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Meeting
Times:
Monday
1500-1700
Earlham Hall
Apple Loft
Thursday
1600-1800
Congregation Hall
Room 01.12
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Example Examination Questions [pdf]
The materials listed below are generally found online. If you have any difficulty accessing them, please notify me via E-mail (robert.heverly@uea.ac.uk).
Note about Westlaw and LEXIS resources: To open Westlaw or LEXIS links, you must first be signed into the required resource using Athens Authentication.
To sign in to Westlaw, click here [a new window will open];
Enter your Athens ID and password;
Press "I agree" at the bottom of the page;
Leave the window that appears after entering your Athens ID open and return to this page;
Click each link to open the required page
If, after clicking a link, a Westlaw search page opens, simply press "go" on that page and the article should open .
To sign in to LEXIS, click here [a new window will open];
Enter your Athens ID and password;
Leave the window that appears after entering your Athens ID open and return to this page;
Click each link to open the required page.
Classes 1 to 14 are now archived, and can be found here.
Class 15
Monday 15 November
Required Reading
Optional Reading
Class 16
Thursday 18 November
Required Reading
- TRIPs, Articles 27, 29
- European Patent Convention, Articles 52, 53, 57, 78, 83
- EPO Guidelines for Examination, Part C, Chapter IV, section 2 ‘inventions’, section 3 ‘exceptions to patentability’, section 4 ‘industrial application’ and Part C, Chapter II, sections 4.9 – 4.12 (sufficiency of description).
- EU Directive on the Protection of Biotechnological Inventions [pdf]
- Proposal for an EU Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions [pdf]
- Diamond v Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980)
- State Street Bank v Signature Financial Services
- T/208/84 VICOM/Computer-related invention [1987] EPOR 74
[Westlaw link here]
- Fujitsu’s Patent Application [1997] RPC 608, CA
[Westlaw link]
- Biogen v Medeva [1997] RPC 1, HL
[Wesstlaw link]
Optional Reading
- The ‘Onocomouse/HARVARD’ or ‘Edinburgh patent’ story and citations (NB - the reasons for the latest Board of Appeal decision appear not to have been issued, this delay is not unusual.)
Class 17
Monday 22 November
Required Reading
Optional Reading
Class 18
Thursday 25 November
Required Reading
Optional Reading
Class 19
Monday 29 November
Required Reading
- Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, ICANN
- Vivendi Universal v. Mr. Jay David Sallen and GO247.COM, Inc., WIPO Administrative Panel Decision, Case No. D2001-1121 (2001)
- EasyGroup IP Licensing Limited v. Amjad Kausar, WIPO Administrative Panel Decisions, Case No. D2003-0012 (2003)
- Milton Mueller, Success by Default: A New Profile of Domain Name Trademark Disputes under ICANN's UDRP, Convergence Center, Syracuse University (2002) [pdf]
- Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., Inc., 499 U.S. 340 (1991).
- DIRECTIVE 96/9/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases [Word Doc]
- Bernt Hugenholtz, The New Database Right: Early Case Law From Europe (Ninth Annual Conference on International IP Law & Policy, 2001)
- Yochai Benkler, Constitutional Bounds of Database Protection: The Role of Judicial Review in the Creation and Definition of Private Rights in Information, 15 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 535 (2000) [read from the section entitled "The Reason: Why Adopt Robust Judicial Review of Private Rights in Information?" up to (but not including) the section entitled "Constitutionality of the Database Protection Bills under the Intellectual Property Clause"]
- Fred von Lohman, Fair Use and Digital Rights Management: Preliminary Thoughts on the (Irreconcilable?) Tension Between Them, Electronic Frontier Foundation (2002) [pdf] (review from 28 October)
- Pamela Samuelson, DRM {AND, OR, VS.} the Law, Communications of the ACM, 46:4 (April 2004) [pdf] (review from 28 October)
Optional Reading
- WIPO, Domain Name Dispute Resolution Service
- Michael Geist, FAIR.COM?: An Examination of the Allegations of Systemic Unfairness in the ICANN UDRP, 27 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 903 (2002) [scroll down to article and left-click on the link]
- Michael Geist, Fundamentally Fair.com? An Update on Bias Allegations and The ICANN UDRP [pdf]
- Dori Kornfeld, Evaluating the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy, Berkman Center for Internet and Society (2000)
- Jacqueline Lipton, Balancing Private Rights and Public Policies: Reconceptualizing Property in Databases, 18 Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2003) [pdf]
- Lionel S. Sobel, DRM as an Enabler of Business Models: ISPs as Digital Retailers, 18 Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2003)
- R. Anthony Reese, Will Merging Access Controls and Rights Controls Undermine the Structure of Anticircumvention Law? 18 Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2003)
- Julie Cohen, DRM and Privacy, 18 Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2003)
- Joseph P. Liu, The DMCA and the Regulation of Scientific Research, 18 Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2003)
- Unintended Consequences: Five Years Under the DMCA, Electronic Frontier Foundation (2003) [pdf]
- Note, Anti-circumvention: Has Technology Turned Against its Mother? 36 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 961 (2003) [HeinOnline link: please see instructions above]
- Rachna Damija & Fredric Wallenberg, A Framework for Evaluating Digital Rights Management Proposals, Berkeley School of Information Managements Systems (2003)
Class 20
Thursday 2 December
Required Reading
- Trips Article 4
- EU Directive 98/71/EC, Articles 1-13 [pdf]
- EU Regulation 6/2002, Articles 1,3-14, 19-21 [pdf]
- Notes on the Application for a Community Design [pdf]
- Application for a community design [pdf]
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988: Part III [there are five pages to the relevant portions fo the Act; be certain to press "continue" at the bottom of the page and read all pages]
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988: Sections 51-53
- Katrine A. Levin. Monica B. Richman, A Survey of Industrial Design Protection in the European Union and the United States, 6. E.I.P.R. 2003, 25(3), 111-124 (2003) [Westlaw link]
Optional Reading
Class 21
Monday 6 December
Required Reading
Class 22
Thursday 9 December
Required Reading
Optional reading |
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