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Law of Intellectual Property, Fifth Edition

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Authors
  • Craig Allen Nard
  • Michael J. Madison
  • Mark P. McKenna
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
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Book length
1572 pages
Publication Date
2017-02-24
Edition
Fifth Edition
Teaching Materials
NO
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This comprehensive and practical book focuses on the core concepts of Intellectual Property. Its innovative pedagogy engages students with problems drawn from actual cases and provides them with introductions to cases and contextual summaries in the notes.

Patent: Up to date Federal Circuit and Supreme Court case law, including:
• Nautilus, Alice, Teva, Williamson, and Lexmark
• Detailed substantive comments following the principal cases
• More statistics and charts, particularly relating to USPTO decision-making and PTAB inter partes review
• Enhanced Patent Reform Perspectives (i.e., America Invents Act)

Copyright:
• Expanded coverage of contemporary developments in copyright law, with 13 new cases;
• Broader coverage of recent developments gives adopters greater flexibility in choosing materials within that structure.

Trademark:
• Updated to reflect recent Supreme Court decisions
• New materials on bars to registration, functionality, expressive use, and remedies

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About the authors
Michael J. Madison
University of Pittsburgh

Professor Madison writes and teaches about information law and theory. Classroom subjects include various disciplines of intellectual property law, contracts and commercial law, and property law. His scholarship builds on research on common pool resources, on governance, and on quot;knowledgequot; as a subject of legal regulation. Professor Madison joined the University of Pittsburgh Law faculty in 1998. Before becoming a law professor, he practiced law in California for nine years. uBooks and Book Chaptersu The Law of Intellectual Property, 2nd edition, (with Craig Nard and David Barnes), includes Teachers#39; Manual and website (Aspen Publishers, 2009). The Law of Intellectual Property (Aspen Publishers, 2006) (with Craig Nard and David Barnes) Fair Use and Social Practices, in Intellectual Property and Information Wealth (Greenwood Publishers, 2006) (Peter Yu ed.) Articles and Essays Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment, 95 CORNELL L. REV. 657-709 (2010) (with Brett M. Frischmann Katherine J. Strandburg). The Complexity of Commons, 95 CORNELL L. REV. 839-850 (2010) (with Brett M. Frischmann Katherine J. Strandburg). Beyond Creativity, Copyright as Knowledge Law, 12 VANDERBILT J. ENT. TECH. L. 817-851 (2010). Some Optimism About Fair Use and Copyright Law, 57 J. COPYRIGHT SOC#39;Y U.S.A. 351-370 (2010). Of Coase and Comics, or the Comedy of Copyright, 95 VA. L. REV. IN BRIEF 27- 42 (2009). Notes on a Geography of Knowledge, 77 FORDHAM L. REV. 2038-2085 (2009). The University as Constructed Cultural Commons, 30 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY J.L. POLrsquo;Y 365-406 (2009) (with Brett M. Frischmann Katherine J. Strandburg). Intellectual Property and Americana, or Why Intellectual Property Gets the Blues, 18 FORDHAM INTELL. PROP. MEDIA ENT. L.J. 677-710 (2008). Writing to Learn Law and Writing in Law: An Intellectual Property Illustration, 52 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 823-41 (2008). Metaphor, Objects, and Commodities, 54 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 141-174 (2006) (with George Taylor). The Idea of the Law Review: Scholarship, Prestige, and Open Access 10 Lewis Clark L. Rev. 901 (2006). Social Software, Groups, and Governance 2006 Mich. St. L. Rev. 153 Law as Design: Objects, Concepts, and Digital Things 56 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 381 (2005).

Mark P. McKenna
Notre Dame University

Mark P. McKenna teaches and writes in the area of intellectual property. Professor McKenna is widely recognized as a leading scholar in the trademark area, having published a number of articles in leading law journals on the topic of trademark law. He has also written about copyright law, the right of publicity, and the intersection of intellectual property rights regimes. Some of his latest projects deal with concerns about intergenerational equity in intellectual property and the role of the placebo effect in intellectual property policy. Professor McKenna joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty on a permanent basis in the Fall of 2008 after visiting for a semester in the Spring of 2008. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor McKenna was a member of the faculty at Saint Louis University School of Law and practiced law with an intellectual property firm in Chicago, where he primarily litigated trademark and copyright cases. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1997 with a degree in Economics and earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2000. In addition to various intellectual property courses, Professor McKenna teaches the first year Torts class and has previously taught Civil Procedure. uArticlesu A Consumer Decision-Making Model of Trademark Law, 97 VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW (2011). Owning Mark(et)s, 109 MICH. L. REV. 137 (2010) (with Mark A. Lemley). Irrelevant Confusion, 62 STAN. L. REV. 413 (2010) (with Mark A. Lemley). Testing Modern Trademark Lawrsquo;s Theory of Harm, 95 IOWA L. REV. 63 (2009). Trademark Use and the Problem of Source, 2009 U. ILL. L. REV. 773 (2009). The Normative Foundations of Trademark Law, 82 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1839 (2007); reprinted at 97 TRADEMARK REP. 1126 (2007). The Right of Publicity and Autonomous Self-Definition, 67 U. PITT. L. REV. 225 (2005).

Product Information
Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2017-02-24
Copyright Year
2017
Pages
1572
Connected eBook + Hardcover
9781454875710
Looseleaf
9781543814453
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798886140415
Subject
Intellectual Property
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