Intellectual Property Statutes: 2016

Intellectual Property Statutes: 2016 offers a compendium of the principal U.S. intellectual property statutes and international treaties. It integrates convenient tools (table of contents, headers, tabs) for navigating the materials. It is designed to be used in conjunction with intellectual property casebooks. It is also a useful resource for IP practitioners.

Contents

Trade Secret Law

• Restatement of Torts

• Uniform Trade Secrets Act

• Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (as amended by the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016)

• California Labor Code § 2870

• California Business and Professions Code § 16600

• Texas Business and Commerce Code §§ 15.51-52

Patent Law

• Patent Act of 1952 (as amended by various enactments including the America Invents Act of 2011 (AIA))

• Provisions of Title 18

• Uncodified AIA Provisions

Copyright Law

• Copyright Act of 1976 (as amended by various enactments including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998)

• Copyright Criminal Penalties

Trademark Law

• Lanham Act of 1946 (as amended)

• Criminal Penalties

• New York General Business Law – Trademarks, Service-Marks and Business Reputation

Right of Publicity Law

• California Civil Code §§ 980, 986, 987, 3344, 3344.1

• New York Civil Rights Law – Right of Privacy § 50

International Intellectual Property Treaties

• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property

• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

Competition Law

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• National Cooperative Research Act

Mark A. Lemley is the William H. Professor of Law and Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology at Stanford Law School

Peter S. Menell is the Koret Professor of Law and Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at University of California at Berkeley School of Law

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