Patent Law and Policy: Cases and Materials

by Robert Merges, John Duffy

Overview

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This updated seventh edition provides numerous diagrams and figures, concise explanations of relevant legal principles, and, to the extent possible, cases involving relatively simple technologies. In addition to providing the most recent developments, the authors have also tried to put the current evolution of the law in historical context, thus expanding coverage of historically important cases in areas where the law is changing dramatically. This casebook's authors have a webpage that features supplemental teaching tools.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632824516
Publisher:	Carolina Academic Press
Publication date:	02/01/2017
Edition description:	Seventh Edition
Pages:	1268
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 10.20(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

Robert Merges is the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law and Technology & Director for the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at UC Berkeley School of Law.

John Duffy is the Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law and the Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.