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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 …
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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 …
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In 2013, in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, the Supreme Court wrote another chapter in the ongoing story of copyright exhaustion. This decision is part of a series of recent decisions in high-profile cases and a vibrant discourse, domestically and internationally, regarding the scope of...
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Ideas are at the center of all of our inventive, creative, and commercial activities. Defining the contours of the law of ideas, however, has often proved to be an elusive endeavor. It is a body of law that exists just outside of the domain of traditional intellectual property law, yet it lies...
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The assertion that a 'license' is simply a 'contract not to sue' has become a commonplace in both copyright and patent …
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This pair of papers involves a reprinting of "Of Harms and Benefits: Torts, Restitution, and Intellectual Property," 21 J. LEGAL STUDIES 449 (1992), along with an introduction to that article for students, entitled "Copyright as Tort's Mirror Image". Both involve comparisons between statutory...
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Illegal downloading of copyright materials by end-users had its heyday in the early 2000s, with music, television, and film studios desperately searching for a way to curb the tide of sharing. This chapter uses the example of Capitol Records v Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the first file-sharing case to...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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