Patent Law

Patently-O Bits and Bytes

By Dennis Crouch

If you are a law professor teaching a general course on intellectual property, you might consider a cheap text-book alternative:

• Franklin Pierce Professor Tom Field freely gives-away PDF versions of his 470 page book titled Fundamentals of Intellectual Property.
• Lewis & Clark Professors Joe Miller and Lydia Loren have started their own publishing company and offer their book titled Intellectual Property Cases and Materials for a suggested fee of $30.
• Students who want a bound-book can take the document to Kinkos with a $20 bill.
• [This semester, I am teaching Patent Law and have assigned the casebook by Merges & Duffy. Although not cheap, that book has the lowest cost per pound of any on the market.]

Recent Patent Law Jobs:

• Patent Counsel (0?5 years patent experience) for HP
• Patent Agent (3?5 years patent experience) at Infinity Pharma (small molecule drug cancer treatments)

Some Recent Patent Lawsuits:

• Allure Home Creation Co. Inc. v. Maytex Mills Inc. (D.Del.) ? Patent covers a shower-curtain hook.
• Simonian v. Mitchell-Vance Labs (E.D.Ill.) ? False marking action against maker of ?ScarAway? whose product packaging lists an expired patent.
• AGA Medical Corp. v. W.L. Gore & Associates (D.Minn) ? Patent covers a device that can be inserted via a catheter for blocking leakage of an internal body organ.
• De Beers UK Limited v. Kohls & Adwar Casting (W.D.Mo.) ? Design patents cover jewelry.

Full post as published by Patently Obvious on August 27, 2010 (boomark / email).