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The Impact Of Open Source On Preinvention Assignment Contracts, Michael Mattioli
The Impact Of Open Source On Preinvention Assignment Contracts, Michael Mattioli
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This comment studies the implications of open source on pre-invention assignment agreements. Part I analyzes the basis for past enforcement of these contracts, with an eye toward distinctions between open source projects and more traditional commercial endeavors. Part II briefly reviews the history of patents and explores constitutional and contract-based arguments against the pre-invention assignment. Part III begins with a discussion of open source and then explores how this new phenomenon perfectly fulfills the goals behind the Patent Act. With these addressed, the central inquiry of pre-invention assignment agreements, as they could conflict with open source inventions, will be addressed. …
Dilution's (Still) Uncertain Future, Mark D. Janis, Graeme B. Dinwoodie
Dilution's (Still) Uncertain Future, Mark D. Janis, Graeme B. Dinwoodie
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Indiana Law In Evolution, Yvonne Cripps
Indiana Law In Evolution, Yvonne Cripps
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Rules V. Standards For Patent Law In The Plant Sciences, Mark D. Janis
Rules V. Standards For Patent Law In The Plant Sciences, Mark D. Janis
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This article argues that US patent jurisprudence as applied to the plant sciences is moving to a second stage that will be characterized by more by incremental calibration than by spectacular change. The article discusses two doctrines of patent scope that are likely to be implicated in calibrating the utility patent system for the plant sciences: enablement and experimental use. It considers how those doctrines may be refined to serve as calibration tools in the application of patent law to the plant sciences.