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—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…
—Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in a Pioneer Press article entitled "Patent Reform Could Speed Up Innovation," which explains the new "America Invents Act" patent law and its impact on innovation.…
—Professor Tom Cotter was quoted in a Thomson Reuters article entitled "Analysis: In Apple vs. Samsung, Alchemy of Damages Takes the Stage." The article details the very complicated case involving Apple Inc.'s…
—Professor Thomas Cotter will take office in August as Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Section's Antitrust Interface with IP Rights Committee. Working together with Chair Carole…
—Professor Tom Cotter's article "An Economic Analysis of Patent Law's Inequitable Conduct Doctrine," 53 Ariz. L. Rev. 735 (2011), was featured on the "Written Description" Patent Law Blog in a post by Southern…