Resources

Section 101 debate

Restoring the Legislative Framework for Patenting Applications of Scientific Discoveries (cert petition amicus brief filed in Sequenom by Prof. Peter Menell)

Nonpatentability of Business Methods: Legal and Economic Analysis
(amicus brief filed in Bilski by Prof. Peter Menell)

Peter Menell  – Forty Years of Wondering in the Wilderness and No Closer to the Promised Land: Bilski’s Superficial Textualism and the Missed Opportunity to Return Patent Law to its Technology Mooring (2011)

Peter Menell  – A Method for Reforming the Patent System (1/2007)

Peter Menell  – Tailoring Legal Protection for Computer Software (9/1986) 

Pleading Standards

Christian E. Mammen – Patent venue Reform: Whose Move 
https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/patent-venue-reform-whose-move (9/2016)

Patent Case Management Judicial Guide, 3rd ed (2016) PDF  Hard Copy from Prof. Peter Menell’s Clause 8 Publishing ($90 – for all 1,200 pages) [Contact Prof. Menell (pmenell@law.berkeley.edu) for bulk order]

DTSA and Trade Secrets

James Pooley
The Myth of the Trade Secret Troll: Why the Defend Trade Secrets Act Improves the Protection of Commercial Information (6/2016)

Willful Infringement and Enhanced Damages after Halo

Hopkins Guy, III – 2015 Supreme Court Term: Cert Petitions to Watch (11/2015) http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2015/11/13/2015-supreme-court-term-cert-petitions-to-watch/id=63046/

Damages

Final Report of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Patent Damages Workshop (August 2016)

Judges Panel

Patent Case Management Judicial Guide, 3rd ed (2016) PDF  Hard Copy from Prof. Peter Menell’s Clause 8 Publishing ($90 – for all 1,200 pages) [Contact Prof. Menell (pmenell@law.berkeley.edu) for bulk order]

IPR and Post-Grant Review

Peggy P. Ni – Rethinking Finality in the PTAB Age (2016)

Brian Kwok – Post-Grant Review is Becoming Increasingly Popular (6/2016)
https://www.law360.com/articles/802039/post-grant-review-is-becoming-increasingly-popular

An Update on Post-Grant Review Filings and Decisions (11/2016)
https://www.law360.com/ip/articles/858429/an-update-on-post-grant-review-filings-and-decisions

Perspective and Priorities from the USPTO

PTO Guidance on Subject Matter Eligibility

Claim Construction Post-Teva

Resources on Teva and Claim Construction

Section 112: Means Plus Function Claiming

Shong Yin, Williamson v. Citrix Online: A Fundamental Shift and Return to Form in Means-Plus-Function Interpretation (2016)

Keynote: The Surprising Resilience of the Patent System

Mark Lemley, The Surprising Resilience of the Patent System (2016)

Prosecution Ethics and PTAB

Julie Holloway – Keeping Tabs on PTAB
https://www.lw.com/thoughtLeadership/keeping-tabs-on-ptab (9/2016)

Patents in the Boardroom

Rob Merges, Measuring the Costs and Benefits of Patent Pools (2016)