User:Josh Bradley
Notes
Introduction
Bonito Boats v. Thunder Craft (JWB)
- Due Friday, January 21
Bonito Boats v. Thunder Craft (JWB Class)
- Discussed Friday, January 21
Non-Obviousness
- Due Wednesday, January 26
Hotchkiss v. Greenwood (JWB Class)
- Discussed Wednesday, January 26
A. & P. Tea Co. v. Supermarket Corp. (JWB)
- Due Wednesday, January 26
A. & P. Tea Co. v. Supermarket Corp. (JWB Class)
- Discussed Wednesday, January 26
- Due Wednesday, January 26
Lyon v. Bausch & Lomb (JWB Class)
- Discussed Friday, January 28
- Due Monday, January 31
- also contains No. 37, Calmar, Inc. v. Cook Chemical Co., and No. 43, Colgate-Palmolive Co. v. Cook Chemical Co.
Graham v. John Deere (JWB Class)
- Discussed Monday, January 31
- Due Monday, January 31
- Discussed Monday, January 31
Anderson's Black Rock, Inc. v. Pavement Co. (JWB)
- Due Monday, January 31
KSR International Co. v. Teleflex, Inc. (JWB)
- Due Wednesday, February 2
KSR International Co. v. Teleflex, Inc. (JWB Class)
- Discussed Friday, February 4
Patentable Subject Matter
- Due Monday, February 7
Gottschalk v. Benson (JWB Class)
- Discussed Monday, February 7
- Due Monday, February 7
- Discussed Wednesday, February 9
Arrhythmia Research Technology, Inc. v. Corazonix Corp. (JWB)
- Due Friday, February 11
Arrhythmia Research Technology, Inc. v. Corazonix Corp. (JWB Class)
- Discussed Friday, February 11
State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc. (JWB)
- Due Friday, February 11
State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc. (JWB Class)
- Discussed Friday February 11
- Due Monday, February 14
Statutory Bars
- Due Friday, February 18
Egbert v. Lippmann (JWB Class)
- Discussed Friday, February 18
Metallizing Engineering Co., Inc. v. Kenyon Bearing & Auto Parts Co., Inc. (JWB)
- Due Friday, February 18
Metallizing Engineering Co., Inc. v. Kenyon Bearing & Auto Parts Co., Inc. (JWB Class)
- Discussed Friday, February 18
D.L. Auld Co. v. Chroma Graphics Corp. (JWB)
- Due Monday, February 21
Elizabeth v. American Nicholson Pavement Company (JWB)
- Due Monday, February 21
- Discussed Monday, February 21
Lough v. Brunswick Corp. (JWB)
- Due Monday, February 21
UMC Electronics Co. v. U.S. (JWB)
- Due Wednesday, February 23
- Discussed Wednesday, February 23
- UMC Electronics Co. Patent (JWB) discussed Friday, February 25
Pfaff v. Wells Electronics (JWB)
- Due Wednesday, February 23
- Discussed Wednesday, February 23
Electric Storage Battery Co. v. Shimadzu (JWB)
- Due Wednesday, March 2
- Discussed Wednesday, March 2
Abbott Laboratories v. Geneva Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (JWB)
- Due Wednesday, March 2
- Discussed Friday, March 4
Lorenz v. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. (JWB)
- Due Friday, March 4
- Discussed Friday, March 4
W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. v. Garlock, Inc. (JWB)
- Due Monday, March 7
- Discussed Monday, March 7
- Due Monday, March 21
- Discussed Monday, March 21
- Due Monday, March 21
- Discussed Monday, March 21
Printed Publication Bars (JWB)
- Discussed Wednesday, March 23
Intellectual Property
Infringement
CCS Fitness, Inc. v. Brunswick Corporation (JWB)
- Due Friday, March 25
- Discussed Friday, March 25
Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. (JWB)
- Due Friday, March 25
- Discussed Friday, March 25
Warner-Jenkinson v. Hilton Davis (JWB)
- Due Monday, March 28
- Discussed Monday, March 28
Doctrine of Equivalence Supplement: Johnston v. IVAC Corp. (JWB)
- Due Wednesday, March 30
Honeywell Intern., Inc. v. Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (JWB)
- Due Monday, April 3
- Discussed Wednesday, April 8
New Matter
Vas-Cath, Inc. v. Mahurka (JWB)
- Due Monday, April 11
- Discussed Monday, April 11
TurboCare v. General Electric Co. (JWB)
- Due Monday, April 11
- Discussed Wednesday, April 13 through Monday, April 18
Recent Cases
i4i Limited v. Microsoft Corporation (JWB)
- Due Wednesday, April 20
- Discussed Wednesday, April 20
Damages
H.H. Robertson, Co. v. United Steel Deck, Inc. (JWB)
- Due Wednesday, April 27
Panduit Corp. v. Stahlin Bros. Fibre Works, Inc. (JWB)
- Due Wednesday, April 27
Patent Exhaustion
Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc. (JWB)
- Due Friday, April 29
Homework
Due Monday, January 24
- Patent 4272847, Baseball player's chest protector
- Issued on June 16, 1981
- The idea behind this invention was to improve on the existing chest protector (US Patent No. 3574861, Apr 1971[1]) used by catchers in baseball. The invention is a lightweight baseball catcher's chest protector that permits circulation of air to the user's body, does not absorb perspiration even after prolonged useage, has a minimum restrictive action on the movement of the user, and minimizes the tendency of a missed baseball that strikes the chest protector to bounce in an unpredictable direction. It uses foam to deaden the impact of the ball better than its predecessors. I found this patent interesting because baseball has been a big part of my life, as a player and a fan. This was the first modern chest protector that led to the ones used in Major League Baseball today, and is also referenced in patents for modern chest protectors in other sports, like football and hockey. I found this patent while searching on "Patentstorm" and the link can be found here: [2]. It is also available on Google patents: [3].
Due Friday, January 28
Analysis of the Non-Obviousness of 4272947, described in homework due Monday, January 24.
Due Friday, February 4
Arguments for Obviousness and Non-Obviousness (JWB) for U.S. Patent No. 2,627,798.
Due Wednesday, February 7
Summary of all NONOBVIOUSNESS (JWB) cases discussed, including analysis of the development of non-obviousness laws.
Non-Obviousness paper – average 43.3/65
- Handbook – 10 (average 7)
- 7 for a reasonable handbook
- 3 for analysis/synthesis
- Policy (why the law is the way it is) – 20 (average 11.3)
- 10 points for summary
- 10 for evaluation/analysis
- History – 20 (average 14)
- 15 for listing of cases and holdings
- 5 for tracking evolution and placing cases in context (compare and contrast cases)
- New Proposal – 20 (average 11)
- 10 points for justifying anything
- 5 for truly new standard, 5 more for good justification consistent with precedent
Due Wednesday, March 23
Hazani v. International Trade Commission (JWB):a wiki page with a one-paragraph description of the facts of the case and the holding.
Due Monday, April 4
Brief for Honeywell (JWB), describing why Supreme Court should rule in favor of Honeywell in Honeywell Intern., Inc. v. Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. 523 F.3d 1304 (2008)
Final
Every person would be assigned a case. Two parts:
- Write quizzes on case, 3 questions
- Make sure case was read with certain degree of comprehension
- Can't pass reading just the first paragraph
- 5 additional questions, each a higher level up the pyramid.
- Narrowly focused questions
- 3-4 sentence answers
- Include answers
