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How To Make Money Being A Not-For-Profit, 51 J. Marshall L. Rev. 529 (2018), Ronald Domsky Jan 2018

How To Make Money Being A Not-For-Profit, 51 J. Marshall L. Rev. 529 (2018), Ronald Domsky

UIC Law Review

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A Decent Proposal: How Animal Welfare Organizations Have Utilized Shareholder Proposals To Achieve Greater Protection For Animals,47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 795 (2013), Summer Hallaj Jan 2013

A Decent Proposal: How Animal Welfare Organizations Have Utilized Shareholder Proposals To Achieve Greater Protection For Animals,47 J. Marshall L. Rev. 795 (2013), Summer Hallaj

UIC Law Review

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University Initiation Of Patent Infringement Litigation, 10 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 623 (2011), Jacob H. Rooksby Jan 2011

University Initiation Of Patent Infringement Litigation, 10 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 623 (2011), Jacob H. Rooksby

UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law

While the literature examining university engagement in patenting and technology transfer is quite developed, commentators largely have overlooked university involvement in patent litigation. This article focuses on one aspect of that involvement—initiation of patent infringement litigation—by providing a quantitative and textual analysis of patent infringement actions initiated by universities from 2009 through 2010. Suing for-profit actors for money may seem antithetical to the mission of not-for-profit universities, but in fact universities filed over fifty such cases in the studied time period. Examination of these cases reveals a remarkable similarity between the litigation behavior of universities and for-profit actors, as well …


Angling For A Fair Standard: A Recommendation For A Narrowly Tailored Non-Profit Exemption To The Closed Captioning Requirements, 25 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 165 (2007), Joshua Pila Jan 2007

Angling For A Fair Standard: A Recommendation For A Narrowly Tailored Non-Profit Exemption To The Closed Captioning Requirements, 25 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 165 (2007), Joshua Pila

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

In late 2006, the FCC’s Consumer and Government Affairs Bureau (“CGB”) issued the Anglers Order, providing a wholesale exemption for non-profit entities seeking to avoid the strictures of the Commission’s closed captioning rules. Disability advocates quickly criticized the Anglers Order on administrative law and communications law grounds. This paper avoids administrative law and communications law issues, but instead criticizes the Anglers Order on non-profit law and policy grounds. The paper then recommends and supports a post-application, narrowly-tailored financial test, automatically exempting A) non-profit organizations, with B) less than $25,000 in annual revenue, who C) receive no financial compensation for airing …


University Technology Transfer And Economic Development: Proposed Cooperative Economic Development Agreements Under The Bayh-Dole Act, 36 J. Marshall L. Rev. 397 (2003), Clovia Hamilton Jan 2003

University Technology Transfer And Economic Development: Proposed Cooperative Economic Development Agreements Under The Bayh-Dole Act, 36 J. Marshall L. Rev. 397 (2003), Clovia Hamilton

UIC Law Review

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The Public-Spirited Defendant And Others: Liability Of Directors And Officers Of Not-For-Profit Corporations, 17 J. Marshall L. Rev. 665 (1984), Bennet B. Harvey Jr. Jan 1984

The Public-Spirited Defendant And Others: Liability Of Directors And Officers Of Not-For-Profit Corporations, 17 J. Marshall L. Rev. 665 (1984), Bennet B. Harvey Jr.

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.