• This is the main information source for all Patent C-Law materials on this web site (...\claw\). You therefore may find it helpful to make a "bookmark" to this page. You are invited to suggest posting of links here to WWW material that you have come across, which you consider would be a help to others taking this course.

• If you have not read the material on the default html (the Computer Law 484 Home Page), please click on the flashing computers image near the bottom of this page. You do not want to enroll for this course (or stay enrolled) without having first read about--and pondered--the course requirements and caveat emptor notice that you will find on that web page (near the end).

• All of the cases and materials are available at this course Web site. There no longer is an updated printed version of the casebook. (The last printed version of the patents casebook was INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM: CASES AND MATERIALS ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND RELATED SUBJECT MATTER (Vers. 0.11 – January 2003).) However, the library has copies of all past printed versions.

• For the first class, please read most of the first chapter, section A. You can find an HTML version of section A of chapter 1 at this link. A Table of Contents (Web Table) with links to the other chapters is also available. The Web Table page is the most convenient navigation map for navigating the course materials. You may therefore want to bookmark it.

• The Web Table is a short syllabus with links to other chapters as well. All students registered for this course (Computer Law 484, Spring 2009, GWLS) are granted a nonexclusive, royalty-free, personal license to download and print a single set of these course materials for personal use only in preparing for class in this course. You may also burn a CD if you wish. The downloaded copy is subject, however, to an equitable servitude restraining its alienation. You manifest your assent to be legally bound by the equitable servitude by engaging in the act of downloading the material. (Be prepared to discuss that, in due course. Consider, for example, whether Adams v. Burke, 84 U.S. (17 Wall.) 452 (1873), and Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus, 210 U.S. 339 (1908), apply to the foregoing statement to affect enforceability of the equitable servitude. Consider also the effect of Mallinckrodt, Inc. v. Medipart, Inc., 976 F.2d 700 (Fed. Cir. 1992), and ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg, 86 F.3d 1447 (7th Cir. 1996).)

• Try to stay 60 pages ahead of where the discussion stopped at the end of the last class. Make a point of checking this web page for supplemental material and notices at least once a week. When you check, remember to "Reload" to keep your cache from giving you pre-update material.

• The clinical project on business method patents now has a separate bulletin board, found at this link: Bulletin board for clinical project.
  
  

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• You may find the Greg Aharonian newsletter of interest. It has frequently addressed the issue of difficulties in finding good software prior art. Here is a link to a sample issue of his newsletter. This one refers indirectly, in Greg's inimitable style of genial, understated approach, to his concerns about PTO examiners' possible inability to find good non-patent references. This is placed here for your convenience without necessarily implying agreement or endorsement of any views.

Papers For those of you who have not yet decided on a paper topic or who have any doubts about your topic, the email correspondence on the page to which you will link if you click on the orang image may be helpful. For anyone who has not yet asked about the appropriateness of some topic, please check this page before asking (click on the orang!). Also, please read the Web page on term papers for this course before selecting your topic, and certainly before writing your paper. Look through the chapters at the end of the casebook for ideas for possible term paper topics. Consider also the questions raised in the Notes at the ends of most of the case reprints in the casebook. If you are graduating this May and you need your grades sent in early to Records, you may wish to consider handing in your paper a week or two earlier than the due date (see page on term papers, which is updated from time to time with new material).

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Click on Computer image to return to Computer Law Course Home Page

Click on photographic image for professor's bio/resume.

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"Google" search engine provided for your convenience in doing legal research:

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Link to principal Supreme Court patent decisions, 1889 to present

Link to GULC's Federal Circuit patent decisions, 1995 to present

Link to Web pages containing cases and materials for this course, by chapters and subchapters

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Link to USPTO database by patent numbers, 1976 to present, texts

Link to alternative source for patents Free Patents Online, including text and PDF downloads

Link to "Patently-O" Patent Law Blog, for current patent law news, cases and other information

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This is a link to the now separate page on the clinical project for business method patenting of a system and method for a first person to focus anger or negative thoughts or feelings that the first person has toward a specific second person, or to alleviate said anger or negative thoughts or feelings.