Intellectual Property: International
and Comparative Dimensions
Professor William Fisher
Spring 2002
Syllabus
Comparative History (January 29)
Foundations (February 5)
International Aspects of Copyright Law -- Part 1 (February 12)
Note on Copyright [G 142-46]
Goldstein, International Copyright [G 146-47]
Notes [G 147-49]
Excerpts from Berne Convention [G 149-51]
Berne
Convention [Roam around in this site; don't feel obliged to
read
the whole thing]
Excerpt from Rome Convention [G 151]
Notes [G 151-54]
Agreement
on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Articles 9-14
Teledirect v. American Business Information [G 154-62]
Schricker, "Farewell to the 'Level of Creativity'" [G 162-68]
Questions [G 168]
Geller, "Worldwide Chain of Title to Copyright" [G 168-76]
Materials on "Who is an Author" [G 176-88]
Atlas Film v. Janus Film [G 188-92]
Notes [G 192-94]
Goldstein, Copyright's Highway [G 267-70]
Goldstein, International IP [G 271-73]
Merryman, "The Refrigerator of Bernard Buffet" [G 273-76]
Dietz, "The Moral Right of the Author" [G 285-95]
Notes [G 295-97]
Other Resources:
Peter
Burger, "The Berne Convention: Its History and Its Key Role in
the
Future," 3 Journal of Law and Technology 1 (1988)
International Aspects of Copyright Law -- Part
2 (February 19)
Neil
Netanel, "Asserting Copyright's Democratic Principles in the Global
Arena,"
51 Vanderbilt Law Review 217 (1998)
Ruth
Gana, "Has Creativity Died in the Third World: Some Implications
of the Internationalization of Intellectual Property," 24 Denver
Journal
of International Law & Policy 109 (1995)
Database Protection (February 26)
J.H.
Reichman and Pamela Samuelson, "Intellectual Property Rights in Data?,"
50 Vand. L. Rev. 51 (1997)
EC Database
Directive
Harvey
Berkman, "Congress Tackles Database Law," National Law Journal, July
26,
1999
Other Resources:
International Aspects of Patent Law -- Part 1
(March
5)
Note on Patents [G 297-300]
Agreement
on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Articles 27-36
Strauss, "Implications of the TRIPS Agreement" [G 300-303]
George
Foster, "Opposing Forces in a Revolution in International Patent
Protection:
The U.S. and India in the Uruguay Round and Its Aftermath," 3 UCLA
Journal
of International Law and Foreign Affairs 283, 296-322 (1998)
Correa, "The TRIPS Agreement" [G 303-07]
Notes [G 307-11]
Note on Plant Patents [G 311-13]
Notes on Priority Rules [G 323-26]
Beier, "The Inventive Step" [G 336-48]
Notes [G 348-49]
Correa, "The TRIPS Agreement" [G 362-63]
Notes [G 376-79]
Correa, "The TRIPS Agreement" [G 379-84]
Notes [G 408-11]
Note on Infringement and Equivalents [G 419]
Park, "The International Drug Industry: What the Future Holds for South
Africa's HIV/AIDS Patients," 11 Minn. J. Global Trade 125 (2002)
Other Resources:
- R.
Carl Moy, "The History of the Patent Harmonization Treaty: Economic
Self-Interest
as an Influence," 26 John Marshall Law Review 457 (1993)
- The International Union for the Protection
of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
- Akim
Czmus, Biotechnology Protection in Japan, the European Community, and
the
United States, 8 Temp. Int'l & Comp. L.J. 435 (1994)
- Marina
Portnova, "Ownership and Enforcement of Patent Rights in Russia:
Protecting
an Invention in the Existing Environment," 8 Indiana International and
Comparative Law Review 505 (1998)
- Kevin
W. McCabe, "The January 1999 Review of Article 27 of the TRIPS
Agreement:
Diverging Views of Developed and Developing Countries Toward the
Patentability
of Biotechnology," 6 Journal of Intellectual Property Law 41 (1998)
- David
Cohen, Article 69 and European Patent Integration"
- "WIPO
Cites Progress on Patent Treaty," 13 WIPR 196 (1999)
- "EPO
Aims to Expand to Central, Eastern Europe," 13 WIPR 161 (1999)
- F.M
Scherer, "The Pharmaceutical Industry and World Intellectual Property
Standards,"
Vanderbilt Law Review 2000
- Barfield and Groombridge, "Parallel Trade in the
Pharmaceutical Industry:
Implications for Innovation, Consumer Welfare, and Health Policy," 10
Fordham
I. P., Media & Ent. L.J. 185 (1999)
International Aspects of Patent Law -- Part 2
(March 12)
Josh Lerner,
"Patent Policy and Innovation over 150 Years" (Working Paper 2002)
Gerald
Mossinghoff & Vivian Kuo, "World Patent System Circa 20XX, A.D." 38
Idea 529 (1998)
William
Fisher, "The Impact of 'Terminator Gene' Technologies on Developing
Countries,"
Report to the UK Department for International Development, December 1999
William
Fisher, "Managing Genetic Resources," in Legal Reform in Central
America
(Kennedy School of Government 2001)
Other Resources:
- Robert
Sherwood, Vanda Scartezini & Peter Dirk Siemsen, "Promotion of
Invention
in Developing Countries Through a More Advanced Patent Administration,"
39 Journal of Law & Technology 473 (1999)
- Mark
D. Janis, "Second Tier Patent Protection," 40 Harvard International Law
Journal 151 (1999)
- United Nations Convention on Biological
Diversity
- Jorge
A. Cabrera Medaglia, Draft Bioprospecting Treaty for Central America
- Keith
Aoki, "Neocolonialism, Anticommons Property, and Biopiracy in the
(Not-So-Brave)
New World Order of International Intellectual Property Protection," 6
Indiana
Journal of Global Legal Studies 11 (1998)
- Craig
D. Jacoby & Charles Weiss, "Recognizing Property Rights in
Traditional
Biocultural Contribution," 16 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 74 (1997)
- Christopher
D. Stone, "What to Do About Biodiversity: Property Rights, Public
Goods, and the Earth's Biological Resources," 68 Southern California
Law
Review 577 (1995)
- J. Benjamin Bai, "Protecting Plant Varieties under TRIPS and
NAFTA: Should
Utility Patents Be Available for Plants?," 32 Tex. Int'l L.J. 139 (1997)
- David Tilford, "Saving the Blueprints: The International
Legal Regime for
Plant Resources," 30 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 373 (1998)
- Geertrui Van Overwalle, "Patent Protection for Plants: A
Comparison of
American and European Approaches," 39 Journal of Law and Technology 143
(1999)
- Klaus Bosselmann, "Plants and Politics: The International
Legal Regime
Concerning Biotechnology and Biodiversity," 7 Colorado Journal of
International
Environmental Law & Policy 111 (1996)
- "Parliament Gives Preliminary Approval to EU-Wide Utility
Model Proposal,"
13 WIPR 148 (1999)
- "Parliament Re-Endorses Amendments to Draft Utility Model
Directive," 13
WIPR 392 (December 1999)
- "US, India Spar over Need to Bolster Patent Protection for
Life Forms,"
13 WIPR 404 (December 1999)
Legal Hybrids (March 19)
J.H.
Reichman, "Legal Hybrids Between the Patent and Copyright Paradigms,"
94
Columbia Law Review 2432 (1994)
Ejan
Mackaay, "Legal Hybrids: Beyond Property and Monopoly," 94 Columbia Law
Review 2630 (1994)
Other Resources:
- J.H.
Reichman, "Charting the Collapse of the Patent-Copyright
Dichotomy:
Premises for a Restructured International Intellectual Property
System,"
13 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal 475 (1993)
International Aspects of Trademark Law --
part 1 (April 2)
Note on Trademarks [G 420-21]
Agreement
on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Articles 15-24
Otokoyama Co. v. Wine of Japan Import [G 422-28]
Notes [G 428-30]
Winzersekt GmbH v. Land Rhienland-Pfalz [G430-36]
Notes [G 436-39]
Paris Convention, Art. 6bis [G 443-44]
MacDonald's
Cop. v. Joburgers Drive-Inn Restaurant, No. 54/95 (South Africa
1996)
[G 444-55]
Twentieth
Century Fox Film Corp. v. The South Australian Brewing Company, No. NG
155 of 1996
Dara
Mehta & Sharad Abhyankar, "India's Courts Increase Protections for
Foreign Trademarks" IP Worldwide, November 1997
Celestine
Bohlen, "For Tuscans: How Can You Copyright Paradise?," New York Times,
August 7, 1997
Pearson's Co. Ltd. v. Christman [G 455-60]
Notes [G 460-62]
Jonathan Weber, "The Eever-Expanding, Profit-Maximizing, Cultural
Imperialist,
Wonderful World of Disney," Wired Magazine, Feb. 2002, pp. 71-79
Additional Resources:
Keith Aoki, "Using Law and Identity to Script Cultural Production: How
The World Dreams Itself to be American: Reflections on the Relationship
Between the Expanding Scope of Trademark Protection and Free Speech
Norms,"
17 Loy. L.A. Ent. L.J. 523 (1997)
Marshall
A. Leaffer, "The New World of International Trademark Law," 2 Marquette
Intellectual Property Law Review 1 (1998)
International Aspects of Trademark Law -- part
2 (April 9)
Imperial Tobacco Limited v. Philip Morris [G 462-69]
Notes [G 469-74]
IHT Internationale Heiztechnik GmbH v. Ideal-Standard GmbH [G
489-99]
Notes [G 500-02]
Lever Brothers v. United States [G 503-09]
Silhouette International Schmied GmbH v. Hartlauer Handelsgesellshaft
mbH
[G 509-15]
Notes [G 515-19]
Swanson, "Combatting Grey-Market Goods in a Global Market," 22 Hous. J.
Int'l L 327 (2000)
Rosemary J. Coombe, "The Cultural Life of Things," 10 Am. U.J. Int'l L.
& Pol'y 791 (1995)
Additional Resources:
- Carl Baudenbacher, "Trademark Law and Parallel Imports in a
Globalized
World," 22 Fordham Int'l L.J. 645 (1999)
- Dugan, "Home of the Cheap and the Gray," 33 Geo. Wash.
Int'l L. Rev.
397 (2001)
- William Davis, "The Medicine Equity and Drug Safety Act of
2000: Releasing
Gray Market Pharmaceuticals," 9 Tul. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 483 (2001)
- Ravinder Chahil, "Economics, Parallel Importing, and Cheaper
Prices?,"
13 WIPR 174 (1999)
- Joanna Schmidt-Szalewski, The International Protection of
Trademarks after
the TRIPS Agreement, 9 Duke J. Comp. & Int'l L. 189 (1998)
- John Tessensohn, "Courts Grants Preliminary Injunction
Against Sale of
iMac Look-Alike," 13 WIPR 393 (December 1999)
- C. Leon Kim, "Trade Dress is Protectable Under Unfair
Competition Prevention
Act," 13 WIPR 395 (December 1999)
- "Knesset Enacts Unfair Competition Legislation," 13 WIPR 188
(1999)
- "Levi's Uses EU Trademark Law to Stop Parallel Imports to
EU," 13 World
Intellectual Property Law 116 (1999)
Intellectual Property on the Internet -- part 1
(April
16)
iLaw:
Domain Names
Dan
Burk, "Trademark Doctrines for Global Electronic Commerce," 49 South
Carolina
Law Review 695 (1998)
iLaw:
Online
Business-Method Patents
European
Business-Methods Patents
iLaw:
Interconnectivity
Intellectual Property on the Internet -- part 2
(April 23)
iLaw:
Copyright
and Peer-to-Peer Copying
iLaw:
Alternatives
to Intellectual Property
Australia's
Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act of 2000
Mark
Solomons, "Creative Business," Financial Times, February 20, 2001
James
Boyle, "Whigs and Hackers," Financial Times, February 12, 2001
Robin Gross, "Swedish Court
Exonerates Teen"
Cultural Property (April 30)
Stephanie
O. Forbes, Securing the Future of Our Past: Current Efforts to Protect
Cultural Property, 9 Transnat'l Law. 235 (1996)
John
Henry Merryman, Thinking About the Elgin Marbles, 83 Michigan Law
Review
1881, 1881-84, 1910-1921 (1985)
Paul Kuruk, "Protecting Folklore Under Modern Intellectual Property
Regimes:
A Reappraisal of the Tensions Between Individual and Communal Rights in
Africa and the United States," 48 American University Law Review 769
(1999)
[G 81-94]
Questions [G 94-95]
Additional resources:
- Joseph Sax, "Is Anyone Minding Stonehenge? The Origins
of Cultural Property
Protection in England," 78 California Law Review 1543 (1990)
- Lisa J. Borodkin, "The Economics of Antiquities Looting and a
Proposed
Legal Alternative," 95 Columbia Law Review 377 (1995)
- Jonathan Drimmer, "Hate Property: A Substantive Limitation
for America's
Cultural Property Laws," 65 Tennessee Law Review 691 (1998)
- Roger W. Mastalir, A Proposal for Protecting the Cultural and
Property
Aspects of Cultural Property Under International Law, 16 Fordham
International
Law Journal 1033 (1993)
Instructor: William
Fisher