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KSTP-TV Channel 5 News interviewed Professor Tom Cotter on a legal dispute over the release of recordings of previously unreleased songs by the late recording artist Prince. Prof. Cotter noted that the dispute…

A March 13, 2017 article published in Boston Globe Media's online science publication STAT and titled "US scientists accuse Turkish researcher of spiriting away their idea—and claiming it as her…

In its March 2, 2017 opinion in Airbus Helicopters S.A.S. v. Bell Helicopter Texteron Canada Limité, the Federal Court of Canada cited two of Professor Tom Cotter's articles, A New Framework for…

In its February 2, 2017 opinion Apotex, Inc. v. ADIR, Canada's Federal Court of Appeal quoted with approval Professor Thomas Cotter's 2013 book Comparative Patent Remedies:  A Legal and…

Professor Tom Cotter discussed the possible effects of a proposed $85 billion merger between telecommunications giant AT&T and content provider Time-Warner, for a story on KSTP-TV Channel 5 Eyewitness News…

On September 26, 2016 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit published an opinion citing a 1998 paper coauthored by Professor Thomas Cotter and Roger Blair titled, "An Economic Analysis of Damages…

Professor Tom Cotter was interviewed on KMSP Fox News 9 for a story about disputes pitting songwriters and recording artists against political campaigns that use copyrighted songs without permission.…

Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in a Huffington Post article on some of the antitrust issues surrounding the proposed merger of pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Allergan. Cotter noted, among other things,…

Legal database HeinOnline recently published ScholarRank's list of the top 250 authors "based on an analysis of all articles in HeinOnline," which "ranked each author in each category: number of times cited…

Professor Tom Cotter was interviewed by WCCO Radio anchor John Williams about a recent federal district court case holding that the company that has licensed the public performance right to the song "Happy…

Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in a Law360 article, entitled "3 Takeaways from 9th Circ.'s Motorola FRAND Decision," on the impact of a ruling by the 9th Circuit in Microsoft v. Motorola, a case in which…
An opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Minden Pictures v. John Wiley & Sons, cited a paper Professor Tom Cotter coauthored with Roger Blair entitled "The Elusive Logic of Standing…