Cases and Materials on Intellectual Property

The Third Edition thoroughly updates the case book, reproducing or discussing all the Supreme Court decisions and numerous key Circuit-level decisions on intellectual property issues that have arisen since publication of the previous edition. The new edition also provides a thorough legislative update (including the newly enacted Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006) and a range of intriguing new problems for class discussion. Other new features include: new section on trademarks in the Internet setting; reorganized and enhance discussion of 1st Amendement issues; new discussion of the "well-known marks" doctrine; reworked materials on the scope of Lanham Act § 43(a); enlarged and updated discussion of the Patent Act's non-obviousness requirement; reorganized and enlarged section on patent claim interpretation; expanded discussion of the DMCA anticircumvention provisions; enhanced discussion of the varying standards that courts apply to evaluate copyright infringement; expanded and reworked section on indirect copyright infringement.