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How Academic Support Professionals Can Better Support Lgbtq Law Students – And Why We Should, Sarah J. Schendel Jan 2018

How Academic Support Professionals Can Better Support Lgbtq Law Students – And Why We Should, Sarah J. Schendel

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

This short essay addresses the unique role that academic support professionals can play in supporting LGBTQ students.


Top Tens In 2017: Patent, Trademark, Copyright And Trade Secret Cases, Stephen M. Mcjohn Jan 2018

Top Tens In 2017: Patent, Trademark, Copyright And Trade Secret Cases, Stephen M. Mcjohn

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

The Supreme Court loosened the grip of patentees on their products, holding that contractual restrictions on patented product are ineffective to preserve patent rights. The Court also loosened the grip of the Eastern District of Texas on patent cases, announcing a narrower standard that will send more cases to Delaware. The Federal Circuit cases piled up on applying the Alice standard to filter nonpatentable abstract ideas from patentable inventions. Meanwhile, even as the constitutionality of the Patent Trial and Appeals Board pends before the Supreme Court, hundreds of PTAB decisions on the validity of patents move onward to the Federal …