This book provides a thoughtful and balanced treatment of key legal developments in the courts, agencies, and legislatures in every area of IP law. The 2009 edition reports on nearly 200 top IP legal developments, including: In re Volkswagen of America, Inc.; In re TS Tech USA Corp.;Tafas v. Doll;Broadcom v. Qualcomm;In re Bose Corp.;Elsevier v. Muchnick; and Salinger v. Colting

Get quick access to the most important developments in intellectual property law and practice in 2010. Perfect for when you need to give immediate advice, update research or ensure you are up-to-date on an issue, this the only single-volume annual review publication that covers developments in all areas of IP law, including patent, trademark, and copyright. It is written, organized and edited by nearly 100 experts. A detailed Table of Contents features both the development name and a one-line summary for fast, on-point information. Includes searchable CD-ROM.

This book includes thoughtful and balanced treatment of the key legal developments in the courts, agencies, and legislatures. It provides comprehensive coverage of: proposed legislation and agency rules; recent Supreme Court cases (Ebay and Medimmune); recent Federal Circuit en banc decisions (In re Seagate and Eqyptian Goddess); recent federal circuit decisions on business method patents (In re Bilski and In re Comiskey); new patent and TTAB rules; and recent patent developments concerning standards setting organizations.

For over 37 years, Antitrust Law Developments and its annual supplements have been recognized as the single most authoritative and comprehensive set of research tools for antitrust practitioners. The 2009 Annual Review of Antitrust Law Developments summarizes developments during 2009 in the courts, at the agencies, and in Congress.

This book addresses clients' questions regarding intellectual property insurance coverage and contains information vital to litigators who wish to use insurance to reimburse the cost of defending IP lawsuits, or obtain moneys for their settlement and/or indemnification of damage awards. The book focuses on the policy language carriers have used, how courts have interpreted these, and issues IP practitioners need to be sensitive to in litigating insurance cases.

This book explores and discusses how to obtain traditional intellectual property law rights in the non-traditional settings of video game and virtual world environments, and serves as a primer for researching these emerging legal issues. Each chapter addresses: end user license agreements; copyrights, patents, trademarks; and trade secrets, as addressed by U.S. law. It also covers international legal issues stemming from the multi-national user-base and foreign operation of many virtual worlds.

Intellectual property has become a dominant feature of our knowledge based economy in recent years, but how has property rights in intangible items developed? This book brings together for the first time exemplary scholarship with diverse approaches to the history of United States intellectual property protection, including trade secrets, trademark, copyright, and patent law. These articles, written by leading experts in the field and often challenging conventional narratives, underscore the importance of historical perspectives for understanding how an extensive, evolving framework for the regulation of knowledge emerged in the modern period. By tracing intellectual property from an historical perspective - not merely providing justifications in philosophy or economics in the abstract - this book draws upon the past to address contemporary debates over such varied topics as: access to knowledge; policing copyright infringement; whether employees should own the products of their minds; the role of national borders in an age of digital information; and the very future of intellectual property as stakeholders and consumers contest the extent of its legal protection.

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