Emanuel Law Outline: Intellectual Property
University of California, Hastings
About the Book
This Emanuel Law Outline provides you with the tools to succeed:
- The Capsule Summary that provides a quick reference summary of the key concepts covered in the full Outline
- The detailed course Outline with the black letter principles that you will use throughout the semester to supplement your casebook reading and give structure to your own outline
- The Chapter Scope at the beginning of each Outline chapter that highlights the main topics and lists the important concepts for that chapter
- The Quiz Yourself feature that includes a series of short-answer questions and sample anssers to help you test your knowledge of the chapter's content
- Exam Tips that are designed to alert you to key issues and commonly used fact patterns found on exams
- Essay Exam Questions and Answers, located at the end of the Outline, that help you review and prepare for exams
- The Casebook Correlation Chart that correlates each section in the Outline with the pages covering that topic in the major casebooks
Included in the Second Edition of Intellectual Property Emanuel Law Outline:
A thorough up-date on the case law, including:
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The Supreme Court's decisions in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. v.Grokster (addressing indirect copyright claims against persons providing peer-to-peer file sharing software), e-Bay, Inc. v. MercExchange (concerning ), Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp. (addressing the legal implications of transmitting software abroad, for purposes of liability under Patent Act sec. 271(f)). and KSR International Co. v. Teleflex, Inc., concerning the proper standard for judging the obviousness of an invention
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The Fourth Circuit's decision in CoStar Group, Inc. v. Loopnet, Inc., concerning direct infringement liability for operators of web sites on which users post infringing works
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The Ninth Circuit's decision in Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., addressing claims of direct infringement for linking to infringing materials on the Internet
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The Fourth Circuit's decision in Lamparello v. Falwell, concerning the scope of liability under the Anticybersquatting Act and the initial interest confusion doctrine
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The Federal Circuit's decision in Phillips v. AWH Corp., addressing construction of patent claims
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A number of new decisions addressing the scope of liability for circumventing technological access control devices and trafficking in services and devices to facilitate circumvention
A thorough up-date on recent statutory revisions, including the
Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006.
Expanded coverage of "trademark use"
Many new short-answer questions and sample answers