Intellectual Property Stories

Name: Intellectual Property Stories
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ISBN: 9781587787270

ISBN-10: 158778727X

ISBN-13: 9781587787270

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jane Ginsburg, Rochelle Dreyfuss

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Intellectual Property Stories assembles 15 nationally-recognized full-time members of the intellectual property professorate to bring famous cases to life by exploring the history, policy, and human interests underlying the canonic cases in the field. The stories are organized into six chapters, each drawing on cases in patents, copyrights, trademarks, or unfair competition, to illustrate the problems intellectual property law encounters. The works, inventions, and marks at issue in these cases vary widely. Many of the stories illustrate more than the issue identified in the chapter title. Thus, it is possible to confine one's reading to an individual intellectual property regime, and still…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: West Academic
Publication date: 12/5/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 438
Size: 6.50" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

Jane Ginsburg is Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law and Director of the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at the Columbia University School of Law. She is also an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.



Introduction and Overview


Justifications for Intellectual Property Protection


The Story of INS v. AP: Property, Natural Monopoly, and the Uneasy Legacy of a Concocted Controversy (Unfair Competition)


The Story of Wheaton v. Peters: A Curious Chapter in the History of Judicature (Copyright)


Creativity and Inventiveness


The Story of Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Company: Originality as a Vehicle for Copyright Inclusivity (Copyright)


The Story of Graham v. John Deere Company: Patent Law's Evolving Standard of Creativity (Patents)


Freedom of Ideas and of Competition


The Story of Baker v. Selden: Sharpening the Distinction between Authorship and Invention (Copyright)


The Story of Diamond v. Diehr: Toward Patenting Software (Patents)


The Story of Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co.: Breakfast with Brandeis (Trademarks and Unfair Competition)


Scope of Protection


The Story of Folsom v. Marsh: Distinguishing Between Infringing and Legitimate Uses (Copyright)


The Story of Graver Tank v. Linde: Intellectual Property Infringement in Flux (Patents)


Responses to Technological Change


The Story of Diamond v. Chakrabarty: Technological Change and the Subject Matter Boundaries of the Patent System (Patents)


The Story of Sony v. Universal Studios: Mary Poppins Meets the Boston Strangler (Copyright)


International Dimensions of Protection


The Story of Steele v. Bulova: Trademarks on the Line (Trademarks)


Author's Bios