Symposia

Symposium Issue | Ideas into Action: Implementing Patent Reform

• Front Matter (PDF 334Kb)
  by BTLJ
• Foreword (PDF 151Kb)
  by Mozelle W. Thompson and Susan Stark DeSanti
• To Promote Innovation: The Proper Balance of Competition and Patent Law and Policy, Executive Summary (PDF 251Kb)
  by The Federal Trade Commission
• Obvious to Whom? Evaluating Inventions From the Perspective of PHOSITA (PDF 495Kb)
  by Rebecca S. Eisenberg
• Allocating Power over Fact-Finding in the Patent System (PDF 308Kb)
  by Arti K. Rai
• Reforming Patent Validity Litigation: The “Dubious Preponderance” (PDF 231Kb)
  by Mark D. Janis
• Incentives to Challenge and Defend Patents: Why Litigation Won’t Reliably Fix Patent Office Errors and Why Administrative Patent Review Might Help (PDF 748Kb)
  by Joseph Farrell and Robert P. Merges
• The Metamorphosis of Inter Partes Reexamination (PDF 576Kb)
  by Stephen G. Kunin and Anton W. Fetting
• Post-Grant Reviews in the U.S. Patent System–Design Choices and Expected Impact (PDF 356Kb)
  by Bronwyn H. Hall and Dietmar Harhoff
• Patent System Reform: Economic Analysis and Critique (PDF 526Kb)
  by Carl Shapiro
• Edited Transcript of Remarks on Patent Reform: Reaction from the Judiciary (PDF 200Kb)
  by Judge Ronald M. Whyte
• Edited & Excerpted Transcript of the Symposium on Ideas into Action: Implementing Reform of the Patent System (PDF 452Kb)
  by BTLJ

Symposium Issue | The Law & Technology of Digital Rights Management

• Front Matter (PDF 183Kb)
  BTLJ
• Foreword (PDF 83Kb)
  C. J. Alice Chen & Aaron Burstein
• Edited Transcript of the David Nelson Memorial Keynote Address: A Voice from Congress on DRM (PDF 65Kb)
  Rep. Zoe Lofgren
• The DMCA and the Regulation of Scientific Research (PDF 203Kb)
  Joseph P. Liu
• Consumers and Creative Destruction: Fair Use Beyond Market Failure (PDF 201Kb)
  Raymond Shih Ray Ku
• DRM and Privacy (PDF 249Kb)
  Julie E. Cohen
• Will Merging Access Controls and Rights Controls Undermine the Structure of Anticircumvention Law? (PDF 243Kb)
  R. Anthony Reese
• DRM as an Enabler of Business Models: ISPs as Digital Retailers (PDF 162Kb)
  Lionel S. Sobel
• Edited & Excerpted Transcript of the Symposium on the Law & Technology of Digital Rights Management (PDF 264Kb)
  BTLJ

Symposium Issue : Patent System Reform

• Front Matter
  (PDF 76Kb)
  BTLJ
• Patent Misuse Through the Capture of Industry Standards
  (PDF 288Kb)
  Janice M. Mueller
• Harmony and Diversity in Global Patent Law
  (PDF 191Kb)
  John F. Duffy
• The Responsibility of the Rulemaker: Comparative Approaches to Patent Administration Reform
  (PDF 154Kb)
  John R. Thomas
• Carrots and Sticks to Create a Better Patent System
  (PDF 142Kb)
  Jay P. Kesan
• Strict Liability and its Alternatives in Patent Law
  (PDF 288Kb)
  Roger D. Blair & Thomas F. Cotter
• Jury Demands: Who’s Asking?
  (PDF 171Kb)
  Kimberly A. Moore
• Specialized Trial Courts: Concentrating Expertise on Fact
  (PDF 101Kb)
  Arti K. Rai
• Patent Abolitionism
  (PDF 264Kb)
  Mark D. Janis