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Current Patent Legal Literature

About the “Current Patent Legal Literature” website: The "Current Patent Legal Literature" website is a resource for keeping informed of current articles related to U.S. patent law. This service is edited by Jane O'Connell, Director of faculty and student services at the Tarlton Law Library. Law Library staff reviews law journals and law reviews (and a great many other legal periodicals) as they are received in the library. We examine the table of contents of all of these publications and identify any article concerning U.S. patent law. We then input the basic bibliographic information about each article into this database, and scan the first page of the article. The availability of the first page of the article should better enable readers to know if they are interested in reading the whole article. Articles will be added two to three times a week, depending on the volume of cites. This page is RSS-enabled. Subscribe to the RSS feed using a feed reader, or RSS-enabled browser (Firefox, Safari, or IE 7) to receive automatic notices of updates. The RSS feed address is http://web.austin.utexas.edu/law_library/patent/rss.cfm. The Library provides this service under the “fair use” provision of U.S. patent law. Only the first page of an article will be scanned, and images will be deleted after 60 days. This service is for non-commercial, educational purposes only. If you have any comments about this service, please contact Jane O'Connell, joconnell@law.utexas.edu.

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Articles are listed in reverse chronological order:

June 22, 2009

Author: Michael J. Chapman Title: Using Settlement Licenses in Reasonable Royalty Determinations Citation: 49 IDEA 313 (2009) Author: MJ Edwards and Donald Steinberg Title: The Implications of Bilski: Patentable Subject Matter in the United States Citation: 49 IDEA 411 (2009) Author: Michael F. Martin Title: The End of the First-to-Invent Rule: A Concise History of Its Origins Citation: 49 IDEA 435 (2009)

June 12, 2009

Author: B.D. Daniel Title: The Right of Trial by Jury in Patent Infringement Cases Citation: 38 The Review of Litigation 735 (2009) Author: Christopher Lea Lockwood Title: COMMENT, Biotechnolgoy Industry Organization v. District of Columbia: A Preemptive Strike Against State Price Restrictions on Prescription Pharmaceuticals Citation: 19 Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology 143 (2009) Author: Martin S. Masar III Title: SEMINAR ARTICLE, Effects of the Federal Circuit Judges on Hatch-Waxman Litigation Citation: 19 Journal of Art, Technology and Intellectual Property Law 315 (2009)

June 11, 2009

Author: Rex W. Miller, II Title: NOTE: Construing "Offers to Sell" Patent Infringement: Why Economic Interests Rather than Territoriality Should Guide the Construction Citation: 70 Ohio State Law Journal 403 (2009)

June 5, 2009

Author: Kate McElhone Title: Inequitable Conduct: Shifting Standards for Patent Applicants, Prosecutors and Litigators Citation: 17 Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal 385 (2009) Author: Ted L. Field Title: Improving the Federal Circuit's Approach to Choice of Law for Procedural Matters in Patent Cases Citation: 16 George Mason Law Review 643 (2009) Author: N. Scott Pierce Title: Common Sense: Treating Statutory Non-Obviousness as a Novelty Issue Citation: 25 Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal 539 (2009) Author: Eli Mazour Title: NOTE, If You Fix It, They Will Come: Drawing Lessons Learned from Patents for Dealing with Rights in Technical Data Citation: 38 Public Contract Law Journal 667 (2009)

June 3, 2009

Author: C. Scott Hemphill Title: An Aggregate Approach to Antitrust: Using New Data and Rulemaking to Preserve Drug Competition Citation: 109 Columbia Law Review 629 (2009) Author: David L. Schwartz Title: Courting Specialization: An Empirical Study of Claim Construction Comparing Patent Litigation Before Federal District Courts and the International Trade Commission Citation: 50 William and Mary Law Review 1699 (2009) Author: Wan Xiaoli Title: The Patent Novelty Grace Period in China in Comparative Perspective Citation: 40 IIC: International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 182 (2009) Author: Lauren Maida Title: NOTE, Patent Claim Construction: It's Not a Pure Matter of Law, so Why Isn't the Federal Circuit Giving the District Courts the Deference They Deserve? Citation: 30 Cardozo Law Review 1773 (2009)

May 28, 2009

Author: Riadh Quadir Title: NOTE, Patent Stalemate: The WTO's Essential Medicines Impasse Between Pharmas and Least Developed Countries Citation: 61 Rutgers Law Review 437 (2009) Author: Curtis R. Wright Title: NOTE, Quanta of Solace?: The Patent Exhaustion Doctrine and Method Patents after Quanta Computers, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc. Citation: 30 University of La Verne Law Review 494 (2009) Author: Thomas Connors Title: NOTE, High Score? Subject Matter Patentability of Video Gameplay after In re Bilski Citation: 30 University of La Verne Law Review 517 (2009)

May 13, 2009

Author: Sivaramjani Thambisetty Title: Legal Transplants in Patent Law: Why "Utility" is the New "Industrial Applicability" Citation: 49 Jurimetrics 155 (2009) Author: David W. Opderbeck Title: Deconstructing Jefferson's Candle: Toward a Critical Realist Approach to Cultural Environmentalism and Information Policy Citation: 49 Jurimetrics 203 (2009) Author: Jonathan Carr Title: COMMENT, Agreements that Divide: TRIPS v. CBD and Proposals for Mandatory Disclosure of Source and Origin of Genetic Resources in Patent Applications Citation: 18 Journal of Transnational Law and Policy 131 (2008)

May 6, 2009

Author: Greg R. Vetter Title: Commercial Free and Open Source Software: Knowledge Production, Hybrid Appropriability, and Patents Citation: 77 Fordham Law Review 2087 (2009) Author: Brett M. Frischmann Title: The Pull of Patents Citation: 77 Fordham Law Review 2143 (2009) Author: Jay P. Kesan Title: Transferring Innovation Citation: 77 Fordham Law Review 2169 (2009) Author: Peter Lee Title: Interface: The Push and Pull of Patents Citation: 77 Fordham Law Review 2225 (2009)

April 30, 2009

Author: Jeffrey A. Lefstin Title: The Formal Structure of Patent Law and the Limits of Enforcement Citation: 23 Berkley Technology Law Journal 1141 (2008) Author: Joshua D. Sarnoff and Christopher M. Holman Title: Recent Developments Affecting the Enforcement, Procurement, and Licensing of Research Patent Tools Citation: 23 Berkley Technology Law Journal 1299 (2008) Author: Andrew W. Torrance Title: Physiological Steps Doctrine Citation: 23 Berkley Technology Law Journal 1471 (2008) Author: Andrew Blair-Stanek Title: Increased Market Power as a New Secondary Consideration in Patent Law Citation: 58 American University Law Review 707 (2009) Author: Todd Zubler, Nina Tallon, Jamie Wisz, Jamaica Szeliga and Greg Lantier Title: 2008 Patent Law Decisions of the Federal Circuit Citation: 58 American University Law Review 747 (2009) Author: Kali Murray Title: First Things, First: A Principled Approach to Patent Administrative Law Citation: 42 John Marshall Law Review 29 (2008) Author: Peter Lee Title: Contracting to Preserve Open Science: Consideration-Based Regulation in Patent Law Citation: 58 Emory Law Journal 889 (2009) Author: Jun Wu Title: NOTE, Rewinding Time: Advances in Mitigating Hindsight Bias in Patent Obviousness Analysis Citation: 97 Kentucky Law Journal 565 (2008)

April 20, 2009

Author: Alan Devlin Title: The Stochastic Relationship Between Patents and Antitrust Citation: 5 Journal of Competition Law and Economics 75 (2009) Author: J. Gregory Sidak Title: Patent Holdup and Oligopsonistic Collusion in Standard-Setting Organizations Citation: 5 Journal of Competition Law and Economics 123 (2009) Author: Liza Vertinsky, Ph.D, J.D. Title: Reconsidering Patent Licensing in the Aftermath of MedImmune Citation: 45 Houston Law Review 1609 (2009) Author: Greg Halsey Title: COMMENT, There Is a Pink Elephant at Our Patent Negotiation, and His Name Is Declaratory Judgment Citation: 46 San Diego Law Review 247 (2009)

April 15, 2009

Author: Chidi Oguamanam Title: Patents and Traditional Medicine: Digital Capture, Creative Legal Interventions and the Dialectics of Knowledge Transformation Citation: 15 Indiana Journal of Global Studies 489 (2008) Author: Thomas M. Mackey Title: Nanobiotechnology, Synthetic Biology, and RNAi: Patent Portfolios for Maximal Near-Term Commercialization and Commons for Maximal Long-Term Medical Gain Citation: 13 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 123 (2009) Author: Jeremiah A. Bryar Title: COMMENT, What Goes Around, Comes Around: How Indian Tribes Can Profit in the Aftermath of Seminole Tribe and Florida Prepaid Citation: 13 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 229 (2009)

April 6, 2009

Author: John M. Golden Title: The Supreme Court as "Prime Percolator": A Prescription for Appellate Review of Questions in Patent Law Citation: 56 UCLA Law Review 657 (2009) Author: Gerald Sobel Title: Reconsidering the Scope of the Inequitable Conduct Doctrine in View of Supreme Court Precedent and Patent Policy Citation: 18 Federal Circuit Bar Journal 169 (2009) Author: Representative Darrell Issa Title: Foreword - Patent Litigation 101: Empirical Support for the Patent Pilot Program's Solution to Increase Judicial Experience in Patent Law Citation: 18 Federal Circuit Bar Journal 189 (2009) Author: Adam Shartzer Title: Patent Litigation 101: Empirical Support for the Patent Pilot Program's Solution to Increase Judicial Experience in Patent Law Citation: 18 Federal Circuit Bar Journal 191 (2009) Author: Sean Gates and Jeny Maier Title: Brulotte's Continuing Shadow over Patent Licensing Citation: 4 Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice 181 (2009) Author: Tim Carlton Title: NOTE, The Ongoing Royalty: What Remedy Should a Patent Holder Receive When a Permanent Injunction Is Denied? Citation: 43 Georgia Law Review 543 (2009) Author: Matthew M. Peters Title: LEGISLATIVE UPDATE, The Equitable Inequitable: Adding Proportionality and Predictability to inequitable Conduct in the Patent Reform Act of 2008 Citation: 19 Journal of Art, Technology and Intellectual Property Law 77 (2008)

March 27, 2009

Author: Jeanne C. Fromer Title: Patent Disclosure Citation: 94 Iowa Law Review 539 (2009) Author: Hugh Laddie Title: Kirin Amgen-The End of Equivalents in England? Citation: 40 IIC: International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 3 (2009) Author: R. Parthasarathy and Heinz Goddar Title: Patentability of Pharmaceutical Products in India-The Novartis Case Citation: 40 IIC: International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 38 (2009) Author: Katherine A. Helm Title: The Battle over Global Drug Markets: Enforcement of Pharmaceutical Patents in the United States, Europe and Japan Citation: 4 Journal of Intellectual Property 39 (2009) Author: Christopher Ryan Lanks Title: STUDENT WORK, In Re Seagate: Effects and Future Development of Willful Patent Infringment Citation: 111 West Virginia Law Review 607 (2009) Author: Benjamin Brown Title: COMMENT, Inequitable Conduct: A Standard in Motion Citation: 19 Forham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal 593 (2009)

March 25, 2009

Author: Benjamin N. Roin Title: Unpatentable Drugs and the Standards of Patentability Citation: 87 Texas Law Review 503 (2009) Author: Robin Feldman Title: Plain Language Patents Citation: 17 Texas Intellectual Property Law Review 289 (2009) Author: Siraj Husain Title: NOTE, The Willfulness Pendulum Swings Back: How Seagate Helps Level the Playing Field Citation: 28 Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review 239 (2008) Author: Lucas Osborn Title: Tax Strategy Patents: Why the Tax Community Should Not Exclude the Patent System Citation: 18 Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology 325 (2008) Author: Wansheng Jerry Liu Title: Balancing Accessibility and Sustainability: How to Achieve the Dual Objectives of the Hatch-Waxman Act While Resolving Antitrust Issues in Pharmaceutical Patent Settlement Cases Citation: 18 Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology 441 (2008)

March 16, 2009

Author: Tino Minssen Title: The U.S. Examination of Nonobviousness After KSR v. Teleflex with Special Emphasis on DNA-Related Inventions Citation: 39 IIC: International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 886 (2008) Author: Justin P. Huddleson Title: NOTE, Objectively Reckless: A Semi-Empirical Evaluation of In re Seagate Citation: 15 Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law 102 (2009) Author: Syed Ahmed Title: NOTE, In re Seagate: Federal Circuit Overrules Long-Standing Willful Infringement Precedent Citation: 9 Houston Business and Tax Law Journal 108 (2008)

March 3, 2009

Author: Charles L. Gholz Title: A Critique of Recent Opinions in Patent Interferences Citation: 91 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 1 (2009) Author: John W. Schlicher Title: Patent Damages, the Patent Reform Act, and Better Alternatives for the Courts and Congress Citation: 91 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 19 (2009) Author: Gavin D. George and Jeffrey A. Wolfson Title: Domestic Trouble From Foreign Patent Affairs Citation: 91 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 77 (2009) Author: Mark A. Lemley and Bhaven Sampat Title: Is the Patent Office a Rubber Stamp? Citation: 58 Emory Law Journal 181 (2008) Author: David W. Opderbeck Title: Patent Damages Reform and the Shape of Patent Law Citation: 89 Boston University Law Review 127 (2009) Author: Eileen M. Kane Title: Patent-Mediated Standards in Genetic Testing Citation: 2008 Utah Law Review 835 (2008) Author: Tod Michael Leaven Title: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS, The Misinterpretation of the Patent Exhaustion Doctrine and the Transgenic Seed Industry in Light of Quanta v. LG Electronics Citation: 10 North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology 119 (2008) Author: Michael Neuerburg Title: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS, Testing the Limits of Procedural Rulemaking: How the Federal Circuit Can use Tafas v. Dudas to Clarify the Authority of the Patent Office Citation: 10 North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology 203 (2008)

February 23, 2009

Author: Jacques de Werra Title: Fighting Against Biopiracy: Does the Obligation to Disclose in Patent Applications Truly Help? Citation: 42 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 143 (2009) Author: Linda M. Beale Title: Tax Shelters and the Tax Minimization Norm: How Does the Patenting of Tax Advice Transform the (Global) Playing Field Citation: 9 Journal of Law in Society 29 (2008) Author: Erin M. Anderson Title: NOTE, Unnecessary Deaths and Unnecessary Costs: Getting Patented Drugs to Patients Most in Need Citation: 29 Boston College Third World Law Journal 85 (2009)

February 18, 2009

Author: Robert P. Merges and Jeffrey M. Kuhn Title: An Estoppel Doctrine for Patented Standards Citation: 97 California Law Review 1 (2009) Author: Russell Korobkin Title: Recent Developments in the "Stem Cell Century": Implications for Embryo Research, Egg Donor Compensation and Stem Cell Patents Citation: 49 Jurimetrics 51 (2008) Author: Michael Risch Title: Everything is Patentable Citation: 75 Tennessee Law Review 591 (2008)

February 13, 2009

Author: Arti K. Rai Title: Building a Better Innovation System: Combining Facially Neutral Patent Standards with Therapeutics Regulation Citation: 45 Houston Law Review 1037 (2008) Author: Rebecca S. Eisenberg Title: Noncompliance, Nonenforcement, Nonproblem? Rethinking the Anticommons in Biomedical Research Citation: 45 Houston Law Review 1059 (2008) Author: Janice M. Mueller and Donald S. Chisum Title: Enabling Patent Law's Inherent Anticipation Doctrine Citation: 45 Houston Law Review 1101 (2008) Author: Paul J. Heald Title: Optimal Remedies for Patent Infringement: A Transactional Model Citation: 45 Houston Law Review 1165 (2008) Author: Michael J. Meurer Title: Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Intellectual Property Law Citation: 45 Houston Law Review 1201 (2008) Author: M. Natalie Alfaro Title: COMMENT, Barring Validity Challenges Through No-Challenge Clauses and Consent Judgments: Medimmune's Revival of the Lear Progency Citation: 45 Houston Law Review 1277 (2008) Author: Jeanne C. Fromer Title: The Layers of Obviousness in Patent Law Citation: 22 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 75 (2008) Author: Laura Mullendore Title: NOTE, Patent Claim Construction: A Sliding-Scale Standard of Review Citation: 28 Texas International Law Journal 241 (2008)

February 10, 2009

Author: Dan L. Burk Title: The Role of Patent Law in Knowledge Codification Citation: 23 Berkley Technology Law Journal 1009 (2008) Author: Margo A. Bagley Title: The Need for Speed (and Grace): Issues in a First-Inventor-to-File World Citation: 23 Berkley Technology Law Journal 1035 (2008) Author: Stuart J.H. Graham and Ted Sichelman Title: Why Do Start-Ups Patent? Citation: 23 Berkley Technology Law Journal 1063 (2008) Author: Robert A. Cohen Title: Patent Infringement and the Eleventh Amendment: Can the Sovereign Be Held Accountable? Citation: 49 IDEA 85 (2008)

February 2, 2009

Author: Perry J. Saidman Title: Egyptian Goddess Exposed! But Not in the Buff(er) . . . Citation: 90 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 859 (2008) Author: Debra D. Peterson Title: Seizing Infringing Imports of Cinderella's Slippers: How Egyptian Goddess Supports U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Enforcement of Design Patents Citation: 90 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 888 (2008) Author: Keith A. Orso Title: On Excluding Preferred Embodiments Citation: 90 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 918 (2008) Author: Dana Remus Irwin Title: Paradise Lost in the Patent Law? Changing VIsions of Technology in the Subject Matter Inquiry Citation: 60 Florida Law review 775 (2008)

January 29, 2009

Author: Ralf Boscheck Title: Constraining Drug Supply: Product Positioning, Patent Protection and Regulatory Standards Citation: 31 World Competition 485 (2008)

January 23, 2009

Author: Kung-Chung Liu Title: Rationalising the Regime of Compulsory Patent Licensing by the Essential Facilities Doctrine Citation: 39 IIC: International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law 757 (2008) Author: Chris Dent Title: Comment, Patents as Administrative Acts: Patent Decisions for Administrative Review? Citation: 30 Sydney Law Review 691 (2008)

January 13, 2009

Author: John W. Schlicher Title: The New Patent Exhaustion Doctrine of Quanta v. LG: What It Means for Patent Owners, Licensees, and Product Customers Citation: 90 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 758 (2008) Author: Karl F. Jorda Title: Patent and Trade Secret Complementariness: An Unsuspected Synergy Citation: 48 Washburn Law Journal 1 (2008) Author: Jason Mazzone and Matthew Moore Title: The Secret Life of Patents Citation: 48 Washburn Law Journal 33 (2008) Author: Peter M. Kohlhepp Title: NOTE, When the Invention is an Inventor: Revitalizing Patentable Subject Matter to Exclude Unpredictable Processes Citation: 93 Minnesota Law Review 779 (2008) Author: Matthew Avery Title: NOTE, Continuing Abuse of the Hatch-Waxman Act by Pharmaceutical Patent Holders and the Failure of the 2003 Amendments Citation: 60 Hastings Law Journal 171 (2008)

January 8, 2009

Author: F. Russell Denton Title: Plumb Lines Instead of a Wrecking Ball: A Model for Recalibrating Patent Scope Citation: 16 Journal of Intellectual Property Law 1 (2008) Author: Glynn S. Lunney, Jr. Title: On the Continuing Misuse of Event Studies: The Example of Bessen and Meurer Citation: 16 Journal of Intellectual Property Law 35 (2008) Author: Cecil D. Quillen, Jr. Title: Commentary on Bessen and Meurer's Patent Failure: An Industry Perspective Citation: 16 Journal of Intellectual Property Law 57 (2008) Author: Samson Vermont Title: Taming the Doctrine of Equivalents in Light of Patent Failure Citation: 16 Journal of Intellectual Property Law 83 (2008) Author: Richard Weil Goldstucker Title: NOTE, Stop the Bleeding: Medimmune Ends the Unjustified Erosion of Patent Holders' Rights in Patent Licensing Agreements Citation: 16 Journal of Intellectual Property Law 137 (2008) Author: Dennis D. Crouch Title: The Patent Lottery: Exploiting Behavioral Economics for the Common Good Citation: 16 George Mason Law Review 141 (2008) Author: Christopher A. Harkins Title: Tesla, Marconi, and the Greate Radio Controversy: Awarding Patent Damages Without Chilling a Defendant's Incentive to Innovate Citation: 73 Missouri Law Review 745 (2008) Author: Sarah J. Garber Title: NOTE, Copycats, Relax! The Federal Circuit Lightens Up on Willful Patent Infringement Citation: 73 Missouri Law Review 817 (2008) Author: Michael Ena Title: COMMENT, Jurisdictional Issues in the Adjudication of Patent Law Malpractice Cases in Light of Recent Federal Circuit Decisions Citation: 19 Forham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal 219 (2008) Author: Jeff Becker Title: COMMENT, On Creating Specialized Patent District Courts: Why H.R. 34 Does Not Go Far Enough to Address Reveral Rates in District Courts Citation: 61 SMU Law Review 1607 (2008) Author: Andrew Moody Title: COMMENT, Patently Obvious: A Dual Standard Solution to the Diverging Needs of the Information Technology and Pharmaceutical Patent Industries Citation: 39 Golden Gate University Law Review 71 (2008) Author: Rachel L. Emsley Title: NOTE, Copying Copyright's Willful Infringement Standard: A Comparison of Enhanced Damages in Patent Law and Copyright Law Citation: 42 Suffolk Law Law Review 157 (2008)