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Patent Law and the Duty of Candor: Rethinking the Limits of Disclosure
(Creighton University School of Law, 2011)
INTRODUCTION|United States patent law requires all patent applicants, their attorneys or agents, and everyone else "substantively involved in the preparation or prosecution of the application" to abide by a duty of candor. ...
Requiring Genetic Source Disclosure in the United States
(Creighton University School of Law, 2011)
FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|According to professor Laymert Garcia, "[b]iopiracy has two degrees." First, biopirates take advantage of a lack of regulation and patent biological substances, without either referencing the local culture ...
Debtors, Creditors, Default Judgments, Discretion: Why Rule 62(b)(4) Will Become One of the Most Important Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
(Creighton University School of Law, 2011)
INTRODUCTION|An obscure procedural rule is about to become profoundly important. The rule is Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 62(b)(4), the context is setting aside default judgments, and a modem exigency that this Article ...
Reducing the Register of Copyrights to the Receiver of Applications: The Ninth Circuit in Cosmetic Ideas, Inc. v. IAC/Interactivecorp. Erroneously Interpreted the Copyright Act's Registration Requirement and Adopted the Application Approach
(Creighton University School of Law, 2011)
INTRODUCTION|Copyright registration provides the key to the courthouse door for all copyright infringement claims; however, the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals disagree as to when this pivotal event actually occurs. ...
India's Slumdog Millions: New Models of Medical Innovation
(Creighton University School of Law, 2011)
INTRODUCTION|The story of tuberculosis has been narrated several times with great grief and sorrow depicting the sufferings of humanity over a substantial period of history. Thomas M. Daniel's book, Captain of Death: The ...
Soldier Suicides and Outcrit Jurisprudence: An Anti-Subordination Analysis
(Creighton University School of Law, 2011)
INTRODUCTION|Even if they survive the war, the soldiers who make it home are struggling to stay alive. Soldier suicides, which have reached staggering numbers since the onset of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, reflect ...
Retaliation and the Rule of Law in Today's Workplace
(Creighton University School of Law, 2011)
INTRODUCTION|The primary aim of this Article is to justify revising and expanding today's law of workplace retaliation. The argument emphasizes, in particular, the meaning and value of the rule of law, in a broad sense, ...
Service Employees International v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs: Increasing the Uncertainty regarding the Proper Courts for Judicial Review of Claims under the Defense Base Act
(Creighton University School of Law, 2011)
INTRODUCTION|Congress enacted the Defense Base Act ("DBA") in 1941 to provide workers' compensation benefits to employees who sustained injuries or died while working on government projects overseas. Congress enacted the ...
Designation of West Bank Mosques as Israeli National Heritage Sites: Using the 1954 Hague Convention to Protect against In Situ Appropriation of Cultural Sites, The
(Creighton University School of Law, 2011)
FIRST PARAGRAPH(S)|This Article considers whether the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict ("1954 Hague Convention") should extend to protect against in situ appropriation ...
Table of Contents 4 (Volume 44)
(Creighton University School of Law, 2011)