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- About Civil Procedure
- Civil Procedure assignments, Fall 2023
- Civil Procedure study resources
- 1367 and the “contamination” rule
- Aggregation before & after 1367 and Exxon Mobil
- ALI practice PJ essay on yPhone
- Analysis for Hanna I and Hanna II
- Answer Drafting Exercises
- Appealability problem set
- Appeals
- Avoiding Negative issue spotting and “bad-smelling” counterarguments
- Business entities and diversity jurisdiction
- Changes to section 1332 in 2011
- Choice of law issues in Piper Aircraft v. Reyno
- Choosing the right track: Walker and Shady Grove worksheets
- Civil Procedure Screencasts
- Claim Preclusion problems
- Claim preclusion problems: explanations
- Clarification to ALI question
- Codes used in marking up essays
- Coggle flowchart for Erie Doctrine
- Differences between privileges and work product:
- Discovery game
- Discovery resources
- Discovery study questions I: scope of discovery
- Discovery study questions II: discovery tools
- Discovery study questions III: discovery control & abuse
- Diversity jurisdiction
- Diversity jurisdiction problem set: explanations
- Diversity jurisdiction problem set: questions
- Due Process and Long-Arm Statutes
- Erie & REA
- Erie & REA Problems: Explanations
- Erie & REA Problems: Questions
- Erie analysis flowchart
- Erie doctrine basics
- Erie Doctrine study questions (RDA, Swift, Taxicab, Erie)
- Erie doctrine: horizontal and vertical choice of law
- Examination resources
- Fall 2015 midterm answer key
- Federal question jurisdiction
- Federal question problem set: explanations
- Federal question problem set: questions
- FRCP and Two Men and a Truck
- Guaranty Trust, Byrd, REA, Hanna, and York
- How to read a Rule or Statute
- Implied Consent
- Iqbal hypos
- Iqbal Part IV.A casebook supplement
- Issue preclusion problems
- Issue preclusion problems: explanations
- Issue Preclusion: When is an issue “essential to the judgment”?
- Issues “reasonably raised” versus “negative issue spotting”
- JMOL (judgment as a matter of law) vs. MNT (motion for a new trial)
- JMOL and Motion for New Trial: Rule 50 and 59 explanations
- JMOL and Motion for New Trial: Rule 50 and 59 problems
- Joinder primer
- Joinder resources
- Law school, reading, outlining
- Life after Twombly-Iqbal: How has the law changed?
- Making arguments and counterarguments
- Materials, timing, and purpose: differences between dispositive motions
- Minimum Contacts Chart & Table
- Multiple-choice answers for prior exams & practice exams
- Non-mutual issue preclusion (NMIP) scenarios
- Non-mutual issue preclusion problems
- Notes on 2006 amendments to FRCP 37(f) (now 37(e))
- Other ways of visualizing federal-question jurisdiction
- Personal Jurisdiction “Coggle” analysis flowchart
- Personal Jurisdiction problem set: explanations
- Personal Jurisdiction problem set: questions
- Personal jurisdiction resources
- Personal jurisdiction study materials
- Personal jurisdiction study questions (superseded)
- PJ Big Picture Day
- PJ Problem Set: Problems and Explanations
- PJ study guide: current status of traditional bases
- PJ study guide: general jurisdiction
- PJ study guide: Pennoyer v. Neff
- PJ study questions: Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court
- PJ study questions: Burger King v. Rudzewicz
- PJ study questions: International Shoe v. Washington
- PJ study questions: state and federal long-arms
- PJ study questions: World-Wide Volkswagen v. Woodson
- Pleading, amendment, and relation-back resources
- Practice Essay: PJ & Amazone (more difficult)
- Practice Essay: PJ & Amazone (simplified)
- Preclusion
- Prezis from Civ Pro ALI
- Put up or shut up: flavors of summary judgment
- Quiz on Default Judgment and Rule 12 Practice
- Quiz on Rule 11
- Reasonableness factors # 4 and 5: efficiency and substantive social policy
- Relation-back practice essay
- Relation-back timing hypos
- Remittitur vs. Additur
- Removal jurisdiction
- Removal problem set: explanations
- Removal problem set: questions
- Review videos: J.D. class
- Reviews for those taking the Bar Exam (MBE)
- Rule 15 amendment hypotheticals
- Rule 26(a)(1) disclosure hypos
- Rule 26(e) supplementation hypos
- Rule 8(c) defenses, Rule 12(b) defenses, and denials
- Rules mnemonics for the FRCP
- Seventh Amendment discussion questions
- Seventh Amendment resources
- Shaffer’s framework explained
- Shaffer’s Treatment of In Rem & Quasi-In-Rem
- SMJ, PJ, and venue compared
- Specific and general jurisdiction: a sliding scale?
- St. Paul Mercury test explained
- Steps in analyzing specific and general jurisdiction
- Student-submitted practice essays
- Study questions on class actions
- Study questions on notice & FRCP 4, 5, 6
- Study questions on Shady Grove
- Subject matter jurisdiction resources
- Subject-matter jurisdiction in class actions in federal court
- Substance and procedure in federal court, before and after Erie & the FRCP
- Suggested steps in analyzing federal question jurisdiction
- Summary judgment practice essay
- Supplemental jurisdiction practice essay question
- Supplemental jurisdiction problem set: explanations
- Supplemental jurisdiction problem set: questions
- Supplemental jurisdiction resources
- Supplemental jurisdiction: 1367 analysis
- The relationship between fairness, finality, and flexibilty
- The rock-paper-scissors discovery solution
- The Seventh Amendment and the futility of historical analogues
- Tips & Techniques for Civ Pro Essay Exams
- TIPS FOR RECITING IN CLASS
- Trial and post-trial motions
- Two Men and a Truck: case and discussion questions
- Two skills, and three practice questions
- Twombly-Iqbal, step-by-step
- Twombly-Iqbal: How the change in law matters under Iqbal’s facts
- Twombly-Iqbal: Possibility vs. Plausibility vs. Probability
- Types of sub-conclusions and overall conclusions
- Venue, transfer, and forum non conveniens problem set: explanations
- Venue, transfer, and forum non conveniens problem set: questions
- Venue, transfer, and forum non conveniens resources
- Venue, transfer, and forum non conveniens study questions
- Venue, transfer, forum non conveniens
- Voluntary (and involuntary) dismissal analogized to amendments of pleadings
- Voluntary dismissal & summary judgment
- Voluntary dismissal study questions
- What should Atticus do?
- When does a defendant’s contact “give rise” to a claim?
- Why is Erie concerned about discrimination by noncitizens of a state?
- Work product doctrine tables
- Civil Procedure syllabus (Fall 2023)
- Law School Surrender
- Resources for Civil Procedure Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)
- Selected prior essay examinations
- The IFRAC structure of court opinions, case briefs, and essay writing
- YouTube MBE review playlists
- About Copyright and Content Management
- About Cyberlaw
- About Innovations and Patent Management
- About Intellectual Property (3 credit doctrinal)
- About Intellectual Property overview
- About Intellectual Property Seminar
- About Trademark & Branding Management
- Attribution policy
- Certification of originality and attribution
- Civil Procedure Focus for the Bar: Syllabus (Spring Break 2022)
- Guidance for discussants, discussion leaders, and panels
- Intellectual Property
- Intellectual Property resources
- Chart: a theoretical breakdown of INS v. AP
- Client name & contact information
- Comparing Copyright, Patent, Trade secret, and Trademark
- Copyright & Content Management resources
- Copyright Cease & Desist: Scoring Criteria
- Copyright duration: basic rules (beta)
- Copyright infringement basics
- Deceptive, misdescriptive, etc. marks
- Descriptive vs. suggestive marks: examples
- DuPont deNemours & Co. v. Christopher
- Elements of a cease-and-desist letter a/k/a how NOT to be an IP gorilla
- Examples of Harkness discussion questions
- EXAMPLES OF MARKS
- In-class project guide on website research and documentation
- Innovations (patent and trade secret) resources
- Intellectual Property: Projects (2015)
- IP litigation resources
- IP Overview: Reading the Aeropress patent
- Is this mark barred by Section 2 of the Lanham Act?
- Larami Corp. v. Amron
- Other types of IP: Misappropriation, Trade Secrets, Right of Publicity
- Parallels between anticipation (102) and obviousness (103) versus literal and equivalence infringement (271(a))
- Patent opinion scoring criteria
- Photos & Trademarks
- Project 1 – Trademarks (main)
- Project 1: Trademark “knock-out” search (2015)
- Project 2 – Copyrights (main)
- Project 2 copyright assignment memo (2015)
- Project 3: Patent opinion option
- Project 3: Patent opinion option assignment (2015)
- Project 3: Project rewrites option
- Project 3: Student’s Choice – project rewrites or patent opinion
- Reading the OXO measuring cup patent
- Rockwell Graphic Systems, Inc. v. DEV Industries, Inc.
- Section 102 timing hypos
- Section 103: Nathenson’s suggested order of nonobviousness analysis
- Tables galore! Duration under 1909, 1976, 1992, and 1998 Acts; also a public domain table
- Tips on drafting and sending C&D letters
- Trade secret misappropriation hypos
- Trade secrets vs. other forms of IP
- Trademark Knock-Out Search: Scoring Criteria
- Trademark resources
- Trademarks: Distinctiveness & Non-Functionality
- Transparency reports
- Types of patents: utility, design, plant, plant variety
- Unpatentable subject matter
- White v. Samsung
- Intellectual Property: Projects (2014)
- IP Assignments
- IP assignments (Spring 2014)
- IP syllabus
- Privacy: about this course
- Customized homepage
- Cyberlaw seminar (ARCHIVE of Fall 2014)
- Educational theory (Excellence in Teaching presentation)
- Links
- Music
- Non-mutual issue preclusion problems: explanations
- Office hours
- Office Hours blog
- Patent drafting task # 4: patent searching [archived, obsolete as of 2022]
- Program for the 2018 AALS Section on Civil Procedure: Procedure as Technology/Technology as Procedure
- Sitemap of Nathenson.org
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- Welcome!!
- About Professor Nathenson
- Cyberlaw seminar assignments
- Books & Materials
- C.V.
- Photography on Flickr
- Feist v. Rural Telephone Service Co.
- Florida Right of Publicity statute
- ILS: Copyright provisions
- ILS: first-day instructions
- ILS: patent exercises
- ILS: patent provisions
- ILS: trademark provisions
- INS v. AP: Brandeis dissent
- INS v. AP: Holmes dissent
- INS v. AP: majority
- John Locke, Two Treatises on Government, Chap. V
- Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs.
- Patent exercises
- Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Prods. Co.
- Study questions, Day 1: Introduction to ILS & IP
- Study questions, Day 2
- Study questions, Day 3
- Study questions, Day 4
- STUDY QUESTIONS, DAY 5
- Trademark exercises
- U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8
- U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, clauses 3, 8, and 18
- White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
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