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Patent Law In The Age Of The Invisible Supreme Court, Mark D. Janis Jan 2001

Patent Law In The Age Of The Invisible Supreme Court, Mark D. Janis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This article examines the permanence of the U.S. Supreme Court's retreat to the peripheries of patent law after the creation of the Federal Circuit, and explores the roles that the Supreme Court might imagine for itself in contemporary patent law. For discussion purposes, the article describes two hypothetical models for Supreme Court decisionmaking in patent cases: an aggressive interventionist model and an extreme non-interventionist model. After considering the shortcomings of both models, the article proposes an intermediate, managerial model. The managerial model rejects the proposition that the Court should intervene in patent cases to correct perceived substantive errors in Federal …


Collusion And Collective Action In The Patent System: A Proposal For Patent Bounties, John R. Thomas Jan 2001

Collusion And Collective Action In The Patent System: A Proposal For Patent Bounties, John R. Thomas

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Persistent commentary contends that the Patent Office is issuing patents that appropriate public domain concepts at an alarming frequency. Complaints of low patent quality enjoy growing resonance with regard to business methods, computer software, and other inventions for which patents were not traditionally sought. In this article, Professor Jay Thomas explains how the judiciary's lenient view of patentable subject matter and utility standards, along with miserly congressional funding policies, have rendered the Patent Office an increasingly porous agency. Professor Thomas next reviews existing proposals for improving patent quality, including the conventional wisdom that adoption of an opposition system will contribute …


Changing Relationships Among European Constitutional Courts, Stephen Breyer Feb 2000

Changing Relationships Among European Constitutional Courts, Stephen Breyer

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


On Courts Herding Cats: Contending With The "Written Description" Requirement (And Other Unruly Patent Disclosure Doctrines), Mark D. Janis Jan 2000

On Courts Herding Cats: Contending With The "Written Description" Requirement (And Other Unruly Patent Disclosure Doctrines), Mark D. Janis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


License To Copyright: The Ongoing Dispute Over The Ownership Of James Bond, Keith Poliakoff Jan 2000

License To Copyright: The Ongoing Dispute Over The Ownership Of James Bond, Keith Poliakoff

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Federal Circuit's Forgotten Lessons: Annealing New Forms Of Intellectual Property Through Consolidated Appellate Jurisdiction, 32 J. Marshall L. Rev. 581 (1999), Chris J. Katopis Jan 1999

Federal Circuit's Forgotten Lessons: Annealing New Forms Of Intellectual Property Through Consolidated Appellate Jurisdiction, 32 J. Marshall L. Rev. 581 (1999), Chris J. Katopis

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Licensed To Steal: Has Sovereign Immunity Gone Too Far, 32 J. Marshall L. Rev. 779 (1999), Sulaiman M. Qazi Jan 1999

Licensed To Steal: Has Sovereign Immunity Gone Too Far, 32 J. Marshall L. Rev. 779 (1999), Sulaiman M. Qazi

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Budweiser Or Budweiser, 32 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1251 (1999), Jitka Smith Jan 1999

Budweiser Or Budweiser, 32 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1251 (1999), Jitka Smith

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Top Ten Intellectual Property Law Questions That Should Be Asked About Any Merger Or Acquisition, Marci A. Hamilton Jul 1998

The Top Ten Intellectual Property Law Questions That Should Be Asked About Any Merger Or Acquisition, Marci A. Hamilton

Articles

No abstract provided.


Profits In Cyberspace: Should Newspaper And Magazine Publishers Pay Freelance Writers For Digital Content?, Rod Dixon Esq. Jun 1998

Profits In Cyberspace: Should Newspaper And Magazine Publishers Pay Freelance Writers For Digital Content?, Rod Dixon Esq.

Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review

It is remarkable how fast recent trends have driven an increasing number of publishers of magazines, newspapers, and other similar works to port the print version of their works to digital and electronic format in the form of online computer databases and multimedia CDROM technologies. Online computer databases and CD-ROM media can be exceptionally profitable ventures for publishers who convert a preexisting print work into a digital product. However, publishers' profits from digital media may be impaired if there is a question as to whether the publisher has satisfactorily secured the copyright to the material making up the digital media. …


"Just Say Never?" Poison Pills, Deadhand Pills, And Shareholder-Adopted Bylaws: An Essay For Warren Buffett, Jeffrey N. Gordon Sep 1997

"Just Say Never?" Poison Pills, Deadhand Pills, And Shareholder-Adopted Bylaws: An Essay For Warren Buffett, Jeffrey N. Gordon

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Escaping The World Of I Know It When I See It: A New Test For Software Patent Ability, Brooke Schumm Iii Jun 1996

Escaping The World Of I Know It When I See It: A New Test For Software Patent Ability, Brooke Schumm Iii

Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review

The major thesis presented in this article is a focused standard of software patentability, in particular for pure computational methods or algorithms directed to the manipulation of numbers operating on a computer. The general philosophy is to compel inventors to narrow their claims to an algorithm expressed in terms of its utility and then to require that the particular utility or functionality be expressed in the claim as a limit on the claim, thus precluding the patent monopoly from being overbroad. As a corollary, any person is free to use or perhaps to patent the algorithm for a different utility …


Conflicts And The Federal Circuit, 29 J. Marshall L. Rev. 835 (1996), Glenn L. Archer Jr. Jan 1996

Conflicts And The Federal Circuit, 29 J. Marshall L. Rev. 835 (1996), Glenn L. Archer Jr.

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Trademark Parody: Lessons From The Copyright Decision In Campbell V. Acuff-Rose Music, Gary Myers Jan 1996

Trademark Parody: Lessons From The Copyright Decision In Campbell V. Acuff-Rose Music, Gary Myers

Faculty Publications

Parodies have long provided many of us with amusement, entertainment,and sometimes even information. An effective parody can convey one or more messages with powerful effect. The message may be a political statement, social commentary, commercial speech, a bawdy joke, ridicule of a brand name, criticism of commercialism, or just plain humor for its own sake. Often someone's ox is being gored, or someone feels that a property right has been infringed. The party so injured often contemplates a lawsuit, and an array of legal theories are available to further that impulse. Perhaps copyright infringement is the claim, if some protectable …


1995 Patent Law Decisions Of The United States Court Of Appeals For The Federal Circuit, Lawrence M. Sung Jan 1996

1995 Patent Law Decisions Of The United States Court Of Appeals For The Federal Circuit, Lawrence M. Sung

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Impact Of Federal Circuit Precedent On The On-Sale And Public-Use Bars To Patentability, The A Review Of Recent Decisions Of The United States Court Of Appeals For The Federal Court , Edward G. Poplawski, Paul D. Tripodi, Ii Jan 1995

Impact Of Federal Circuit Precedent On The On-Sale And Public-Use Bars To Patentability, The A Review Of Recent Decisions Of The United States Court Of Appeals For The Federal Court , Edward G. Poplawski, Paul D. Tripodi, Ii

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Common Sense, Simplicity And Experimental Use Negation Of The Public Use And On Sale Bars To Patentability, 29 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (1995), William C. Rooklidge, Stephen C. Jensen Jan 1995

Common Sense, Simplicity And Experimental Use Negation Of The Public Use And On Sale Bars To Patentability, 29 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (1995), William C. Rooklidge, Stephen C. Jensen

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Growing Pains For The Board Of Patent Appeals And Interferences: A Plan For Restoring Judicial Independence, 29 J. Marshall L. Rev. 171 (1995), Scott E. Baxendale Jan 1995

Growing Pains For The Board Of Patent Appeals And Interferences: A Plan For Restoring Judicial Independence, 29 J. Marshall L. Rev. 171 (1995), Scott E. Baxendale

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Trademark Protection For Color: Basking In The Warmth Of "Sun Glow", Jennifer D. Silverman Jan 1995

Trademark Protection For Color: Basking In The Warmth Of "Sun Glow", Jennifer D. Silverman

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


New Rules For Old Problems: Defining The Contours Of The Best Mode Requirement In Patent Law A Review Of Recent Decisions Of The United States Court Of Appeals For The Federal Court , Roy E. Hofer, L. Ann Fitzgerald Jan 1995

New Rules For Old Problems: Defining The Contours Of The Best Mode Requirement In Patent Law A Review Of Recent Decisions Of The United States Court Of Appeals For The Federal Court , Roy E. Hofer, L. Ann Fitzgerald

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Proposal To Change The Patent Reexamination Statute To Eliminate Unnecessary Litigation, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 887 (1994), Marvin Motsenbocker Jan 1994

Proposal To Change The Patent Reexamination Statute To Eliminate Unnecessary Litigation, 27 J. Marshall L. Rev. 887 (1994), Marvin Motsenbocker

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Year In Review: The Federal Circuit's Patent Decisions Of 1993, Thomas L. Irving, Michael D. Kaminski, Linda S. Evans, Donald R. Mcphail Jan 1994

A Year In Review: The Federal Circuit's Patent Decisions Of 1993, Thomas L. Irving, Michael D. Kaminski, Linda S. Evans, Donald R. Mcphail

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Challenge Ahead: Increasing Predictability In Federal Circuit Jurisprudence For The New Century, Paul R. Michel Jan 1994

The Challenge Ahead: Increasing Predictability In Federal Circuit Jurisprudence For The New Century, Paul R. Michel

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Film Labelling As A Cure For Colorization [And Other Alterations]: A Band-Aid For A Hatchet Job, David A. Honicky Jan 1994

Film Labelling As A Cure For Colorization [And Other Alterations]: A Band-Aid For A Hatchet Job, David A. Honicky

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Patent Law Developments In The United States Court Of Appeals For The Federal Circuit During 1992, Kendrew H. Colton, Michael W. Haas Jan 1993

Patent Law Developments In The United States Court Of Appeals For The Federal Circuit During 1992, Kendrew H. Colton, Michael W. Haas

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Federal Circuit Trademark Roundup, Jerome Gilson, Andrew Hartman Jan 1993

Federal Circuit Trademark Roundup, Jerome Gilson, Andrew Hartman

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Why The “Look And Feel” Of Computer Software Should Not Receive Copyright Protection, Matthew J. Fortnow Nov 1992

Why The “Look And Feel” Of Computer Software Should Not Receive Copyright Protection, Matthew J. Fortnow

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Weissmann V. Freeman: Derivative Works By Joint Authors-Originality And Copyright Infringement In The Second Circuit, David P. Gerstman M.D. Jan 1992

Weissmann V. Freeman: Derivative Works By Joint Authors-Originality And Copyright Infringement In The Second Circuit, David P. Gerstman M.D.

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Judicial Deference To The Pto's Interpretations Of The Patent Law, R. Carl Moy Jan 1992

Judicial Deference To The Pto's Interpretations Of The Patent Law, R. Carl Moy

Faculty Scholarship

This article attempts to provide a basis upon which to preserve the Federal Circuit's current lawmaking primacy. Given the large body of preexisting literature on Chevron, USA, Inc v. Natural Resources Defense Council, it does not address whether Chevron allocates power between agencies and the courts optimally. Rather, the article examines how the PTO's statutory interpretations should be reviewed under Chevron. In Section I, the article places the examination in context by describing the Chevron decision and its general implications. Section II of the article examines how Chevron should be applied specifically in the context of reviewing statutory interpretations of …


Judge And Jury Roles In Equivalents Analysis: Commentary On Malta V. Schulmerich Carillons, Mark D. Janis Jan 1992

Judge And Jury Roles In Equivalents Analysis: Commentary On Malta V. Schulmerich Carillons, Mark D. Janis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

In Malta v. Schulmerich Carillons Inc. a divided panel of the Federal Circuit affirmed a JNOV granted on a jury verdict of infringement under the doctrine of equivalents. In so doing, the panel majority confirmed the applicability of guidelines from previous cases for determining the threshold level of evidence necessary to get the equivalents issue to the jury. This paper argues that despite powerful criticism from the dissent, the common sense guidelines articulated in theMalta majority opinion are not only necessary, but are appropriate. Indeed, the paper argues that the Malta guidelines are fundamental to the equivalents analysis, and …