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Winter/Spring 2008Volume 15, Issue 1

Featured Articles

• Translation of Japanese Supreme Court Decision Announcing Reconstruction Limitation on International Patent Exhaustion: Recycle Assist Co., Ltd. v. Cannon, Inc.
  By C. Augustine Rakow
• Japanese Trade Secret Protection: Litigants Can Feel Secure Bringing Misappropriation Claims in Japanese Courts
  By Dario A. Machleidt

Case Summaries and Legislative Updates

• Safe Harbor Statute Expanded and Limited: Amgen, Inc., v. Int'l Trade Commission
  By Kevin Raudebaugh
• The Federal Circuit Clarifies Rules on Damages for Post-verdict Patent Infringement: Amado v. Microsoft Corp.
  Zhe Peng
• Setbacks to the USPTO’s “Final Rules”: Tafas v. Dudas
  By Brad Riel

Amicus Briefs

• CASRIP Files Amicus Brief in Key Patentable Subject Matter Case
  In Re Bernard L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw Amicus Brief

Rome Seminar 2008

• CASRIP Hosts IP Seminar at Roma Tre
  Rome Seminar Syllabus

CASRIP Activities and Upcoming Events

• CASRIP Summer Institute
  July 17-August 1, 2008 -  Register
• High Technology Protection Summit
  July 25-26, 2008

Autumn 2007, Volume 14, Issue 4

Featured Articles

• Patenting Human Embryonic Stem Cells in the United States: The Legal and Ethical Debate
  By Janice M. Mueller
• Recommendations on How to Protect Traditional Chinese Medicine Knowledge
  By Fei Jiao

Case Summaries and Legislative Updates

• The Expanded Jurisdiction for Declaratory Judgments: Sony Electronics, Inc. v. Guardian Media Technologies, Ltd.
  by Brad Riel
• Reasonable Apprehension of Suit Test No Longer Valid: SanDisk Corp. v. STMicroelectronics, Inc.
  By Melati Amundson
• The Federal Circuit Finds Daiichi’s Patent Obvious Through Redefining the “Ordinary Skill in the Art” in Daiichi Sankyo Co. v. Apotex Inc.
  By Amanda Carmany-Rampey
• Waiver from Advice of Counsel Defense Does Not Extend to Trial Counsel: In re Seagate Technology, LLC
  By Signe Brunstad

Open Source, GPLv3 and SimPL

• Open Source Simple Public License (SimPL) Receives OSI Approval

CASRIP Activities and Upcoming Events

• Conference on Regional Determinants of Productivity Growth (October 5, 2007)
• European Patent Practice Seminar (November 5-6, 2007)
• Students Argue LG v. Bizcom in Rome, Italy (February 18-22, 2008)

Photographs

• 2007 Summer Institute and HTS Receptions
• Takenaka Presents Lecture to Taiwanese Judges

Summer 2007, Volume 14, Issue 3

Featured Articles

• Patents as Property: International Injunctive Relief
  By Kenji Shimada, Yi-Hsuan Chen, Chi-Yuan Kuo, Alfredo DeLaRosa, and Jeremiah Miller
• Patent Exhaustion and the Recycling Business in the United States and Japan
  By Hirohito Nakada
• What Does YouTube Know?
  By Samantha Schmidt

Case Summaries and Legislative Updates

• United States
  • Pfizer, Inc. v. Apotex, Inc., and Takeda Chem. Indus., Ltd. v. Alphapharm Pty., Lty.
    By Toshiko Takenaka
• Japan
  • Japanese Legislative Year in Review
    By Takahiko Toyama

Open Source, GPLv3 and SimPL

• Simple Public License (SimPL)
  By Robert Gomulkiewicz
• Introduction to the Simple Public License (SimPL)
  By James Sfekas
• License or Contract?: GPLv3 and the Persistent Controversy Over GPL Enforceability
  By Adam Ake 

CASRIP Activities and Photographs

• CASRIP Activities - Summer 2007

Spring 2007, Volume 14, Issue 2

Featured Articles

• “Patent Equals Market Power” Presumption in Tying Cases Overruled in the U.S.; Remarks from the European Experience
  By Rita Coco
• Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources, and Biotech Patents; Controversy and Possible Solutions
  By Frank Shao-Fan Lu
• Islamic Law and Modern Patent Law
  By Jonathan Claypool

Case Summaries

• China
  • Starbucks Wins Significant Trademark and Unfair Competition Case in China
    By Jing Li and Shaobin Zhu
  
  
• United States
  • Supreme Court Disagrees with Federal Circuit in Two Controversial Patent Cases: KSR Int’l Co. v. Teleflex and Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp.
    By Toshiko Takenaka
  • Lucent Awarded $1.52 Billion in Section 271(f) Case Lucent Technologies, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp.
    By Signe Brunstad
  • Voda v. Cordis Corp., The Patent Practitioner?s Perspective
    By Chris Igileski
  • Voda v. Cordis Corp., The Comparative Law Perspective
    By Toshiko Takenaka

LEGISLATIVE UPDATES

• New Patent Reform Bill Introduced
  By Toshiko Takenaka

CASRIP ACTIVITIES AND PICTURES

• Students Argue Patent Case before Judge Rader in Japan
  By Ewa Davison
• CASRIP Photographs

Autumn/Winter 2007, Volume 14, Issue 1

Letter From the Editor

Featured Articles

• Enforcement of Foreign Patents in European Courts
  By Annette Kur
• Patentable Subject Matter in Biotechnology: Transgenic Animals and Higher Life Forms
  By Patricia Campbell, Ph.D.

Case Summaries

• United States
  • Article III Controversy May Exist Under the Declaratory Judgment Act for Licensees Not Violating a License Agreement: MedImmune v. Genentech
    By Melissa Harwood, Ph.D.
  • Gobbledygook or the Future of Obviousness in U.S. Patent Law? Teleflex v. KSR 
    By Benjamin Keim
  • LabCorp v. Metabolite: Can one Patent a Basic Scientific Relationship? by Chris Kuyper, Ph.D.
  • An Expressly Conditional Sale Cannot Exhaust Patent Rights:  LG Electronics, Inc. v. Bizcom Electronics, Inc.
    By Scott Tobias
• Japan
  • Argument for the Extension of Copyright Protection over Cinematographic Works in Japan
    By Hidehiro Mitani

IP Faculty Scholarship and Presentations

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Spring/Summer 2006, Volume 13, Issue 2

CASRIP Activities

IP Faculty Scholarship and Presentations

Featured Articles

• Patent Trolls in the U.S., Japan, Taiwan and Europe
  By Joe Brennan, Hui-Wen (Fiona) Hsueh, Miyuki Sahashi, Yasuo Ohkuma
• Extraterritorial Application of Patent Laws for Software
  By Vladimir Raskin
• Are Advertisements Invisible to the Law?
  By Tristan Kenyon-Schultz

Asia Case Law Updates

• Invalidation Decision of Viagra Patent Revoked in China
  By Lizhu Zheng

United States Case Law Updates

• Using Advice of Counsel to Fight Willful Damages: Liquid Dynamics and EchoStar
  By Signe Brunstad
• NTP v. RIM – Pushing the Envelope of Territoriality?
  By Barry Bretschneider
• No Government Taking if Method Step Performed Abroad: Zoltek Corp. v. United States
  By Signe Brunstad
• Must Apply 4-Part Equitable Test for Patent Injunctions: eBay Inc. v. MercExchange
  By Signe Brunstad

Photographs

Winter 2006, Volume 13, Issue 1

Message from the Assistant Director

Faculty Scholarship and Presentations

Featured Articles

• Administrative Patent Invalidity Proceedings: Comparing Recent Reform Efforts in Japan and the United States
• Intellectual Property Registration in Indonesia: Problems and Solutions

International Developments in Patent Law

• Japan
  • Japan’s IP High Court Finds Infringement for Refilling of Ink in Recycled Ink Cartridges, Canon K.K. v. Recycle Assist K.K.
• United States
  • Should a Court Presume that a Patented Tying Product Confers Market Power? Illinois Tool Works v. Independent Ink

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Fall 2005, Volume 12, Issue 2

Featured Articles

• The Maze and Haze of Gene Patents: A Comparative Study of DNA Sequence Patenting in the United States, Europe and Japan, and Suggestions for the Course of Action for India
• Thou Shalt Not Steal: A Comparative Analysis of Intellectual Property Injunctions in the United States and Mexico

International Developments in Patent Law

• China
  • 2005 Intellectual Property Developments in China
• Japan
  • Japanese Legislative Updates on Intellectual Property in 2005
  • “Ichitaro” Case in Japan IP High Court Applies Two New Patent Provisions to Software Related Patents, Justsystem Corp v. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
• United States
  • En Banc Federal Circuit Adopted a Uniform Methodology for Claim Construction, Phillips v. AWH Corp.
  • Can a method claim be infringed if all steps of the patented process are not used within the United States? NTP, Inc. v. Research in Motion, Ltd.

Conferences

• Antitrust in the New Economy, Co-sponsored with the Economic Policy Research Center, December 9, 2005 (pdf)

Message from the Assistant Director

Activities

Photographs

Spring/Summer 2005, Vol 12, Issue 1

Featured Articles

• Monopoly as Rhetoric: The Case of Letters Patent
• “Anonymous, Untitled, Mixed Media:” Mixing Intellectual Property Law with Other Legal Philosophies to Protect Traditional Cultural Expressions

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Merck KGaA v. Integra Lifesciences I, Ltd., 545 U.S. ___ (2005)
• Japan
  • “Ichitaro” Case Provokes Public Debate over Software Patents in Japan: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Justsystem Corp

Conferences

• Intellectual Property Rights And Innovation: Shifting Economic and Legal Paradigms (pdf)

Message from the Director

Activities

Photographs

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Autumn 2004, Vol 11, Issue 3

Featured Article

• Recent Debate over Patent Protection for Medical Related Activities in Japan

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Knorr-Bremse v. Dana Corporation revisited by the Federal Circuit
  • Tangential Relationship Found for Added Element Unrelated to Distinguishing the Prior Art
• Europe
  • After-Arising Technology and Extent of U.K. Patents

Message from the Director

Activities

Spring-Summer 2004, Vol 11, Issue 2

Featured Article

• Wanted: The Medical Exemption

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • En Banc Federal Circuit Will Decide How to Construe Claims
  • Rewriting Dependent Claim into Independent Form with Cancellation of Original Independent Claims Gives Rise to Prosecution History Estoppel
  • Knorr-Bremes v. Dana Corp Decided
  • Clinical Trials Not Covered by §102(b) Experimental Use Negation Doctrine
  • Manufacture of Products Outside US Did Not Violate Permanent Injunction Barring US Activities or US Patent under §271(a).
  • Sow Complicated: Monsanto Co. v. Homan McFarling
• Japan
• Japanese Legislative Updates on Intellectual Property in 2004

Winter 2004, Vol 11, Issue 1

Featured Article:

• Protection Scope for Claims Including Numerical Limitations: Range of Equivalents and Prosecution History Estoppel

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Prosecution Laches Applied and No Infringement Found for Lemelson Patents
  • Scope of Surrender: When Claims Are Narrowed for Enablement
  • Is the DMCA Closing the Door on Competition?
  • Written Description Requirement Prevented U of Rochester's Attempt to Capture COX-2 Inhibitor Drugs Sold by Pfizer
  • USPTO Registration Exam for Patent Attorneys and Agents

• Europe
  • Is patent protection for medical treatments available in Europe?

• Japan
  • Two Judgments on Japanese Patent Law Article 35 Amazed Industry All Over the World
  • Quick Review of Systems for Challenging Validity of a Granted Patent before Patent Offices

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Autumn 2003, Vol 10, Issue 3

Featured Article:

• Japan Making Strategic Program for the Creation, Protection and Exploitation of Intellectual Property: Review of the Japanese Patent System

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Festo Being Remanded to the District Court: No End in Sight for the Battle over the Scope of Surrender.
  • Presumed willful: Can the court make a defendant choose between waiving privilege and a presumption of willful infringement?
  • Chapter II Demand No Longer Required With PCT Applications
  • USPTO Examination Changes

• Japan
  • New Japanese Rules regarding Parallel Import of Trademarked Goods
  • US Doctrine of Equivalents in Japanese Courts: Tokyo District Court Applied the Festo Presumption and Found No Infringement

Spring-Summer 2003, Vol 10, Issue 2

Featured Article:

• The Harmonization of Moral Rights: A Comparative study of Moral Rights Protection in the United States and Japan

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  •  No Immunity for General Experimentations and Research Under §271(e) (1) Exemption or Common Law Experimental Use Exception
  • Too Easy to Infer the “Intent-To-Deceive” for Inequitable Conduct?
  • Claiming biological methods
  • Pioneer Patents are Not Entitled to a Lower Enablement Standard
  • The Federal Circuit Reaffirmed that the Copyright Act did not Preempt or Narrow the Scope of Shrink-wrap License that Prohibited Reverse Engineering

Winter 2003, Vol 10, Issue 1

Featured Article:

• Comparative Study on Prosecution History Estoppel in the U.S. and Japan: What can Japan learn from the chaos in Warner-Jenkinson and Festo? Part 2 of 2 (Table 1)

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Experimental Use Exception Does Not Exempt University From Patent Infringement
  • The 2002 Amendment of Reexamination Proceeding: A Step Towards Post-Grant Opposition?
  • President Bush Signs Madrid Legislation
  • Overview of the Federal Circuit – after serving internship at the court
• Japan
  • Japan Making the First Step Toward “A Nation Built on Intellectual Property”
  • Is Legal Protection of Trade Secrets in Japan Enough?
  • Japanese Case on the Infringement of Musical Arrangement right

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Autumn 2002, Vol 9, Issue 3

Featured Article:

• Comparative Study on Prosecution History Estoppel in the U.S. and Japan: What can Japan learn from the chaos in Warner-Jenkinson and Festo? Part 1 of 2 (Table 1)

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Constitutionality of copyright term extensions
  • The USPTO';s 21^ST Century Strategic Plan: What Does It Mean For American Innovation?
  • Should the written description requirement be applicable outside the priority context?
  • §102(e) Further Amended by Congress
• Japan
  • Did 1999 Revision Damage Calculation Revision Make Lost Profits Award for Japanese Patents Too Easy?
  • Japan';s Supreme Court Decision on the Sales of Used TV Game Software
  • IP Reform Proposals in the United States and Japan: Annual Submission Between the U.S. Government and Japanese Government Under the U.S.-JAPAN Regulatory Reform and Competition Policy Initiative
  • Japanese Manufacturer';s Act of Inducing Infringement of US Patents is Allowed

Spring-Summer 2002, Vol 9, Issue 2

Featured Article:

• A View toward the Global Patent: Mutual Exploitation of Examination Results
• Analysis of the Festo Decisions: Practical Application of Rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Circuit

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • The Supreme Court Breaths Life into the Dying Doctrine of Equivalents
  • The Federal Circuit Raises the Bar for Written Descriptions of Genetic Materials
  • Congressional Concerns that Gene Patenting May Not Be in the Public's Best Interest
  • Newly Proposed Legislation Requires States to Waive Their Immunity - or Else
• Japan
  • Prime Minister's Science Council Submits Recommendations for Improving Competitiveness Through Intellectual Property

Winter 2002, Vol 9, Issue 1

Featured Article:

• What Japan Should Learn from U.S. Experiences: Tests of Equivalence, Means-Plus-Function Claims and Product-By-Process Claims

Special Topics:

• Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Law at the University of Washington (Click here for contact information.)

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • U.S. Supreme Court Will Entertain a Challenge to Copyright Term Extension Act
  • Federal Circuit Takes Another Shot at “Submarine Patents”
  • The Federal Circuit Clarifies the Reach of the “Dedicated to the Public” Doctrine
  • Recent Change in On-Sale Bar Saves a Patent from Certain Invalidity
• Japan
  • Isolating Ingredients from Legally Purchased Pharmaceutical Compound is Within Authority of Owner
  • JPO's New Bill to Revise Patent and Trademark Law WillPrepare Japan for Network Society

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Autumn 2001, Vol 8, Issue 3

Featured Article:

• The Patent Opposition System in Japan Following Major Changes In 1996

Special Topics:

• Intellectual Property and Innovation Workshops 2002 Winter Quarter
• Law School Welcomes First Class of Intellectual Property and Technology Law LL.M. Students

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Semiconductor Manufacturer's Patents Found to be Invalid for Inherency and Impossibility
  • "Process" in §271(g) is Limited to a Manufacturing Process
  • United States Supreme Court Holds That New Plant Breeds Are Patent Eligible Subject Matter
• Japan
  • Tokyo High Court Refuses to Extend the "Unclean Hands Defense" From Infringement Claims to Violations of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act

Spring/Summer 2001, Vol 8, Issue 2

Featured Article:

• Patent Harmonization: Comments on Issues Posted by the USPTO
• Access to Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Rights: The Case of India

Special Topics:

• A Message from the Dean
• CASRIP Hosts Another Successful Summer Institute

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • The Federal Circuit Clears the Way for Competitors to Begin Production of Generic Counterparts to Eli Lilly's Prozac
  • Federal Circuit Decided Disposal Camera Case Differently from Tokyo District Court: Reconditioning of a Disposal Camera is NOT Infringement
  • Festo to be Reviewed by the Supreme Court
  • Bill to Relax Conditions for Starting Reexamination Passes the House Judiciary Committee
• Japan
  • What is the appropriate measure of damages for using illegal copies of a computer program in Japan?
  • A Busy Summer for the Supreme Court of Japan: Five IP Decisions

Winter 2001, Vol 8, Issue 1

Featured Article:

• Biotechnology and Legal Protection: Current Issues
• Patent Amendments in India in the Wake of TRIPS

Special Topic:

• CASRIP Sponsors its First Seminars in Europe

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Amazon.com's "1Click" Patent Found Likely to be Invalid
  • File Wrapper Estoppel after Festo: Impossible Hurdle for the Doctrine of Equivalents
  • En Banc Federal Circuit will hear another Doctrine of Equivalents case
• Japan
  • Sales of Used TV Game Software is Legal
  • JPO's New Guidelines Clarifying the Patentability of Business Method Patents
  • METI Reviews the Current Unfair Competition Prevention Law to Battle Cybersquatting

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Autumn 2000, Vol 7, Issue 3

Featured Article:

• Biotechnology and Legal Protection: Current Issues
• A Comparative Study of Technology Transfer by Universities in the U.S.A., China and Japan

Student Article:

• Protecting Your Music on the Internet - An Artist's View of the Copyright System

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • A Peaceful Death for the Doctrine of Equivalents?
  • Internet Patent Interpreted Broadly by the Federal Circuit
  • The Federal Circuit Clarifies the Scope of Disclosure Required for Pharmaceutical Compounds Under the Best Mode Requirement
• Japan
  • Supreme Court Found No Originality on Typeface
  • Reconditioning a disposable camera is infringement

Spring 2000, Vol 7, Issue 2

Featured Article:

• Priority Right and Period of "Grace": Two Separate Issues under the European Patent Law
• Biodiversity and Intellectual Property Rights

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • The Federal Circuit Finds Inequitable Conduct by Patentee Who Submitted Only a Partial Translation of a Foreign Reference
  • The Federal Circuit Finds the Attorney-Client Privilege Applicable to Communications Between Inventors and the Corporate Legal Department
  • The Federal Circuit Holds That Gasoline Compounds Described By Chemical Properties Satisfies the Written Description Requirement
• Japan
  • A Major Change for Japanese Patent Enforcement
  • Tokyo District Court Awards Reasonable Remuneration to an Employed Inventor Beyond Amount Prescribed in the Work Rule
  • File Wrapper Estoppel and the Doctrine of Equivalents in Japanese Courts
  • The Essential Element Test Provides A Big Hurdle to Japanese Doctrine of Equivalents
  • Revised Japanese Patent Attorney Law Will Expand the Scope of Practical for Japanese Pattent Attorneys

Winter 2000, Vol 7, Issue 1

Featured Article:

• U.S. Pro-Patent Policy: A Review of the Last 20 Years
• Problems Regarding the Patentability of Genomics and Scope of Protection of ESTs in Japan
• Übung Macht den Meister: How US District Courts can Better Adjudicate Patents by Learning from Germany's Specialized Courts.

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Impact of 1999 Patent Reforms: A Comparative Law Perspective
  • The Federal Circuit Invalidates "Antisense" Technology Claims As Too Broad To Satisfy the Enablement Requirement
• Europe
  • A Variety of Interpretations of "Plant Variety"

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Autumn 1999, Vol 6, Issue 2

Featured Article:

• The Present Status Of Software Protection In Europe and Germany
• Protection Of A Color Under The Law Of The United States, Germany, And Japan
• The Patent Court of Korea: An Overview of the Background, Organization, Jurisdiction and Standard of Review

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Federal Circuit holds that Imitation is a Sufficient Benefit under the Patent Law
  • Federal Circuit to Apply Own Law, Rather than Circuit Law, in Preemption Issues
  • Legislative Updates
• Japan
  • Quick and Effective IP Enforcement in Japanese Courts/Method Claims Extend To Use of the Method Only
  • Is a Video Game a Cinematographic Work? —Osaka District Court Confirms the Application of the Distribution Right for a Cinematographic Work to a Video Game.

Summer 1999, Vol 6, Issue 1

Featured Article:

• The Changing Landscape for Patenting Transgenic Plants in Europe
• 1999 High Technology Protection Summit July 23-24

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • U.S. Supreme Court Enhances States' Immunity from Suits in Patent Infringement Cases
  • Federal Circuit's Struggle to Clarify the Protector's Scope of U.S. Patents after Warner-Jenkinson
• Japan
  • Osaka District Court Found Infringement under the Doctrine of Equivalents
  • Recent Legislative Updates in Japan

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Winter-Spring 1999, Vol 5, Issue 4

Special Topic:

• Remedies for Unauthorized Use of Intellectual Property by Sovereign States: Does the Constitution Allow More than it Requires?

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • No Doctrine of Equivalents if the Warner-Jenkinson Presumption Applies
  • Federal Circuit's Interpretation of "On Sale" under Pfaff
  • The Best Approach for Patentees to Prevent Competitors' Trivial Modifications
• Japan
  • The Doctrine of Equivalents after the Supreme Court "Ball Spline" Decision
  • Infringement of Functional Claims under Japanese Patent Law
  • The Supreme Court of Japan Rules on the Experimental Use Exception to the Use of Patented Drugs for Clinical Testing by Generic Makers Seeking Government Approval

Autumn 1998, Vol 5, Issue 3

Special Topic:

• Japan-U.S. Patent Infringement Litigation Comparison: a Visit to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Report on Intellectual Property Related Bills in the 105^th Congress
• Policy Makers Gathered to Discuss Future IP System at CASRIP

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • The Supreme Court to Resolve the Power Struggle between the Federal Circuit and USPTO
  • When Is an Invention on Sale? The Vagueness of the Totality-of-the-Circumstances Standard; Anti-Trust Liability for Patent Holders
  • Reduction to Practice Unnecessary to Trigger the On-Sale Bar
• Japan
  • Big Change in Measurement for Japanese Patent Infringement Damages? Tokyo District Court Awards $23.5 Million in Lost Profits Damages

Spring/Summer 1998, Vol 5, Issue 2

Special Topic:

• Anticipation by Inherency or Accident
• Clarity of Patent Claims
• The Development of China's Intellectual Property Protection System

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Recent Federal Circuit Cases on Claim Interpretation and the Doctrine of Equivalents
  • Right to a Jury Trial for Assessing Statutory Damages in Copyright Cases
• Japan
  • Japan's New Plant Variety Protection System
  • Practices of Patent Litigation in Japanese Courts
• Europe
  • Recent EPO Decision

Winter 1998, Vol 5, Issue 1

Special Topic:

• From the Dean: Trip to Visit Alumni in Asia
• The University of Washington School of Law Where the Pacific Northwest Meets the Pacific Rim

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Three Cases: Ethicon, Sage Products, and Monarch
• Japan
  • The Supreme Court Affirmed the Presence of the Doctrine of Equivalents under Japanese Patent System
  • University Technology Transfer in Japan
• Europe
  • Recent EPO Decisions

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Fall 1997, Vol 4, Issue 3

Special Topic:

• Actual Royalty Rates in Patent, Know-How and Computer Program License Agreements in Germany

Patent Law Recent Development

• United States
  • Federal Circuit Rules that §102(f) is Generally Considered Prior Art in §103 Analysis
  • Willful Infringement Requires Substantive Evaluation of Attorney Opinion Letters
    
• Japan
  • The JPO's Industrial Property Committee Proposed to Increase Patent Infringement Damages
  • Japanese Supreme Court Affirms Legalization of Parallel Importation
  • TI's Kilby Patent was Found to be Invalid and thus Unenforceable
• Europe
  • Recent EPO Decisions

Spring/Summer 1997, Vol 4, Issue 2

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • Best Mode for Software-Related Inventions 
  • The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Reorganization as a Government Corporation and Various Patent Law Reforms
  • A Direction on Procedural Improvements Suggested by the Supreme Court?: Federal Circuit Rejected District Court's Claim Construction and Granted Judgment of Non-infringement as a Matter of Law
• Japan
  • The JPO's Review of the Appropriateness of Intellectual Property Damages
  • Trends and Direction of Reform of Japanese Design Law
• Europe
  • Key Features of the European Patent Office (EPO) Opposition Procedures
  • Highly Anticipated UK Decision of Biogen v. Medeva about Validity of Biotechnology Patents

Winter 1997, Vol 4, Issue 1

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
  • U.S. Supreme Court Reversed and Remanded Federal Circuit Hilton Davis en banc Decision
  • Patent Infringement Damages After Rite-Hite
  • Who Should Decide Public Use and Experimental Use Exception
• Japan
  • Protection of Foreign Well-known Trademarks in Japan: Cases in Which a "Piratical" Trademark Registration is Rejected
  • Report of Multimedia Subcommittee of the Copyright Committee in Japan
• Europe

 

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Fall 1996, Vol. 3, Issue 3

Special Topic:

• Ownership of Employees' Inventions in Germany

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
• Japan

Summer 1996, Vol. 3, Issue 2

Special Topic:

• 1995 EPO Decisions in Biotechnology

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
• Japan
• Europe/Germany

Spring 1996, Vol. 3, Issue 1

Special Topic:

• The Federal Circuit at the University of Washington School of Law
• Report on the First Session of the Committee of Experts on the Patent Law Treaty in Geneva, December 11 to 15, 1995

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
• Japan
• Europe

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Fall 1995, Vol. 2, Issue 3

Special Topic:

• ATRIP 1995
• 1995 Patent Law Developments

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
• Japan

Spring 1995, Vol. 2, Issue 2

Special Topic:

Recent Developments on the WIPO Patent Harmonization Treaty Consultative Meeting

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
• Japan
• Europe

Winter 1995, Vol. 2, Issue 1

Special Topic:

GATT Implementation US Patent Law Changes

Patent Law Recent Developments

• United States
• Japan
• Europe

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Fall 1994, Vol. 1, Issue 1

Special Topic:

1994 CASRIP Summer Institute

Patent Law Recent Developments

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