Scholarship
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Intellectual Property - General
Dobbs, A. (Presenter), New Venture Creation (MGT 352), "IP and Business Law for Entreprenuers," UR Robins Business School. (April 4, 2023).
Osenga, K. R. J. (2023). OpenSky: ending another round of IPR abuse whack-a-mole.
Roger Skalbeck, Dobbs, A. (Panelists), The Geek in Review Podcast, "From Pain to Creativity: How AI Helped Kristina Kashtanova Illustrate Her “Zarya of the Dawn” Story. (April 7, 2023).
Skalbeck, R. V. (Speaker), AI Summit, "Safeguarding IP Rights in the Age of AI Creation," Bond Schoeneck & King, Buffalo, NY, United States. (November 8, 2023).
Dobbs, A, "Apple’s TM Loss May Have A Silver Lining For Brand Owners," Law360. (April 7, 2023).
Osenga, K. R. J. (2022). Two Lies and the Truth About the 2021 Draft SEP Licensing Policy.
Osenga, K. R. J. (2022). Protecting Our Nation’s Back Doors: Improving Patent Policy for National Security. Hudson Institute.
Crootof, R. L., Ard, B. (2021). Structuring Techlaw. Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, 34, 343.
Gibson, J., Cotropia, C. A. (2020). Convergence and Conflation in Online Copyright. Iowa Law Review, 105(3), 1027.
Skalbeck, R. (2017). Finding and Using Images, While Respecting Copyright (vol. 66, pp. 51).
Janto, J., Skalbeck, R., Klepfer, K. (2016). Honoring Rick McKinney and LLSDC’s Legislative Source Book. Festschrift in Honor of Rick McKinney.
Osenga, Sticks and Stones: How the FTC’s Name-Calling Misses the Complexity of Licensing-Based Business Models, 22 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 1001 (2015).
Cotropia, Patent Applications and the Performance of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 2015.
Osenga, Debugging Software’s Schemas, 82 G.W. L. Rev. 1832 (2014).
Osenga, The Internet is Not a Super Highway: Using Metaphors to Communicate Information and Communications Policy, 3 J. Info. Pol’y 30 (2013).
Cotropia, What is the "Invention"?, 53 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1855 (2012).
Osenga, A Penguin’s Defense of the Doctrine of Equivalents, 6 N.Y.U. J.L. & Liberty 313 (2011).
Cotropia & Gibson, The Upside of Intellectual Property’s Downside, 57 UCLA Law Rev. 921 (2010) (with Christopher A. Cotropia).
Cotropia, Determining Uniformity Within the Federal Circuit by Measuring Dissent and En Banc Review, 43 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 801 (2010).
Osenga, Information May Want to Be Free, but Information Products Do Not: Protecting and Facilitating Transactions in Information Products, 30 Cardozo L. Rev. 2099 (2009).
Gibson, Risk Aversion and Rights Accretion in Intellectual Property Law, 116 Yale L.J. 882 (2007).
Gibson, Accidental Rights, 116 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 348 (2007).
Osenga, Ants, Elephant Guns, and Statutory Subject Matter, 39 Ariz. St. L.J. 1087 (2007).
Osenga, Rembrandts in the Research Lab: Why Universities Should Take a Lesson from Big Business to Increase Innovation, 59 Me. L. Rev. 407 (2007).
Nonobviousness and the Federal Circuit: An Empirical Analysis of Recent Case Law, 82 Notre Dame L. Rev. 911 (2007).
Osenga, Linguistics and Claim Construction, 38 Rutgers L. J. 61 (2006).
Gibson, Re-Reifying Data, 80 Notre Dame L. Rev. 163 (2004).
Osenga, Rethinking Reexamination Reform: Is it time for corrective surgery or is it time to amputate?, 14 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 217 (2003).
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Patent
Cotropia, Colleen Chien "Boosting Patent Quality and Equity with Access to AI and Automation". Regulation, (2023).
Cotropia, "Patent Law: An Open-Source Casebook". (2021).
Cotropia, "Patents as Signals of Quality in Crowdfunding". University of Illinois Law Review, (2021). 193.
Osenga, "Changing the Story: Artificial Intelligence & Patent Eligibility". Just Security, (2021).
Osenga, "Online Symposium: Prof. Osenga’s Top 2020 Federal Circuit Patent Decisions". Federal Circuit Blog, (2021).
Eisen, Osenga "Smart Grid Standards Development and Patent Protection in the United States: Striking the Balance Between Dramatic Overhaul of the Electric Grid and Encouragement of Innovation" in Intellectual Property and Sustainable Markets. Edward Elgar Publishing, (2021).
Osenga, "Protecting Our Nation’s Back Doors: Improving Patent Policy for National Security". Hudson Institute, (2022).
Osenga, "Putting Innovation First: The New Madison Approach to Patent Licensing and Antitrust". (2021).
Osenga, The Problem with PTAB’s Power Over Section 101, 17 Chi.-Kent J. Intell. Prop. 405 (2018).
Cotropia, Christopher Anthony and Quillen, Jr., Cecil D., Continuing Patent Applications and Performance of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as of Fiscal Year 2017 (March 19, 2018). Intellectual Property Institute, Research Paper No. 2018-01.
Cotropia, Christopher Anthony and Quillen, Jr., Cecil D., Continuing Patent Applications and Performance of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as of Fiscal Year 2016 (August 1, 2017). Richmond School of Law Intellectual Property Institute Research Paper No. 2017-01.
Cotropia, Physicalism and Patent Theory, 69 Vand. L. Rev. 1543 (2016).
Cotropia, Is Patent Claim Interpretation Deference or Correction Driven?, 2014 BYU L. Rev. 1095 (2015).
Cotropia, Empirical Analysis of Patent Validity, in Research Handbooks on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law (forthcoming 2016) (co-authored with Ronald Mann).
Cotropia, Predictability and KSR’s Fundamental Change to Nonobviousness in Patent Law, 20 Mich. Telecomm. Tech. L. Rev. 391 (2014).
Osenga, Formerly Manufacturing Entities: Piercing the "Patent Troll" Rhetoric, 47 Conn. L. Rev. 435 (2014).
Cotropia, Unpacking Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), 99 Minn. L. Rev. 649 (2014) (co-authored with Jay Kesan and David Schwartz).
Osenga, Get the Balance Right!: Squaring Access With Patent Protection, 25 Pac. McGeorge Global Bus. & Dev. L.J. 309 (2012) (invited symposium essay).
Cotropia, Patent Applications and the Performance of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 23 Fed. Cir. Bar J.179 (2013) (with Cecil D. Quillen, Jr. and Ogden H. Webster).
Cotropia, Do Applicant Patent Citations Matter?, 42 Res. Pol’y 844 (2013) (with Mark Lemley and Bhaven Sampat). [Journal]
Osenga, Get the Balance Right!: Squaring Access With Patent Protection, 25 Pac. McGeorge Global Bus. & Dev. L.J. 309 (2012) (invited symposium essay).
Cotropia, Conflict of Interest Issues in Patent Litigation, in IP Enforcement and Litigation 2012: Civil and Criminal Update, at 519 (PLI Intell. Prop., Course Handbook Series No. G-1086, 2012).
Osenga, What Do America’s First Patents Have to Do with Today’s?, invited response in Florida Law Review Forum (Fall 2012).
Osenga, The Shape of Things to Come: What We Can Learn from Patent Claim Length, 28 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech L.J. 617 (2012).
Cotropia, The Strength of the International Trade Commission as a Patent Venue, 19 Tex. Intell. Prop. L.J. 1 (2011).
Osenga, Cooperative Patent Prosecution: Viewing Patents through a Pragmatics Lens, 85 St. Johns L. Rev. 115 (Winter 2011).
Osenga, The PTOs Fast Track Takes Us in the Wrong Direction, 2010 Patently-O Patent L.J. 89.
Cotropia, The Individual Inventor Motif in the Age of the Patent Troll, 12 Yale J.L. & Tech. 52 (2010).
Cotropia, The Upside of Intellectual Property’s Downside, 57 UCLA L. Rev. 921 (2010) (with James Gibson).
Cotropia, Do Applicant Patent Citations Matter? Implications for the Presumption of Validity, at the Second Annual Research Roundtable on Empirical Studies of Patent Litigation, Northwestern University School of Law, November 2010.
Osenga, Recent Developments in Patent Law, 3 Akron Intell. Prop. J. 303 (2009).
Cotropia, Describing Patents as Real Options, 34 J. Corp. L. 1127 (2009).
Cotropia, Modernizing Patent Law’s Inequitable Conduct Doctrine, 24 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 723 (2009).
Cotropia, The Unreasonableness of the Patent Office’s "Broadest Reasonable Interpretation" Standard, 37 AIPLA Q. J. 285 (2009) (co-authored with Dawn-Marie Bey).
Cotropia, The Folly of Early Filing in Patent Law, 61 Hastings L. J. 65 (2009).
Cotropia, Copying in Patent Law, 87 N.C.L. Rev. 1421 (2009) (co-authored with Mark Lemley).
Cotropia, Patent Law Viewed Through an Evidentiary Lens: The "Suggestion Test" as a Rule of Evidence, 2006 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 1517.
Cotropia, Patent Claim Interpretation Methodologies and Their Claim Scope Paradigms, 47 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 49 (2005).
Osenga, Entrance Ramps, Tolls, and Express Lanes – Proposals for Decreasing Traffic Congestion in the Patent Office, 33 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 119 (2005).
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Copyright
Cotropia, C. A. (Commentator), 7th Workshop on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property, "Copyright Small Claims Court," Duke Law School, Durham, NC, United States. (July 2023).
Dobbs, A. (Presenter), Burning Man, "Does Art Want to Be Free? Copyright Law and Burning Man Principles," Plaisance, Black Rock City, NV, United States. (August 2022).
Dobbs, A. R. (Presenter), Annual September Meeting, "Does Art Want to Be Free? Exploration of Copyright Law and Burning Man," Atlanta IP Inn of Court, Atlanta, GA, United States. (September 22, 2021).
Gibson, J. (Panelist), SEALS 2021, "Convergence, Conflation, and Confusion in ISP Copyright Liability," Southeastern Association of Law Schools. (July 29, 2021).
Gibson, J. (Presenter), GRIPLA Seminar Series, "Recent Developments in Copyright Liability for Online Service Providers," Greater Richmond IP Law Association, Richmond, VA. (April 27, 2021).
Gibson, J., Cotropia, C. A. (2020). Convergence and Conflation in Online Copyright. Iowa Law Review, 105(3), 1027.
Dobbs, A., "Does Art Want to Be Free? Copyright Law and Burning Man Principles," Plaisance, Black Rock City, NV, United States. (August 2019).
Gibson, J. (Presenter), Fourth Annual Copyright Scholarship Roundtable, "Convergence and Conflation in Online Copyright," University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA, United States. (June 2019).
Osenga, K. R. J., Abbott, A., Mossoff, A., O’Shaughnessy, B., Schultz, M. (2017). Creativity and Innovation Unchained: Why Copyright Law Must be Updated for the Digital Age by Simplifying. Regulatory Transparency Project of the Federalist Society. The Federalist Society.
Skalbeck, R. (2017). Finding and Using Images, While Respecting Copyright (vol. 66, pp. 51).
Gibson, J., Cotropia, C. A. (2016). Commentary to the U.S. Copyright Office Regarding the Section 512 Study: Higher Education and the DMCA Safe Harbors.
Skalbeck, R. (2016). National Conference on Copyright of State Legal Materials (vol. 21, pp. 37).
Gibson, J. (2015). Google as Copyright Iconoclast. https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2556&context=law-faculty-publications
Gibson, J., Cotropia, C. (2014). Copyright’s Topography: An Empirical Study of Copyright Litigation. Texas Law Review, 92, 1981.
Gibson, J. (2014). Transformation, Copyright Infringement, and Fair Use.
Gibson, J., Cotropia, C. (2014). Copyright’s Topography: An Empirical Study of Copyright Litigation. Texas Law Review, 92, 1981.
Dobbs, A. (2014). Common Copyright Mistakes Small Businesses Make.
Dobbs, A. (2012). Copyright Law 101: Your Guide to Copyright Law.
Dobbs, A. (2012). Copyright Law: What Intellectual Property is Protected?.
Dobbs, A. (2012). U.S. Copyright Termination - A Window is Opening.
Cotropia & Gibson, Commentary to the U.S. Copyright Office Regarding the Section 512 Study: Higher Education and the DMCA Safe, IHELG Monograph 17-04 (2016).
Cotropia & Gibson, Copyright’s Topography: An Empirical Study of Copyright Litigation, 92 Tex. L. Rev. 1981 (2014) (symposium – Steps Toward Evidence-Based IP)
"What Do You Think?" Documentary, 2011.
Survey on College Student File-Sharing, 2006.
Gibson, Once and Future Copyright, 81 Notre Dame L. Rev. 167 (2005).