In this essay, five business law professors with specialties in five different doctrinal areas analyze Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s jurisprudence in those areas and consider the implications of her appointment to the Supreme Court. Each of the areas, intellectual property, antitrust, securities,...

This article critiques the Federal Circuit’s en banc decision in Therasense, Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co. on the issue of inequitable conduct in light of its origins in equity and unclean hands. It finds that the Therasense majority renounced the doctrine's heritage and reinvented the...

A trademark's or trade dress' commercial impression is the meaning or idea it conveys to consumers. Courts and administrative tribunals sometimes are confronted with deciding whether a mark or dress generates a continuing commercial impression. In some instances, this arises in regard to...

Project 1 . The intent of this study is to measure the factors effecting productivity and develop a multiple linear regression, which produces the relative importance of each factor. Results indicated that annual sales and the ratio of machine to staff had positive and significant impacts on...

Measuring and comparing the levels of household welfare and poverty in a country require cost-of-living differences across regions to be properly adjusted. In measuring the spatial cost of living, the recent literature underscores the importance of detailed product quality information in the...

Measuring and comparing the levels of household welfare and poverty in a country require cost-of-living differences across regions to be properly adjusted. In measuring the spatial cost of living, the recent literature underscores the importance of detailed product quality information in the...