Top Tens in 2010: Patent, Trademark, Copyright and Trade Secret Cases

This piece discusses notable intellectual property decisions in 2010 in the United States. Viewed across doctrinal lines, some interesting threads emerge. The scope of protection was at issue in each area, such as whether human genes and business methods are patentable, whether a product idea may be a trade secret, and where the constitutional limits on copyright legislation lie. Secondary liability remains widely litigated, as rights holders seek both deep pocket defendants and a means to cut off individual infringers. The courts applied slightly different standards as to the state of mind required for secondary liability. Many of the cases involved disputes between hiring and hired parties, over the ownership of intellectual property rights:professors and universities contesting rights to federally funded inventions; an artist seeking to prevent a museum from showing an unfinished commissioned work; a party that commissioned a sculpture, but without obtaining the copyright, relying on fair use to exploit derivative works; entrepreneurs disputing how to apply the work-made-for-hire doctrine in the informal context of a start-up business; and a company hiring a competitor’s employees to reverse engineer its trade secrets. A number of cases concerned the relationship between intangible rights and physical property: liability for false patent marking, attempts to limit a biotech patent to the sample submitted to show possession of the invention, seeking trademark protection for the shape of a round beach towel, and sales of second hand software on eBay

October 4, 1975 Football Program, UOP vs. University of Texas, El Paso

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Spartan Daily, October 13, 1983

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Surveillance consciousness: Examining subjective understandings of mobile technology surveillance

This thesis explores subjective understandings of mobile technology surveillance, as it seeks to answer an overarching research question: how is surveillance from mobile technologies understood by those who are surveilled? Using Ewick and Silbey’s (1998) socio-legal conception of legal consciousness, this thesis constructs a similar concept within surveillance studies called surveillance consciousness. Surveillance consciousness of drones and Stingrays is explored through comments below the line (see Graham & Wright, 2015) and social media discourse in the post-Snowden era. The findings of this thesis expound on the complexities of subjective understandings of mobile technology surveillance. Such complexities contribute to surveillance studies by addressing whether current theoretical models can be sufficiently used to analyze the current surveillance society. Finally, this thesis shows how two sub-disciplines, surveillance and socio-legal studies, benefit from greater dialogue and cross-fertilization

Three of a kind: how young adults engage with print, online and mobile platforms

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on September 18, 2012).The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.Thesis advisor: Dr. Amanda HinnantIncludes bibliographical references.M.A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2012."May 2012"Mobile devices, Internet websites and print newspapers and magazines supply a veritable feast of options for finding and reading editorial content. Like any meal, however, readers can only consume so much in any given day. Through the combined constructs of uses and gratifications theory and the technology acceptance model, this study examined why focus group participants engaged with one platform versus another, the extent to which social gratifications existed for print products and how gratifications obtained from print, online and mobile media compared to the technology acceptance model factors. Findings showed that focus group respondents preferred to read print but actually engaged the most with online content. No manifest social gratifications appeared for print products on a personal level, but people in this study held a sense of social awareness when talking about reading printed products versus mobile products in a public space. Finally, navigation, distraction, media brand reputation and the personal curation of online content sharing connected with technology acceptance model factors. The study concluded that print, online and mobile platforms can be thought of in some senses as exhibiting a three-of-a-kind existence for reader engagement

Maine Guide to Hunting & Fishing 1998

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