Introduction:

The papers submitted for this course receive a great deal of feedback from me over the final half of the semester.  My comments aim to guide students to the most interesting questions to consider, and the most interesting lines of attack on their issues.  I generally respond to their ideas and arguments, and hardly ever provide feedback on matters of paper formatting or grammar.  The final papers compiled below reflect a heavy hand on my part in guiding students.

2023

• Yingying Cai, The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act is Failing to Lower Biologics Drug Price

•  Hugo Deloche, Fair Use and Literal Exceptions to Droit d’Auteur: Comparative Economic Analysis 

• Jaimee Francis, Re-Picturing Copyright Management Information under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 

• Andrew James Grant, Antitrust Analysis in Regulatory Context: Rewards, Realities, and a Case Study in Pharmaceutical Markets 

• Gillian Schutt, Evergreening: Perversion of the Pharmaceutical Patent Regime 

• Yasmin Turco, Unauthorized Collaborations and the First Sale Doctrine 

• Conor Gutierrez, Improving Pharmaceutical Accessibility and Affordability in the United States Through Compulsory Licensing 

• Alan Polozov, Consumer Manipulation Through Predictive Artificial Intelligence, Responsible Training of Generative Artificial Intelligence, and Trademark law

• G. Amogha Rao, The Impact of United States Military Doctrine on Aviation Innovation and Intellectual Property Protection Strategies 

2022

• Celeste Hamre, Black, White and Infringed All Over – The Grey Market and Contributory Infringement 

• Karen Clarke, All is Not Fair in Art and Warhol: The Battle Over Transformation in Copyright’s Fair Use Doctrine 

• Billy Ellis, The Negative Impacts of DSHEA on the Economy and Product Development

• Evan Wainright, Rethinking the Inequitable Conduct Doctrine

• Guanshi Li, Relieve Patent Examiners from Prior Art Searches: On the Efficiency of Patent Examination

• Madisyn Richards, You’ve Been Duped: How Trade Dress Has Contributed to the Rise of Makeup Dupes & A Proposal to Leverage FTC Authority to Protect Consumers

• Elyse Shireen Ardaiz, Six is Company: Evaluating Tests of Lanham Act Extraterritoriality In a Post-Hetronic World

• Lucas Batties, Implications for Alice Corp. for Software Patents

• Talus Iorio-Ronek, Amgen v. Sanofi: Upholding the Full Scope Rule is Sound Innovation Policy

2018

• Phuc Do, AI & Artificial Inventorship

• Lina Maria Fernandez Vesga, An Economic Approach to the Depeleted and Congested Trademark System

• Kristen Chen Toms, Economic Considerations in Copyright Law and Artificial Intelligence

• Gary M. Bloom, Copyright: The Effect of Fair Use On Technological Progress

• Emma Hollis, Non-Compete Law: Massachusetts and California

• Cynthia Liang, Antitrust Implications of Big Data

• Shuo Chen, Music Modernization Act: The Collective as a Foundation for Fixing the Industry

• Qingyu Liu, Heterogeneous Market with Patent Infringement

• Ryan Strassman, Forced Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Theft in China

• Steven Mercadante, A Viable Alternative: Economics of Compulsory Licensing

• Garrett Galvin, Software Patentability Post Alice

• John Herlihy, Tabletop Gaming: An Analysis of Static Costs and Dynamic Benefits Under the Current Copyright Regime and Potential Alternatives

• Michael Jamieson, “Actavis v. Nobody”: Product Hopping and the Fight Against Generics

• Parker Conway, Patentability of Blockchain: Adding Further Uncertainty to the Post-Alice Analysis of Patent Eligible Subject Matter

2017

• Weijia Ma, A Comparative Analysis of Fair Use Doctrine and Fair Dealing Doctrine

• Qiuyi (Autumn) Wu, The Antitrust Scrutiny over Product Hopping and Its Effects on Innovation

• Radhika K Raman, Copyright in the Time of Artificial Intelligence: Evolving Computing Mandates a Reinterpretation of the Statute

• Kristyn L. Hansen, Government Use of Drug Patents: Curing Patients Now at the Expense of Future Innovation?

• Monica Chou, Recent Sovereign Immunity Case Suggests Pro-Challenger Bias Implications in Inter Partes Review Proceedings

• Yi Hua, The Fashion Industry Before and After Star Athletica

2016

• Armineh Peshkam, Upper Division Writing Requirement (3L Certification)

• Liza Hadley, The Patent Uncertainty Problem: Can the Judiciary Effectively Curb The Cost of Indefinite Claims?

• Brian Prewitt, The Incentives for International Actors to Steal Trade Secrets: A Comprehensive Look at Modern Trade Secret Regimes and Their Shortcomings

• Philip K. Chen, Static and Dynamic Effects of Patent Exhaustion

• Eric Dunbar, International Intellectual Property Rights

• Melissa Kosztowny, Current Trademark Law and Its Applicability to New Augmented and Virtual Reality Technologies

• Jacob Ostling, Domain Name Profiteering

• Stavros Papadopoulos, 3D Printing: A Case Study in Copyrightability and the Effectiveness of The DMCA

• Carly Romanowicz, The Intellectual Landscape of Climate Change

• Audra Sawyer, The Evolving Role of Defensive Patent Aggregators

• Tony Tsai, Curing Patent Distortion: The 21st Century Cures Act as a First Step

2015

• Rabi Fettig, Teritoriality in the Patent Exhaustion Doctrine

• Kaitlin Heinen, Federal Intellectual Property Protections for State Cannabis Industries: Conflict of Laws and Economics

• Deborah J. Hinck, In Defense of Laches: An Incentives-Based Evaluation of the Applicability of Laches in Patent Infringement Cases

• Elizabeth A. Hudson, Using the United States Patent and Trademark Office Classification System to Measure Innovation

• Anthony Shaheen, The Implications of Uncertainty on the Patent Infringement Insurance Market

• Yiqing Yin, Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 and its impacts on China

• Reid Bagwell, Fixing Patents by Changing Punishments: A Remedy Driven Push to Tame Monopolies While Keeping Inventors Inventing

• Michael Gottselig, Zombie Patents-- Economic Problem and Proposed Solution

• Michael Lopes, Product Hopping: An Analysis of the People of the State of New York v. Actavis PLC, Forest Laboratories, LLC Decision

• Brandon Johnson, Good Faith Defense for Patent Infringement

2014

• Jeremy Arak, Major League Baseball Web Telecasting Policies—Anticompetitive or just Inconvenient?

• Jordana Goodman, A Myriad of Troubles: Why Both cDNA and DNA Sequences Should Not be Patent-Eligible

• Karen Wade Cavanagh, From Anthrax to Ebola, Lessons Lost the Legal and Economic Obstacles to Biopreparedness and Response

• Kelvin Chan, Recent Developments in IP Law: Good for Start-Ups, Bad for Patent Trolls

• Diane Lu, Banning Non-Competition Agreements to Foster Regional Economic Development: Why Massachusetts would benefit from a California-style ban on non-competition agreements

• Jordana Goodman, A Myriad of Troubles: Why Both cDNA and DNA Sequences Should Not be Patent-Eligible

• Stephen Lee, An End to Overly Broad Noncompetes

• Ashley Tan, Applying Adverse Possession to Patent Law

• Jessica Perry, Alice and Software Patents

• James Puddington, Fair Play: Why the Fair use Doctrine Should be Applied to the Online Streaming of Video Games

• Michael Kaplan, Trademark Dilution on the Financial Statements: Brand Valuation as Related to Trademark Law

• Kyle Howard, The Aereo Decision: An Appropriate Short-Term Fix for a Developing Long-Term Problem

• Justin Marble, Toward a “right to port” in software fair use analysis: The economic consequences of Sony v. Connectix

• Dan Newman, Pay-For-Delay Settlements and the ‘Unruly’ Rule of Reason: FTC v. Actavis and the Future Impact on the American Public's Access to Affordable Prescription Drugs

• Ariel Nissan, What’s the Deference? – The Interplay of the Judiciary and Patent Trial and Appeals Board

• Christian R. Ruiz, Patentable Subject Matter in the era of Alice

• Cheng Xu, Patent and Green Technology: The Emerging Debate On Innovation and Access

• Becky Whitfield, Secondary Patents and Reverse Payment Settlements