CS 601 Shared reading list

Class 2: Economics of IP

• John Perry Barlow, The Economy of Ideas: A Framework for Patents and Copyrights in the Digital Age
• The Economics of Patents and Copyright By François Lévêque and Yann Ménière

Class 3: Introduction and Hisotry PATENTS

• Chapters 1-3 of textbook "The patent process: a guide to intellectual property for the information age", C. Hovey.
• http://www.bitlaw.com/software-patent/history.html
• Find a reasonable description (> 500 words) of the Diamond v Diehr Case (mentioned in the above), and post the link and short review of your paper/site on the class blog

Class 4 (Feb 14): Getting into Patents and searching

• Searching without words
• Patent Searching (optional but still good)
• How to read a patent
• Chapters 4-5 of text (including its the patents therein)
• Using the searching concepts, find and review a patent of interest to you. Include in your review all the "searches" you used to find the patent.

Class 5 : Patents and claims

• General Information Concerning Patents
• Tips on writing a patent application
• Read section 608.01(i) to 608.01(p) from the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, available on the USPTO Web Site at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/index.html. Print out and read US Pat. No. 5,860,099: Stored program system with protected memory and secure signature extraction. Print out and read 6,136,172: Gel-forming insert for electrophoresis gels. Be prepared to discuss the claims in these patents. What kinds of claims are they? How would you make the claims broader. If you had to make them narrower, how would you change them? For the two patents listed above, you may wish to try covering up the claims, drafting your own claims, and comparing them with the claims that actually issued in the patents.

Class 6 : Tech Transfer process

• Guest lecturer
• Papers to be decided
• Followed by discussion of your "patent assignment"

Class 7 (Mar 1):

• Guest lecture Dale Hallings, Patent strategies
• The reading is District Court Case and the Fed case is at the following link.

Class 7/8 :

• IPLX vs Amazon
• Likely readings will be on on projective invariant hand geometry and the preliminary patent developed from that (send by email), but subject to change.
• Followed by discussion of your "patent assignment"

Class 9:

Class 10 :

Class 11:

Basic Copyright Law

• US Copyright Office, Circular 1: Copyright Basics (2002)
• Eric Schlachter, "The Intellectual Property Renaissance in Cyberspace: Why Copyright Law Could Be Unimportant on the Internet," 12 BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL15

  Copyright Crash Course. University of Texas, Office of the General Counsel.

Class 12 :

Reading TBD