Annual Review

Volume 29, Annual Review 2014

Posted on August 5, 2014 by BTLJ under Annual Review, News & Updates, Volume 29, 2014

Complete Volume 29, Annual Review 2014

Complete Volume (PDF 8.6 MB)

Individual Files

Front Matter (PDF 372 Kb)
by BTLJ
Foreword (PDF 116 Kb)
by Robin Kuntz & Julie Kent

Patent Law

Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.: The Product of Nature Doctrine Revisited (PDF 365 Kb)
by Tup Ingram
Breaching RAND and Reaching for Reasonable: Microsoft v. Motorola and Standard-Essential Patent Litigation (PDF 541 Kb)
by Kassandra Maldonado
Bowman v. Monsanto: Bowman, The Producer and the End User (PDF 396 Kb)
by Tabetha Marie Peavey
Competition Ahead? The Legal Landscape for Reverse Payment Settlements After Federal Trade Commission v. Actavis, Inc. (PDF 583 Kb)
by Allison A. Schmitt
Misjoinder or Mishap? The Consequences of the AIA Joinder Provision (PDF 446 Kb)
by Dongbiao Shen
Breaking Bad Patents: The Formula for Quick, Inexpensive Resolution of Patent Validity (PDF 795 Kb)
by Jonathan Tamimi
Damaging Royalties: An Overview of Reasonable Royalty Damages
(PDF 552 Kb)
by Zelin Yang

Copyright Law

On Appropriation: Cariou v. Prince and Measuring Contextual Transformation in Fair Use (PDF 1 Mb)
by Jonathan Francis
The Murky Waters of First Sale: Price Discrimination and Downstream Control in the Wake of Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (PDF 485 Kb)
by S. Zubin Gautam
New Rules for a New Decade: Improving the Copyright Office’s Anti-Circumvention Rulemakings (PDF 457 Kb)
by Mark Gray
Associated Press v. Meltwater U.S. Holdings, Inc.: Fair Use, a Changing News Industry, and the Influence of Judicial Discretion and Custom (PDF 452 Kb)
by Rosalind Jane Schonwald

Trademark law

Should Intellectual Property Owners Just Do It? An Examination into the Effects of Nike’s Covenant Not to Sue (PDF 448 Kb)
by Misa K. Eiritz
Much Ado About Nothing: ICANN’s New GTLDs (PDF 491 Kb)
by Daniela Michele Spencer

Cyberlaw

Symbiotic Relationships: Pragmatic Acceptance of Data Scraping (PDF 338 Kb)
by Jeffrey Kenneth Hirschey
The Indecent Internet: Resisting Unwarranted Internet Exceptionalism in Combating Revenge Porn (PDF 340 Kb)
by Jenna K. Stokes

Privacy Law

Rebuilding Bridges: Addressing the Problems of Historic Cell Site Location Information (PDF 361 Kb)
by Mark Daniel Langer
NSA Metadata Collection and the Fourth Amendment (PDF 307Kb)
by Joseph D. Mornin
Standing in the Way of Privacy Protections: The Argument for a Relaxed Article III Standing Requirement for Constitutional and Statutory Causes of Action
(PDF 223 Kb)
by Lexi Rubow

Survey of Additional IP Developments

Survey of Additional IP and Technology Law Developments (PDF 529 Kb)
by BTLJ

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Volume 28, Annual Review

Posted on September 16, 2013 by BTLJ under Annual Review, News & Updates, Volume 28, 2013

Complete Volume 28, Annual Review 2013

Complete Volume (PDF 4.0 MB)

Individual Files

Front Matter (PDF 188 Kb)
by BTLJ
Foreword (PDF 116 Kb)
by Winnie Hung & Jane Ann Levich

Patent Law

Making Abusers Pay: Deterring Patent Litigation by Shifting Attorneys’ Fees (PDF 234 Kb)
by Emily H. Chen
Clear as Mud: An Empirical Analysis of the Developing Law of Joint Inventorship in the Federal Circuit (PDF 266 Kb)
by Eric Ross Cohen
Computer Claim Disarray: Untangling the Means-Plus-Function Doctrine to Eliminate Impermissible Functional Claiming in Software Patents (PDF 217 Kb)
by Elise S. Edlin
Trade Secret Enforcement After TianRui: Fighting Misappropriation Through the ITC (PDF 220 Kb)
by Natalie Flechsig
Accidentally on Target: The MSTG Effects on Non-Practicing Entities’ Litigation and Settlement Strategies (PDF 325 Kb)
by Alex S. Li
Patent Aggregation: Models, Harms, and the Limited Role of Antitrust (PDF 294 Kb)
by Justin R. Orr
The Eye of the Storm: Software Patents and the Abstract Idea Doctrine in CLS Bank v. Alice (PDF 494 Kb)
by Dina Roumiantseva
A Rock and a Hard Place: Choosing Between § 271(a) and (b) for Divided Infringement in Akamai (PDF 219 Kb)
by Michael Liu Su
Defining a Natural Phenomenon After Prometheus (PDF 342 Kb)
by Ethan M. Weiner

Copyright Law

Fair Use & Mass Digitization: The Future of Copy-Dependent Technologies After Authors Guild v. HathiTrust (PDF 204 Kb)
by Angel Siegfried Diaz
Remittitur and Copyright (PDF 188 Kb)
by Casey Hultin
Leveling Pains: Clone Gaming and the Changing Dynamics of an Industry (PDF 227 Kb)
by Nicholas M. Lampros

Trademark law

Red in the Eye of the Beholder: The Case for Aesthetic Functionality (PDF 288 Kb)
by Christina Farmer
Deciphering Rosetta Stone: Why the Least Cost Avoider Principle Unlocks the Code to Contributory Trademark Infringement in Keyword Advertising (PDF 188 Kb)
by Sarah Wells Orrick

Cyberlaw

Fool Me Once: U.S. v. Aleynikov and the Theft of Trade Secrets Clarification Act of 2012 (PDF 196 Kb)
by Robert Damion Jurrens
Operation Seizing Our Sites: How the Federal Government is Taking Domain Names Without Prior Notice (PDF 454 Kb)
by Karen Kopel
How Not to Catch a Thief: Why the Economic Espionage Act Fails to Protect American Trade Secrets (PDF 235 Kb)
by Robin L. Kuntz

Privacy Law

The Fourth Amendment and Government Interception of Unsecured Wireless Communications (PDF 199 Kb)
by Shaina Hyder
Fraley v. Facebook: The Right of Publicity in Online Social Networks (PDF 253Kb)
by Jesse Koehler
Jonesing for a Test: Fourth Amendment Privacy in the Wake of United States v. Jones (PDF 223 Kb)
by Lauren Elena Smith

Other Developments in Intellectual Property

When the Million-Dollar Pitch Doesn’t Pay a Dime: Why Idea Submissions Claims Should Survive Copyright Preemption (PDF 288 Kb)
by Julie A. Byren
Noncompete Clauses: Employee Mobility, Innovation Ecosystems, and Multinational R&D Offshoring (PDF 225 Kb)
by Grant R. Garber

Survey of Additional IP Developments

Survey of Additional IP Developments (PDF 180 Kb)
by BTLJ

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Volume 27, Annual Review

Posted on July 21, 2012 by BTLJ under Annual Review, Volume 27, 2012

Complete Volume 27, Annual Review 2012

Complete Volume (PDF 8.86 MB)

Individual Files

Front Matter (PDF 238Kb)
by BTLJ
Foreword (PDF 155Kb)
by Ryan Iwahashi & Britt Lovejoy

Patent Law

Fighting the Smartphone Patent War with RAND-Encumbered Patents (PDF 375Kb)
by Thomas H. Chia

Gene Patents: Balancing the Myriad Issues Concerning the Patenting of Natural Products (PDF 377Kb)
by Samantak Ghosh
TiVo, Inc. v. EchoStar Corp.: Providing Clarity to Contempt Proceedings in Patent Cases
(PDF 346Kb)
by Conrad Gosen
i4i and the Presumption of Validity: Limited Concerns over the Insulation of Weak Patents (PDF 356Kb)
by Ryan Klimczak
Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB, S.A.: Discovering Willfully Blind Territory in Induced Patent Infringement (PDF 341Kb)
by Yvonne Lee
Bringing Equity Back to the Inequitable Conduct Doctrine? (PDF 338Kb)
by Priscilla G. Taylor
Unknotting Uniloc (PDF 494Kb)
by Edward Torous
Non-practicing Complainants at the ITC: Domestic Industry or Not?
(PDF 424Kb)
by Wei Wang
The Public Paid for the Invention: Who Owns It? (PDF 647Kb)
by Robert M. Yeh

Copyright Law

The Nexus Analysis: License Enforcement in the Wake of MDY v. Blizzard (PDF 342Kb)
by Erik Bauman
Copyright Damages: Incorporating Reasonable Royalty from Patent Law (PDF 509Kb)
by Kevin Bendix
Graduated Response Systems and the Market for Copyrighted Works
(PDF 496Kb)
by John M. Owen
Beyond the Gap: A Practical Understanding of Copyright’s Termination of Transfers Provisions (PDF 440Kb)
by Kiley C. Wong

Trademark law

Limiting Initial Interest Confusion Claims in Keyword Advertising (PDF 371Kb)
by Winnie Hung
Ambiguity in Federal Dilution Law Continues: Levi Strauss & Co. v. Abercrombie & Fitch Trading Co., Case in Point (PDF 427Kb)
by Jane Ann Levich

Cyberlaw

To Tax or Not To Tax? That’s Not the Question: The Role of Tax Within the Maturing World of e-Commerce (PDF 984Kb)
by Hannah V. Minkevitch
Limiting Employee Liability Under the CFAA: A Code-Based Approach to “Exceeds Authorized Access” (PDF 360Kb)
by David J. Rosen
No Service: Free Speech, the Communications Act, and BART’s Cell Phone Network Shutdown (PDF 726Kb)
by Jennifer Spencer

Privacy Law

A Way Forward After Warshak: Fourth Amendment Protections for E-mail (PDF 434Kb)
by Courtney M. Bowman
Using Social Networking To Discuss Work: NLRB Protection for Derogatory Employee Speech and Concerted Activity (PDF 900Kb)
by Ariana C. Green
Wyeth and PLIVA: The Law of Inadequate Drug Labeling (PDF 423Kb)
by Daniel Kazhdan
Compensated Injunctions: A More Equitable Solution to the Problem of Inevitable Disclosure (PDF 365Kb)
by Sonya P. Passi
Still an Alternative Way To Protect Traditional News: Why Barclays Did Not Kill the “Hot News” Tort (PDF 357Kb)
by Luis Zambrano

Survey of Additional IP Developments

Survey of Additional IP Developments (PDF 527Kb)
by BTLJ

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Volume 26, Issue 1 (Annual Review 2011)

Posted on October 1, 2011 by BTLJ under Annual Review, Journal, Volume 26, 2011

Complete Volume 26, Issue 1 (Annual Review 2011)

Complete Volume (PDF 8.86 MB)

Individual Files

Front Matter (PDF 238Kb)
by BTLJ
Foreword (PDF 155Kb)
by BTLJ

Patent Law

Bilski v. Kappos: Sideline Analysis from the First Inning of Play (PDF 482Kb)
by Ebby Abraham

Priortization: Addressing the Patent Application Backlog at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PDF 223Kb)
by Lily J. Ackerman
When Congress Gives Two Hats, Which Do You Wear? Choosing Between Domestic Industry Protection and IP Enforcement in § 337 Investigations
(PDF 303Kb)
by Taras M. Czebiniak
Cooperative Infringement: I Get By (Infringement Laws) with a Little Help from My Friends (PDF 270Kb)
by Reza Dokhanchy
The Road to Transparency: Abolishing Black-Box Verdicts on Patent Obviousness (PDF 212Kb)
by Indraneel Ghosh
Cardiac Pacemakers v. St. Jude Medical: The Federal Court Circuit has Re-opened the Deepsouth Loophole for Method Claims (PDF 245Kb)
by Amy E. Hayden
Diagnosing Patentable Subject Matter (PDF 316Kb)
by Asher Hodes
Rescue Me!: The Attack on Settlement Negotiations after ResQNet v. Lansa
(PDF 482Kb)
by Parker Kuhl
Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: Gene Patents & the Reality of the Commons (PDF 247Kb)
by Tina Saladino
Lucent v. Gateway: Putting the “Reasonable” Back into Reasonable Royalties (PDF 288Kb)
by Bo Zeng
Additional Developments (PDF 114Kb)
by BTLJ

Copyright Law

Musical Albums as “Compilations”: A Limitation on Damages or a Trojan Horse Set to Ambush Termination Rights? (PDF 264Kb)
by Wyatt J. Glynn
Viacom v. Youtube – All Eyes Blind: The Limits of the DMCA in a Web 2.0 World (PDF 276Kb)
by Amir Hassanabadi
The Copyright Misuse Doctrine’s Role in Open and Closed Technology Platforms
(PDF 238Kb)
by Jonas P. Herrell
How to Circumvent Technological Protection Measures Without Violating the DMCA: An Examination of Technical Protection Measures Under Current Legal Standards (PDF 143Kb)
by Ryan Iwahashi
Agency Regulation in Copyright Law: Rulemaking under the DMCA and Its Broader Implications (PDF 323Kb)
by Arielle Singh
Additional Developments (PDF 132Kb)
by BTLJ

Trademark law

Authenticate This: Revamping Secondary Trademark Liability Standards to Address a Worldwide Web of Counterfeits (PDF 259Kb)
by Michelle C. Leu
Tarnishing the Dilution by Tarnishment Cause of Action: Starbucks Corp. v. Wolfe’s Borough Coffee, Inc. and V Secret Catalogue, Inc. v. Moseley, Compared (PDF 272Kb)
by Britt N. Lovejoy
When Enough Control Is Not Enough: The Conflicting Standards of Secondary Liability in Rosetta Stone (PDF 284Kb)
by Lauren E. Sims
Paying for Infringement: Implicating Credit Card Networks in Secondary Trademark Liability (PDF 510Kb)
by Kelly K. Yang
Additional Developments (PDF 100Kb)
by BTLJ

Cyberlaw

Redefining Net Neutrality After Comcast v. FCC (PDF 302Kb)
by Alexander Reicher
Additional Developments (PDF 100Kb)
by BTLJ

Privacy Law

The Truth Can Catch the Lie: The Flawed Understanding of Online Speech in In re Anonymous Online Speakers (PDF 325Kb)
by Musetta Durkee
Locating Location Privacy (PDF 260Kb)
by David H. Goetz
Ontario v. Quon: In Search of A Reasonable Fourth Amendment (PDF 331Kb)
by Miles K. Palley
Additional Developments (PDF 104Kb)
by BTLJ

Other Developments in Intellectual Property

Other Developments (PDF 115Kb)
by BTLJ

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Volume 25, Issue 1 (Annual Review 2010)

Posted on October 10, 2010 by BTLJ under Annual Review, Journal, Volume 25, 2010

Front Matter (PDF 198Kb)
by BTLJ
Foreword (PDF 132Kb)
by BTLJ

Patent Law

A Nail in the Coffin for Gene Patents (PDF 169Kb)
by Joanne Kwan
A Matter of Opinion: Opinions of Counsel Remain Necessary After In re Seagate (PDF 207Kb)
by Pan C. Lee
Forum Shopping and Venue Transfer in Patent Cases: Marshall’s Response to TS Tech and Genentech (PDF 293Kb)
by Elizabeth P. Offen-Brown
Adverse Clinical and Public Health Consequences of Limited Anti-Retroviral Licensing (PDF 287Kb)
by Jay Purcell
Follow-on Biologics, Data Exclusivity, and the FDA (PDF 191 Kb)
by Linfong Tzeng
Rise of the Patent Intermediaries (PDF 471Kb)
by Allen W. Wang
Additional Developments (PDF 134Kb)
by BTLJ

Copyright Law

iPhone Jailbreaking Under the DMCA: Towards a Functionalist Approach in Anti-Circumvention (PDF 302Kb)
by Michael K. Cheng
The Winding Stream: Entitlement Theories and Intellectual Property Rights in Emerging Media Technologies (PDF 216Kb)
by Blake Holland
Market Access in China—Publications and Audiovisual Materials: A Moral Victory With a Silver Lining (PDF 230Kb)
by Elanor A. Mangin
A New (Old) Solution for Online Copyright Enforcement After Thomas and Tenenbaum (PDF 247Kb)
by Will Moseley
Two Conflicting Approaches to § 512(c): Io v. Veoh and UMG v. Veoh (PDF 178Kb)
by Kuruvilla J. Olasa
The Associated Press v. All Headline News: How Hot News Misappropriation Will Shape the Unsettled Customary Practices of Online Journalism (PDF 217Kb)
by Daniel S. Park
Additional Developments (PDF 105Kb)
by BTLJ

Trademark law

Beyond Rescuecom v. Google: The Future of Keyword Advertising (PDF 205Kb)
by Kristin Kemnitzer
Grand Theft Architecture: Architectural Works in Video Games After E.S.S. Entertainment v. Rockstar Games (PDF 249Kb)
by David K. Stark
Domain Name Speculation: Are We Playing Whac-A-Mole? (PDF 225Kb)
by Sara D. Sunderland
Additional Developments (PDF 119Kb)
by BTLJ

Cyberlaw

Internet Safety Survey: Who Will Protect the Children? (PDF 218Kb)
by Charlotte Chang
Internet Gambling: Recent Developments and State of the Law (PDF 213Kb)
by Charles P. Ciaccio, Jr
Stemming Sexting: Sensible Legal Approaches to Teenagers’ Exchange of Self-Produced Pornography (PDF 279Kb)
by Elizabeth C. Eraker
Craigslist—A Case for Criminal Liability for Online Service Providers? (PDF 181Kb)
by Shahrzad T. Radbod
Additional Developments (PDF 100Kb)
by BTLJ

Privacy Law

Cloud Computing and Stored Communications: Another Look at Quon v. Arch Wireless (PDF 213Kb)
by David S. Barnhill
IMS Health v. Ayotte: A New Direction on Commercial Speech Cases (PDF 194Kb)
by Alexander D. Baxter
The Death of the Privacy Policy?: Effective Privacy Disclosures After In re Sears (PDF 213Kb)
by Yan Fang
Additional Developments (PDF 116Kb)
by BTLJ

Antitrust Law

Google and Antitrust (PDF 71Kb)
by BTLJ

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Volume 24, Issue 1 (Annual Review 2009)

Posted on April 9, 2009 by BTLJ under Annual Review, Journal, Volume 24, 2009

Foreword
by Tamar R. Gubins & Danny Prati
The Exhaustion Doctrine Revived? Assessing the Scope and Possible Effects of the Supreme Court’s Quanta Decision
by Andrew T. Dufresne
The Board Bites Back: Bilski and the B.P.A.I.
by Justin M. Lee
Paice Yourselves: A Basic Framework for Ongoing Royalty Determinations in Patent Law
by Stephen M. Ullmer
Model Jury Instructions on Nonobviousness in the Wake of KSR: The Northern District of California’s Approach
by Tolga S. Gulmen
The Patentability of Chiral Drugs Post-KSR: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
by Miles J. Sweet

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Volume 14, Issue 1 (Annual Review 1999)

Posted on April 26, 1999 by BTLJ under Annual Review, Journal, Volume 14, 1999

Annual Review of Law and Technology

A Collection of Student Written Case Notes Reviewing Many of the Most Important Technology Cases and Issues of the Year (not currently available online)

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Volume 13, Issue 1 (Annual Review 1998)

Posted on March 26, 1998 by BTLJ under Annual Review, Journal, Volume 13, 1998

Annual Review of Law and Technology

A Collection of Student Written Case Notes Reviewing Many of the Most Important Technology Cases and Issues of the Year (not currently available online)

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