UNC School of Law
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Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3380

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Patent Law, Spring 2002

The casebook will be MARTIN J. ADELMAN ET AL., CASES & MATERIALS ON PATENT LAW, West 1998. 

For the first week, please read pages 4-8 and 23-51.  I will call on students beginning in the P's and proceeding alphabetically through the class roster.

Patent Law Resources

Week 12 Slides (to be posted until 4/21/02)
Weeks 13-14 Slides (to be posted until 5/6/02)
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Syllabus

Supplementary Readings

Week 4

State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc., 149 F.3d 1368 (Fed Cir. 1998)
J.E.M. Ag Supply, Inc. v. Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., 534 U.S. ___, 122 S. Ct. 593 (2001) (syllabus) (opinion) (concurrence) (dissent)

Week 5

Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, Utility Examination Guidelines, 66 Fed. Reg. 1092 (Jan. 5, 2001)

Week 6

Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc., 525 U.S. 55 (1998) (syllabus) (opinion)

Week 11

Dickinson v. Zurko, 527 U.S. 150 (1999)
(opinion) (dissent)

Week 12

Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc., 517 U.S. 370 (1996)
(opinion)

Week 13

Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., 187 F.3d 1381 (Fed. Cir. 2000)
(opinion)

Intellectual Property/Patent Law Forum

Intellectual Property Organizations

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