Patent Office power has grown immensely in this decade, and the agency is wielding its
power in predictably troubling ways. Like other agencies, it injects politics into its decisions …

The manner in which information is shared has changed dramatically since the late 1960s,
when the Supreme Court issued two seminal free speech rul-ings: Pickering v. Board of …

The progression toward reevaluating patent validity in the administrative, rather than judicial,
setting became overtly substitutionary in the America Invents Act. No longer content to …

Copyright law recognizes fair use as a general limitation. 1 It is assumed that fair use
provides breathing room-a First Amendment safeguardabove and beyond the determination …

The structure of the patent system is a fundamental matter. The patent system confers
exclusive rights upon inventions after an examination process concludes that the inventions …

This Article explores and evaluates a controversial practice that the Patent Office undertook
beginning early in the post-AIA regime: the practice of denying otherwise meritorious …

Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity is one of the most confusing areas of
constitutional law. The waiver by litigation conduct doctrine represents a particularly …

Group, Chief Justice Roberts asked whether counsel believed that"[i] f you want the sweet of
having a patent, you've got to take the bitter that the government might reevaluate it at some …

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB) recent" Preliminary Guidance" 1 in Mylan
Pharmaceuticals v. Sanofi-Aventis on Sanofi's motion to amend (MTA) is an important …

In September 13, 2017, a group of banks and Google Inc. petitioned to the United States
Supreme Court led by a common goal-to make challenging* LL. M., University of Illinois …