Advanced Intellectual Property Law
Hong Kong University
William Fisher, January 2017
Introduction: Intellectual Property Theory (January 3)
Exception and Limitations in Copyright Law (January 4)
Solutions to the Crisis in the Entertainment Industry (January 5)
IP Protection for Fashion (January 6)
Patents and Antitrust (January 7)
- FTC v. Actavis, US Supreme Court, June 17, 2013
- 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, "Efficient Patent Pools" (2004)
- Ryan Lampe & Petra Moser, "Patent Pools, Competition, and Innovation -- Evidence from 20 Industries Under the New Deal" (2013)
ExtraLegal IP Norms (January 9)
- 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)
- Malcolm Gladwell, "Something Borrowed," The New Yorker, Nov. 22, 2004
- Oliar & Sprigman, "There's No Free Laugh (Anymore): The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms and the Transformation of Stand-Up Comedy" (2008)
- 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 (2008)
Traditional Knowledge (January 10)
IP and The Health Crisis in the Developing World (January 11-12)
Intellectual Property and Business Strategy (January 13-14)
- "Apple Inc. in 2010" (Havard Business School Case Study 710467) (handout)
- "Intellectual Property Strategy at North Technology Group" (Havard Business School Case Study 714403) (handout)
- "Calvin Klein and Warnaco Group: Negotiating a Trademark License" (Havard Business School Case Study N9-712-458) (handout)
Several of the lectures in this course will be accompanied by "mindmaps" of intellectual-property doctrine or theory. All of those maps are available through tfisher.org.
last revised: January 3, 2017