Antitrust, Innovation, and Uncertain Property Rights: Some Practical Considerations [PDF]
The intersection of antitrust and intellectual property circumscribes two century-long debates. The first pertains to questions about how antitrust law and intellectual property law interact, and the second pertains to questions about how parties can ...
Williamson, Dean V.
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A study of patent thickets [PDF]
Report analysing whether entry of UK enterprises into patenting in a technology area is affected by patent thickets in the technology ...
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Liberty and Property in the Patent Law [PDF]
Patents have seldom troubled civil libertarians. A specialized form of property, patents seemed pertinent to the technologies of traditional industry but little else.
Thomas, John R.
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Extraterritorial Intellectual Property Enforcement in the European Union
This paper was prepared for the 2011 ABILA International Law Weekend – West volume of the Southwestern Journal of International Law. It addresses extraterritorial enforcement of intellectual property rights in the European Union.
Trimble, Marketa
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UK Patent Law and Copyright Law After Brexit - Potential Consequences [PDF]
This paper examines the areas of patent law and copyright law in the context of Britain’s exit from the European Union, or “Brexit.” Although neither area of intellectual property (IP) is fully harmonized, the United Kingdom’s exit from the European ...
McDonagh, L.
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Notes Procedural Fencing in Retiree Benefits Disputes: Applications of the First-Filed Rule in Federal Courts [PDF]
Basil Chapman retired from ACF Industries, a railroad-car maker, after thirty-eight years of service. In December 2003, he received an unexpected phone call at his West Virginia home from a union representative, who informed him that an ACF executive ...
Vanneman, Julie
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Patenting Living Matter in the European Community: Diriment of the Draft Directive [PDF]
This article attempts to disentangle the mire of European patent authority and provide some picture of how the ultimate resolution of the proposed EC Directive will appear. Part I contains introductory and background materials on the biotech industry and
Nugent, Daniel, Scalise, David G.
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Challenges of the New Economy: Issues at the Intersection of Antitrust and Intellectual Property [PDF]
There is wide agreement that the last decade or so has presented an unusually lively and challenging period for antitrust analysis. Among many reasons we can point to are deregulation and problems of transition to a free market (telecommunications and ...
Pitofsky, Robert
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Recalibrating Patent Venue [PDF]
For most of patent law’s 200-plus year history, patent holders could sue only in the district inhabited by the defendant. In 1990, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided that the scope of permissible venue extended to all ...
Chien, Colleen V., Risch, Michael
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Hastening Harmonization in European Union Patent Law Through a Preliminary Reference Power [PDF]
The European Union has struggled for decades to establish a streamlined method of uniform patent protection. Its current solution involves both a European Patent of Unitary Effect and the implementation of the Unified Patent Court to adjudicate patent ...
Yarsky, Joseph Kenneth
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