UNC School of Law
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Patent Law, Spring 2003

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.

Patent Law Resources


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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)
Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, Utility Examination Guidelines, 66 Fed. Reg. 1092 (Jan. 5, 2001)
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 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., 535 U.S. 722 (2002)
(opinion)

Intellectual Property/Patent Law Forum

Intellectual Property Organizations

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