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Patent Law Textbooks: A Micro-Symposium

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This Friday, November 5, the Iowa Innovation, Business & Law Center will be hosting a first-of-its-kind event (to the best of my knowledge at least): a panel discussion by patent law casebook authors about what makes their textbooks tick. Thomas, Cases and Materials on Patent Law (West Academic 2019).

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Patent Law Canons and Canards: Bonito Boats

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For our patent law course today, the students read the Justice O’Connor unanimous opinion in Bonito Boats, Inc. The Florida courts had refused to enforce the law because it conflicted with Federal Patent Law. The Florida courts had refused to enforce the law because it conflicted with Federal Patent Law.

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Patent Poetry: Understanding the Idea/Expression Dichotomy in Copyright Law

JD Supra Law

Clients sometimes ask intellectual property (IP) lawyers how they can patent or copyright their ideas and make money off them. Neither patent law nor copyright law protects ideas per se. By: AEON Law The short answer is: you probably can’t.

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Supreme Court Patent Law Outlook 2022

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Goldsmith , reviewing a Second Circuit copyright decision on the issue of transformative fair use. Still, there are a number of important pending petitions that could also be transformative in the patent law construct, including four cases with outstanding calls for the views of the Solicitor General (CVSG).

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Copyright as an Access Right: Concretizing Positive Obligations for Rightholders to Ensure the Exercise of User Rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The purpose of copyright, at its very basic level, finds its normative implementation in the interplay between access to protected works and the protection of the moral and material interest of creators (see Geiger, 2017 ). From this constitutional dimension of copyright emerged the notion of ‘user rights’ ( Geiger, 2020 ).

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Beyond the Limit: The Battle Over Copyright Back-Damages in Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy

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By Dennis Crouch and Timothy Knight* The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on February 21 in an important copyright case – Warner Chappell Music v. ” Copyright’s statute of limitations bars claims not “commenced within three years after the claim accrued.” ” 17 U.S.C. § See 38 U.S.

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Is Machine-Made Art Copyrightable?

The IP Law Blog

The United States Copyright Office has refused to register a copyright for a work of art created by a machine. The work was created by a machine called “Creativity Machine” and was submitted for copyright registration in 2018 by Steven Thaler. Copyright Office Practices , §602.4(c)

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