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    Landslide® March/April 2016

    Volume 8 Issue 4  

    Trademarks

    A Trademark Overhaul! Amendments to the Canadian Trade-marks Act and Their Effect on U.S. Trademark Owners

    John S. McKeown, Cynthia Rowden, Luna M. Samman, James L. Bikoff, and Matthias Berger

    The Canadian government recently introduced significant amendments to Canada’s trademark legislation. Some of the amendments are of concern. This article summarizes the amendments and their impact.

    Intellectual Property

    Means Plus Function Claiming: What Does It Mean to Be a Means, When Are Means Means, and Other Meaningful Questions

    Eric P. Raciti

    U.S. patent jurisprudence has struggled for over 175 years with issues related to functional claiming, and means plus function recitations are not exempt.

    Features

    Four IP Virtuosos

    Intellectual Property

    Mark Lemley: Reining in Right of Publicity: Reflections by a Leading Scholar

    Uli Widmaier and Kristine A. Bergman

    Mark Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. He teaches intellectual property, computer and Internet law, patent law, trademark law, antitrust, and remedies. He is the author of seven books (most in multiple editions) and 146 articles on these and related subjects, including the two-volume treatise IP and Antitrust.

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