Jefferson Vs The Patent Trolls

Author : Jeffrey H. Matsuura
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813930398

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Jefferson vs. the Patent Trolls by Jeffrey H. Matsuura Pdf

Of all the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson had the most substantial direct experience with the issues surrounding intellectual property rights and their impact on creativity, invention, and innovation. In our own digital age, in which IP has again become the object of intense debate, his voice remains one of the most vital in American history on this crucial subject. Jefferson lived in a time of immense change, when inventions and other creative works impacted the world profoundly. In this atmosphere it became clear that the developers of creative works and the users of those works often have competing interests. Jefferson appreciated as well as anyone that the originators of ideas needed legal protection. He also knew that innovation was crucial for a nation’s economic prosperity as well as its political health, and that rights should not become barriers. Jefferson was in a unique position to understand the issues of intellectual property rights. His pronouncements on these issues were those not of a scholar but, rather, of a practitioner. As a scientist, author, and inventor, he was a prolific creator. He was also a tireless consumer of others’ works. As America’s first patent commissioner, he decided which ideas merited protection and effectively created the patent review process. Jeffrey Matsuura profiles Jefferson’s diverse and substantial experience with these issues and discusses the lessons Jefferson’s efforts offer us today, as we grapple with many of the same challenges of balancing IP rights against an effort to foster creativity and innovation. Without inserting Jefferson anachronistically into the current debate, Matsuura does not shy away from positing where in the spectrum of opinion Jefferson’s ideas lie. For lawyers, legal and technology historians, and entrepreneurs, Matsuura offers a fresh, historically informed perspective on a current issue of major importance.

Author : Jacob H. Rooksby
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421420813

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The Branding of the American Mind by Jacob H. Rooksby Pdf

The first real exposé of how universities have trademarked, copyrighted, branded, and patented everything they do. Universities generate an enormous amount of intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, patents, Internet domain names, and even trade secrets. Until recently, universities often ceded ownership of this property to the faculty member or student who created or discovered it in the course of their research. Increasingly, though, universities have become protective of this property, claiming it for their own use and licensing it as a revenue source instead of allowing it to remain in the public sphere. Many universities now behave like private corporations, suing to protect trademarked sports logos, patents, and name brands. Yet how can private rights accumulation and enforcement further the public interest in higher education? What is to be gained and lost as institutions become more guarded and contentious in their orientation toward intellectual property? In this pioneering book, law professor Jacob H. Rooksby uses a mixture of qualitative, quantitative, and legal research methods to grapple with those central questions, exposing and critiquing the industry’s unquestioned and growing embrace of intellectual property from the perspective of research in law, higher education, and the social sciences. While knowledge creation and dissemination have a long history in higher education, using intellectual property as a vehicle for rights staking and enforcement is a relatively new and, as Rooksby argues, dangerous phenomenon for the sector. The Branding of the American Mind points to higher education’s love affair with intellectual property itself, in all its dimensions, including newer forms that are less tied to scholarly output. The result is an unwelcome assault on the public’s interest in higher education. Presuming no background knowledge of intellectual property, and ending with a call to action, The Branding of the American Mind explores applicable laws, legal regimes, and precedent in plain English, making the book appealing to anyone concerned for the future of higher education.

Author : John B. Boles
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780465094691

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Jefferson by John B. Boles Pdf

"Magisterial . . . perhaps the finest one-volume biography of an American president." --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post "[A] splendid biography." --Wall Street Journal "The fullest and most complete single-volume life of Jefferson since Merrill Peterson's thousand-page biography of 1970." --Gordon Wood, Weekly Standard From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while situating him amid the sweeping upheaval of his times. We meet Jefferson the politician and political thinker--as well as Jefferson the architect, scientist, bibliophile, paleontologist, musician, and gourmet. We witness him drafting of the Declaration of Independence, negotiating the Louisiana Purchase, and inventing a politics that emphasized the states over the federal government--a political philosophy that shapes our national life to this day. Boles offers new insight into Jefferson's actions and thinking on race. His Jefferson is not a hypocrite, but a tragic figure--a man who could not hold simultaneously to his views on abolition, democracy, and patriarchal responsibility. Yet despite his flaws, Jefferson's ideas would outlive him and make him into nothing less than the architect of American liberty.

Author : Peter H. Christensen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262378352

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Prior Art by Peter H. Christensen Pdf

A groundbreaking text on the history of the use of patents in architecture. Although patents existed in Renaissance Italy and even in Confucian thought, it was not until the middle third of the nineteenth century that architects embraced the practice of patenting in significant numbers. Patents could ensure, as they did for architects’ engineering brethren, the economic and cultural benefits afforded by exclusive intellectual property rights. But patent culture was never directly translatable to the field of architecture, which tended to negotiate issues of technological innovation in the context of the more abstract issues of artistic influence and formal expression. In Prior Art, scholar Peter Christensen offers the first full-scale monographic treatment of this complex relationship between art and invention. Christensen’s method, a site-oriented approach steeped in multinational and multilingual archival work, is geared toward unifying fractured global histories of architectural patents through the distinct union of architectural, cultural, and legal history. Prior Art offers a record of the marriage of intellectual property and architectural invention—a momentous, understudied, and still underutilized aspect of architectural culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and the ways in which it influenced how buildings are conceived, designed, engineered, constructed, and promoted.

Author : Ruth L. Okediji,Margo A. Bagley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199334278

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Patent Law in Global Perspective by Ruth L. Okediji,Margo A. Bagley Pdf

"This text addresses critical and timely questions in patent law from a truly global perspective, with contributions from leading patent law scholars from various countries and various disciplines. The rich scholarship featured reflects on a wide range of perspectives, offering insights and new approaches to evaluating key institutional, economic, doctrinal, and practical issues that are at the forefront of efforts to reform the global patent system, and to reconfigure geo-political interests in on-going multilateral, trilateral, and bilateral initiatives".--

Author : Adam R. Nelson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226829210

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Capital of Mind by Adam R. Nelson Pdf

The second volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Capital of Mind is the second volume in a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Picking up from the first volume, Exchange of Ideas, Adam R. Nelson looks at the early decades of the nineteenth century, explaining how the idea of the modern university arose from a set of institutional and ideological reforms designed to foster the mass production and mass consumption of knowledge. This “industrialization of ideas” mirrored the industrialization of the American economy and catered to the demands of a new industrial middle class for practical and professional education. From Harvard in the north to the University of Virginia in the south, new experiments with the idea of a university elicited intense debate about the role of scholarship in national development and international competition, and whether higher education should be supported by public funds, especially in periods of fiscal austerity. The history of capitalism and the history of the university, Nelson reveals, are intimately intertwined—which raises a host of important questions that remain salient today. How do we understand knowledge and education as commercial goods? Should they be public or private? Who should pay for them? And, fundamentally, what is the optimal system of higher education for a capitalist democracy?

Author : Woodrow Barfield,Ugo Pagallo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781786439055

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Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence by Woodrow Barfield,Ugo Pagallo Pdf

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has made tremendous advances in the last two decades, but as smart as AI is now, it is getting smarter and becoming more autonomous. This raises a host of challenges to current legal doctrine, including whether AI/algorithms should count as ‘speech’, whether AI should be regulated under antitrust and criminal law statutes, and whether AI should be considered as an agent under agency law or be held responsible for injuries under tort law. This book contains chapters from US and international law scholars on the role of law in an age of increasingly smart AI, addressing these and other issues that are critical to the evolution of the field.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437123588937

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Minnesota Law Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134444236

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Current Publications in Legal and Related Fields by Anonim Pdf

Author : American Historical Association. Annual Meeting,American Historical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015081575683

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Program of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association by American Historical Association. Annual Meeting,American Historical Association Pdf

Some programs include also the programs of societies meeting concurrently with the association.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2539648

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Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1842 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027508469

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The Commissioners of Patents' Journal by Great Britain. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822037548989

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Arbitration (International law)
ISBN : UCAL:B5128380

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Emory International Law Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matthew Albright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015060041186

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Profits Pending by Matthew Albright Pdf

The "Life Science" Companies Have Got Your Number.