The articles in this year's edition of the Intellectual Property Law Review reflect popular topics frequently seen in intellectual property related articles during the past year. An underlying theme of many of the articles is the importance of intellectual property to our society and our adapting to the changes that are being made in intellectual property and in our society as well. A number of articles relate to the impact of changes in laws and regulations concerning intellectual property and the consequences of that impact on practices of intellectual property owners. Some other articles address the effect of appellate court opinions on obtaining and enforcing intellectual property rights. All of the articles offer practice pointers and guidance with respect to various patent, trademark, copyright or trade secret topics.
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Introductory Survey by Karen B. Tripp Part I: Patents Inventors Beware: The Danger of Getting Too Many Patents The Eleventh Auer: The Effect of Kisor V. Wilkie on Rulemaking and Adjudication at the United States Patent and Trademark Office Nantkwest, Inc. in Addition, Click-to-Call Technologies, Inc. The U.S. Supreme Court Issues Two Patent Decisions In 2019-2020 Are Changes to the U.S. Patents Sytem Objectively Killing Innovation? Avoiding Responsibility: The Case for Amending the Duty to Disclose Prior Art in Patent Law Artificial Intelligence Inventions & Patent Disclosure Judging Equivalents Part II: Trademarks and Trade Dress Trademark Vigilance in the Twenty-First Century: An Update You Can Always Spot a Fake: The Eleventh Circuit Holds Mall Landlords Contributorily Liable for having Constructive Knowledge of their Tenants Selling Counterfeit Products Scuffed Chicks: Converse's Scuffle, the Federal Circuit's Overstep, and the Court's Stance on Trademark Infringement Overlapping and Sequential Copyright, Pa-Tent, and Trademark Protections: A Case for Overruling the Per Se Bar Part III: Copyrights Breaking with Convention: The Conceptual Failings of Scenes a Faire When Will It End? Why there is not Practical Statute of Limitations for Online Copyright Infringement and Why Libel Law Can Offer the Solution Part IV: Trade Secrets On Equipoise, Knowledge, and Speculation: A Unified Theory of Pleading under the Defend Trade Secrets Act-Jurisdiction, Identification, Misappropriation and Inevitable Disclosure Naked Price and Pharmaceutical Trade Secret Overreach Part V: Intellectual Property The Procedural Foundations of Intellectual Property Information Regulation Enjoining the Cloud: Equity, Irreparability, and Remedies Reconceptualizing the Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Shaping Industry Structure