ABSTRACT The Economic and Trade Agreement between the USA and the People's
Republic of China (hereinafter the 'Phase One Agreement') concluded in January 2020 …

People commonly talk about corporations in anthropomorphizing termscorporations" do"
and" think" things of consequence. Correspondingly, the law has doctrines for attributing …

Critiques of the intent inquiry in trademark likelihood of confusion cases are somewhat
misguided in light of theories about how information is transmitted in communication …

In 1999, a Canadian company, Research in Motion (RIM), launched the Blackberry e-mail
pager.'The pager was an instant commercial success amongst businesspeople and …

It is quite likely that you, the reader, have infringed a patent today. There are millions of in-
force US patents, and many cover routine, everyday behaviors. Perhaps you used a …

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For decades, companies and attorneys have instructed teams of engineers, researchers,
and computer scientists to ignore patents. The reasoning for this advice: if there is no pre …

All innovation builds on previous discoveries.'In acknowledgment of the sequential nature of
innovation, the patent system-designed to incentivize innovation-explicitly encourages …

Professor Dmitry Karshtedt was one of the preeminent patent law scholars of the past
decade. Professor Karshtedt's scholarship influenced the way that the Supreme Court thinks …

This brief essay on nonobviousness originates from a series of conversations, emails, and
preliminary drafts between Dmitry Karshtedt and myself that, sadly, never got a chance to …