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    Intellectual property : patents, trademarks, and copyright in a nutshell / by Arthur R. Miller, Michael H. Davis.

    • Title:Intellectual property : patents, trademarks, and copyright in a nutshell / by Arthur R. Miller, Michael H. Davis.
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    • Author/Creator:Miller, Arthur R. (Arthur Raphael), 1934-
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Davis, Michael H., 1946-2020.
    • Published/Created:St. Paul, MN : West, ©2012.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Intellectual property--United States.
    • Genre/Form:Study guides.
    • Edition:5th ed.
    • Description:xxxiii, 473 pages ; 19 cm.
    • Series:Nutshell series.
    • Summary:A compact reference to intellectual property, covering patents, trademarks, and copyright.
    • Notes:Includes index.
    • ISBN:0314278346
      9780314278340
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I PATENTS
      ch. 1 Foundations of Patent Protection
      1.1. Origins and Development of United States Patent Law
      1.2. Patent Basic
      1.3. Two Theories of Patent Protection
      ch. 2 Subject Matter of Patents
      2.1. Ideas v. Applications
      2.2. Statutory Scheme
      2.3. Processes as Subject Matter Apart From Products
      2.4. Boundaries of the Three Product Categories
      2.5. Compositions of Matter
      2.6. Manufacture
      2.7. Machines
      2.8. Computer-Related Patents
      2.9. Orphan Drug Act
      2.10. Plant and Design Patents
      ch. 3 Patentability
      -Novelty and Statutory Bar
      3.1. Overview
      3.2. Foreign Anticipation
      3.3. Domestic Anticipation
      3.4. References to Prior Publications
      3.5. Substantial and Realized Anticipation
      3.6. Statutory Bar
      3.7. Policies of Statutory Bar
      3.8. Publicity and Limited Disclosures
      3.9. Competing Claims to Novelty by Two or More Inventors
      -Priority
      ch. 4 Patentability
      -Utility
      4.1. Qualitative Utility
      4.2. Presumed Utility
      ch. 5 Patentability
      -Nonobviousness
      5.1. Overview
      5.2. Invention and Nonobviousness
      5.3. Negative Rules of Invention
      5.4. Statutory Test
      5.5. Nonobviousness and Novelty
      5.6. Secondary Considerations
      5.7. Importation of Section 102 Prior Art into Section 103
      ch. 6 Double-Patenting
      6.1. Attempts to Extend the Patent Monopoly
      6.2. Terminal Disclaimer
      ch. 7 Patenting Process
      7.1. Overview
      7.2. Provisional Patent Applications
      7.3. Patentee
      7.4. Joint Invention
      7.5. Prosecuting a Patent Application
      7.6. Specifications and Claims
      7.7. Limits of Agency Discretion
      7.8. Claims Drafting
      7.9. Duty of Candor
      7.10. Publication of Patent Applications
      7.11. Reissue and Reexamination
      7.12. Judicial Review
      ch. 8 Infringement
      8.1. Overview
      8.2. File Wrapper, or Prosecution History, Estoppel
      8.3. Claim Interpretation
      -Differentiation, Literality, and Equivalence
      8.4. Patent Rights
      8.5. Direct, Indirect, and Contributory Infringement
      8.6. Repair and Reconstruction
      8.7. Infringement Defenses
      -Misuse and Experimental Use
      8.8. Prior User Defense
      8.9. Licensee Estoppel
      ch. 9 Remedies
      9.1. Overview
      9.2. Injunctive Relief
      9.3. Damages
      9.4. Attorneys' Fees
      9.5. Eleventh Amendment Immunity
      ch. 10 Patent Law and the Intersection of State and Federal Regulation
      10.1. Overview
      pt. II TRADEMARKS
      ch. 11 Foundations of Trademark Protection
      11.1. Origins and Development of Trademark Law
      11.2. Common Law Trademark
      11.3. Federal Registration
      ch. 12 Distinctiveness
      12.1. Overview
      12.2. Different Markets
      12.3. Prior Use
      12.4. Secondary Meaning and Descriptiveness
      12.5. Bars Against Surnames, Geographic Marks, and Immoral Marks
      12.6. Supplemental Register
      ch. 13 Dilution and the Expansion of Trademark Doctrine
      13.1. Overview
      13.2. Trademarks and Goodwill
      13.3. Likelihood of Expansion
      13.4. Interests Protected
      13.5. State Antidilution Statutes
      13.6. Federal Antidilution Statute
      ch. 14 Loss of Trademark Protection and Partial Protection
      14.1. Partial Rights
      14.2. Rights of a Senior Registrant Against a Preregistration User
      14.3. Rights of a Junior Registrant Against a Preregistration User
      14.4. Concurrent Registration
      14.5. Abandonment
      14.6. Incontestability
      ch. 15 Trademark Practice
      15.1. Overview
      15.2. First Use in Commerce
      15.3. Standing
      ch. 16 Subject Matter
      16.1. Overview
      16.2. Certification Marks
      16.3. Collective Marks
      16.4. Service Marks
      16.5. Primary Purpose
      16.6. Functional Bar
      16.7. Color
      16.8. Section 43
      ch. 17 Infringement
      17.1. Overview
      17.2. Similarity of Marks
      17.3. Similarity of Goods or Services
      17.4. Character and Similarity of Markets
      17.5. Subsidiary Evidence of Likelihood of Confusion
      17.6. Defenses
      -Fair and Collateral Use
      17.7. Gray Market Goods
      17.8. Eleventh Amendment Immunity
      ch. 18 Remedies
      18.1. Overview
      18.2. Injunctive Relief
      18.3. Accounting
      18.4. Damages
      18.5. Attorneys' Fees
      pt. III COPYRIGHT
      ch. 19 Foundations of Copyright Protection
      19.1. Origins and Development of Copyright Law
      19.2. Copyright Act
      19.3. Common Law-Statutory Copyright Distinction and the 1976 Act
      19.4. Copyright Basics
      ch. 20 Subject Matter of Copyright
      20.1. Originality
      20.2. Copyrightable Works
      20.3. Noncopyrightable Works
      20.4. Writings and Fixation
      20.5. Computer Programs
      20.6. Semiconductor Chip Protection Act
      20.7. Sound Recordings
      20.8. Copyright Formalities
      -Registration and Notice
      ch. 21 Exclusive Rights
      21.1. Introduction
      21.2. Reproduction
      21.3. Derivative Works
      21.4. Distribution
      21.5. Performance
      21.6. Display
      21.7. Digital Transmission Performance
      28.3. Non-Self-Executing Force and Reservations
      28.4. Copyright Treaties
      28.5. Patent Treaties
      28.6. Trademark Treaties
      28.7. GATT, NAFTA, and TRIPS
      28.8. Trade Act Special Section 301.
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