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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Open Video at NYLS and Smart Phones at Whittier

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Two more conference announcements: on Sept. 10-12, New York Law School is hosting the Open Video Conference , and on Nov. 4, Whittier Law Sc...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Sean Seymore on "Null Patents"

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In The Null Patent , Sean Seymore (Vanderbilt Law and Chemistry) makes the creative proposal that the patent system could help solve the pr...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

More Upcoming IP Conferences

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Some IP conferences and seminars in the 2011-12 academic year, as reported by Madisonian :
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Jacob Rooksby on University Patent Litigation

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Although one might expect universities to seldom initiate patent litigation, Jacob Rooksby reports that they filed over 50 patent cases in ...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

Top 10 New IP Paper Downloads

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What are the most downloaded IP papers that were posted on SSRN in the past 60 days ? Aside from Bessen's article, the list is entirely ...
Friday, August 19, 2011

Anna Laakmann: Pragmatic Patent Adjudication

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Could the Federal Circuit fix the empirical stalemate in patent law by moving toward a more candid, pragmatic, and information-eliciting app...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Antitrust IP Conference at Stanford - Oct. 6

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"Should Google be considered a dangerous monopoly, or is competition just 'a click away'? . . . How will antitrust and IP rules...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

IPSC Today and Tomorrow

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I'm in Chicago for the annual IP Scholars Conference (IPSC) today and tomorrow. This year the conference is at DePaul, and the schedule ...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

What Experience Is Necessary To Write Good Patent Scholarship?

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Between taking the patent-law-less bar exam and moving, I haven't had much time for reading scholarship in the past few weeks, so I am ...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Non-Faculty IPSC Presenters

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The annual IP Scholars Conference is at DePaul this August, and the abstracts of accepted papers have been posted. According to the latest...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Jacob Sherkow: Negativing Invention

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Does nonobviousness favor "flash of genius" inventions over laborious ones, despite Congress's explicit declaration that ...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Top 10 New IP Paper Downloads

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What are the most downloaded IP papers that were posted on SSRN in the past 60 days ? There are five new papers on the list since I posted i...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Why Isn't IP on the Bar Exam?

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I'm studying for the NY bar this summer, which means I spend every morning as a BARBRI girl , watching helpful reviews of things like th...
Sunday, July 3, 2011

Katherine Strandburg: Patent Fair Use 2.0

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In 2000, Dean Maureen O'Rourke (BU Law) published Toward a Doctrine of Patent Fair Use  in the Columbia Law Review , in which she argue...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Adam Mossoff on Patent History and Commercialization

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Historical sources can help in "rediscovering the fundamental commercialization policy within patent law," argues Professor Adam M...