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Intellectual Property: A Beacon for Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement
(Michigan Journal of International Law, 2019)
Investor-state dispute-settlement (ISDS) clauses give multinational investors (corporations) a right to sue a state in a binding proceeding before an independent arbitration tribunal. This jurisgenerative right to file a ...
The Patent Option
(North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, 2019)
This Article delineates the proper scope of patentable subject matter and the two key exclusions namely scientific discoveries/laws of nature on the one hand, and mental steps/abstract ideas, on the other hand. The Article ...
Exploring the Interfaces Between Big Data and Intellectual Property Law
(Journal of Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Electronic Commerce Law, 2019)
This article reviews the application of several IP rights (copyright, patent, sui generis database right, data exclusivity and trade secret) to Big Data. Beyond the protection of software used to collect and process Big ...
Patenting the Unexplained
(Washington University Law Review, 2019)
It is a bedrock principle of patent law that an inventor need not understand how or why an invention works. The patent statute simply requires that the inventor explain how to make and use the invention. But explaining how ...