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Harvesting Intellectual Property: "Inspired Beginnings" And "Work Makes Work," Two Stages In The Creative Processes Of Artists And Innovators, Jessica M. Silbey
Harvesting Intellectual Property: "Inspired Beginnings" And "Work Makes Work," Two Stages In The Creative Processes Of Artists And Innovators, Jessica M. Silbey
Jessica Silbey
This Article is part of a larger empirical study based on face-to-face interviews with artists, scientists, engineers, their lawyers, agents, and business partners. The book-length project involves the collecting and analysis of stories from artists, scientists, and engineers about how and why they create and innovate. It also collects stories from their employers, business partners, managers, and lawyers about their role in facilitating the process of creating and innovating. The book’s aim is to make sense of the intersection between intellectual property law and creative and innovative activity, specifically to discern how intellectual property intervenes in the careers of the …
Acting Like An Administrative Agency: The Federal Circuit En Banc, Ryan G. Vacca
Acting Like An Administrative Agency: The Federal Circuit En Banc, Ryan G. Vacca
Ryan G. Vacca
When Congress created the Federal Circuit in 1982, it thought it was creating a court of appeals. Little did it know that it was also creating a quasi-administrative agency that would engage in substantive rulemaking and set policy in a manner substantially similar to administrative agencies. In this Article, I examine the Federal Circuit's practices when it orders a case to be heard en banc and illustrate how these practices cause the Federal Circuit to look very much like an administrative agency engaging in substantive rulemaking. The number and breadth of questions the Federal Circuit agrees to hear en banc …
Association Of Molecular Pathology Meets Therasense: Analyzing The Unenforceability Of Isolated-Sequence-Related Patents For Upenn, Columbia, Nyu, Yale, And Emory, Sam S. Han Ph.D.
Association Of Molecular Pathology Meets Therasense: Analyzing The Unenforceability Of Isolated-Sequence-Related Patents For Upenn, Columbia, Nyu, Yale, And Emory, Sam S. Han Ph.D.
Sam Han
37 CFR 1.56 requires disclosure of material information to the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO" or "PTO") when applying for a patent. This duty is imposed on (1) each inventor; (2) each attorney or agent who prepares or prosecutes the application; and (3) every other person who is substantively involved in the preparation or prosecution of the application and who is associated with the inventor, with the assignee or with anyone to whom there is an obligation to assign the application. Thus, for academic institutions, those who handle patent prosecution for the institution are bound by this duty …
A Critique Of Mark Lemley’S “The Myth Of The Sole Inventor”, John Howells, Ron D. Katznelson
A Critique Of Mark Lemley’S “The Myth Of The Sole Inventor”, John Howells, Ron D. Katznelson
Ron D. Katznelson
In a forthcoming article in the Michigan Law Review, Professor Mark Lemley advances a thesis that “the canonical story of the lone genius inventor is largely a myth” and describes a selection of pioneer inventions to support his thesis. We show that Lemley has many of his facts wrong. We examine his assertions and set the record straight in the pioneer invention cases of Edison, the Wright brothers, the Selden automobile patent vis a vis Ford, Watt and the steam engine and Fleming and penicillin. We are concerned with the errors in alleged historical and legal facts in what Lemley …
Should Posts On Social Networking Websites Be Considered "Printed Publications" Under Patent Law?, Xiaojing Li
Should Posts On Social Networking Websites Be Considered "Printed Publications" Under Patent Law?, Xiaojing Li
Xiaojing Li
The emergence of social networking websites imposes a challenge to patent law. Courts should not make a blanket assumption that everything posted on social websites constitute a printed publication. Rather, courts should adopt a refined multiple factor test to help the analysis. This proposal would result in a balance between private and public interests in an invention, and therefore help achieve the ultimate goal of patent law.
Coding For Life--Should Any Entity Have The Exclusive Right To Use And Sell Isolated Dna, Douglas L. Rogers
Coding For Life--Should Any Entity Have The Exclusive Right To Use And Sell Isolated Dna, Douglas L. Rogers
Douglas L. Rogers
Myriad Genetics, Inc. ("Myriad") obtained patents in the 1990's on two "isolated" human breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility genes ("BRCA"). Myriad did not list all the isolated sequences it claims to have a right to monopolize, but instead claims a patent on the physical phenomena itself -- all DNA segments that code for the BRCA1 polypeptide, even the sequences Myriad has not identified and even someone else in the future creates or isolates the sequences through a method or methods not contemplated by Myriad.
An impressive array of non-profit medical societies, doctors and patients sued to have the Myriad patents …
The Ftc’S Proposal For Regulating Ip Through Ssos Would Replace Private Coordination With Government Hold-Up, F. Scott Kieff, Richard Epstein, Daniel Spulber
The Ftc’S Proposal For Regulating Ip Through Ssos Would Replace Private Coordination With Government Hold-Up, F. Scott Kieff, Richard Epstein, Daniel Spulber
F. Scott Kieff
In its recent report entitled “The Evolving IP Marketplace,” the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) advances a far-reaching regulatory approach (Proposal) whose likely effect would be to distort the operation of the intellectual property (IP) marketplace in ways that will hamper the innovation and commercialization of new technologies. The gist of the FTC Proposal is to rely on highly non-standard and misguided definitions of economic terms of art such as “ex ante” and “hold-up,” while urging new inefficient rules for calculating damages for patent infringement. Stripped of the technicalities, the FTC Proposal would so reduce the costs of infringement by downstream …
The Evolving Role Of Opinions Of Patent Counsel In Federal Circuit Cases, Lynda J. Oswald
The Evolving Role Of Opinions Of Patent Counsel In Federal Circuit Cases, Lynda J. Oswald
Lynda J Oswald
In recent years, an unexpected intersection has emerged in U.S. patent law in two types of cases addressing the roles of opinions of counsel: (1) those addressing willful infringement and enhanced damages; and (2) those addressing inducement of infringement. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit appears to be weakening the role of patent opinions for willfulness determinations, but strengthening the role of such opinions in inducement cases. In light of these developments, companies doing business in the U.S., whether U.S.- or foreign-based, would do well as a strategic matter to err on the side of caution and …
Sampling, Looping, And Mashing … Oh My!: How Hip Hop Music Is Scratching More Than The Surface Of Copyright Law, Tonya M. Evans
Sampling, Looping, And Mashing … Oh My!: How Hip Hop Music Is Scratching More Than The Surface Of Copyright Law, Tonya M. Evans
Tonya M. Evans
This article examines the deleterious impact of copyright law on music creation. It highlights hip hop music as an example of a genre significantly and negatively impacted by 1) the per se infringement rule applied in some instances to cases involving unauthorized sampling of sound recordings; and 2) traditional (and arguably erroneous) assumptions in copyright law and policy of independent creation and Romantic authorship.
For decades hip hop producers have relied on the innovative use of existing recordings (most of which are protected by copyright), to create completely new works. Specifically, cuttin’ and scratchin’, digital sampling, looping and (most recently) …
Whose Body Is It Anyway? Human Cells And The Strange Effects Of Property And Intellectual Property Law, Robin C. Feldman
Whose Body Is It Anyway? Human Cells And The Strange Effects Of Property And Intellectual Property Law, Robin C. Feldman
Robin C Feldman
Addressing Access To Medicine: The Influence Of Competing Patent Perspectives, Cynthia M. Ho
Addressing Access To Medicine: The Influence Of Competing Patent Perspectives, Cynthia M. Ho
Cynthia M Ho
Promoting access to affordable medicine for poor countries is considered important by a wide range of actors, including not only rich and poor countries, but also public health advocates, patent owners, and scholars. However, promoting access has been elusive. Public health advocates argue that access to medicine is increasingly difficult due to changes in domestic and international laws that limit access to unpatented and low-cost generic drugs by expanding the scope of patent rights. Patent owners and some countries deny these claims while simultaneously advocating for more expansive patent rights as necessary to promote innovation and development. This article addresses …
Patently Obvious: Why The District Court's Ruling In Association For Molecular Pathology V. Uspto Is Incomplete, Kristin Wall
Patently Obvious: Why The District Court's Ruling In Association For Molecular Pathology V. Uspto Is Incomplete, Kristin Wall
Kristin Wall
In March of 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Southern District of New York invalidated Myriad Genetics’ patents on the BRCA1/2 genes, which predict susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancer. Prior to this decision, the USPTO and the legal system at large accepted patents relating to human genes as patentable subject matter. In opposition to this standard, the District Court found that human DNA sequences are inherently products of nature and thus fail under 35 U.S.C. § 101.
The Court should not have stopped there, however. The Intellectual Property Clause of the U.S. Constitution creates a standard …
Brief Of Amicus Curiae In Support Of Affirmance, Ron D. Katznelson
Brief Of Amicus Curiae In Support Of Affirmance, Ron D. Katznelson
Ron D. Katznelson
No abstract provided.
Warranting Rightful Claims, Karen E. Sandrik
Warranting Rightful Claims, Karen E. Sandrik
Karen E. Sandrik
Damage awards for patent infringement have sky-rocketed and sparked significant debate in recent years. A part of this patent damage debate focuses on non-practicing entities, or so-called “patent trolls.” A patent troll is a patent owner that demands a royalty based on patented technology, yet does not actually make use of the technology to provide an end product or service. Patent trolls are known for their aggressive and opportunistic behavior. Their strategy is simple: create nuisance and inflict fear. Often, patent trolls employ this strategy against the buyers of goods that use the patented technology. Increasingly, those buyers are availing …
One For All: The Problem Of Uniformity Cost In Intellectual Property Law, Michael W. Carroll
One For All: The Problem Of Uniformity Cost In Intellectual Property Law, Michael W. Carroll
Michael W. Carroll
Intellectual property law protects the owner of each patented invention or copyrighted work of authorship with a largely uniform set of exclusive rights. In the modern context, it is clear that innovators' needs for intellectual property protection vary substantially across industries and among types of innovation. Applying a socially costly, uniform solution to problems of differing magnitudes means that the law necessarily imposes uniformity cost by underprotecting those who invest in certain costly innovations and overprotecting those with low innovation costs or access to alternative appropriability mechanisms. This Article argues that reducing uniformity cost is the central problem for intellectual …
Food And Drug Law As Intellectual Property Law: Historical Reflections, Kara Swanson
Food And Drug Law As Intellectual Property Law: Historical Reflections, Kara Swanson
Kara W. Swanson
No abstract provided.
The Creativity Effect (With C. Sprigman), Christopher J. Buccafusco
The Creativity Effect (With C. Sprigman), Christopher J. Buccafusco
Christopher J. Buccafusco
No abstract provided.
Warranting Rightful Claims, Karen E. Sandrik
Warranting Rightful Claims, Karen E. Sandrik
Karen E. Sandrik
Damage awards for patent infringement have sky-rocketed and sparked significant debate in recent years. A part of this patent damages debate focuses on non-practicing entities, or so-called “patent trolls.” A patent troll is a patent owner that demands a royalty based on patented technology, yet does not actually make use of the technology to provide an end product or service. Patent trolls are known for their aggressive and opportunistic behavior. Their strategy is simple: create nuisance and inflict fear. Increasingly, buyers of goods using patented technology are availing themselves of the “warranty against infringement” (“WAI”) provided by the Uniform Commercial …
28 U.S.C. § 1498(A) And The Unconstitutional Taking Of Patents, Joshua I. Miller
28 U.S.C. § 1498(A) And The Unconstitutional Taking Of Patents, Joshua I. Miller
Joshua I. Miller
Eminent domain requires a showing of two elements: a property right; and a proper venue to bring suit against the government. 28 U.S.C. § 1498(a) grants patent owners the right to sue the United States for the unauthorized use of patents. This statute and its predecessors have long been viewed as an exercise of eminent domain over the patent property. The Federal Circuit ignored this view in Zoltek v. U.S., holding that patents are not subject to eminent domain. However, Congress has acknowledged that litigation costs are a necessary part of a patent taking. If, as precedent established long before …
The Creativity Effect, Christopher Sprigman, Christopher Buccafusco
The Creativity Effect, Christopher Sprigman, Christopher Buccafusco
Christopher Sprigman
This paper reports the first experiment to demonstrate the existence of a valuation anomaly associated with the creation of new works. To date, a wealth of social science research has shown that substantial valuation asymmetries exist between owners of goods and potential purchasers of them. The least amount of money that owners are willing to accept to part with their possessions is often far greater than the amount that purchasers would be willing to pay to obtain them. This phenomenon, known as the endowment effect, may create substantial inefficiencies in many markets. Our experiment demonstrates the existence of a related …
Overcoming The “Impossible Issue” Of Nonobviousness In Design Patents, Daniel Harris Brean, Janice M. Mueller
Overcoming The “Impossible Issue” Of Nonobviousness In Design Patents, Daniel Harris Brean, Janice M. Mueller
Daniel Harris Brean