IPNTA 5th Ed. Case Supplement
Class Meeting Time:
MTuTh 2:15 – 3:15 PM in Room 140
Instructor:
Robert P. Merges
438 Law Building (North Addition)
510-643-6199
rmerges@law.berkeley.edu
Office Hours:
Thursdays, 1:00 – 2:15 PM; and by appointment
Admin. Assistant:
Lisa Henderson; lhenderson@law.berkeley.edu, Boalt Hall North Addition 428 (643 5005)
This course is intended both for students who are interested in a general overview of intellectual property and as a gateway to Boalt’s Law and Technology program. The course begins with an analysis of the competing policies underlying the intellectual property laws. It covers the basics of patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secrets (and other state IP-related areas of) law, as well as some of the salient controversies in intellectual property law, including patent protection for software and business methods, the challenges to copyright law posed by filesharing technology, the role and difficulties of protecting trademarks on the Internet, and the application of common law doctrines to the Internet.
Required Reading:
• Merges, Menell & Lemley, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age (5th
edition, Aspen 2010) (IPNTA).
• Merges, Menell & Lemley, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2011 Case and
Note Supplement (Aspen 2011) ( 2011 Supp).
• Supplementary Course Reader (CR)
Syllabus PDF
Date |
Topic |
Materials; Statute; Problems |
M 1/9 PPT |
Course Introduction Overview |
Casebook pages 1-31 |
Patent Law |
||
Tu 1/10 PPT |
Patent Overview Subject Matter |
125-34 §101, 134-46 |
Th 1/12 PPT |
Subject Matter | §101, Bilski, 2011 Supp. pp. 3-27; Note, 163-165. |
M 1/16 | Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday | |
Tu 1/17 PPT |
Utility | 166-180 |
Th 1/19 PPT |
Enablement & Written Description | §112; 180-191; Ariad v. Eli Lilly, 2011 Supp. pp. 28-48. |
M 1/23 PPT |
Novelty and Statutory Bars | §102; 209-216; 216-224 |
Tu 1/24 PPT |
Priority Non-Obviousness |
230-235; Notes, 2011 Supp. p. 49. §103; 235-247 |
Th 1/26 PPT |
Non-Obviousness (cont’d) | 247-256 |
M 1/30 PPT |
Infringement Analysis • Claim Construction, Literal Infringement |
§271, 267-294 295-299 |
Tu 1/31 PPT |
Doctrine of Equivalents Indirect Infringement: Inducement |
300-318 Note, 2011 Supp. pp. 49-51. |
Th 2/2 PPT |
Defenses Remedies |
343-362; 2011 Supp. pp. 51-52. §§283-87; pp. 377-399 |
Copyright Law |
||
M 2/6 PPT |
Overview Requirements – originality |
411-420 420-431, 442-46, §§101 (definition of “created”) §102(a) |
Tu 2/7 PPT |
Requirements continued – fixation, formalities Limiting Doctrines (idea-expression) |
431-441, §101 (definitions of “created,” “fixed,” “compilation,” “copies,” “phonorecords,” “literary works,” “motion pictures,” “audiovisual work,” “sound recording,” “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works”); §§401 -12 (skim) 441-448; 460-463, Problems 4-4, 4-5 |
Th 2/9 PPT |
Limiting Doctrines continued (useful article) Government Works Ownership |
464-478, §§101 (“useful article,” “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works,”), 102(b), 120, Problems 4-6, 4-7, 4-8 §105 487-497; §§ 101 (“work made for hire”), 201, 202 |
M 2/13 PPT |
Joint Works and Collective Works | 497-508 |
Tu 2/14 PPT |
Ownership • Duration; Division, Transfer, and Termination of Transfers Infringement |
508-518, §101 (“joint work”), (“collective work”), §201(c) 519-526, §§302-05 |
Th 2/16 PPT |
Infringement • Right to Copy and Limits |
527-557, §§201(d), 203, 204, 205 |
M 2/20 | No class – President’s Day | |
Tu 2/21 PPT |
Infringement continued Derivative Work Right Other Exclusive Rights |
557-566 567-581 |
Th 2/23 | No class. | |
M 2/27 PPT |
Indirect Infringement Defenses: Fair Use |
581-592 592-606 |
Tu 2/28 PPT |
Defenses: Fair Use (cont’d) | 606-634 |
Th 3/1 PPT |
Digital Copyright I | 652-664; 666-684 |
M 3/5 |
Digital Copyright II | 684-702; 702-713 Copyright Act §101 (“computer program”) |
Tu 3/6 PPT |
International Issues; Remedies | 713-722; 722-732 |
Trademark Law |
||
Th 3/8 PPT |
Introduction Establishing TM Protection |
733-740; 740-764 |
M 3/12 PPT |
Establishing Protection (cont’d) |
764-777 Lanham Act §§ 45 (“commerce,”“use in commerce,” “trade name,” trademark,” “service mark,” “certification mark,” “collective mark”), 43(a), |
Tu 3/13 PPT |
Priority | 777-793 |
Th 3/15 |
Trademark Office Procedures Incontestability |
796-810 810-816 |
M 3/19 PPT |
Infringement | 816-837 |
Tu 3/20 PPT |
Dilution | 838-853 |
Th 3/22 PPT |
Extension by Contract Domain Names and Cybersquatting Indirect Infringement; False Advertising |
855-859; 859-878 Tiffany v. eBay, 2011 Supp. pp. 53-66; IPNTA pp. 878-890 |
3/26 – 3/30 | No Class: Spring Break | |
M 4/2 PPT |
Defenses Remedies |
890-900; 900-911; 919-925; 929-942 947-953. |
State Law: Trade Secret, Contract, Misappropriation, Right of Publicity |
||
Tu 4/3 PPT |
Trade Secret – Overview Trade Secret — Requirements |
33-39 39-49 |
Th 4/5 PPT |
Trade Secret — Requirements continued Misappropriation of Trade Secrets |
49-58 58-84 |
M 4/9 PPT |
Departing Employees | 85-111 |
Tu 4/10 PPT |
Remedies, Criminal Liability | 111-123 |
Th 4/12 PPT |
Introduction, Misappropriation Clickwrap Agreements |
963-976 977-985 |
M 4/16 PPT |
Clickwrap Agreements (cont’d); Idea Submissions |
985-1001 1001-1012 |
Tu 4/17 PPT |
Idea Submissions (cont’d); Right of Publicity |
1012-1020 |
Th 4/19 PPT |
Right of Publicity (cont’d) | 1026-1051 |
M 4/23 PPT |
Federal Preemption | 1064-1073 |
Tu 4/24 PPT |
Preemption (cont’d) | Montz v. Pilgrim, CR; Barclay’s Capital v. Theflyonthewall.com, CR |
Th 4/26 | Review |