This paper discusses notable intellectual property law caselaw in the United States in 2013. The Supreme Court decided four patent cases, holding that isolated human DNA is not patentable; that lawsuits alleging legal malpractice in patent cases are to be litigated in state, not federal, court;...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) embodying capital and technology or some intangible advantage is the act of establishing or acquiring a foreign subsidiary over which the investing company has extensive management control. The empirical results show the influence of patents, copyright, trademarks...

Introduction -- Framing the boundaries of the glocal space in the international intellectual property system -- The glocal space in International Copyright Law -- The glocal space In International Patent Law -- The glocal space in International Trademark Law -- The glocal space in International...

In Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. Justice Scalia colorfully warned against resort to trademarks law to achieve protections unattainable by copyright, lest these claims generate quot;a species of mutant copyright law that limits the public's 'federal right to quot;copy and to...

This paper makes a detailed analysis on how parody affects the fashion industry. In addition, the scope of this paper is to advocate the need for a better balance between parody and fashion, which can be arranged by affixing the Trade Mark Dilution Revision Act. This paper starts by making a...

In intellectual property law, “exhaustion” refers to the extinction of the entitlement to prevent the further sale of a product once the product has been put on the market. Developing such a limitation becomes necessary in order to reconcile the exclusivity granted under intellectual...

We examine the interrelationships between firms' efforts to leverage different types of intellectual property (IP) rights. While prior research has tended to view different forms of intellectual property as substitutes, we argue that they can also be viewed as complements. We motivate this...