by admin | Jan 4, 2018 | Articles, Volume 22
Legally, libraries and archives may make and distribute copies of works in the last twenty years of their copyright, as long as there is no normal commercial exploitation of the work(s) and no reasonably priced copy available. 17 U.S.C. § 108(h). Unfortunately, §...
by admin | Jun 2, 2017 | Articles, Volume 21
Determining which patents are valuable can seem a lot like picking winning lottery numbers. There were, as of 2014, approximately 2.5 million U.S. patents in force. The number of new patent applications has risen steadily to more than 411,728 each year, and if the...
by admin | May 15, 2017 | Articles, Volume 21
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided an increasing number of intellectual property (IP) cases, especially patent cases, over the last several terms. Which prior cases influence the stated reasoning in these recent Supreme Court IP cases? A handful of citation studies of...
by admin | Mar 3, 2017 | Articles, Volume 21
Trade secret theft in the United States is a serious problem, and criminal penalties exist for this misconduct in both federal and state statutes. For twenty years, the literature in this area has focused almost entirely on the federal statute, the Economic Espionage...
