- Where Do High Tech Commercial Innovations Come From?By: Lewis Branscomb On February 19, 2004, Dr. Lewis Branscomb gave the Meredith and Kip Frey Lecture in Intellectual Property at Duke Law School. In his speech, Dr. Branscomb discussed various models for turning ...
- Should Juries Hear Complex Patent Cases?By: Jennifer F. Miller A debate has arisen within the legal community over the existence and constitutionality of a so-called “complexity exception” to the Seventh Amendment. This exception would give a judge the discretion ...
- UK’s Implementation of the Anti-Circumvention Provisions of the EU Copyright Directive: An AnalysisBy: Aashit Shah The debate surrounding utilization of technological protection measures to secure copyrighted works in the digital arena has raised many an eyebrow in the past few years. Technological protection measures are broadly ...
- Investigating Terrorism: The Role of the First AmendmentBy: Amy E. Hooper This iBrief discusses the constitutionality of a government policy enacted shortly after September 11, 2001 that denies public access to deportation hearings in cases allegedly bearing some connection to terrorism. ...
- The “Commercial Offer for Sale” Standard After Minnesota Mining v. ChemqueBy: Campbell Chiang The Supreme Court established a two-part test for determining when an invention is “on sale” under 35 U.S.C. §102(b) in Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc. For the on-sale bar to be ...