Required Materials: I will use the Revised Fourth Edition of
the casebook by Robert P. Merges, Peter S. Menell, and Mark A. Lemley entitled Intellectual Property in the New Technological
Age. The book was published in July 2007 by Aspen Publishers and the ISBN is 9780735569898. The
2009 Case and Statutory Supplement for this casebook is also required for the course and the ISBN is 9780735579415.
(Please do not purchase earlier editions of the casebook or supplement.)
Reading Assignments:
8/24: Pages 1-31 of the casebook
("CB")
Trade Secret Law
8/26: CB 33-62
8/31: CB 58-89; Pages 97-100 of the Supplement ("Supp") (Restatement 757-59, Cal. Civ. Code 3426.1)
9/2: CB 89-115
9/7: Labor Day Holiday - No class
Patent
Law
9/9: CB 117-44; Supp. 124-25 (35 USC §§ 100, 101)
9/14: Supp. 67-93 (In re Bilski); CB 144-58
9/16: CB 158-92; 35 USC §§ 112, 102
9/21: CB 192-224; 35 USC §§ 102(b), 103
9/23: CB 224-37, 240-50; Supp.
3-13 (In re Kubin)
9/28: CB 250-291; 35 U.S.C. § 271(a)
9/30: CB 291-321; 35 U.S.C. § 271(b)&(c)
10/5: CB 321-42, 348-64; Supp.
13-15 (4. Exhaustion); 35 U.S.C. §§ 271(d), 283-85
10/7: Supp. 15-22 (In re
Seagate); CB 371-81
Copyright Law
10/12: CB 383-418;
17 U.S.C. § 102
10/14: CB 418-46; 17 U.S.C. §§ 105, 102(a), 103
10/19: CB 443-74; 17 U.S.C. §§ 201-02
10/21: CB 474-500; 17 U.S.C.
§ 106, 501(a)
10/26: CB 499-535; Supp. 23; 17 U.S.C. §§ 109, 106A
10/28: CB 522-55; 17 U.S.C. § 107
11/2: CB 555-91; Supp. 24-27
11/4: CB 591-607; Supp. 27-43; CB 625-30; Supp. 43-46
Trademark Law
11/9: CB 625-30; Supp. 43-46; CB 633-64; 15 U.S.C. § 1127 (definitions of "trade name," "trademark,"
"service mark," "certification mark," "collective mark")
11/11:
CB 651-88
11/16: Class cancelled - makeup on 11/20 (Fri)
11/18:
CB 688-715
11/20 (Fri) at 2:30 p.m. same room: CB 715-23; Supp. 47-57 (Rescuecom);
CB 723-40; 15 U.S.C. §§ 1114(1), 1125(a), 1125(c)
11/23: Supp. 57-64 (Louis
Vuitton); CB 750-77; 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d)(1)
11/25: No class - Wednesday
before Thanksgiving
11/30: Supp. 64-66 (new 6. Indirect Infringement); CB 778-87; CB 901-08;
CB 787-808; 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a)
12/2: CB 808-33; CB 838-44; CB 850-51; 15 U.S.C.§
1115(b)(4); Question 1 of 2004 IP Exam (posted on the documents page of TWEN)
