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Intellectual Property and the Common Law.
Leading scholars of intellectual property and information policy examine what the common law can contribute to discussions about intellectual property's scope, structure and function.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Background: What is the Common Law?; II. Overview; A. Judge-Made Intellectual Property Law; B. The Common Law Method in Intellectual Property; C. State Intellectual Property Law; D. Plural Values in Intellectual Property; E. Parallels between the Substantive Common Law and Intellectual Property; Conclusion: A Common Theme; Part I Judge-Made Intellectual Property Law; 1 Judges and Property; Introduction; I. Rejecting Property Exceptionalism; II. The Character of Property; III. Grand Style Adjudication; IV. Legislatures and Courts.
- A. PerformanceB. Legitimacy; Concluding Remarks; 2 Equitable Intellectual Property; Introduction; I. Misappropriation; II. Equity as a Solution to Opportunism; III. Judicial Regulation of the Competitive Process; IV. Conclusion; 3 The Mixed Heritage of Federal Intellectual Property Law and Ramifications for Statutory Interpretation; I. The Formative Period; A. Copyright Law; B. Patent Law; II. Statutory Consolidation, Codification, and Revision; A. Copyright Law; B. Patent Law; III. The Modern Era; A. Copyright Law; B. Patent Law.
- IV. The Ramifications of the Mixed Heritage of Copyright and Patent Law for the Continued Evolution of Intellectual Property Law4 Interpretive Methodology and Delegations to Courts; Introduction; I. Common Law Statutes and Congressional Delegations; II. "Sweeping, General Terms"; III. Common Law History; IV. Delegations to Courts Today; 5 Dynamic Claim Interpretation; Introduction; I. Patents and Claims; II. Claim Construction; III. Reading Legal Texts; IV. Ordinary Claim Meaning; V. Dynamic Statutory Interpretation; VI. Constructing Claims Dynamically; Conclusion.
- 6 Did Phillips Change Anything?Introduction: The Design of the Federal Circuit; I. The Prelude to Phillips: A Recap of Recent Claim Construction History; A. An Introduction to Claim Construction; B. Claim Construction and Institutional Design; C. Earlier Related Studies and Their Findings; D. The Phillips v. AWH Response; II. Study Design and Methodology; A. About Content Analysis; B. Database Construction; C. Testing for Reliability; III. Results; A. The Phillips Effect, Part 1: Aggregate Results; B. The Phillips Effect, Part 2: Methodological Trends; C. Why Did Phillips Not Change the Law?
- 1. The Nonbinding Nature of the Phillips Opinion2. The Federal Circuit's Decision-Making Process; 3. A Results-Oriented Court; 4. Patent Drafting Drives the Results; 5. Jurisprudential Time Lag; 6. Failure of the Study; D. If Phillips Did Not Change the Law, What Did It Do?; 1. Reduce Disputes among Federal Circuit Judges?; 2. Reduce Appeals on Claim Construction?; IV. Is the Federal Circuit Succeeding? Revisited: The Lessons of Phillips; A. Wrong Choice Number One: Embracing the Holistic Methodological Approach; B. Wrong Choice Number Two: The "Anything Goes" Phillips Opinion.