Tom Field's Course Index

• Administrative Process
• Fundamentals of Intellectual Property
• Intellectual Property Amicus Clinic
• Intellectual Property at Common Law (Fall 2003)
• Editing & Writing (Sum 1998)
• Moot Court (1993-99 problems)
• Remedies (Fall 2005)
• IP-related Resources

Administrative Process

• Course syllabus
• An outline of administrative process
• Old exams
  (Sample quizzes link from the syllabus.)
• Other pages of possible interest
  • IP Basics
         Discussions for those with little exposure to any major IP topic (who want to know more).
  • Direct Judicial Review of PTO Decisions: Jurisdictional Proposals, 42 IDEA 537 (2002)
  • Zurko: Duffy, Field & Nard's amicus brief to the Supreme Court; Field's amicus brief to the CAFC.
  • Judicial Review of Copyright Examination (2004)
  • Zurko, Garside and Lee: How They Might Affect Patent Prosecution (2003, revised 2004)
  • Scientific Facts vs. Political Values, 8 Risk 207 (1997).
  • The Science Court Symposia
         An annotated index to seventeen online papers that address difficulties in resolving technological disputes (generally influencing agency rule making or legislation) and several ways to overcome them, including, e.g., arbitration.
  • Pursuing Transparency through Science Courts. Presented at a symposium on values in decisions on risk (Stockholm, June 13-17, 1999).
  • (with Michelle J. Burke)Promulgating Requirements for Admission to Prosecute Patent Applications, 36 Idea 145 (1995).
  • Law and Fact in Patent Litigation: Form versus Function
         A slightly revised version of a 1987 article discussing standards of review for validity determinations in patent litigation.
  • Pharmaceuticals and Intellectual Property: Meeting Needs Throughout the World
         A 1990 article. The focus is substantive, but some attention is given to the critical need to control administrative costs -- particularly in smaller countries. In that vein, see the more recent situation in Europe.
  • Access and Authority to Cite Unpublished Decisions of the PTO
         A 1993 article slightly updated in 2001.
  • Review of PTO Intramural Appeal Procedures
         A 1993 article slightly revised in 2002.
  • Making the Most of Commercial Global Domains (Prepared for a Brussels conference, Intellectual Property Management in the Digital Age).

Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

• Course syllabus
• Old exams
  (Sample quizzes link from the syllabus.)
• Other pages of possible interest
  • Overview of legal process and institutions affecting IP rights.
  • Intellectual Property: The Practical and Legal Fundamentals (a substantive overview of most topics in the course)
    * IP Basics
         This page links to Fundamentals, above, as well as several other discussions for non-lawyers (more accurately non-ip-lawyers). It also includes basic information about ip careers, the so-called patent exam, and copyright expiration.
  • Making the Most of Commercial Global Domains (Prepared for a Brussels conference, Intellectual Property Management in the Digital Age).
  • Pharmaceuticals and Intellectual Property: Meeting Needs Throughout the World
         An article explaining why pharmaceuticals are too important not to protect with patents.
  • FPLC's Genome Conferences
    Index to over a dozen papers that address patenting and transferring genome techology.

IP Amicus Clinic

• Course description
• More information
• Brief in KSR case before the U.S. Supreme Court
• Memo to NH Attorney General concerning copyright preemption and cover letter.

Moot Court

• 1999 Problem (Trademark/web use)
• 1998 Problem (Rite Hite)
• 1998 Problem2 (Red Horn)
• 1997 Problem (ProCD)
• 1996 Problem (Email copyright)
• 1995 Problem (Trademark)
• 1994 Problem (Sculpture copyright)
• 1993 Problem (Trademark)
• 1992 Problem (PTO-OED Appeal )

IP-Related Resources
   U.S.A.

• Federal Circuit (e.g., judges' biographical information)
• U.S.P.T.O.
• U.S. Copyright Office
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Federal Circuit Bar Association
• Intellectual Property Owners
• International Trademark Association

   World-wide

• The World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva)
  
• The Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• The European Patent Office (Munich)

The IP Mall -- Overseen by Jon Cavicchi, FPLC's IP Librarian, this site links to a host of internal and external web resources.



Updated Aug. 16, 2007
URL: www.piercelaw.edu/tfield/courses.htm


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