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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
- test
- 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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Discovery game
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Top 10 things you need to know about removal
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Free as the air! Civ Pro statutory/rule supplement
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Fall 2018: First-week assignments
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Program for the 2018 AALS Section on Civil Procedure: Procedure as Technology/Technology as Procedure
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Erie doctrine: horizontal and vertical choice of law
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Subject-matter jurisdiction in class actions in federal court
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Differences between privileges and work product:
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Work product doctrine tables
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Rule 15 amendment hypotheticals
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Shaffer’s framework explained
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Suggested steps in analyzing federal question jurisdiction
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St. Paul Mercury test explained
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Types of sub-conclusions and overall conclusions
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Avoiding Negative issue spotting and “bad-smelling” counterarguments
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Issues “reasonably raised” versus “negative issue spotting”
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Making arguments and counterarguments
-
Twombly-Iqbal, step-by-step
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Twombly-Iqbal: How the change in law matters under Iqbal’s facts
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Twombly-Iqbal: Possibility vs. Plausibility vs. Probability
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Life after Twombly-Iqbal: How has the law changed?
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Copyright litigation drafting resources
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Choice of law issues in Piper Aircraft v. Reyno
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Iqbal Part IV.A casebook supplement
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Law School Surrender
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Even better than Netflix! Now online: PJ Big Picture Day personal jurisdiction review videos
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Clarification to ALI question
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Minimum Contacts Chart & Table
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Due Process and Long-Arm Statutes
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TIPS FOR RECITING IN CLASS
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The Four Rules of the Erie Doctrine: don’t stress, let it flow!
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Coggle flowchart for Erie Doctrine
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Now online: Professor Nathenson’s MBE Civil Procedure resources
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MBE: Appeals
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MBE: Claim & Issue Preclusion
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MBE: Motions, trial, and judgments
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MBE: Erie Doctrine
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MBE: Discovery
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MBE: Joinder
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MBE: Pleadings
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MBE: Venue
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MBE: Due Process, notice, and service
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MBE: Personal jurisdiction
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MBE: Subject matter jurisdiction
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Extended reviews for MBE and JD
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MBE review of May 2015
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Civ Pro Reviews galore!
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Supplemental jurisdiction practice essay question
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The relationship between fairness, finality, and flexibilty
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Seventh Amendment discussion questions
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Seventh Amendment resources
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The Seventh Amendment and the futility of historical analogues
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Resources for Civil Procedure Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)
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Put up or shut up! The flavors of summary judgment
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Put up or shut up: flavors of summary judgment
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Voluntary (and involuntary) dismissal analogized to amendments of pleadings
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Tigers and lions and bears! Oh, my! Remaining assignments and new study materials online
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Summary judgment practice essay
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JMOL and Motion for New Trial: Rule 50 and 59 problems
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JMOL and Motion for New Trial: Rule 50 and 59 explanations
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Materials, timing, and purpose: differences between dispositive motions
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Appeals
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Non-mutual issue preclusion problems: explanations
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Issue preclusion problems: explanations
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Claim preclusion problems: explanations
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Issue preclusion problems
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Non-mutual issue preclusion problems
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Claim Preclusion problems
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Appealability problem set
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Trial and post-trial motions
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Voluntary dismissal & summary judgment
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Voluntary dismissal study questions
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Analysis for Hanna I and Hanna II
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Choosing the right track: Walker and Shady Grove worksheets
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Why is Erie concerned about discrimination by noncitizens of a state?
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Substance and procedure in federal court, before and after Erie & the FRCP
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Study questions on Shady Grove
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Erie & REA Problems: Questions
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Erie & REA Problems: Explanations
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Erie analysis flowchart
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Guaranty Trust, Byrd, REA, Hanna, and York
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Erie & REA
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Erie Doctrine study questions (RDA, Swift, Taxicab, Erie)
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The rock-paper-scissors discovery solution
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Why Supplemental Jurisdiction is like an ice cream cone with sprinkles
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Professor Moore testifying before Congress on class actions
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Supplemental jurisdiction resources
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Supplemental jurisdiction problem set: explanations
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Aggregation before & after 1367 and Exxon Mobil
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Supplemental jurisdiction problem set: questions
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1367 and the “contamination” rule
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Supplemental jurisdiction: 1367 analysis
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What should Atticus do?
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What should Atticus do?
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Additional review video on Civil Procedure for Spring MBE
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Relation-back practice essay
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Preclusion
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Issue Preclusion: When is an issue “essential to the judgment”?
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Non-mutual issue preclusion (NMIP) scenarios
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Quiz on Rule 11
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Rule 8(c) defenses, Rule 12(b) defenses, and denials
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Relation-back timing hypos
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Answer Drafting Exercises
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Quiz on Default Judgment and Rule 12 Practice
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Civil Procedure Screencasts
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Reviews for those taking the Bar Exam (MBE)
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Review videos: J.D. class
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Discovery study questions II: discovery tools
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Discovery study questions III: discovery control & abuse
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Discovery resources
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Notes on 2006 amendments to FRCP 37(f) (now 37(e))
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Discovery study questions I: scope of discovery
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Study questions on class actions
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Joinder resources
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Pleading, amendment, and relation-back resources
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Venue, transfer, and forum non conveniens resources
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Personal jurisdiction resources
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Subject matter jurisdiction resources
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Examination resources
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Law school, reading, outlining
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Codes used in marking up essays
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On YouTube: PJ Big Picture Day & problems
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PJ Problem Set: Problems and Explanations
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PJ Big Picture Day
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The narrow scope of “fallback” general jurisdiction after Daimler
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Personal Jurisdiction problem set: explanations
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Personal Jurisdiction “Coggle” analysis flowchart
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The story behind Hess and personal jurisdiction
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Review sessions and remaining assignments
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Venue, transfer, and forum non conveniens study questions
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ALI practice PJ essay on yPhone
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Brilliant YouTube video on Burnham
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More practice essays, and guidance on skills you need for Civil Procedure essays
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Two skills, and three practice questions
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Student-submitted practice essays
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Substantial updates and additions
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Removal problem set: explanations
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Removal problem set: questions
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Federal question problem set: questions
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Federal question problem set: explanations
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Iqbal hypos
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Practice Essay: PJ & Amazone (more difficult)
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Practice Essay: PJ & Amazone (simplified)
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Venue, transfer, and forum non conveniens problem set: questions
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Venue, transfer, and forum non conveniens problem set: explanations
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Diversity jurisdiction problem set: questions
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Diversity jurisdiction problem set: explanations
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Personal Jurisdiction problem set: questions
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Rules mnemonics for the FRCP
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Study questions on notice & FRCP 4, 5, 6
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Walden v. Fiore and the shrinking Calder test
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Service of process by Facebook?
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Implied Consent
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Site updates: Assignments page, PJ materials, Removal explanations
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Personal jurisdiction study materials
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Personal jurisdiction study questions (superseded)
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Federal question jurisdiction
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Removal jurisdiction
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How to read statutory materials
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How to read a Rule or Statute
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Civ Pro Prezis from ALI
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Prezis from Civ Pro ALI
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Updated Civ Pro assignment
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New study aid: Essay-exam writing tips
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Tips & Techniques for Civ Pro Essay Exams
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New vid: “Citizen of a State”
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New vids: amount in controversy, aggregation
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Diversity jurisdiction
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Diversity videos posted
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Civil Procedure study resources
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Selected prior essay examinations
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Courses
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Patent Humor: A Method of Tilting A Head to Indicate Confusion
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Batman: study the FRCP if you want to be like me!
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Comments on AALS panel on 75th Anniversary of the FRCP
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About Civil Procedure
- Category: Commons (1)
- Category: Communications (5)
- Category: Computers (4)
- Category: Conferences (5)
- Category: Copyright (51)
- Category: Courses (349)
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Discovery game
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Branding & Trademark (project 2): enforcement
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Patent drafting task # 3: patent drafting
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Patent drafting task # 4: patent searching
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Patent drafting task # 2: client conference
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Patent drafting task # 1: invention creation
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Innovations project 1: Drafting and Searching
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Innovations project 1: fundamentals of patents and drafting (2018 archive)
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Top 10 things you need to know about removal
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Free as the air! Civ Pro statutory/rule supplement
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Misdescriptive versus deceptive marks
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Fall 2018: First-week assignments
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Cyberlaw: professional social media self-branding project
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Cyberlaw: blogging project
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Cyberlaw: 2017 projects [archive]
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Protected: Cyberlaw professional branding project: follow your colleagues
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IP Overview: Reading the Aeropress patent
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Cyberlaw syllabus [ARCHIVE SUMMER 2017 — NOT CURRENT]
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Cyberlaw assignments [ARCHIVE SUMMER 2017 — NOT CURRENT]
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IP Overview syllabus [archive of summer 2017, not current]
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IP Overview assignments [archive of summer 2017, not current]
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IP litigation resources
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Tips on drafting and sending C&D letters
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In-class project guide on website research and documentation
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Roche Products, Inc. v. Bolar Pharmaceutical Co., Inc., 733 F.2d 858 (Fed. Cir. 1984)
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C.R. Bard, Inc. v. Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc., 911 F.2d 670 (Fed. Cir. 1990)
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Larami Corp. v. Amron, 27 U.S.P.Q.2d 1280 (E.D. Pa. 1993)
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Hewlett-Packard Co. v. Bausch & Lomb Inc., 909 F.2d 1464 (Fed. Cir. 1990)
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Protected: Projects: T-Cubed attorneys, inventions, and clients
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Innovations project 2: enforcement
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Copyright project 1: scoring (FALL 2016 ARCHIVE)
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PROJECT 1: ATTORNEYS, WORKS, AND CLIENTS (FALL 2016 ARCHIVE)
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Copyright project 2: enforcement (ARCHIVE OF FALL 2016)
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Copyright project 1: registration (ARCHIVE OF FALL 2016)
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Fall 2016 Copyright skills projects (ARCHIVE)
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Innovations: reading a patent
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Innovations projects
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Copyright assignments (Fall 2016) [ARCHIVED]
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Copyright syllabus (Fall 2016) [ARCHIVED, NOT CURRENT]
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Program for the 2018 AALS Section on Civil Procedure: Procedure as Technology/Technology as Procedure
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Innovations Assignments (Spring 2024)
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Innovations and Patent Management Syllabus (Spring 2024)
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About Innovations and Patent Management
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Protected: Finding media to use in your Cyberlaw class blog project
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Enforcement project
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Protected: Project “X” – blog postings
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Protected: Project 1: professional social-media branding
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Cyberlaw syllabus
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Cyberlaw skills discussion leaders
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Cyberlaw resources
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Cyberlaw skills projects
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Cyberlaw assignments
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Copyright project 2: enforcement
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Archive: Copyright project 2 (Fall 2015)
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Archive: Copyright project 3 (Fall 2015)
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Archive: Copyright project 1 (Fall 2015)
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Copyright & Content Management: required books
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Copyright assignments (Spring 2021)
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Copyright and Content Management Syllabus (Spring 2021)
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Erie doctrine: horizontal and vertical choice of law
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Subject-matter jurisdiction in class actions in federal court
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Differences between privileges and work product:
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Work product doctrine tables
-
Rule 15 amendment hypotheticals
-
Shaffer’s framework explained
-
Suggested steps in analyzing federal question jurisdiction
-
St. Paul Mercury test explained
-
Types of sub-conclusions and overall conclusions
-
Avoiding Negative issue spotting and “bad-smelling” counterarguments
-
Issues “reasonably raised” versus “negative issue spotting”
-
Making arguments and counterarguments
-
Twombly-Iqbal, step-by-step
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Twombly-Iqbal: How the change in law matters under Iqbal’s facts
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Twombly-Iqbal: Possibility vs. Plausibility vs. Probability
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Life after Twombly-Iqbal: How has the law changed?
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Copyright litigation drafting resources
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Choice of law issues in Piper Aircraft v. Reyno
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Iqbal Part IV.A casebook supplement
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Copyright infringement basics
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Copyright project 3: scoring
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Copyright project 2: scoring
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Copyright project 2: enforcement
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Protected: Copyright project 3: litigation (main)
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Law School Surrender
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Even better than Netflix! Now online: PJ Big Picture Day personal jurisdiction review videos
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Clarification to ALI question
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Copyright project 1: resource listing
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Copyright skills projects
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Copyright project 1: resources
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Copyright project 1: registration
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Minimum Contacts Chart & Table
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Due Process and Long-Arm Statutes
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TIPS FOR RECITING IN CLASS
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Knock-out searching, the very basics
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The Four Rules of the Erie Doctrine: don’t stress, let it flow!
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Coggle flowchart for Erie Doctrine
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Now online: Professor Nathenson’s MBE Civil Procedure resources
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MBE: Appeals
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MBE: Claim & Issue Preclusion
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MBE: Motions, trial, and judgments
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MBE: Erie Doctrine
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MBE: Discovery
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MBE: Joinder
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MBE: Pleadings
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MBE: Venue
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MBE: Due Process, notice, and service
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MBE: Personal jurisdiction
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MBE: Subject matter jurisdiction
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Extended reviews for MBE and JD
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MBE review of May 2015
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Resources for IP Overview course
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Trade secrets vs. other forms of IP
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Copyright assignments (Fall 2015)
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Copyright syllabus (Fall 2015)
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IP Overview assignments
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IP Overview syllabus
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Civ Pro Reviews galore!
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Supplemental jurisdiction practice essay question
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The relationship between fairness, finality, and flexibilty
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Seventh Amendment discussion questions
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Seventh Amendment resources
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The Seventh Amendment and the futility of historical analogues
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Resources for Civil Procedure Multistate Bar Examination (MBE)
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About Intellectual Property overview
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Project 3: Patent opinion option assignment (2015)
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Patent opinion scoring criteria
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Project 3: Patent opinion option
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Project 3: Project rewrites option
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Project 3: Student’s Choice – project rewrites or patent opinion
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Other types of IP: Misappropriation, Trade Secrets, Right of Publicity
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Copyright & Content Management resources
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Innovations (patent and trade secret) resources
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Trademark resources
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White v. Samsung
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DuPont deNemours & Co. v. Christopher
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Rockwell Graphic Systems, Inc. v. DEV Industries, Inc.
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Larami Corp. v. Amron
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Reading the OXO measuring cup patent
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Put up or shut up! The flavors of summary judgment
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Put up or shut up: flavors of summary judgment
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Voluntary (and involuntary) dismissal analogized to amendments of pleadings
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Comparing Copyright, Patent, Trade secret, and Trademark
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Tigers and lions and bears! Oh, my! Remaining assignments and new study materials online
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Summary judgment practice essay
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JMOL and Motion for New Trial: Rule 50 and 59 problems
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JMOL and Motion for New Trial: Rule 50 and 59 explanations
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Materials, timing, and purpose: differences between dispositive motions
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Appeals
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Non-mutual issue preclusion problems: explanations
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Issue preclusion problems: explanations
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Claim preclusion problems: explanations
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Issue preclusion problems
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Non-mutual issue preclusion problems
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Claim Preclusion problems
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Appealability problem set
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Trial and post-trial motions
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Voluntary dismissal & summary judgment
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Voluntary dismissal study questions
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Analysis for Hanna I and Hanna II
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Choosing the right track: Walker and Shady Grove worksheets
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Why is Erie concerned about discrimination by noncitizens of a state?
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Substance and procedure in federal court, before and after Erie & the FRCP
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Transparency reports
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Study questions on Shady Grove
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See me speak next Friday at Hispanicize 2015
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Elements of a cease-and-desist letter a/k/a how NOT to be an IP gorilla
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Erie & REA Problems: Questions
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Erie & REA Problems: Explanations
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Erie analysis flowchart
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Guaranty Trust, Byrd, REA, Hanna, and York
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Erie & REA
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Erie Doctrine study questions (RDA, Swift, Taxicab, Erie)
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Copyright Cease & Desist: Scoring Criteria
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Project 2 copyright assignment memo (2015)
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The rock-paper-scissors discovery solution
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Project 2 – Copyrights (main)
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Why Supplemental Jurisdiction is like an ice cream cone with sprinkles
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Professor Moore testifying before Congress on class actions
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About Copyright and Content Management
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Copyright duration: basic rules (beta)
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Client name & contact information
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Supplemental jurisdiction resources
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Supplemental jurisdiction problem set: explanations
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Aggregation before & after 1367 and Exxon Mobil
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Supplemental jurisdiction problem set: questions
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1367 and the “contamination” rule
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Supplemental jurisdiction: 1367 analysis
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Project 1 – Trademarks (main)
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Trademark Knock-Out Search: Scoring Criteria
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What should Atticus do?
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What should Atticus do?
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Additional review video on Civil Procedure for Spring MBE
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Relation-back practice essay
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Preclusion
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Issue Preclusion: When is an issue “essential to the judgment”?
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Non-mutual issue preclusion (NMIP) scenarios
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Intellectual Property: Projects (2015)
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Project 1: Trademark “knock-out” search (2015)
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Intellectual Property: Projects (2014)
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Deceptive, misdescriptive, etc. marks
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Descriptive vs. suggestive marks: examples
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Trademarks: Distinctiveness & Non-Functionality
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Is this mark barred by Section 2 of the Lanham Act?
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Photos & Trademarks
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Quiz on Rule 11
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Rule 8(c) defenses, Rule 12(b) defenses, and denials
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EXAMPLES OF MARKS
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Examples of Harkness discussion questions
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Relation-back timing hypos
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Chart: a theoretical breakdown of INS v. AP
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Intellectual Property resources
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Answer Drafting Exercises
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Quiz on Default Judgment and Rule 12 Practice
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Civil Procedure Screencasts
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Reviews for those taking the Bar Exam (MBE)
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Review videos: J.D. class
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Discovery study questions II: discovery tools
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Discovery study questions III: discovery control & abuse
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Discovery resources
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Notes on 2006 amendments to FRCP 37(f) (now 37(e))
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Discovery study questions I: scope of discovery
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Study questions on class actions
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Joinder resources
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Pleading, amendment, and relation-back resources
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Venue, transfer, and forum non conveniens resources
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Personal jurisdiction resources
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Subject matter jurisdiction resources
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Examination resources
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Law school, reading, outlining
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IP Assignments
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Codes used in marking up essays
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On YouTube: PJ Big Picture Day & problems
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PJ Problem Set: Problems and Explanations
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PJ Big Picture Day
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The narrow scope of “fallback” general jurisdiction after Daimler
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Personal Jurisdiction problem set: explanations
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Personal Jurisdiction “Coggle” analysis flowchart
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The story behind Hess and personal jurisdiction
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Create easy-updating supras and infras
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Review sessions and remaining assignments
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Venue, transfer, and forum non conveniens study questions
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ALI practice PJ essay on yPhone
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Brilliant YouTube video on Burnham
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More practice essays, and guidance on skills you need for Civil Procedure essays
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Two skills, and three practice questions
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Student-submitted practice essays
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Substantial updates and additions
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Removal problem set: explanations
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Removal problem set: questions
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Federal question problem set: questions
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Federal question problem set: explanations
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Iqbal hypos
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Practice Essay: PJ & Amazone (more difficult)
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Practice Essay: PJ & Amazone (simplified)
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Venue, transfer, and forum non conveniens problem set: questions
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Venue, transfer, and forum non conveniens problem set: explanations
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Diversity jurisdiction problem set: questions
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Diversity jurisdiction problem set: explanations
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Personal Jurisdiction problem set: questions
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Rules mnemonics for the FRCP
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Study questions on notice & FRCP 4, 5, 6
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Codes used to mark up drafts
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General issues with first drafts
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Guidance for those giving presentations
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Guidance for commentators on presentations
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General guidance for all class members during presentation weeks
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Bluebook cheat sheets
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How grades are computed
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Proper attribution and avoiding plagiarism
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Organizing your research
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Revising
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The introduction and roadmap
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Writing a zeroth draft
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Walden v. Fiore and the shrinking Calder test
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Service of process by Facebook?
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Implied Consent
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Site updates: Assignments page, PJ materials, Removal explanations
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Personal jurisdiction study materials
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Personal jurisdiction study questions (superseded)
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Federal question jurisdiction
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Removal jurisdiction
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How to read statutory materials
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How to read a Rule or Statute
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Civ Pro Prezis from ALI
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Prezis from Civ Pro ALI
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Why good seminar papers are like patents
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Preparing your combined statement of Thesis, Outline, and Sources
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Outlining
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“Topic” versus “Thesis”
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Updated Civ Pro assignment
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New study aid: Essay-exam writing tips
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Tips & Techniques for Civ Pro Essay Exams
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New vid: “Citizen of a State”
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New vids: amount in controversy, aggregation
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Diversity jurisdiction
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Diversity videos posted
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Civil Procedure study resources
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Handbook on seminar papers
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Developing a topic and thesis
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Books & Materials
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Senior Writing Requirement FAQs
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Information regarding the SWR
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Important dates & deadlines
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Cyberlaw seminar assignments
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Selected prior essay examinations
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Cyberlaw seminar syllabus
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IP assignments (Spring 2014)
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IP syllabus
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Intellectual Property
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Courses
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Verizon’s “Can you hear me now” ad, NSA-style
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Patent art proves that Siri actually lives inside the iPhone
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What Mad Men would be like if advertising agencies were honest
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Muggle Retail
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Patent Humor: A Method of Tilting A Head to Indicate Confusion
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Batman: study the FRCP if you want to be like me!
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Does “cyberspace” still exist?
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WYNGZ are not made of wings. Or trademarks.
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From the folks who brought you SOPA & PIPA: Congressional offices downloading movies via BitTorrent
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The right kind of chilling effect: “Instagram loses half its daily users after T&Cs debacle”
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Get out of jail free: how the WWII Allies used the game Monopoly to help POWs escape
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Comments on AALS panel on 75th Anniversary of the FRCP
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The ties that bind the recession and software piracy
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Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
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Intellectual Property Scholars Conference in beautiful Chicago
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New article on SSRN: “Civil Procedures for a World of Shared and User-Generated Content”
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David Letterman’s live IP demand to Joaquin Phoenix: real or hoax?
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Does an Apple a day keep the Newsday away?
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Galactica: Sabotage smash-up
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Did statutory damages destroy the music industry?
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Mr. Yuk is mean. Mr. Yuk also has lawyers.
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Star Trek & Star Wars similarities
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Abe Lincoln, inventor
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About Cyberlaw
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About Civil Procedure
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James Gleick on the future of books
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250 years of Pittsburgh innovation
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Google Book Search settlement
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Wii cool invention and video!
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New York Times and 148-year copyrights
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Yet another report on digital preservation
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New report on copyright and digital preservation
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Why does Google keep so much information?
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Today in 1840: Morse Code patent issued
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BOGO day for patents at the Supreme Court
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Simpsons – Star Trek mash-up
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Supreme Court grants cert in KSR v. Teleflex
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LabCorp v. Metabolite dismissed
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Microsoft and Creative Commons
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New article on SSRN: “Civil Procedures for a World of Shared and User-Generated Content”
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Lessig’s modalities, football helmets, and “cerebellum custard”
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David Letterman’s live IP demand to Joaquin Phoenix: real or hoax?
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Does an Apple a day keep the Newsday away?
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The fallacy of echo chambers: is everyone really mad at everyone?
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Social networking word-of-the-day: “thinvisibility”
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Animals, information, and language
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Are we too wired? (Yes.)
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Umpire Jim Joyce, a near-perfect game, Twitter spam, and the wisdom of “Tin Cup”
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Google abandons “minimalist” homepage, permits distracting background images. Yuk.
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New Supreme Court website
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Happy Pi Day: top ten uses of Pi
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Galactica: Sabotage smash-up
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(Batman’s) advice for new law students, part VI: “always mind your surroundings”
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1934: Building a brick & mortar archive
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The hindsight of archives: “Popular Science” & incorrect technology predictions
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The most valuable course I ever took
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Star Trek & Star Wars similarities
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Abe Lincoln, inventor
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A very “Will It Blend” holiday season
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Advice for new law students, part III: avoiding your own Universal Studios fire
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IP Overview: Reading the Aeropress patent
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IP Overview syllabus [archive of summer 2017, not current]
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IP Overview assignments [archive of summer 2017, not current]
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IP litigation resources
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Tips on drafting and sending C&D letters
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In-class project guide on website research and documentation
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Roche Products, Inc. v. Bolar Pharmaceutical Co., Inc., 733 F.2d 858 (Fed. Cir. 1984)
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C.R. Bard, Inc. v. Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc., 911 F.2d 670 (Fed. Cir. 1990)
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Larami Corp. v. Amron, 27 U.S.P.Q.2d 1280 (E.D. Pa. 1993)
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Hewlett-Packard Co. v. Bausch & Lomb Inc., 909 F.2d 1464 (Fed. Cir. 1990)
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Innovations project 2: enforcement
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Copyright project 1: scoring (FALL 2016 ARCHIVE)
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PROJECT 1: ATTORNEYS, WORKS, AND CLIENTS (FALL 2016 ARCHIVE)
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Copyright project 2: enforcement (ARCHIVE OF FALL 2016)
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Copyright project 1: registration (ARCHIVE OF FALL 2016)
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Fall 2016 Copyright skills projects (ARCHIVE)
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Innovations: reading a patent
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Innovations projects
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Copyright assignments (Fall 2016) [ARCHIVED]
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Copyright syllabus (Fall 2016) [ARCHIVED, NOT CURRENT]
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Innovations Assignments (Spring 2024)
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Innovations and Patent Management Syllabus (Spring 2024)
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About Innovations and Patent Management
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Copyright & Content Management: required books
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Copyright assignments (Spring 2021)
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Copyright and Content Management Syllabus (Spring 2021)
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Copyright infringement basics
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Copyright project 3: scoring
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Copyright project 2: scoring
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Copyright project 2: enforcement
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Protected: Copyright project 3: litigation (main)
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Law School Surrender
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Copyright skills projects
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Copyright project 1: resources
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Copyright project 1: registration
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Knock-out searching, the very basics
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Resources for IP Overview course
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Trade secrets vs. other forms of IP
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Copyright assignments (Fall 2015)
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Copyright syllabus (Fall 2015)
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IP Overview assignments
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IP Overview syllabus
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About Intellectual Property overview
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Project 3: Patent opinion option assignment (2015)
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Project 3: Patent opinion option
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Project 3: Project rewrites option
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Other types of IP: Misappropriation, Trade Secrets, Right of Publicity
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Copyright & Content Management resources
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Innovations (patent and trade secret) resources
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Trademark resources
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White v. Samsung
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DuPont deNemours & Co. v. Christopher
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Rockwell Graphic Systems, Inc. v. DEV Industries, Inc.
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Larami Corp. v. Amron
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Reading the OXO measuring cup patent
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Comparing Copyright, Patent, Trade secret, and Trademark
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Transparency reports
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See me speak next Friday at Hispanicize 2015
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Elements of a cease-and-desist letter a/k/a how NOT to be an IP gorilla
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Copyright Cease & Desist: Scoring Criteria
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Project 2 copyright assignment memo (2015)
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Project 2 – Copyrights (main)
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About Copyright and Content Management
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Copyright duration: basic rules (beta)
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Client name & contact information
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Project 1 – Trademarks (main)
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Trademark Knock-Out Search: Scoring Criteria
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Intellectual Property: Projects (2015)
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Project 1: Trademark “knock-out” search (2015)
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Intellectual Property: Projects (2014)
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Deceptive, misdescriptive, etc. marks
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Descriptive vs. suggestive marks: examples
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Trademarks: Distinctiveness & Non-Functionality
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Is this mark barred by Section 2 of the Lanham Act?
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Photos & Trademarks
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EXAMPLES OF MARKS
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Examples of Harkness discussion questions
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Chart: a theoretical breakdown of INS v. AP
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Intellectual Property resources
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IP Assignments
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IP assignments (Spring 2014)
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IP syllabus
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Intellectual Property
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Courses
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Patent art proves that Siri actually lives inside the iPhone
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What Mad Men would be like if advertising agencies were honest
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Muggle Retail
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Patent Humor: A Method of Tilting A Head to Indicate Confusion
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WYNGZ are not made of wings. Or trademarks.
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The right kind of chilling effect: “Instagram loses half its daily users after T&Cs debacle”
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Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
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New article on SSRN: “Civil Procedures for a World of Shared and User-Generated Content”
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David Letterman’s live IP demand to Joaquin Phoenix: real or hoax?
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Galactica: Sabotage smash-up
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Did statutory damages destroy the music industry?
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Abe Lincoln, inventor
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Google Book Search settlement
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Wii cool invention and video!
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New York Times and 148-year copyrights
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Today in 1840: Morse Code patent issued
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BOGO day for patents at the Supreme Court
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Simpsons – Star Trek mash-up
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Supreme Court grants cert in KSR v. Teleflex
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LabCorp v. Metabolite dismissed
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Microsoft and Creative Commons
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Patent Humor: A Method of Tilting A Head to Indicate Confusion
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Batman: study the FRCP if you want to be like me!
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Presentation on teaching with online simulations at Institute for Law Teaching and Learning summer conference
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Should law school be reduced to two years?
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(Batman’s) advice for new law students, part VI: “always mind your surroundings”
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Abe Lincoln, lawyer
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Advice for new law students, part V: avoid Monty Python “Yes it is!, No it isn’t!” argumentation
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Advice for new law students, part IV: essay exams
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Final exams and cat naps
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Sites and course pages
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Tiger Woods, distractions, and laptops in the classroom
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Advice for new law students, part III: avoiding your own Universal Studios fire
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Advice for new law students, part II: additional thoughts
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Advice for new law students, part I
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Sunny skies
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Patent drafting task # 3: patent drafting
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Patent drafting task # 4: patent searching
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Patent drafting task # 2: client conference
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Patent drafting task # 1: invention creation
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Innovations project 1: Drafting and Searching
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Innovations project 1: fundamentals of patents and drafting (2018 archive)
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IP litigation resources
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Tips on drafting and sending C&D letters
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In-class project guide on website research and documentation
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Roche Products, Inc. v. Bolar Pharmaceutical Co., Inc., 733 F.2d 858 (Fed. Cir. 1984)
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C.R. Bard, Inc. v. Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc., 911 F.2d 670 (Fed. Cir. 1990)
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Larami Corp. v. Amron, 27 U.S.P.Q.2d 1280 (E.D. Pa. 1993)
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Hewlett-Packard Co. v. Bausch & Lomb Inc., 909 F.2d 1464 (Fed. Cir. 1990)
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Protected: Projects: T-Cubed attorneys, inventions, and clients
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Innovations project 2: enforcement
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Innovations: reading a patent
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Innovations projects
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Innovations Assignments (Spring 2024)
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Innovations and Patent Management Syllabus (Spring 2024)
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About Innovations and Patent Management
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Patent art proves that Siri actually lives inside the iPhone
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Muggle Retail
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Patent Humor: A Method of Tilting A Head to Indicate Confusion
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Get out of jail free: how the WWII Allies used the game Monopoly to help POWs escape
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Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
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Abe Lincoln, inventor
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250 years of Pittsburgh innovation
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Wii cool invention and video!
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