Corporate officer liability doctrines under both the Patent Act and the Copyright Act diverge markedly from traditional … articulations of individual officer liability found in both patent and copyright law can be attributed to two factors: (1) the … (2) judicial reluctance to apply the strict liability standard of patent and copyright law to individuals as opposed to …

creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … protection and other means of addressing the economic problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and …

patent law where policymakers have expanded protection without concomitantly evaluating the impact of that move on follow … failures are becoming endemic. Dean O'Rourke argues that to ensure that patent law achieves its constitutional goals, it shuld … defense that, while modeled on copyright doctrine, accounts for and protects patent law's particular incentive scheme …

Since the Federal Circuit’s 2007 In re Bilski decision and the Supreme Court’s 2008 Bilski v. Kappos decision, patent … law’s subject-matter eligibility standard under 35 U.S.C. § 101 has been uncertain. This paper posits patent law's patent …. Somewhat analogous to copyright law, it also presents a Downward Patent-Eligibility Hand Abstractions Test from an alleged …

intellectual property coalitions that fought these battles have splintered with copyright and patent holders pursuing initiatives … cohesiveness of their coalition. Patent interests groups, which are splintered, have struggled to obtain comparatively modest … patent law reforms. However, with the failed push to implement ACTA and the success of the patent sector in getting the AIA …

The assertion that a 'license' is simply a 'contract not to sue' has become a commonplace in both copyright and patent …

covered. The first is legal liability for harm. Here we discuss liability rules as incentives to reduce risk, issues of risk …-bearing and insurance, and the costs of the liability system. Second, we consider property law, where we address the nature and …