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Faculty News

Professor Thomas Cotter was quoted in a Law360 article following Judge Lucy Koh's denial of a permanent injunction in favor of Apple in one of the hotly-contested Apple v. Samsung smartphone patent…
Professor Tom Cotter participated in a podcast by The Federalist Society entitled "Patent Re-Reform in Congress," with Jim Copeland of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and New York University School of…
Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in a Reuters News Service article that discusses an ongoing patent damages dispute between Intellectual Ventures (IV) and two defendants, Symantec and TrendMicro. At issue is…
Professor Thomas Cotter was quoted in a Minnesota Lawyer article entitled "Attorney Takes on Alleged Copyright Trolls." The article discusses a recent series of lawsuits in which entities acquire…
Professor Thomas Cotter was quoted in a New York Observer article about a lawsuit brought by a Queens, New York, street art collective to enjoin the demolition of a warehouse whose owners had allowed the…
Companies that own "standard-essential patents" (SEPs) often commit to license those patents on "fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory" (FRAND) terms. Disputes over the meaning of FRAND, and over whether the…
Professor Tom Cotter will present the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center Lecture in Munich, Germany. Cotter's lecture is entitled "The Comparative Law and Economics of Standard Essential Patents and FRAND…
Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in a Star Tribune article about aggressive patent infringement lawsuits filed by patent assertion entities or "patent trolls." Cotter stated that the number of such suits has…
Professor Tom Cotter launched a blog entitled "Comparative Patent Remedies," which will provide periodic updates and analyses of the law and economics of damages, injunctions, and other remedies for patent infringement…
Professor Tom Cotter's new book Comparative Patent Remedies: A Legal and Economic Analysis (Oxford University Press 2013) was the topic of an online symposium of Visiting Professor D. Daniel Sokol's…
Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in a Sioux Falls, SD Argus Leader article about a lawsuit brought by Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) against a popular Sioux Falls bar for publicly performing copyrighted musical…
Professor Thomas Cotter's newly released book Comparative Patent Remedies: A Legal and Economic Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2013) provides a critical and comparative analysis of patent enforcement…