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• Reasonable Apprehension of Suit Test No Longer Valid: SanDisk Corp.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 Naeve

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 Naeve
  • 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