Of Disclosure “Straws” and IP System “Camels”: Patents, Innovation, and the Disclosure of Origin Requirement

As the knowledge economy expanded and concerns about trade secret misappropriation mounted in the digital age, federal policymakers undertook efforts...

In 2018 the U.S. government announced that Chinese espionage was occurring in university research labs, and the Department of Justice subsequently...

The 2022 edition of Selected Intellectual Property, Internet, and Information Law Statutes, Regulations, and Treaties, edited by Professors Sharon K...

Obtaining or resisting some form of equitable relief is a key component of many trade secret disputes, both at an early stage and following trial on...

This chapter analyzes the extraterritorial provision in the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and considers the arguments on both sides of the question...

The 2021 edition of this annual volume marks a transition from Roger Schechter’s longtime editorship of Selected Intellectual Property and Unfair...

This is the third edition of the first casebook in the United States devoted exclusively to trade secret law. As with previous editions, it is...

TOTM Symposium: Retrospective on Ajit Pai's Tenure as FCC Chairman. The following is part of a digital symposium by TOTM guests and authors on the...

The legal system has traditionally been the source of intellectual property protection for innovation, not the object of protection. The legal system...

This Article presents the first qualitative empirical review of permanent injunctions in trade secret cases. In addition, it explores the extent to...

The Supreme Court’s decision in Merrill v. Yeomans is widely and correctly viewed as a watershed case in which the Court first announced that the...

A simple observation started us off in writing Right on Time. Studying and teaching intellectual property law, we noticed striking parallels between...

Most people assume, if implicitly, that there is a substantial element of uniformity in our IP system. At first blush, our copyright and patent laws...

This Article analyzes the extraterritorial provision in the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) and considers the arguments on both sides of the question...

How should we allocate property rights in unowned tangible and intangible resources? This Article develops a model of original acquisition that draws...

As we enter the second year post enactment of the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, this Paper presents a snapshot of developments to assess whether...