Intellectual property : patents, trademarks, and copyright in a nutshell / by Arthur R. Miller, Michael H. Davis.
2012
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Title
Intellectual property : patents, trademarks, and copyright in a nutshell / by Arthur R. Miller, Michael H. Davis.
Published
St. Paul, MN : West, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Call Number
KF2980 .M52 2012
Edition
Fifth edition.
ISBN
0314278346
9780314278340
9780314278340
Description
xxxiii, 473 pages ; 19 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)779883682
Note
Includes index.
Series
Record Appears in
Added Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
iii
Table of Cases
xv
Introduction
1
pt. I
PATENTS
ch. 1
The Foundations of Patent Protection
4
1.1.
Origins and Development of United States Patent Law
4
1.2.
Patent Basic
10
1.3.
The Two Theories of Patent Protection
17
ch. 2
The Subject Matter of Patents
21
2.1.
Ideas v. Applications
21
2.2.
The Statutory Scheme
22
2.3.
Processes as Subject Matter Apart From Products
27
2.4.
The Boundaries of the Three Product Categories
29
2.5.
Compositions of Matter
31
2.6.
Manufacture
32
2.7.
Machines
32
2.8.
Computer-Related Patents
33
2.9.
Orphan Drug Act
37
2.10.
Plant and Design Patents
39
ch. 3
Patentability---Novelty and Statutory Bar
43
3.1.
Overview
43
3.2.
Foreign Anticipation
48
3.3.
Domestic Anticipation
49
3.4.
References to Prior Publications
50
3.5.
Substantial and Realized Anticipation
54
3.6.
Statutory Bar
56
3.7.
The Policies of Statutory Bar
59
3.8.
Publicity and Limited Disclosures
61
3.9.
Competing Claims to Novelty by Two or More Inventors---Priority
65
ch. 4
Patentability---Utility
71
4.1.
Qualitative Utility
71
4.2.
Presumed Utility
72
ch. 5
Patentability---Nonobviousness
75
5.1.
Overview
75
5.2.
Invention and Nonobviousness
79
5.3.
Negative Rules of Invention
82
5.4.
The Statutory Test
86
5.5.
Nonobviousness and Novelty
91
5.6.
The Secondary Considerations
92
5.7.
The Importation of Section 102 Prior Art into Section 103
97
ch. 6
Double-Patenting
101
6.1.
Attempts to Extend the Patent Monopoly
101
6.2.
Terminal Disclaimer
103
ch. 7
The Patenting Process
105
7.1.
Overview
105
7.2.
Provisional Patent Applications
106
7.3.
The Patentee
107
7.4.
Joint Invention
109
7.5.
Prosecuting a Patent Application
112
7.6.
The Specifications and Claims
116
7.7.
The Limits of Agency Discretion
119
7.8.
Claims Drafting
121
7.9.
The Duty of Candor
124
7.10.
Publication of Patent Applications
128
7.11.
Reissue and Reexamination
129
7.12.
Judicial Review
133
ch. 8
Infringement
136
8.1.
Overview
136
8.2.
File Wrapper, or Prosecution History, Estoppel
137
8.3.
Claim Interpretation---Differentiation, Literality, and Equivalence
138
8.4.
The Patent Rights
141
8.5.
Direct, Indirect, and Contributory Infringement
143
8.6.
Repair and Reconstruction
149
8.7.
Infringement Defenses---Misuse and Experimental Use
151
8.8.
Prior User Defense
155
8.9.
Licensee Estoppel
156
ch. 9
Remedies
158
9.1.
Overview
158
9.2.
Injunctive Relief
159
9.3.
Damages
160
9.4.
Attorneys' Fees
160
9.5.
Eleventh Amendment Immunity
161
ch. 10
Patent Law and the Intersection of State and Federal Regulation
162
10.1.
Overview
162
pt. II
TRADEMARKS
ch. 11
The Foundations of Trademark Protection
166
11.1.
Origins and Development of Trademark Law
166
11.2.
Common Law Trademark
169
11.3.
Federal Registration
172
ch. 12
Distinctiveness
176
12.1.
Overview
176
12.2.
Different Markets
177
12.3.
Prior Use
179
12.4.
Secondary Meaning and Descriptiveness
183
12.5.
The Bars Against Surnames, Geographic Marks, and Immoral Marks
191
12.6.
The Supplemental Register
199
ch. 13
Dilution and the Expansion of Trademark Doctrine
201
13.1.
Overview
201
13.2.
Trademarks and Goodwill
202
13.3.
Likelihood of Expansion
205
13.4.
The Interests Protected
209
13.5.
State Antidilution Statutes
212
13.6.
The Federal Antidilution Statute
213
ch. 14
Loss of Trademark Protection and Partial Protection
215
14.1.
Partial Rights
215
14.2.
The Rights of a Senior Registrant Against a Preregistration User
219
14.3.
The Rights of a Junior Registrant Against a Preregistration User
221
14.4.
Concurrent Registration
222
14.5.
Abandonment
227
14.6.
Incontestability
232
ch. 15
Trademark Practice
238
15.1.
Overview
238
15.2.
First Use in Commerce
242
15.3.
Standing
251
ch. 16
Subject Matter
254
16.1.
Overview
254
16.2.
Certification Marks
255
16.3.
Collective Marks
259
16.4.
Service Marks
262
16.5.
Primary Purpose
263
16.6.
The Functional Bar
267
16.7.
Color
270
16.8.
Section 43
271
ch. 17
Infringement
277
17.1.
Overview
277
17.2.
Similarity of Marks
279
17.3.
Similarity of Goods or Services
282
17.4.
Character and Similarity of Markets
284
17.5.
Subsidiary Evidence of Likelihood of Confusion
290
17.6.
Defenses---Fair and Collateral Use
292
17.7.
Gray Market Goods
295
17.8.
Eleventh Amendment Immunity
297
ch. 18
Remedies
298
18.1.
Overview
298
18.2.
Injunctive Relief
298
18.3.
Accounting
299
18.4.
Damages
301
18.5.
Attorneys' Fees
302
pt. III
COPYRIGHT
ch. 19
Foundations of Copyright Protection
303
19.1.
Origins and Development of Copyright Law
303
19.2.
The Copyright Act
306
19.3.
The Common Law-Statutory Copyright Distinction and the 1976 Act
308
19.4.
Copyright Basics
310
ch. 20
The Subject Matter of Copyright
314
20.1.
Originality
314
20.2.
Copyrightable Works
319
20.3.
Noncopyrightable Works
325
20.4.
Writings and Fixation
326
20.5.
Computer Programs
329
20.6.
Semiconductor Chip Protection Act
333
20.7.
Sound Recordings
335
20.8.
Copyright Formalities---Registration and Notice
340
ch. 21
Exclusive Rights
342
21.1.
Introduction
342
21.2.
Reproduction
343
21.3.
Derivative Works
344
21.4.
Distribution
346
21.5.
Performance
349
21.6.
Display
355
21.7.
Digital Transmission Performance
356
28.3.
Non-Self-Executing Force and Reservations
454
28.4.
Copyright Treaties
455
28.5.
Patent Treaties
456
28.6.
Trademark Treaties
457
28.7.
GATT, NAFTA, and TRIPS
458
28.8.
Trade Act Special Section 301
459
Index
461