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If Hindsight Is 20/20, Our Justice System Should Not Be Blind To New Evidence Of Innocence: A Survey Of Post-Conviction New Evidence Statutes And A Proposed Model, Paige Kaneb Dec 2016

If Hindsight Is 20/20, Our Justice System Should Not Be Blind To New Evidence Of Innocence: A Survey Of Post-Conviction New Evidence Statutes And A Proposed Model, Paige Kaneb

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Internet Of Things: Where Privacy And Copyright Collide, Lidiya Mishchenko Oct 2016

The Internet Of Things: Where Privacy And Copyright Collide, Lidiya Mishchenko

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

The Internet of Things: Where Privacy and Copyright Collide


A Genre Theory Of Copyright, Omri Rachum-Twaig Oct 2016

A Genre Theory Of Copyright, Omri Rachum-Twaig

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

A Genre Theory of Copyright


Indifference And Secondary Liability For Copyright Infringement, Richard G. Kunkel Oct 2016

Indifference And Secondary Liability For Copyright Infringement, Richard G. Kunkel

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Indifference and Secondary Liability for Copyright Infringement


Brief Of Amici Curiae - 56 Professors Of Law And Economics In Support Of Petition For Writ Of Certiorari In Tc Heartland Llc V. Kraft Foods Group Brands Llc, No. 16-341, Colleen V. Chien, Mark Lemley, Brian Love, Arti K. Rai Oct 2016

Brief Of Amici Curiae - 56 Professors Of Law And Economics In Support Of Petition For Writ Of Certiorari In Tc Heartland Llc V. Kraft Foods Group Brands Llc, No. 16-341, Colleen V. Chien, Mark Lemley, Brian Love, Arti K. Rai

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

28 U.S.C. § 1400(b) provides that a defendant in a patent case may be sued where the defendant is incorporated or has a regular and established place of business and has infringed the patent. This Court made clear in Fourco Glass Co. v. Transmirra Prods. Corp., 353 U.S. 222, 223 (1957), that those were the only permissible venues for a patent case. But the Federal Circuit has rejected Fourco and the plain meaning of § 1400(b), instead permitting a patent plaintiff to file suit against a defendant anywhere there is personal jurisdiction over that defendant. The result has been rampant …


Inter Partes Review: Current Thinking On What, When, Why, And How Much, Brian Love Sep 2016

Inter Partes Review: Current Thinking On What, When, Why, And How Much, Brian Love

Faculty Publications

Slide deck from a presentation as part of the Merchant & Gould's CLE program on Inter Partes Review.


Predictably Expensive: A Critical Look At Patent Litigation In The Eastern District Of Texas, Brian Love Sep 2016

Predictably Expensive: A Critical Look At Patent Litigation In The Eastern District Of Texas, Brian Love

Faculty Publications

In this Essay, we compare U.S. patent litigation across districts and consider possible explanations for the Eastern District of Texas’s popularity with patent plaintiffs. Rather than any one explanation, we conclude that what makes the Eastern District so attractive to patent plaintiffs is the accumulated effect of several marginal advantages — particularly with respect to the relative timing of discovery deadlines, transfer decisions, and claim construction — that make it predictably expensive for accused infringers to defend patent suits filed in East Texas. These findings tend to support ongoing efforts to pass patent reform legislation that would presumptively stay discovery …


Comparative Patent Quality, Colleen Chien Sep 2016

Comparative Patent Quality, Colleen Chien

Faculty Publications

One of the most urgent problems with the US patent system is that there are too many patents of poor quality. Most blame the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) – its mistakes, overly generous grant rate, and lack of consistency. But, the quality and quantity of patents in force is the product of three sets of decisions: to submit an application of certain quality (by the applicant), to grant the patent (by the patent office), and to renew a patent and keep it in force (by the applicant/patentee). Startling, there is no consensus way to measure patent quality. This …


Recalibrarting Patent Venue, Colleen V. Chien, Michael Risch Sep 2016

Recalibrarting Patent Venue, Colleen V. Chien, Michael Risch

Faculty Publications

For most of patent law’s 200-year plus history, the rule has been that patentholders are permitted to sue defendants only in the district they inhabit. In 1990, the Federal Circuit changed this by enlarging the scope of permissible venue to all districts with personal jurisdiction over the defendant. Since then, patentees have flocked to fewer districts, and in 2015, brought more than 40% of their cases in a single rural district with 1% of the US population, the Eastern District of Texas. Fueled in particular by concerns that non-practicing entities (NPEs), who bring the majority of cases in the Eastern …


Writing Tenure Review Letters, Eric Goldman Sep 2016

Writing Tenure Review Letters, Eric Goldman

Faculty Publications

Tenure review letters are a crucial part of the tenure process, but academic communities don’t often discuss how to write them. This essay offers my top 10 suggestions for how to conceptualize and write helpful tenure review letters.


"I'Ll See": How Surveillance Undermines Privacy By Eroding Trust, Robert H. Sloan, Richard Warner Aug 2016

"I'Ll See": How Surveillance Undermines Privacy By Eroding Trust, Robert H. Sloan, Richard Warner

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

"I'll See": How Surveillance Undermines Privacy By Eroding Trust


Can Digital Speech Loosen The Gordian Knot Of Reputation Law?, Elizabeth A. Kirley Aug 2016

Can Digital Speech Loosen The Gordian Knot Of Reputation Law?, Elizabeth A. Kirley

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Can Digital Speech Loosen the Gordian Knot of Reputation Law?


After O2 Micro: The Court's Evolving Duty To Map Words To Things, Peter E. Gratzinger Aug 2016

After O2 Micro: The Court's Evolving Duty To Map Words To Things, Peter E. Gratzinger

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

After O2 Micro: The Court's Evolving Duty to Map Words to Things


Comment To The Sec In Support Of The Enhanced Disclosure Of Patent And Technology License Information, Colleen Chien, Jorge L. Contreras, Carol Corrado, Stuart Graham, Deepak Hegde, Arti K. Rai, Saurabh Vishnubhakat Jul 2016

Comment To The Sec In Support Of The Enhanced Disclosure Of Patent And Technology License Information, Colleen Chien, Jorge L. Contreras, Carol Corrado, Stuart Graham, Deepak Hegde, Arti K. Rai, Saurabh Vishnubhakat

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

Intangible assets like IP constitute a large share of the value of firms, and the US economy generally. Accurate information on the intellectual property (IP) holdings and transactions of publicly-traded firms facilitates price discovery in the market and reduces transaction costs. While public understanding of the innovation economy has been expanded by a large stream of empirical research using patent data, and more recently trademark information this research is only as good as the accuracy and completeness of the data it builds upon. In contrast with information about patents and trademarks, good information about IP licensing is much less publicly …


Randomly Distributed Trial Court Justice: A Case Study And Siren From The Consumer Bankruptcy World, Gary G. Neustadter Jul 2016

Randomly Distributed Trial Court Justice: A Case Study And Siren From The Consumer Bankruptcy World, Gary G. Neustadter

Faculty Publications

Between February 24, 2010 and April 23, 2012, Heritage Pacific Financial, L.L.C. (“Heritage”), a debt buyer, mass produced and filed 218 essentially identical adversary proceedings in California bankruptcy courts against makers of promissory notes who had filed Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy petitions. Each complaint alleged Heritage's acquisition of the notes in the secondary market and alleged the outstanding obligations on the notes to be nondischargeable under the Bankruptcy Code’s fraud exception to the bankruptcy discharge. The notes evidenced loans to California residents, made in 2005 and 2006, which helped finance the purchase, refinancing, or improvement of California residential …


Telling Refugee Stories: Trauma, Credibility And The Adversarial Adjudication Of Claims For Asylum, Stephen Paskey Jun 2016

Telling Refugee Stories: Trauma, Credibility And The Adversarial Adjudication Of Claims For Asylum, Stephen Paskey

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.


From Craigslist To Backpage.Com: Conspiracy As A Strategy To Prosecute Third-Party Websites For Sex Trafficking, Monica J. Delateur Jun 2016

From Craigslist To Backpage.Com: Conspiracy As A Strategy To Prosecute Third-Party Websites For Sex Trafficking, Monica J. Delateur

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.


Criminal Justice And (A) Catholic Conscience, Leo E. Strine, Jr. Jun 2016

Criminal Justice And (A) Catholic Conscience, Leo E. Strine, Jr.

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.


Shades Of Gray: Seeing The Full Spectrum Of Practical Data De-Identification, Jules Polonetsky, Omer Tene, Kelsey Finch Jun 2016

Shades Of Gray: Seeing The Full Spectrum Of Practical Data De-Identification, Jules Polonetsky, Omer Tene, Kelsey Finch

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Misclassification Of Employees And California's Latest Confusion Regarding Who Is An Employee Or An Independent Contractor, Peter Tran Jun 2016

The Misclassification Of Employees And California's Latest Confusion Regarding Who Is An Employee Or An Independent Contractor, Peter Tran

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Scope Of The Eu's Investment Competence After Lisbon, Siegfried Fina, Gabriel M. Lentner May 2016

The Scope Of The Eu's Investment Competence After Lisbon, Siegfried Fina, Gabriel M. Lentner

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Secession: The Contradicting Provisions Of The United Nations Charter - A Direct Threat To The Current World Order, N. Micheli Quadros M.P.A. May 2016

Secession: The Contradicting Provisions Of The United Nations Charter - A Direct Threat To The Current World Order, N. Micheli Quadros M.P.A.

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


The World's Laboratory: China's Patent Boom, It Standards And The Implications For The Global Knowledge Economy, Christopher Mcelwain May 2016

The World's Laboratory: China's Patent Boom, It Standards And The Implications For The Global Knowledge Economy, Christopher Mcelwain

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


The Need For Concentrated Jurisdiction In Handling Parental Child Abduction Cases In The United States, Keelikolani Lee Ho May 2016

The Need For Concentrated Jurisdiction In Handling Parental Child Abduction Cases In The United States, Keelikolani Lee Ho

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Shaky Ground: How Wavering Approaches To Prostitution Law Have Undermined International Efforts To End It, Tamarah Provost May 2016

Shaky Ground: How Wavering Approaches To Prostitution Law Have Undermined International Efforts To End It, Tamarah Provost

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Greenwashing The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Fossil Fuels, The Environment, And Climate Change, Matthew Rimmer, Matthew Rimmer May 2016

Greenwashing The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Fossil Fuels, The Environment, And Climate Change, Matthew Rimmer, Matthew Rimmer

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


The Litigation Tango Of La Casa Rosada And The Vultures: The Political Realities Of Sovereign Debt, Vulture Funds, And The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Mallory Barr May 2016

The Litigation Tango Of La Casa Rosada And The Vultures: The Political Realities Of Sovereign Debt, Vulture Funds, And The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Mallory Barr

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Renewable Energy Development For Wto Member Nations, Rick A. Waltman Esq. May 2016

Renewable Energy Development For Wto Member Nations, Rick A. Waltman Esq.

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Conditions In U.S. Treaty Practice: New Data And Insights On A Growing Phenomenon, Cindy Galway Buys May 2016

Conditions In U.S. Treaty Practice: New Data And Insights On A Growing Phenomenon, Cindy Galway Buys

Santa Clara Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.


Pay-For-Performance In Prison: Using Healthcare Economics To Improve Criminal Justice, W. David Ball Apr 2016

Pay-For-Performance In Prison: Using Healthcare Economics To Improve Criminal Justice, W. David Ball

Faculty Publications

For much of the last seventy-plus years, healthcare providers in the United States have been paid under the fee-for-service system, where providers are reimbursed for procedures performed, not outcomes obtained. Providers, insurers, and consumers are motivated by different individual and organizational incentives; costs and burdens of patient care are shifted from one part of the system to another. The result has been a system that combines exploding costs without concomitant increases in quality. Healthcare economists and policymakers have reacted by proposing a number of policies designed to reign in costs without sacrificing quality. One approach is to focus on the …