Robert A. Lucas Chair of Law; Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Research
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Books
PATENT LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (with Sichelman, et al.). Forthcoming, 2021.
RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON TRADEMARK LAW REFORM (with Graeme B. Dinwoodie, eds.). Edward Elgar, 2021.
PATENT LAW: AN OPEN-SOURCE CASEBOOK (with Ted M. Sichelman, et al.), 2021.
TRADEMARK AND UNFAIR COMPETITION IN A NUTSHELL, 3RD Ed. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing, 2021.
TRADEMARKS AND UNFAIR COMPETITION: LAW AND POLICY, 5th Ed. (with Graeme B. Dinwoodie). New York: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2018.
TRADEMARK AND UNFAIR COMPETITION IN A NUTSHELL, 2nd Ed. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing, 2017.
IP AND ANTITRUST: AN ANALYSIS OF ANTITRUST PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW, 3rd Ed. (with H. Hovenkamp, et. al.). New York: Wolters Kluwer, 2016.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW OF PLANTS (with H.H. Jervis and R. Peet). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
TRADEMARK AND UNFAIR COMPETITION LAW (Edited with Graeme B. Dinwoodie). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014.
TRADEMARKS AND UNFAIR COMPETITION: LAW AND POLICY, 4th Ed. (with Graeme B. Dinwoodie). New York: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2014. Updates: Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015.
TRADEMARK AND UNFAIR COMPETITION LAW IN A NUTSHELL. Eagan, MN: West Publishing, 2013.
TRADEMARKS IN A NUTSHELL (with Graeme B. Dinwoodie) Eagan, MN: West Publishing, 2012.
TRADEMARKS AND UNFAIR COMPETITION: LAW & POLICY, 3rd Ed. (with Graeme B. Dinwoodie). New York: Aspen Publishers, 2010. Supplements: 2011, 2012.
TRADE DRESS AND DESIGN LAW (with Graeme B. Dinwoodie). New York: Aspen Publishers, 2010.
IP AND ANTITRUST LAW: AN ANALYSIS OF ANTITRUST PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW, 2nd Ed. (with H. Hovenkamp, et. al.). New York: Aspen Law & Business Publishers, 2009.
TRADEMARK LAW AND THEORY: A HANDBOOK OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH (with Graeme B Dinwoodie, Eds.). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008.
TRADEMARKS AND UNFAIR COMPETITION: LAW & POLICY, 2nd Ed. (with Graeme B. Dinwoodie). New York: Aspen Publishers, 2007. Supplements: 2008, 2009.
TRADEMARKS AND UNFAIR COMPETITION: LAW & POLICY (with Graeme B. Dinwoodie). New York: Aspen Publishers, 2004. Supplements: 2005, 2006.
IP AND ANTITRUST LAW: AN ANALYSIS OF ANTITRUST PRINCIPLES APPLIED TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (with H. Hovenkamp and M.A. Lemley). New York: Aspen Law & Business Publishers, 2002.
Articles
Training Post-Millennial IP Lawyers: A Field Guide (with Norman J. Hedges), 11 no. 3 LANDSLIDE (2019). [HeinOnline]
How Should Damages be Calculated for Design Patent Infringement?, 37 REVIEW OF LITIGATION 241 (2018). [HeinOnline]
We're Your Patent Lawyers -- So Fire Us, Please (with Norman J. Hedges), INDIANAPOLIS BUSINESS JOURNAL (Aug. 24, 2018).
Mr. Nicholson's Cane, 59 ARIZONA LAW REVIEW 647 (2017). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Disclosing Designs (with Jason J. DuMont), 69 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 1631 (2016). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Expressive Eligibility (with Timothy R. Holbrook), 5 UC IRVINE LAW REVIEW 973 (2015). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Patent-Eligible Processes: An Audience Perspective (with Timothy R. Holbrook), 17 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT AND TECHNOLOGY LAW 349 (2015). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
Virtual Designs (with Jason Du Mont), 17 STANFORD TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW 107 (2014). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]
The Origins of American Design Protection (with Jason Du Mont), 88 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 837 (2013). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
The False Allure of Patent Eligibility Restrictions in the U.S., 43 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITION LAW: IIC 1 (2012).
Functionality in Design Protection Systems (with Jason Du Mont), 19 JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW 262 (2012). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Patent Law's Audience (with Timothy R. Holbrook), 97 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 72 (2012). [SSRN] [ HeinOnline]
Tuning the Obviousness Inquiry After KSR, 7 WASHINGTON JOURNAL OF LAW, TECHNOLOGY & ARTS 335 (2012). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Panel II: The Global Contours of IP Protection for Trade Dress, Industrial Design, Applied Art, and Product Configuration (published remarks) (with S. Scafidi, et. al.), 20 FORDHAM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL 783 (2010). [HeinOnline]
International and Comparative Aspects of Trademark Dilution (with Peter K. Yu), 17 TRANSNATIONAL LAW & CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS 603 (2008). [HeinOnline]
Confusion Over Use: Contextualism in Trademark Law (with Graeme B. Dinwoodie), 92 IOWA LAW REVIEW 1597 (2007) [SSRN] [HeinOnline]. Reprinted in 98 TRADEMARK REPORTER 1086 (2008). [HeinOnline]
Lessons from the Trademark Use Debate (with Graeme B. Dinwoodie), 92 IOWA LAW REVIEW 1703 (2007). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Technological Change and the Design of Plant Variety Protection Regimes (with Stephen Smith), 82 CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW 1557 (2007). [HeinOnline]. To be reprinted, U.N. FAO Legal Office legal studies papers (2008).
Dilution's (Still) Uncertain Future (with Graeme B. Dinwoodie), 105 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW FIRST IMPRESSIONS 98 (2006). [HeinOnline]
Rules v. Standards for Patent Law in the Plant Sciences, 24 LAW IN CONTEXT: A SOCIO-LEGAL JOURNAL 54 (2006). [HeinOnline]. Reprinted in AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION: SEEDS OF CHANGE (Jay P. Kesan, Ed.). Oxford: CABI, 2007.
Unilateral Refusals to License (with Herbert Hovenkamp and Mark A. Lemley), 2 JOURNAL OF COMPETITION LAW AND ECONOMICS 1 (2006). [HeinOnline]
Balancing Ease and Accuracy in Assessing Pharmaceutical Exclusion Payments (with Herbert Hovenkamp and Mark A. Lemley), 88 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 712 (2004). [HeinOnline]
Commentary, Equilibrium in a Technology-Specific Patent System, 54 CASE WESTERN RESERVE LAW REVIEW 743 (2004). [HeinOnline]
Reforming Patent Validity Litigation: The “Dubious Preponderance”, 19 BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL 923 (2004). [HeinOnline]
Supplemental Forms of Intellectual Property Protection for Plants, 6 MINNESOTA JOURNAL OF LAW, SCIENCE, & TECHNOLOGY 305 (2004). [HeinOnline]. Reprinted in 7 BIO-SCIENCE LAW REVIEW 32 (2005).
Anticompetitive Settlement of Intellectual Property Disputes (with Herbert Hovenkamp and Mark A. Lemley), 87 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 1719 (2003). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Intellectual Property Protection for Plant Innovation: Unresolved Issues After J.E.M. v. Pioneer (with Jay P. Kesan), 20 NATURE/BIOTECHNOLOGY 1161 (2002).
Patent Abolitionism 17 BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL 899 (2002). [HeinOnline]. Reprinted in PATENTS (CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW SERIES), (J. S. Miller, Ed.). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2010.
Symposium in Memory of David H. Vernon: An Introduction (with Hillary A. Sale), 27 JOURNAL OF CORPORATION LAW 499 (2002). [HeinOnline]
Transitions in IP and Antitrust, 47 ANTITRUST BULLETIN 253 (2002). [HeinOnline]
U.S. Plant Variety Protection: Sound and Fury...? (with Jay P. Kesan), 39 HOUSTON LAW REVIEW 727 (2002). [HeinOnline] [SSRN] Reprinted in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN LAW, v. 3 (David Vaver, Ed.). London: Routledge, 2006.
Designing an Optimal Intellectual Property System for Plants: A Supreme Court Debate (with Jay P. Kesan), 19 NATURE/BIOTECHNOLOGY 981 (October 2001).
Patent Law in the Age of the Invisible Supreme Court, 2001 ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 387 (2001). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]
Sustainable Agriculture, Patent Rights, and Plant Innovation, 9 INDIANA JOURNAL OF GLOBAL LEGAL STUDIES 91 (2001). [HeinOnline]
Inter Partes Patent Reexamination, 10 FORDHAM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, MEDIA, AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL 481 (2000). [HeinOnline]
On Courts Herding Cats: Contending with the Written Description Requirement, 2 WASHINGON UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF LAW & POLICY 55 (2000). [HeinOnline]
Second Tier Patent Protection, 40 HARVARD INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 151 (1999). [HeinOnline] Reprinted in 33 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REVIEW 17 (2001).
A Tale of the Apocryphal Axe: Repair, Reconstruction, and the Implied License in Intellectual Property Law, 58 MARYLAND LAW REVIEW 423 (1999). [HeinOnline]
Who’s Afraid of Functional Claims: Reforming the Federal Circuit’s §112, ¶6 Jurisprudence, 15 SANTA CLARA COMPUTER & HIGH TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW 231 (1999). [HeinOnline]
Rethinking Reexamination: Towards a Viable Administrative Revocation System for U.S. Patent Law, 11 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY 1 (1997). [HeinOnline] Excerpted in FOUNDATIONS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (Robert P. Merges & Jane Ginsburg). New York: Foundation Press, 2004.
Unmasking Structural Equivalency: The Intersection of §112, ¶6 Equivalents and the Doctrine of Equivalents 4 ALBANY LAW JOURNAL OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 205 (1994). [HeinOnline]
Judge and Jury Roles in Equivalents Analysis: Commentary on Malta v. Schulmerich Carillons, 74 JOURNAL OF PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE SOCIETY 621 (1992). [HeinOnline]
Books Chapters
Secondary Liability in U.S. Trademark Law: The Ambivalent Legacy of Warner v. Lilly, in BENTLY & BONE, HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TRADEMARK LAW. Elgar: forthcoming 2022.
Trends in Functionality Jurisprudence: U.S. and E.U. Design Law (with Jason J. Du Mont) in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON DESIGN LAW (Henning Hartwig, ed.). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021.
Examining Functionality, in TRANSITION AND COHERENCE IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF ANNETTE KUR (Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Marianne Levin, & Ansgar Ohly, eds.). Cambridge University Press, 2021.
American Design Patent Law: A Legal History (with Jason J. DuMont) in DESIGN PATENT REMEDIES. New York: Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2018. [SSRN]
Functionality in U.S. Design Patent & Community Design Law (with Jason J. DuMont), in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON DESIGN LAW. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, Forthcoming 2018. [SSRN]
US Design Patent Law: A Historical Look at the Design Patent/Copyright Interface (with Jason J. DuMont), in THE COPYRIGHT/DESIGN INTERFACE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (Estelle Derclaye, Ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. [SSRN]
Non-Obvious Plants in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE LIFE SCIENCES (D. Matthews and H. Zech, Eds.). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016.
Patenting Plants: A Comparative Synthesis in PATENT LAW IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (R.L. Okediji and M.A. Bagley, Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Interfaces in Plant Intellectual Property, in OVERLAPPING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (Neil Wilkof and Shamnad Basheer, Eds.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Patent Pools, in ISSUES IN COMPETITION LAW AND POLICY VOL. ONE (Wayne Dale Collison, Ed.). Chicago: American Bar Association, 2008.
“Minimal” Standards for Patent/Antitrust Under TRIPs, in INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC GOODS & TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY UNDER A GLOBALIZED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REGIME (Keith Maskus and Jerome H. Reichman, Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2005.
Unilateral Refusals to License in the US (with Herbert Hovenkamp and Mark A. Lemley), in ANTITRUST, PATENTS AND COPYRIGHT (Francois Leveque & Howard Shelanski, Eds.). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.
Use, Constructive Use, and Registration in the United States (with Graeme B. Dinwoodie), in TRADE MARK USE (Jeremy Phillips and Ilanah Simon, Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University, 2005.
Intellectual Property Issues in Plant Breeding and Plant Biotechnology, in BIOTECHNOLOGY, GENE FLOW, AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: AN AGRICULTURAL SUMMIT . West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Pub. RB-995 (2002).
Themes in Federal Circuit Patent Jurisprudence, 2000-2001, in 7 INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW & POLICY (Hugh C. Hansen, Ed.) New York: Juris Publishing, 2002.
Book Reviews
Book Review. Liber Amicorum Joseph Straus, 42 INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITION LAW: ICC 752 (2011).
Editorials & Commentaries
We're Your Patent Lawyers -- So Fire Us, Please (with Norman Hedges), IBJ.COM (Aug. 24, 2018).
Briefs
Brief of Amici Curiae on Behalf of Intellectual Property Professors in Support of Respondent Apple Inc. in Samsung v. Apple, 2016. [SSRN]
Brief of Amici Curiae Jason J. DuMont and Mark D. Janis in Support of Appellee Apple Inc. in Apple v. Samsung. 2015. [SSRN]
Brief of Amici Curiae Mark D. Janis and Timothy R. Holbrook in Support of Neither Party in ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Eli Lilly & Co., 2009. [SSRN]