Comparative Law Resources
Newsletter Articles: United States

System Overview

• A Comparative Study of Technology Transfer by Universities in the U.S.A., China and Japan (Autumn 2000)
• U.S. Pro-Patent Policy: A Review of the Last 20 Years (Winter 2000)

Legislative Developments

• Impact of 1999 Patent Reforms: A Comparative Law Perspective (Winter 2000)
• Report on Intellectual Property Related Bills in the 105th Congress (Autumn 1998)
• The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Reorganization as a Government Corporation and Various Patent Law Reforms (Spring-Summer 1997)
• The GATT-TRIPS Legislation: Some Significant Court Decisions (1995 Winter)
• GATT Seminar Report (Winter 1995)

Patent Eligible Subject Matter

• Biotechnology and Legal Protection: Current Issues (Autumn 2000)
• The 1994 Software Patent Cases (Autumn 1994)

Utility

• Biotechnology and Legal Protection: Current Issues (Autumn 2000)
• Federal Circuit holds that Imitation is a Sufficient Benefit under the Patent Law (Autumn 1999)

Novelty

• Federal Circuit's Interpretation of "On Sale" under Pfaff (Winter-Spring 1999)
• When Is an Invention on Sale? The Vagueness of the Totality-of-the-Circumstances Standard; Anti-Trust Liability for Patent Holders (Autumn 1998)
• Reduction to Practice Unnecessary to Trigger the On-Sale Bar (Autumn 1998)
• Anticipation by Inherency or Accident (Spring-Summer 1998)
• Who Should Decide Public Use and Experimental Use Exception (Winter 1997)
• Novelty and Anticipation; Patent Invalidity-Obviouisness; "On Sale" --Sham Transaction (Spring 1996)

Nonobviousness

• Biotechnology and Legal Protection: Current Issues (Autumn 2000)
• Three Cases: Ethicon, Sage Products, and Monarch (Winter 1998)
• Federal Circuit Rules that §102(f) is Generally Considered Prior Art in §103 Analysis (Autumn 1997)
• Nonobviousness: Suggestion to Combine References (Summer 1996)
• The 1995 Biotechnological Process Patent Act and In re Ochiai (Spring 1996)

Disclosure Requirements

• Biotechnology and Legal Protection: Current Issues (Autumn 2000)
• The Federal Circuit Clarifies the Scope of Disclosure Required for Pharmaceutical Compounds Under the Best Mode Requirement (Autumn 2000)
• The Federal Circuit Holds That Gasoline Compounds Described by Chemical Properties Satisfies the Written Description Requirement (Spring 2000)
• The Federal Circuit Invalidates "Antisense" Technology Claims As Too Broad To Satisfy the Enablement Requirement (Winter 2000)
• Best Mode for Software-Related Inventions (Spring-Summer 1997)
• Graxo’s Lucrative Second "Zantac" Patent Survives Best Mode, Inequitable Conduct and Anticipation Challenges - But Just Barely! (Spring 1995)

Double Patenting

• The Federal Circuit Clarifies the Scope of Disclosure Required for Pharmaceutical Compounds Under the Best Mode Requirement (Autumn 2000)

Duty of Candor

• The Federal Circuit Finds Inequitable Conduct by Patentee Who Submitted Only a Partial Translation of a Foreign Reference (Spring 2000)

Claim Interpretation

• Internet Patent Interpreted Broadly by the Federal Circuit (Autumn 2000)
• Recent Federal Circuit Cases on Claim Interpretation and the Doctrine of Equivalents (Spring-Summer 1998)
• 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 (Spring-Summer 1997)
• Supreme Court Agrees with the Federal Circuit as to Trial Judge’s Power to Interpret Claims (Summer 1996)

Doctrine of Equivalents

• A Peaceful Death for the Doctrine of Equivalents? (Autumn 2000)
• Federal Circuit's Struggle to Clarify the Protector's Scope of U.S. Patents after Warner-Jenkinson (Summer 1999)
• No Doctrine of Equivalents if the Warner-Jenkinson Presumption Applies (Winter-Spring 1999)
• Recent Federal Circuit Cases on Claim Interpretation and the Doctrine of Equivalents (Spring-Summer 1998)
• Three Cases: Ethicon, Sage Products, and Monarch (Winter 1998)
• U.S. Supreme Court Reversed and Remanded Federal Circuit Hilton Davis en banc Decision (Winter 1997)

Direct and Indirect Infringement

• Exclusive Rights of Process Patents: Process for Making Plasmid Extends to hGH, even thought Plasmid and hGH are Entirely Different Materialas (Summer 1996)
• Markman: The Federal Circuit’s Long-Awaited En Banc Decision on Claim Interpretation as a Question of Law (Spring 1995)

Bad Faith Enforcement-Antitrust Counterclaims

• Bad Faith Enforcement (Spring 1996)

Remedies

• Willful Infringement Requires Substantive Evaluation of Attorney Opinion Letters (Autumn 1997)
• Patent Infringement Damages After Rite-Hite(Winter 1997)

Ownership

• Three Cases: Ethicon, Sage Products, and Monarch (Winter 1998)

Post Issuance Procedure

• The Best Approach for Patentees to Prevent Competitors' Trivial Modifications (Winter-Spring 1999)

Jurisdiction and Judicial System

• The Federal Circuit Finds the Attorney-Client Privilege Applicable to Communications Between Inventors and the Corporate Legal Department (2000 Spring)
• Übung Macht den Meister: How US District Courts can Better Adjudicate Patents by Learning from Germany’s Specialized Courts. (Winter 2000)
• Federal Circuit to Apply Own Law, Rather than Circuit Law, in Preemption Issues (Autumn 1999)
• U.S. Supreme Court Enhances States' Immunity from Suits in Patent Infringement Cases (Summer 1999)
• Remedies for Unauthorized Use of Intellectual Property by Sovereign States: Does the Constitution Allow More than it Requires? (Winter-Spring 1999)
• Japan-U.S. Patent Infringement Litigation Comparison: a Visit to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Autumn 1998)
• The Supreme Court to Resolve the Power Struggle between the Federal Circuit and USPTO (Autumn 1998)

Trademark Law

• Protection Of A Color Under The Law Of The United States, Germany, And Japan (Autumn 1999)

Copyright Law

• Protecting Your Music on the Internet - An Artist's View of the Copyright System (Autumn 2000)
• Right to a Jury Trial for Assessing Statutory Damages in Copyright Cases (Spring-Summer 1998

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