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On Copyright And Scientific Theory, Thomas M. Byron Sep 2017

On Copyright And Scientific Theory, Thomas M. Byron

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

On Copyright and Scientific Theory


The Defend Trade Secrets Act Isn't An "Intellectual Property" Law, Eric Goldman Apr 2017

The Defend Trade Secrets Act Isn't An "Intellectual Property" Law, Eric Goldman

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

The Defend Trade Secrets Act isn't an "Intellectual Property" Law


Threatened Misappropriation Of Trade Secrets: Making A Federal (Dtsa) Case Out Of It, David Bohrer Apr 2017

Threatened Misappropriation Of Trade Secrets: Making A Federal (Dtsa) Case Out Of It, David Bohrer

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Threatened Misappropriation of Trade Secrets: Making a Federal (DTSA) Case out of it


Identifying The Trade Secrets At Issue In Litigation Under The Uniform Trade Secrets Act And The Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, Richard F. Dole, Jr. Apr 2017

Identifying The Trade Secrets At Issue In Litigation Under The Uniform Trade Secrets Act And The Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, Richard F. Dole, Jr.

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Identifying the Trade Secrets at Issue in Litigation Under the Uniform Trade Secrets Act and the Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act


Debating Employee Non-Competes And Trade Secrets, Sharon K. Sandeen, Elizabeth A. Rowe Apr 2017

Debating Employee Non-Competes And Trade Secrets, Sharon K. Sandeen, Elizabeth A. Rowe

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Debating Employee Non-Competes and Trade Secrets


Open-Source Licensing And Business Models: Making Money By Giving It Away, Andrew J. Hall Feb 2017

Open-Source Licensing And Business Models: Making Money By Giving It Away, Andrew J. Hall

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Open-Source Licensing and Business Models: Making Money by Giving it Away


The New Foundations Of Open Source, Heather Meeker, Stephanie Petit Feb 2017

The New Foundations Of Open Source, Heather Meeker, Stephanie Petit

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

The New Foundations of Open Source


Software As Text, John Shaeffer Feb 2017

Software As Text, John Shaeffer

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Software as Text


Drones And Privacy In The Golden State, Brandon Gonzalez Jan 2017

Drones And Privacy In The Golden State, Brandon Gonzalez

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Drones and Privacy in the Golden State


Managing Cyberthreat, Lawrence J. Trautman Jan 2017

Managing Cyberthreat, Lawrence J. Trautman

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Managing Cyberthreat


"Through A Glass, Darkly" Technical, Policy, And Financial Actions To Avert The Coming Digital Dark Ages, Richard S. Whitt Jan 2017

"Through A Glass, Darkly" Technical, Policy, And Financial Actions To Avert The Coming Digital Dark Ages, Richard S. Whitt

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

"Through A Glass, Darkly" Technical, Policy, and Financial Actions to Avert the Coming Digital Dark Ages


Reach Out And Touch Someone: Reflections On The 25th Anniversary Of Feist Publications, Inc. V. Rural Telephone Service Co., Tyler T. Ochoa, Craig Joyce Jan 2017

Reach Out And Touch Someone: Reflections On The 25th Anniversary Of Feist Publications, Inc. V. Rural Telephone Service Co., Tyler T. Ochoa, Craig Joyce

Faculty Publications

2016 marks the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s opinion in Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., one of the Court’s landmark opinions in copyright law, and one that continues to define the standard of originality for copyrighted works in general and compilations of data in particular. The Feist case, however, was an unlikely candidate for landmark status. Only a handful of court opinions and academic authors had expressed dissatisfaction with the existing state of the law concerning originality and data compilations.scure sources which have enhanced greatly the pages that follow. Further, the Tenth Circuit’s opinion in Feist …


The Market For Software Innovation Through The Lens Of Patent Licenses And Sales, Colleen V. Chien Jan 2017

The Market For Software Innovation Through The Lens Of Patent Licenses And Sales, Colleen V. Chien

Faculty Publications

Software innovation is transforming the US economy. Yet our understanding of how patents and patent transactions support this innovation is limited, in part because of a lack of public information about patent licenses and sales. Claims about the patent marketplace, for example, extolling the virtues of intermediaries like non-practicing entities, or questioning the social utility of ex post patent licenses, tend not to be grounded in empirical evidence. This article brings much-needed data to the policy debate by analyzing transactional data from several proprietary databases of patent licenses and transfers, and reporting several novel findings. First I find that, despite …


What Is A "Useful Article" In Copyright Law After Star Athletica?, Tyler T. Ochoa Jan 2017

What Is A "Useful Article" In Copyright Law After Star Athletica?, Tyler T. Ochoa

Faculty Publications

In Star Athletica, LLC v, Varsity Brands, Inc., the Supreme Court decided the appropriate test to determine when a feature of a useful article is protectable under §101 of the Copyright Act. However, there is an antecedent question that must be answered first before the Supreme Court's two part test in Star Athetica may be invoked.


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 …


"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 …


Direct Digital Engagement Of Patients And Democratizing Health Care, Dov Greenbaum Dec 2015

Direct Digital Engagement Of Patients And Democratizing Health Care, Dov Greenbaum

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Direct Digital Engagement of Patients and Democratizing Health Care


Design Patent Evolution: From Obscurity To Center Stage, Andrew Beckerman-Rodau Dec 2015

Design Patent Evolution: From Obscurity To Center Stage, Andrew Beckerman-Rodau

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Design Patient Evolution: From Obscurity to Center Stage


Only A Pawn In The Game: Rethinking Induced Patent Infringement, W. Keith Robinson Dec 2015

Only A Pawn In The Game: Rethinking Induced Patent Infringement, W. Keith Robinson

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Only a Pawn in the Game: Rethinking Induced Patent Infringement


Two Models Of Unpatentable Subject Matter, Alan L. Durham Jan 2015

Two Models Of Unpatentable Subject Matter, Alan L. Durham

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

Patentable subject matter has become one of the most controversial areas of patent law. Efforts to articulate a lucid and productive theory of patentable subject matter must acknowledge that there are two competing models of unpatentable subject matter. One posits that natural laws, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas are themselves ineligible for patenting, and that each example of a natural law, natural phenomenon, or abstract idea further defines a class of inventions that cannot be patented because they lack an additional element of ingenuity—or “inventive concept”—that sufficiently distinguishes those inventions from their natural counterparts. This “penumbral” model of unpatentable subject …