a central role in the operation of the patent system, making patent claim construction a critical aspect of just about every patent litigation. With the resurgence of patent jury trials in the 1980s, the allocation of responsibility for interpreting patent claims between trial judge and jury emerged as a salient issue. While the Supreme Court’s Markman decision usefully removed claim construction from the black box of jury deliberations notwithstanding its "mongrel" mixed fact/law character, the Federal Circuit’s adherence to the view that claim construction is a pure question of law subject to de novo appellate review produced …


Economic Implications Of State Sovereign Immunity From Infringement Of Federal Intellectual Property Rights, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Economic Implications Of State Sovereign Immunity From Infringement Of Federal Intellectual Property Rights, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Preexisting Confusion In Copyright's Work-For-Hire Doctrine, David Nimmer, Peter S. Menell, Diane Mcgimsey Aug 2015

Preexisting Confusion In Copyright's Work-For-Hire Doctrine, David Nimmer, Peter S. Menell, Diane Mcgimsey

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


The Property Rights Movement's Embrace Of Intellectual Property: True Love Or Doomed Relationship, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

The Property Rights Movement's Embrace Of Intellectual Property: True Love Or Doomed Relationship, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Indirect Copyright Liability And Technology Innovation, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Indirect Copyright Liability And Technology Innovation, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Reunifying Property, Peter S. Menell, John P. Dwyer Aug 2015

Reunifying Property, Peter S. Menell, John P. Dwyer

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Legal Advising On Corporate Structure In The New Era Of Environmental Liability, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Legal Advising On Corporate Structure In The New Era Of Environmental Liability, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Beyond The Throwaway Society: An Incentive Approach To Regulating Municipal Solid Waste, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Beyond The Throwaway Society: An Incentive Approach To Regulating Municipal Solid Waste, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

The crisis of solid waste disposal has only recently been addressed by government agencies, most successfully at the state and municipal levels. Although new laws cover the disposal of waste, few affect the causes or reduction of wastes. Economic incentives that underlie waste management must be examined to ultimately reduce the waste stream. Policy options that incorporate these incentives are evaluated, with the most effective policy defined as one in which efficiency gains are greater than the transaction costs of enacting a new waste policy. Such policies might include the use of taxes, tip charges, and adjustments of prices to …


Tailoring Legal Protection For Computer Software, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Tailoring Legal Protection For Computer Software, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


The Rise Of Internet Interest Group Politics, Aaron Burstein, Will Thomas Devries, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

The Rise Of Internet Interest Group Politics, Aaron Burstein, Will Thomas Devries, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Envisioning Copyright Law's Digital Future, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Envisioning Copyright Law's Digital Future, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Sound Recordings, Works For Hire, And The Termination-Of-Transfers Time Bomb, David Nimmer, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Sound Recordings, Works For Hire, And The Termination-Of-Transfers Time Bomb, David Nimmer, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Patent Claim Construction: A Modern Synthesis And Structured Framework, Peter S. Menell, Matthew D. Powers, Steven C. Carlson Aug 2015

Patent Claim Construction: A Modern Synthesis And Structured Framework, Peter S. Menell, Matthew D. Powers, Steven C. Carlson

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Applying Fundamental Copyright Principles To Lotus Development Corp. V. Borland International, Inc, Dennis S. Karjala, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Applying Fundamental Copyright Principles To Lotus Development Corp. V. Borland International, Inc, Dennis S. Karjala, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Epitaph For Traditional Copyright Protection Of Network Features Of Computer Software, An, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Epitaph For Traditional Copyright Protection Of Network Features Of Computer Software, An, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Intellectual Property And The Law Of Land, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Intellectual Property And The Law Of Land, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

The author expresses opinion on an essay by professor Richard Epstein on intellectual property and property rights movement. He says the professor acknowledges that governance of intellectual property involves a complex public policy balance that varies from real property governance. He stresses Epstein should agree that the uniform structure of patent law across all innovation may be a significant issue. He notes the demand for more adjustments to the patent system to distinguish among the various fields of inventive activity covered by patent law.


Judicial Resistance To Copyright Law's Inalienable Right To Terminate Transfers, Peter S. Menell, David Nimmer Aug 2015

Judicial Resistance To Copyright Law's Inalienable Right To Terminate Transfers, Peter S. Menell, David Nimmer

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Method For Reforming The Patent System, A, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Method For Reforming The Patent System, A, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.


Analysis Of The Scope Of Copyright Protection For Application Programs, An, Peter S. Menell Aug 2015

Analysis Of The Scope Of Copyright Protection For Application Programs, An, Peter S. Menell

Peter Menell

No abstract provided.