Research Catalog

Title

Legal regulation of the competitive process : cases, materials, and notes on unfair business practices, trademarks, copyrights, and patents / by Edmund W. Kitch, Harvey S. Perlman.

Author

Kitch, Edmund W.

Publication

Westbury, N.Y. : Foundation Press, 1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

Perlman, Harvey S., 1942-

Description

xlix, 1080 p.; 27 cm.

Series Statement

University casebook series

Uniform Title

University casebook series

Subject

• Competition, Unfair > United States > Cases
• Trade regulation > United States > Cases

Genre/Form

Trials, litigation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• [Pt. 1.] The problem of entry: -- The common law -- Regulation -- The regulation of public goods -- The regulation of advertising -- [pt. 2.] Deceptive practices: -- Competitors' remedies -- Purchasers' remedies -- State unfair competition statutes -- The Federal Trade Commission -- [pt. 3.] Product and producer identity: -- The fundamentals -- Problems of validity -- Problems of priority and infringement -- [pt. 4.] Predatory practices: -- Interference with business relations -- Appropriation -- [pt. 5.] Copyright: -- Copyrightable subject matter.
• Infringement -- Fair use -- Ownership of copyright -- Copyright enforcement -- [pt. 6.] Patents: -- Patentable subject matter -- Utility -- Nonobviousness -- The relevant prior art -- Does the nonobviousness of the process used to make a product mean that the product itself a nonobvious? -- Section 102 -- Section 102 references as prior art -- First inventor -- Specification and claims -- Scope of patent rights -- Protection of inventors -- Supplement a: Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., Inc.

ISBN

0882778870 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^91010241^

OCLC

• 23253068
• SCSB-10288593

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library