Less than a handful of casebooks are truly open source, in the sense of being fully modifiable. Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook is the first patent law casebook that provides adopting professors, students, and others the ability to fully modify its contents. This file comprises the casebook...

In Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., the United States Supreme Court purports to import patent law inducement doctrine into copyright law. The Court's decision emphasizes particularly stark evidence that it finds would support liability for active inducement. However, close...

The major bone of contention between the developed and developing countries in the TRIPS negotiations was patents for pharmaceuticals. The US-led developed countries bloc argued in favour of patents for pharmaceuticals amidst opposition from Brazil, India and other countries. Ample evidence,...

This paper estimates the link between Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) and the host country's patent rights protection (PRP) in 1985-2004. Regressions performed on variously aggregated data identify a positive and significant link, which concentrates in countries with a high innovative...

Rimage was an on-demand digital publishing company based in Minnesota, USA. Since 1992, Rimage had been internationalizing its business in Europe, Scandinavia, Africa, Middle East, and Russia. By 2004, its products had penetrated Japanese market. Encouraged by its success in Japan, Rimage...

An observer has noted: “the successful patenting of tax strategies now limits Congress' ability to shape economic policy through legislation and places that power in the hand of individual patent holders.” It is unlikely that Congress could have intended such a possible result; and, it is...

We examine the relationship between fragmented intellectual property (IP) rights and the innovative performance of firms, taking into consideration the role played by in-licensing of IP. We find that firms facing more fragmented IP landscapes have a higher probability of in-licensing. We observe...

Only to a limited extent have U.S. legislators recognized the moral and ethical implications of the patentability of controversial technologies. I find this absence of legislative debate curious for several reasons, including the fact that for decades there has been an intense public debate over...