The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Law (“RIPL”)
proudly presents the final issue of RIPL’s ninth volume.In this
issue, we collected a group of articles from esteemed professors with
interesting perspectives on patent and copyright law.Professor Lesser, evaluates the Supreme Court’s damages
analysis in Lucent v. Microsoft
from an economist’s perspective and proposes new guidelines for evaluating
patent damages in concentrated, high tech industries.Professor Perritt analyzes how illicit file sharing is
reshaping the music marketplace and recommends directions for market reform and
application of copyright law to resolve the problem.Professor Collins explains the evolution of quilts from
utility items to works of art and proposes strong copyright law protection for
quilt designs.Professor Swamidass
provides an inventor’s perspective on navigating the United States Patent and
Trademark Office (“USPTO”) procedures pro se and proposes recommendations for reforming the USPTO
procedures to accommodate similar inventors.Additionally, this issue includes three timely and
well-written student comments.We
hope you enjoy these articles.
RIPL’s ninth volume
included a number of great articles that will be helpful references for IP
attorneys well into the future.Most notably, the second issue included three articles that are
particularly relevant in the IP community.Sean O’Connor’s article, Defusing the “Atomic Bomb”
of Patent Litigation: Avoiding and Defending Against Allegations of Inequitable
Conduct After McKesson et al., was judged
one of the best articles related to intellectual property of the year.Judge Kennelly and Edward Manzo’s Northern
District of Illinois Adopts Local Patent Rules
provides an instrumental tool to understand and comply with the United States
District Court for the Northern District of Illinois’ Local Patent Rules.Jonathan Band’s The Long and
Winding Road to the Google Books Settlement
is a comprehensive evaluation of what may turn out to be the most progressive
campaign in United States copyright law history.Further, the ninth volume continued the RIPL tradition of dedicating one issue of each volume to
a specific focus in intellectual property law.In addition to publishing a special issue, Articles
on the Intersection of Intellectual Property Law and the “Green” Movement, RIPL
hosted its first symposium as a forum for each of the authors published in our “Green
Issue” to present their topics.
Overall, I believe that RIPL produced four excellent issues for RIPL’s ninth volume.None of these would have been possible without the tremendous effort and
hard work by the RIPL staff, and
especially the RIPL editorial
board.I would like to take this
opportunity to thank the RIPL
staff for a great year and wish all of them success in their future
endeavors.Furthermore, I would
like to wish next year’s editorial board all the best.I am eager to read RIPL’s tenth volume, and I am sure that it will be just as
strong as the ninth.
