Prof. Cotter's Paper on IP Licensing Cited by Ninth Circuit
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 Doctrine in Intellectual Property Law," 74 Tulane L. Rev. 1323 (2000), as support for the rationale for denying nonexclusive licensees standing to sue for infringement.