Topic 1
North Carolina Session Law 2013-416, codified at N.C.G.S. �
1-87.12 - .20
Sharia Ban in NC Courts Becomes Law (Daily Tar Heel)
Topic 2
Constitution
Restoration Act of 2005, S. 520, 109th Cong., 1st Sess.
Topic 3
China Trade
Topic 4
London Film; Sarl
Topic 6
Presidential
Memorandum Withdrawing the United States from the TPP
Topic 7
Robertson v. General Electric
Co. (expanded version)
2016
Special 301 Report
Section 301
Commentary Assignment Directions
Special 301 Commentary: Illustrative Examples:
PhRMA
Special 301 Submission (e.g., "Lack of Patent Term
Restoration" at 61-62)
BIO Special 301 Submission (e.g., "Canadian Utility
Requirements" at 15-18)
Knowledge Ecology International Comments
Treatment Action Campaign Letter to USTR
Comments
of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Topic 10
Videos to watch:
(1) A Virtual Tour of the WTO; (2) From GATT to WTO; and (3) Case Studies of WTO Dispute Settlement
(these are in the bottom two rows of videos on this
page)
WTO,
Work of the TRIPS Council
WTO,
TRIPS: Non-Violation Complaints
WTO,
The Process � Stages in a Typical WTO Dispute Settlement Case
USTR,
Japan Resolution of WTO Dispute on Sound Recordings
Topic 12
Sunita K. Sreedharan, Section
3(d): Speedbreaker or Safety Net for Indian Pharma?
Topic 15
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, 2016
Special 301 Report
Topic 21
Microsoft v. AT&T, 550 U.S. 437 (2007) (focus on parts III
and IV of majority opinion)
Summary of PCT Procedure
Topic 22
Lenzing Group AG, 2004 Annual Report
Lenzing Patent Revocation case
The Unitary European Patent
Topic 24
Turner
Entertainment v. Huston (Ct. App. Versailles 1995)
Translated excerpt
from French Intellectual Property Code
Carter
v. Helmsley-Spear, Inc., 71 F.3d 77 (2nd Cir. 1995) (photos
of
the
art)
Reading for March 9 (David Levine, Guest Speaker):
Practical
Strategies for Improving Trade Policy Consultation
Readings for March 22 (Jerome Reichman, Guest Speaker):
Doha Declaration and Paragraph 6 decision (at Casebook at 465-70):
Article 31bis amendment to TRIPS
WTO press release
Topic 28
Warner Bros. Inc. and Metronome Video v. Christiansen (E.C.J.
1988)
Topic 30
Lolly Gasaway,
When Works Pass into the Public Domain
Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons
(2013) (focus on the economic/policy implications of the case rather
than on the statutory interpretation)
Golan
v. Holder (2012) (majority opinion only)
Topic 31
Mother's Restaurants
(full opinion; optional)
How Starbucks Avoids UK Taxes
Topic 32
Empresa Cubana Del
Tabaco v. Culbro, 399 F.3d 462 (2nd Cir. 2005) |
