Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age: 2016: by Peter Menell,Mark Lemley,Robert Merges

highbrow estate within the New Technological Age presents an in-depth survey of the quickly evolving box of highbrow estate legislation. quantity I covers philosophical views, alternate mystery legislations, and patent legislations. quantity II covers copyright legislation, trademark legislations, and kingdom highbrow estate legislations protections. The 2016 variation displays the subsequent imperative developments:
• alternate mystery legislation: Congress handed the safeguard exchange secrets and techniques Act of 2016, essentially the most momentous alterations within the historical past of alternate mystery security. the hot legislation opens up the federal courts to exchange mystery circumstances, presents for ex parte seizures of misappropriated alternate secrets and techniques in “extraordinary circumstances,” and establishes immunity for whistleblowers.
• Patent legislation: The prior a number of years have witnessed essentially the most major advancements in U.S. patent history—from the institution of the recent administrative evaluate complaints on the Patent place of work to big shifts in patent-eligibility, declare indefiniteness, and greater damages on the ideal courtroom and means-plus-function declare interpretation and infringement doctrine on the Federal Circuit. we now have restructured the patent bankruptcy to light up those parts. we've got additionally considerably improved insurance of layout patents in accordance with the growing to be value of this kind of protection.
• Copyright legislation: The best court docket issued vital judgements addressing the general public functionality correct and the 1st sale doctrine. The prior few years additionally witnessed very important advancements within the on-line merchant secure harbor, reasonable use, and kingdom safety for pre-1972 sound recordings. we've additionally built-in the electronic copyright fabrics right into a unified therapy of copyright legislations and considerably made over the reasonable use part to mirror the broadening panorama of this crucial doctrine.
• Trademark legislations: we've built-in vital circumstances on federal registrability of disparaging marks, promotion rights, chance of bewilderment on the net, and remedies.
• different nation IP Protections: now we have up to date fabric at the correct of exposure, an lively and becoming region. we've got additionally reorganized the bankruptcy and concentrated it on IP regimes.