It is an exciting time to be involved in the development of improved industrial design protection. Perhaps one of the most important events is the European Community (“BC”) work on a design protection system (“Community Designn”). Hugh Griffiths' conference paper gives an excellent...

The recent US. enactment of the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act is another step in the trend for improved industrial design protection of products when they are first introduced into the market ("market entry protection"). The goal has been relatively prompt enforcement of a right occurring at...

Even relevant, highly reliable evidence may not be the proper subject of either discovery or proof, because it is protected by a privilege. Some privileges have been recognized by the federal courts as being constitutionally mandated. Some, such as the tax practitioner privilege of I.R.C. §...

This short paper was prepared as a handout for a presentation given for the National Conference of Law Reviews, Baltimore, MD, March 22, 2001. It discusses copyright law from the perspective of law professors and other authors who plan to submit, or have submitted articles to law reviews, and...

Misconduct in civil litigation is not a new phenomenon. Nor is it confined to particular types of cases. Because of their characteristic intensity. however, intellectual property cases may be more likely to inspire bad behavior than other types of cases. The associated pressures seem, on...

We evaluate the four-day work week against the background of other institutional and social practices and constraints. But we fix these other variables when considering the value of this work reform. For example, workers enjoy the commute time and expense savings associated with a four-day week....

This article suggests the policy and social justifications against dead hand control far outweigh transfer tax advantages provided to wealthy settlors and the potential revenue expected to be generated by the abolishment legislation. The abolishment legislation may be readily adopted by other...

Under Maryland case law, a plaintiff in an estate planning malpractice action must be in strict privity with the attorney who drafted the will. To date, Maryland has not extended the third-party beneficiary exception to the estate planning arena. Legatees specifically identified in a will by...

This article examines a worldwide shift in laws, policies, and practices pertaining to intermediaries’ role in online copyright enforcement. We use a comparative methodology to expose an emerging trend in jurisdictions, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, the European Union, France,...