Advanced Intellectual Property Law

William Fisher, Fall 2016

Version 2.0

The Right of Publicity (September 6)

• Midler v. Ford Motor Co., 849 F.2d 460 (9th. 1988)
• Michael Madow, "Private Ownership of Public Image: Popular Culture and Publicity Rights," 81 California Law Review 125, 178-238 (1993)
• 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)

IP Protection for Fashion (September 12)

• Raustiala & Sprigman, "The Piracy Paradox: Innovation and Intellectual Property in Fashion Design," 92 Virginia Law Review 1687 (2006)
• Hemphill & Gersen, "The Law, Culture, and Economics of Fashion," 61 Stanford Law Review (2009)

Law and Creativity (September 13)

• Julie Cohen, "Creativity and Culture in Copyright Theory," 40 U.C. Davis Law Review 1151 (2007)
• Buccafusco & Sprigman, "The Creativity Effect," 78 U. Chicago Law Review 71 (2011)
• Diane Zimmerman, "Copyrights as Incentives," 12 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 29 (2011)

Patents and Antitrust (September 19, 20)

• 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)
• Mark Lemley, "Intellectual Property Rights and Standard-Setting Organizations" (2002)
• Jorge Contreras, The February of FRAND Wars" (March 6, 2012)
• Jorge Contreras, The FRAND Wars: Who's On First" (April 17, 2012)

IP and The Health Crisis in the Developing World (September 26, 27; October 3, 4)

• Intellectual Property and Health: WHO-WIPO-WTO Symposium (July 5, 2013)
• Michael Kremer & Rachel Glennerster, Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases (2004) [available for purchase (new or used) at Amazon.com]
• William Fisher & Talha Syed, Infection (2016), Introduction & Chapters 3, 5, 6, 8, 9
• Report of the United Nations High-Level Panel on Access to Medicine (September 14, 2016)

Intellectual Property and Business Strategy (October 17, 18, 24)

• "Brighter Smiles for the Masses--Colgate vs. P&G" (HBS Case Study 706435)
• "Apple Inc. in 2010" (HBS Case Study 710467)
• "Calvin Klein and Warnaco Group: Negotiating a Trademark License" (HBS Case Study N9-712-458)
• "North Sails" (HBS Case Study)
• "Viacom v. Google" (CopyrightX Case Study)

Traditional Knowledge (October 25, 31)

• Madhavi Sunder, "The Invention of Traditional Knowledge," 70 Law and Contemporary Problems 97 (2007)
• Kristen A. Carpenter, Sonia Katyal, and Angela Riley, "In Defense of Property," 118 Yale L.J. 1022 (2009)

HLS Conference on Intellectual Property (October 27)

• [The conference will occupy most of the day. Attend whatever portion best fits your interests and schedule.]

IP and Freedom of Speech (November 7, 8)

• Lemley & Volokh, "Freedom of Speech and Injunctions in Intellectual Property Cases," 48 Duke Law Journal (1998)
• Neil Netanel, Copyright's Paradox (2008)
• In re Tam, 808 F.3d 1321 (CAFC 2015)

Copyright Exceptions and Limitations (November 14, 15)

• Ruth Okediji, ed., Exceptions and Limitations (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2016)

Exhaustion and Differential Pricing (November 21, 22)

• William Fisher, "When Should We Permit Differential Pricing of Information?," 55 UCLA Law Review 1 (2007)
• Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (U.S. Supreme Court, March 19, 2013)

ExtraLegal IP Norms (November 28 [regular class and makeup class])

• 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
• 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
• Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman, The Knockoff Economy (2012), Chpt. 3
• Jacob Loshin, Secrets Revealed: How Magicians Protect Intellectual Property Without Law, in Law and Magic: A Collection of Essays (Christine A. Corcos ed., 2008)

The Rulemaking Power of the PTO (November 29)

• Melissa Wasserman, The Changing Guard of Patent Law: Chevron Deference for the PTO, 54 William and Mary Law Review 1959 (2013)
• Cuozzo Speed Technologies v. Lee (Supreme Court 2016)

Wrap-Up (December 5)

• No reading assignment

last revised: November 27, 2016