This book sets out governing statutes and rules at the beginning of each chapter and includes sample litigation documents where possible. The structure of the casebook is to move chronologically through a typical patent case. The book begins with discussions of whom to sue, where to sue, pleading requirements, discovery, and trial strategy. It then moves into …
Entertainment Law: Cases and Materials in Established and Emerging Media (American Casebook Series)
Entertainment Law: Cases and Materials in Established and Emerging Media is an exciting new book that contains cases, interviews with celebrities and other materials that educates its readers about the complicated entertainment business. To capture first-hand knowledge of the entertainment business, Burr has interviewed widely throughout the United States, Australia, England, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. The celebrities featured …
This Nutshell provides a succinct description of the fundamentals of U.S. patent law. Ranging from the acquisition of patent rights to their enforcement, it contains an overview of relevant statutes, rules, and cases that collectively define this area of intellectual property law. Topics include claim construction, obviousness, anticipation, written description and enablement, infringement, remedies, and other notable doctrines. …
Cases and Materials on Trade Secret Law (American Casebook Series)
This, the first casebook in the United States devoted exclusively to trade secret law, is challenging yet user-friendly to students in order to facilitate their reading and understanding of the material. This casebook is designed to be used by law students (and business students) with no prior background in intellectual property law. The authors have made conscious and …
The Fifth Edition offers a comprehensive introduction to legislation and administration in the regulatory state. Importantly, it features new chapters addressing regulation, including constitutional structure, the types of agencies and their tools for statutory implementation under the Administrative Procedure Act, oversight and review of agency action by all three branches, and judicial deference to agency interpretations. The Fifth …
Mass Communication Law in a Nutshell satisfies the need for a basic text in communication law, not only for law students but for journalism and communication students as well. Highlights of the Seventh Edition of the popular book include a discussion of the USA Patriot Act, the Critical Infrastructure Information Act exemption to the Freedom of Information …
Conflict of Laws: Cases, Comments, Questions, 9th Edition (American Casebook)
The new edition of the popular Conflicts book (formerly Currie, Kay, Kramer and Roosevelt) contains two new main cases for personal jurisdiction, one for extraterritorial application of US law, and one for the New York choice of law approach. In addition, the latest edition features revised materials on the European legal approach to include recent codifications in …
Statutory Interpretation: A Practical Lawyering Course (American Casebook Series)
Much like any law school case book, Statutory Interpretation: A Practical Lawyering Course covers the leading cases; but it also offers much more. For example, it includes: legislative negotiation and drafting exercises to give students practical experience and a dee Much like any law school case book, Statutory Interpretation: A Practical Lawyering Course covers the leading cases; but …
Acing Federal Income Tax (Acing Law School Series) (Acing Series)
Acing Federal Income Taxation is a new study aid from Professor Samuel A. Donaldson of the University of Washington School of Law. Using the innovative format of the Acing Series, this cutting-edge title uses a detailed checklist format to help students navigate systematically through the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code that are commonly studied in introductory …
This comprehensive guide can serve either as a course supplement or as a refresher for members of the bar. Expert commentary summarizes the law and offers critical perspectives on the estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes, including lifetime and testamentary transfers, joint-and-survivor tenancies, life insurance, annuities, and powers of appointment; inclusion and valuation; exemptions and exclusions; deductions; and …