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The Well-Pleaded Complaint Rule And Jurisdiction Over Patent Law Counterclaims: An Empirical Assessment Of Holmes Group And Proposals For Improvement, Jiwen Chen Jan 2009

The Well-Pleaded Complaint Rule And Jurisdiction Over Patent Law Counterclaims: An Empirical Assessment Of Holmes Group And Proposals For Improvement, Jiwen Chen

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Egyptian Goddess V. Swisa: What Is The 'Point'?, A.C. Dike Jan 2009

Egyptian Goddess V. Swisa: What Is The 'Point'?, A.C. Dike

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


A Discussion On The Patentability Of Signals: Examining In Re Nuijten, Damien Howard Jan 2009

A Discussion On The Patentability Of Signals: Examining In Re Nuijten, Damien Howard

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Technology And Intellectual Property: New Rules For An Old Game?, Elizabeth A. Rowe Jan 2009

Technology And Intellectual Property: New Rules For An Old Game?, Elizabeth A. Rowe

UF Law Faculty Publications

This foreword to the first issue of 2009 for the Journal of Technology Law and Policy discusses the questions presented by the merger of technology and intellectual property and considers how best the two areas should co-exist.


Contributory Negligence, Technology, And Trade Secrets, Elizabeth A. Rowe Jan 2009

Contributory Negligence, Technology, And Trade Secrets, Elizabeth A. Rowe

UF Law Faculty Publications

In tort law, the doctrine of contributory negligence captures conduct by the plaintiff that falls below the standard to which he should conform for his own protection. Whether one has been contributorily negligent is determined by an objective standard of reasonableness under the circumstances. This Article, for the first time, applies contributory negligence principles to trade secret law. It draws upon this doctrine to frame and analyze a challenge posed by modem technology. The very technological tools in use today that increase the efficiency with which companies do business also create challenges for trade secret protection. What might have been …


The Observer And The Observed: Re-Imagining Privacy Dichotomies In Information Privacy Law, Marcy Peek Jan 2009

The Observer And The Observed: Re-Imagining Privacy Dichotomies In Information Privacy Law, Marcy Peek

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Copyright And Copy-Reliant Technology, Matthew Sag Jan 2009

Copyright And Copy-Reliant Technology, Matthew Sag

Faculty Articles

Part I of this Article introduces the phenomenon of copy-reliant tech­nology by focusing on four significant case studies. The first case study, Field v. Google Inc., centers on the permissibility of automated archiving in the context of text-based search engines. The second case study, Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., centers on the creation and display of thumb­nail representations of copyrighted photographs by image-based search en­gines. The conduct challenged in the third case study, the Google Book Project, relates both to the generation of metadata and to the display of fragments of books as part of a menu …


The Componentization Of Information, Kristen Osenga Jan 2009

The Componentization Of Information, Kristen Osenga

Law Faculty Publications

Information is ‘the oxygen of the modern age’. Despite its importance, or perhaps because of it, conventional wisdom has long been of the view that information wants to, or even needs to, be free. This idea has been extended to encompass not just raw data, but also information products such as databases and software. These products – products whose primary value lies in organizing, providing context, and distributing information content – have often been the subject of debate over whether and to what extent these works should be protected. The tension between information being free and information products being protected …


Sequential Innovation, Patents, And Imitation, James Bessen, Eric Maskin Jan 2009

Sequential Innovation, Patents, And Imitation, James Bessen, Eric Maskin

Faculty Scholarship

How could such industries as software, semiconductors, and computers have been so innovative despite historically weak patent protection? We argue that if innovation is both sequential and complementary--as it certainly has been in those industries--competition can increase firms' future profits thus offsetting short-term dissipation of rents. A simple model also shows that in such a dynamic industry, patent protection may reduce overall innovation and social welfare. The natural experiment that occurred when patent protection was extended to software in the 1980?s provides a test of this model. Standard arguments would predict that R&D intensity and productivity should have increased among …


A Discourse On The Public Nature Of Research In Contemporary Life Science: A Law-Policy Proposal To Promote The Public Nature Of Science In An Era Of Academia-Industry Integration, Michael J. Malinowski Jan 2009

A Discourse On The Public Nature Of Research In Contemporary Life Science: A Law-Policy Proposal To Promote The Public Nature Of Science In An Era Of Academia-Industry Integration, Michael J. Malinowski

Journal Articles

This article addresses the impact of integration of academia, industry, and government on the public nature of research. The article concludes that, while the integration has benefited science immensely, regulatory measures should be taken to restore the public nature of research in an age of integration.


Working Toward Spontaneous Copyright Licensing: A Simple Solution For A Complex Problem, Tanya M. Woods Jan 2009

Working Toward Spontaneous Copyright Licensing: A Simple Solution For A Complex Problem, Tanya M. Woods

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

As the web evolves, so too are discussions on how to manage the rights of copyright owners online. Finding a solution that is balanced and that accounts for the international nature of the Internet is essential. While many have attempted to craft such a solution, a model that accommodates the spontaneity of copyright content users and that recognizes the multi-territorial nature of the Internet has yet to materialize. For this reason, this Article formulates a macro-level conceptual approach to building a practical copyright licensing model that could generate spontaneous digital copyright licenses to accommodate the creative impulses of web users …


Acquiring Innovation, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey A. Maine Apr 2008

Acquiring Innovation, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey A. Maine

American University Law Review

In recent years, the innovation market has witnessed a new business model involving companies that are mere patent holding shells and not operating entities. They have no customers or products to offer, but they do have an aggressive tactic of using patent portfolios to threaten other operating companies with potential infringement litigation. The strategy is executed with the end goal of extracting handsome settlements. Acquisitions of patents for offensive use have become a major concern to operating companies because such acquisitions pose the threats of patent injunction, interrupting the business and crippling further innovation. While many operating companies today know …


Strangers In A Strange Land: Specialized Courts Resolving Patent Disputes, Lawrence M. Sung Mar 2008

Strangers In A Strange Land: Specialized Courts Resolving Patent Disputes, Lawrence M. Sung

Faculty Scholarship

As the number of cases and disputes involving proprietary technology subject to intellectual property rights has increased in recent years, a decades-old view that such matters should be adjudicated exclusively by specialized courts and judges has experienced a renaissance. This call for specialized, or problem-solving, courts at both the federal and state levels is not unique to the intellectual property field, however. Indeed, there has been a significant movement over the past several years to establish specialized drug courts, community courts, mental health courts, and domestic violence courts. One common element among these efforts is the idea that specialized courts …


Meddimmune, Microsoft, And Ksr: The United States Supreme Court In 2007 Tips The Balance In Favor Of Innovation In Patent Cases, And Thrice Reverses The Federal Circuit, Sue Ann Mota Jan 2008

Meddimmune, Microsoft, And Ksr: The United States Supreme Court In 2007 Tips The Balance In Favor Of Innovation In Patent Cases, And Thrice Reverses The Federal Circuit, Sue Ann Mota

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review

In 2007 the Supreme Court reversed three patent cases from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The three cases were MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc. (holding a patent licensee does not have to breach a license agreement before seeking declaratory judgment that the underlying patent is invalid, unenforceable, or not infringed), Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp. (holding Microsoft did not supply a component of an invention from the United States that had the possibility of infringing under the Patent Act), and KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc. (holding the requirement of non-obviousness under the Patent Act is analyzed …


The Enablement Pendulum Swings Back, Sean B. Seymore Jan 2008

The Enablement Pendulum Swings Back, Sean B. Seymore

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Ip Litigation In The 21st Century, Michael H. Baniak, Daniel A. Boehnen, Jeanne Gills, Binal J. Patel Jan 2008

Ip Litigation In The 21st Century, Michael H. Baniak, Daniel A. Boehnen, Jeanne Gills, Binal J. Patel

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


The Pendulum Swings Back: The Impact Of Recent Scotus And Federal Circuit Cases, Troy A. Groetken, Timothy R. Holbrook, Sean Seymore, Donald L. Zuhn, Jr. Jan 2008

The Pendulum Swings Back: The Impact Of Recent Scotus And Federal Circuit Cases, Troy A. Groetken, Timothy R. Holbrook, Sean Seymore, Donald L. Zuhn, Jr.

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Famous For Fifteen Minutes: Ip And Internet Social Networking, Patricia S. Abril, Jonathan Darrow, Peter Ludlow, J. Michael Monahan Jan 2008

Famous For Fifteen Minutes: Ip And Internet Social Networking, Patricia S. Abril, Jonathan Darrow, Peter Ludlow, J. Michael Monahan

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Enablement Issues Concerning Aggressively Broad Generic Claims, J. Benjamin Bai Jan 2008

Enablement Issues Concerning Aggressively Broad Generic Claims, J. Benjamin Bai

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Open Source, Open Access, And Open Transfer: Market Approaches To Research Bottlenecks, Robin Feldman, Kris Nelson Jan 2008

Open Source, Open Access, And Open Transfer: Market Approaches To Research Bottlenecks, Robin Feldman, Kris Nelson

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Meh. The Irrelevance Of Copyright In The Public Mind, Brett Lunceford, Shane Lunceford Jan 2008

Meh. The Irrelevance Of Copyright In The Public Mind, Brett Lunceford, Shane Lunceford

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Should Only Technical Inventions Be Patentable, Following The European Example?, Reinier B. Bakels Jan 2008

Should Only Technical Inventions Be Patentable, Following The European Example?, Reinier B. Bakels

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Open Legislation Development, Jacob Ewerdt Jan 2008

Open Legislation Development, Jacob Ewerdt

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Legal Turbulence After : New Possibilities For Patent Licensing At Research Institutions, Jonathan Hillel Jan 2008

Legal Turbulence After : New Possibilities For Patent Licensing At Research Institutions, Jonathan Hillel

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Regulating Virtual Realms Optimally: The Model End User License Agreement, Jason T. Kunze Jan 2008

Regulating Virtual Realms Optimally: The Model End User License Agreement, Jason T. Kunze

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Ethical Considerations For Attorneys Responding To A Data-Security Breach, Robert J. Scott, Julie Machal-Fulks Jan 2008

Ethical Considerations For Attorneys Responding To A Data-Security Breach, Robert J. Scott, Julie Machal-Fulks

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

Attorneys increasingly are confronting the significant ethical issues raised when a data-security breach occurs. Many traps exist for the unwary in this evolving area of the law, especially in light of concerns regarding e-discovery and a lack of judicial interpretation of applicable statutes. This article provides a legal framework in this area of the law and explores ethical considerations arising when an attorney represents a client who has suffered a data-security breach.


Questioning The Justifiability Of Innovation Protection In Antimicrobial Drugs: A Law And Economics Perspective, Ankur Sood, Vardaan Ahluwalia Jan 2008

Questioning The Justifiability Of Innovation Protection In Antimicrobial Drugs: A Law And Economics Perspective, Ankur Sood, Vardaan Ahluwalia

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Ksr International Co. V. Teleflex Inc.: Patentability Clarity Or Confusion?, Stephen J. Schanz Jan 2008

Ksr International Co. V. Teleflex Inc.: Patentability Clarity Or Confusion?, Stephen J. Schanz

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Raising The Dead: How The Ninth Circuit Avoided The Supreme Court's Guidelines Concerning Aesthetic Functionality And Still Got Away With It In Au-Tomotive Gold, Yevgeniy Markov Jan 2008

Raising The Dead: How The Ninth Circuit Avoided The Supreme Court's Guidelines Concerning Aesthetic Functionality And Still Got Away With It In Au-Tomotive Gold, Yevgeniy Markov

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.


Statistical Analysis Of The United States’ Accession To The Madrid Protocol, Ash Nagdev Jan 2008

Statistical Analysis Of The United States’ Accession To The Madrid Protocol, Ash Nagdev

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.