Advanced Intellectual Property Law

William Fisher

Spring 2009

A Taxonomy of Theories of Intellectual Property (February 2)

• Introductory lecture -- no reading assignment

Trademark Theory (February 3, 4)

• William M. Landes & Richard A. Posner, "Trademark Law: An Economic Perspective," 30 Journal of Law and Economics 265 (1987)
• Thomas R. Lee, et al., "Trademarks, Consumer Psychology, and the Sophisticated Consumer," 57 Emory Law Journal 575, 575-602 (2008)
• Jeffrey L. Harrison, "Trademark Law and Status Signalling: Tattoos for the Privileged," 59 Florida Law Review 195 (2007)
• Mark Bartholomew, "Advertising in the Garden of Eden," 55 Buffalo Law Review 737 (2007), Part II
• Hannah Wood, "Fake Brands Shopping Centre Set to Open in China" (January 5, 2009)
• Robert Weisman, "Lawsuit Over Website Links in Spotlight," Boston Globe, January 23, 2009

Trademark Dilution (February 9, 10)

• Nabisco, Inc. v. PF Brands, Inc., 191 F.3d 208 (CA2 1999)
• Moseley v. Viriginia Secret Catalogue, Inc., 537 U.S. 418 (2003)
• 15 USC 1125(c)
• Louis Vuitton v. Haute Diggity Dog, 507 F.3d 252 (CA4 2007)
• Mary LaFrance and Gail Cline, "Identical Cousins?: On the Road with Dilution and the Right of Publicity," 24 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal 641 (2007) (excerpts)
• Barton Beebe, "The Semiotic Analysis of Trademark Law," 51 UCLA L. Rev. 621 (2004)

The Right of Publicity (February 11, 16)

• Midler v. Ford Motor Co., 849 F.2d 460 (9th. 1988)
• Wendt v. Host Int'l, Inc., 125 F.3d 806 (9th Cir. 1997)
• Hoffman v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., 255 F.3d 1180 (9th Cir. 2001)
• Alain Lapter, "How the Other Half Lives (Revisited): Twenty Years Since Midler v. Ford; A Global Perspective on the Right of Publicity," 15 Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal 239, 278-312 (2007)
• Michael Madow, "Private Ownership of Public Image: Popular Culture and Publicity Rights," 81 California Law Review 125 (1993)
• Alice Haemmerli, "Whose Who? The Case for a Kantian Right of Publicity," 49 Duke L.J. 383 (1999), Parts I-III

Intellectual Property Protection for Fashion (February 17, 18, 23)

• Ann Theodore Briggs, "Hung Out to Dry: Clothing Design Protection Pitfalls in United States Law," 24 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 169, 171-201 (2002)
• Kal Raustiala & Christopher Sprigman, "The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design," 92 Va. L. Rev. 1687 (2006)
• Randal Picker, "Of Pirates and Puffy Shirts" (2007), pp. 1-6
• Jeannie Suk and Scott Hemphill, "The Law, Culture, and Economics of Fashion" (forthcoming Stanford Law Review 2009)
• Counterfeit Chic (roam around the site for a bit)
• Robert Pozen & Mary Ellen Hammond, "Rouge Cosmetics: What's in a Pout?" (Harvard Business School Case Study 2009)

Guest Speakers (February 18): Professors Hemphill and Suk

Guest Speaker (February 23): Professor Robert Pozen (biography)

Fair Use (February 24, 25)

• William Fisher, "Reconstructing the Fair Use Doctrine," 101 Harvard Law Review 1659 (1988)
• Pierre Leval, "Toward a Fair Use Standard," 103 Harvard Law Review 1105 (1990)
• Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, "Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use" (2005)
• Paul Goldstein, "Fair Use in Context," 31 The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 433 (2008)
• Fred von Lohmann, "Fair Use as Innovation Policy," 23 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 829 (2008)
• Barton Beebe, "An Empirical Study of U.S. Copyright Fair Use Opinions, 1978-2005," 156 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 549 (2008)
• Lawrence Lessig, Remix (2008), pp. 253-59, 266-68
• Robert Weisman, "Lawsuit Over Website Links in Spotlight," Boston Globe, January 23, 2009 (reprise)

The Crisis in the Entertainment Industry (March 2, 3, 4)

• RIAA, "Piracy: Online and On the Street" (roam around this section of the RIAA website)
• MPAA, "Piracy and the Law" (roam around this section of the MPAA website)
• William Fisher, Promises to Keep: Technology, Law and the Future of Entertainment (Stanford University Press 2004), Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6 (available for purchase at the Harvard Coop or Amazon.com and available on reserve at the Langdell Library).
• Mark Lemley & R. Anthony Reese, "Reducing Copyright Infringement Without Restricting Innovation," 56 Stan. L. Rev. 1345, 1345-54, 1373-1426 (2004)
• MGM v. Grokster, Amicus brief of Kenneth Arrow et al.
• Salil K. Mehra, "The iPod Tax: Why the Digital Copyright System of American Law Professors' Dreams Failed in Japan," 79 U. Colo. L. Rev. 421 (2008)
• Guy Pessach, "An International-Comparative Perspective on Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing and Third Party Liability in Copyright Law: Framing the Past, Present, and Next Generations' Questions," 40 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 87 (2007)

The Disaggregation of Intellectual Property (March 9)

• Lecture -- no reading assignment

Patent Pools and Standard-Setting Organizations (March 10, 11)

• Alexander J. Hadjis, "Patent Pools Gain Popularity," National Law Journal, Dec. 6, 2004.
• Carl Shapiro, "Navigating the Patent Thicket: Cross Licenses, Patent Pools, and Standard Setting," In Adam Jaffe et al., Innovation Policy and the Economy 1 (2001)
• Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole, "Public Policy Toward Patent Pools," in Innovation Policy and the Economy 8 (2008)
• Mark Lemley, "Ten Things to do About Patent Holdup of Standards (and One Not To)," 48 Boston College Law Review 149 (2007)
• Rambus v. FTC, 522 F.3d 456 (2008)

Guest Speaker (March 11): Jorge Contreras, Partner, WilmerHale (biography)

Reverse-Payment Settlement Agreements (March 16)

• In re Tamoxifen Citrate Antitrust Litigation, 466 F.3d 187 (2nd Cir. 2006)
• C. Scott Hemphill, "Paying for Delay: Pharmaceutical Patent Settlement as a Regulatory Design Problem," 81 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1553 (2006)
• H.R. 1902: Protecting Consumer Access to Generic Drugs Act of 2007

Claim Construction (March 17, 18)

• Polk Wagner & Lee Petherbridge, "Is the Federal Circuit Succeeding? An Empirical Assessment of Judicial Performance," 152 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1105, 1107-13, 1117- 24, 1133-36, 1148-56 (2004)
• John Golden, "Construing Patent Claims According to Their 'Interpretive Community': A Call for an Attorney-Plus-Artisan Perspective," 21 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 321, 322-29, 368-385 (2008)
• Jeanne C. Fromer, "Claiming Intellectual Property," 76 University of Chicago Law Review ___ (2009)

Copyright and Freedom of Speech (March 30, 31)

• Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003), Part III of majority opinion; Breyer dissent
• Neil Netanel, Copyright's Paradox (Oxford University Press 2008), Chapters 1, 8-9 [available for purchase at the Harvard Coop]
• David McGowan, "Paradoxically Speaking" (2008)
• Rebecca Tushnet, "Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It," 114 Yale L.J. 535, 537, 562-86 (2004)

Amateur Innovation (April 1)

• Eric von Hippel, Democratizing Innovation (MIT Press 2005), chapters 1, 2, 8
• Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet -- and How to Stop It (2007), Chapter 4

Guest Speakers (April 1): Professors Zittrain and von Hippel

The Health Crisis in the Developing World (April 6, 7, 8)

• Michael Kremer & Rachel Glennerster, Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases (2004) [available for purchase at the Harvard Coop]
• William Fisher & Talha Syed, "Global Justice in Health Care: Developing Drugs for the Developing World," 40 UC Davis Law Review 581 (2007)
• Fisher & Syed, "A Prize as a Partial Solution to the Health Crisis in the Developing World" (2008)
• The Health Impact Fund: Making New Medicines Accessible for All (2008)
• Fisher & Rigamonti, Case Study on the South Africa AIDS Controversy

Guest Speakers (April 8): Professors Kapczynski and Maurer

 

Exhaustion (April 13, 14, 15)

• Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, 128 S.Ct. 2109 (2008)
• Carsten Fink, "Entering the Jungle of Intellectual Property Rights, Exhaustion, and Parallel Importation," in Carsten Fink, ed., Inellectual Property and Development: Lessons from Recent Economic Research 171 (2005)
• William Fisher, "When Should We Permit Differential Pricing of Information?," 55 UCLA Law Review 1 (2007)

Guest Speaker (April 13): William Lee, Managing Partner, Wilmer Hale (biography)

 

Remedies (April 20, 21)

• David Kennedy & William Fisher, The Canon of American Legal Thought (2006), 403-13: Introduction to: Calabresi & Melamed, "Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral," 85 Harvard Law Review 1089 (1972)
• Chart on Remedies for Intellectual Property Remedial Options
• Mark Lemley and Carl Shapiro, "Patent Holdups and Royalty Stacking," 85 Texas Law Review 1991 (2007)
• Einer Elhauge, "Correcting Current Models of Patent Holdup and Royalty Stacking," 4 Journal of Competition Law and Economics 535 (2008)
• Min Ae Yu, Ryan Lehrer, & Whitney Roland, "Intellectual Property Crimes," 45 American Criminal Law Review 665 (2008)

ExtraLegal Norms (April 27, 28)

• Robert Ellickson, "A Hypothesis of Wealth-Mazimizing Norms: Evidence from the Whaling Industry," 5 Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 83 (1989)
• Karoun Demirjian, What is the price of plagiarism? Christian Science Monitor, May 11, 2006
• American Historical Association, Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct, #4: Plagiarism (2005)
• Fauchart, Emmanuelle and Eric von Hippel, "Norms-based intellectual property systems: The case of French Chefs,'' MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper 4576-06. Organization Science, forthcoming, 2008
• Chistopher Sprigman and Dotan Oliar, "There's No Free Laugh (Anymore): The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms and the Transformation of Stand-Up Comedy (draft 2008)
• Jacob Loshin, Secrets Revealed: How Magicians Protect Intellectual Property Without Law, in Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays (Christine A. Corcos ed., 2008), available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1005564
• Niva Elkin-Koren, "Governing Access to Users-Generated-Content: The Changing Nature of Private Ordering in Digital Networks" (draft 2008)

Conclusions (April 29)

• no reading assignment

Version 3.7 (final)

last revised: April 21, 2009