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

• 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"