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

highbrow estate within the New Technological Age offers an in-depth survey of the swiftly evolving box of highbrow estate legislations. quantity I covers philosophical views, exchange mystery legislation, and patent legislations. quantity II covers copyright legislation, trademark legislations, and country highbrow estate legislations protections. The 2016 variation displays the next primary developments:
• alternate mystery legislation: Congress handed the shield alternate secrets and techniques Act of 2016, probably the most momentous adjustments within the historical past of exchange mystery defense. the hot legislations opens up the federal courts to alternate mystery situations, offers for ex parte seizures of misappropriated exchange secrets and techniques in “extraordinary circumstances,” and establishes immunity for whistleblowers.
• Patent legislation: The previous numerous years have witnessed probably the most major advancements in U.S. patent history—from the institution of the recent administrative overview complaints on the Patent workplace to big shifts in patent-eligibility, declare indefiniteness, and more advantageous damages on the ultimate 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 additionally considerably increased insurance of layout patents in line with the starting to be significance of this way of protection.
• Copyright legislation: The excellent 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 country defense 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 significant doctrine.
• Trademark legislation: we now have built-in very important instances on federal registrability of disparaging marks, advertising rights, chance of misunderstanding on the web, and remedies.
• different country IP Protections: we've up to date fabric at the correct of exposure, an lively and growing to be region. we've got additionally reorganized the bankruptcy and concentrated it on IP regimes.