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Beyond Confusion?, Stacey Dogan

Shorter Faculty Works

Trademark law is in the midst of an identity crisis. The prevailing economic account of the law has come under sustained attack by scholars, who have both challenged its descriptive accuracy and blamed it for many of the expansions of trademark rights in recent decades. The likelihood of confusion test – long the nucleus of infringement analysis – has been roundly condemned as indeterminate, incoherent, and normatively empty. No one seems to agree about why we have trademark law and how best to implement it. Scholars have cast about for explanations of how we got here and ideas of how …

Competition And Innovation In Copyright And The Dmca, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

All Faculty Scholarship

This book of CASES AND MATERIALS ON INNOVATION AND COMPETITION POLICY is intended for educational use. The book is free for all to use subject to an open source license agreement. It differs from IP/antitrust casebooks in that it considers numerous sources of competition policy in addition to antitrust, including those that emanate from the intellectual property laws themselves, and also related issues such as the relationship between market structure and innovation, the competitive consequences of regulatory rules governing technology competition such as net neutrality and interconnection, misuse, the first sale doctrine, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Chapters …

Competition In Information Technologies: Standards-Essential Patents, Non-Practicing Entities And Frand Bidding, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

All Faculty Scholarship

Standard Setting is omnipresent in networked information technologies. Virtually every cellular phone, computer, digital camera or similar device contains technologies governed by a collaboratively developed standard. If these technologies are to perform competitively, the processes by which standards are developed and implemented must be competitive. In this case attaining competitive results requires a mixture of antitrust and non-antitrust legal tools.

FRAND refers to a firm’s ex ante commitment to make its technology available at a “fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory royalty.” The FRAND commitment results from bidding to have one’s own technology selected as a standard. Typically the FRAND commitment is …

The Private Costs Of Patent Litigation, James Bessen, Michael J. Meurer

Faculty Scholarship

This paper estimates the total cost of patent litigation to alleged infringers. We use a large sample of stock market event studies around the date of lawsuit filings for US public firms from 1984-99. We find that the total costs of litigation are much greater than legal fees and costs are large even for lawsuits that settle. Lawsuits cost alleged infringers about $28.7 million ($92) in the mean and $2.9 million in the median. Moreover, infringement risk rose sharply during the late 1990s to over 14% of R&D spending. Small firms have lower risk relative to R&D.

Why Copyright Falls Behind The Requirement For Protecting Graphic User Interfaces: Case Studies On Limitations Of Copyright Protection For Guis In China, Ling Jin, Yihong Ying

IP Theory

No abstract provided.

Transparencia Y Anticorrupción, Primera Llamada De Peña, Norma E. Pimentel

Norma E Pimentel

No abstract provided.

“Advancing With The Times: Industrial Design Protection In The Era Of Virtual Migration”, Horacio E. Gutiérrez

IP Theory

No abstract provided.

Innovation And Competition Policy: Statutory Supplement And Other Materials, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

All Faculty Scholarship

This Supplement to Cases and Materials on Innovation and Competition Policy includes the following: (1) a statutory supplement containing relevant provisions of the antitrust laws, the Patent Act, the Copyright Act, and the DMCA: (2) an annotated table of contents. Other supplemental materials, including discussion of recent decisions or other developments, will be added from time to time.

This book will be supplemented frequently as important new decisions or other developments occur. However, the author will attempt not to revise individual chapters during the course of the academic semester in order to avoid confusion in pagination or printing. Instead, supplemental …

Análisis Económico De Usos Permitidos De Obras Protegidas, Obras Huérfanas Y Dominio Público Pagante - Propuestas De Reforma A La Vigente Ley Argentina De Propiedad Intelectual, Maximiliano Marzetti

Maximiliano Marzetti

No abstract provided.

El Rostro Público De La Propaganda Administrativa, Norma E. Pimentel

Norma E Pimentel

No abstract provided.

Cuando La Educación Sea Diferente, Norma E. Pimentel

Norma E Pimentel

No abstract provided.

¿Quién Fue El (La) Gran Ausente En El #Debate2012?, Norma E. Pimentel

Norma E Pimentel

Reflexión personal sobre el "debate" del día 06.05.2012

Property Rights Legislation In Agricultural Biotechnology: United States And Argentina, Andres A. Gallo, Jay P. Kesan

Andres A. Gallo

The market for biotechnology products has expanded rapidly in the 1990s and is expected to give impulse to radical changes in agriculture around the world. Investment in research and development (R&D) of new seed varieties has become a key factor for agriculture development. In the last decades, the investment in R&D has switched from state sponsored research to private funding. At the same time, the market has moved towards a strong concentration in a few multinational firms, which now control most of the agricultural biotechnology R&D around the world. One of the most important issues regarding ag-biotechnology is the legal …

La Transparencia En La Protección De Datos Personales, Bruno L. Costantini García

Bruno L. Costantini García

La Transparencia en la Protección de Datos Personales, ponencia elaborada dentro de los trabajos del VII Congreso Nacional de Organismos Públicos Autónomos (OPAM)

Celebrando Un Año Más Del Día Internacional Del Trabajo, Norma E. Pimentel

Norma E Pimentel

No abstract provided.

Cultura De La Legalidad. Participación Ciudada En Transparencia, Norma E. Pimentel

Norma E Pimentel

No abstract provided.

Construyendo Cultura De La Legalidad Y Participación Ciudadana, Norma E. Pimentel

Norma E Pimentel

No abstract provided.

Las Leyes Como Parte Integrante Del Derecho, Norma E. Pimentel

Norma E Pimentel

No abstract provided.

Hablando Del Derecho Y Las Leyes, Norma E. Pimentel

Norma E Pimentel

No abstract provided.

Ante 74 Años De Petróleo Nacional, Norma E. Pimentel

Norma E Pimentel

No abstract provided.

The Alternative Forms Of Dispute Settlement And The Essential Difference Between These And Arbitration, Michael Diathesopoulos

Michael Diathesopoulos

The paper examines the characteristics of some common alternative forms of dispute settlement and their key differences from arbitration regarding their nature and scope. Its purpose is to explore each mechanism's suitability for specific types of disputes.

La Noción De Consumidor En El Código De Protección Y Defensa Del Consumidor, David García

David García

This work contains a legal analysis of the notion of consumer in the Peruvian law

¿Transparencia En El Endeudamiento Público?, Norma E. Pimentel

Norma E Pimentel

No abstract provided.

Aspectos Generales Dela Publicidad En México. "La Publicidad De Productos, Servicios, Y Actividades Reguladas Por La Ley General De Salud", Bruno L. Costantini García

Bruno L. Costantini García

Introducción a las generalidades de la regulación en materia de publicidad de insumos para el consumo humano (salud) en México.

Oportunidades De Desarrollo Productivo De La Población De Afectación Prioritaria En La Operación Estratégica Fontibón – Aeropuerto Eldorado – Engativá, Iván A. Rojas V

Iván Rojas V

The book analyzes the case of Operation Strategic Fontibón - Eldorado Airport - Engativa (OEFAE) and the implications on the urban economy of the city and potential opportunities for productive development for the population affected by the project in 2010 in Bogotá DC. El libro analiza el caso de la Operación Estrategica Fontibón - Aeropuerto ElDorado - Engativa (OEFAE) y las implicaciones sobre la economía urbana de la ciudad y las posibles oportunidades de desarrollo productivo para la población afectada por el proyecto en el 2010 en la ciudad de Bogotá DC.

Patent Reversion: An Employee-Inventor's Second Bite At The Apple, Richard Kamprath

Richard Kamprath

In an attempt to more fully compensate employee-inventors without harming the return on investment of employers, a patent reversion is proposed in which the rights to the patent revert to joint ownership between the original inventor and the current owner. In Section I, the background of the relationship between employer and employee-inventor will be discussed in terms of patent rights. This section will outline the problems inherent in the pre-assignment status quo of these rights from employees to employers. Section II will begin with Part A, which is a review of previously proposed solutions to the under-compensation of employee-inventors. The …

Cultura De La Legalidad. La Participación Ciudadana En La Transparencia, Norma E. Pimentel

Norma E Pimentel

No abstract provided.

Trade Dress Rights As Instruments Of Monopolistic Competition: Towards A Rejuvenation Of The Misappropriation Doctrine In Unfair Competition Law And A Property Theory Of Trademarks, Apostolos Chronopoulos

Apostolos Chronopoulos

The protection of trade dress restricts the ability of competitors to compete by imitation. It may also interfere with the public’s ability to copy product features that have been disclosed in expired utility and design patents. These concerns about the anticompetitive potential of trade dress claims have prompted the Supreme Court to tighten the requirements for protecting product configurations under the Lanham Act. To be protectable, the design under consideration should have already acquired secondary meaning. Furthermore, the functionality doctrine may bar protection even though there are enough alternative product configurations at the disposal of competitors so as to market …

El Derecho Y La Economia De La Colaboracion Eficaz En El Derecho De La Competencia, Gustavo M. Rodríguez García

Gustavo M. Rodríguez García

No abstract provided.

Mal Diagnóstico: Las Contraindicaciones De La Prohibición De Publicidad De Productos Farmacéuticos, Gustavo M. Rodríguez García

Gustavo M. Rodríguez García

No abstract provided.