9th Annual Writing Competition Winners

GRAND PRIZE WINNERS

• Rambus, N-Data, and the FTC: Balancing Patent Holder Rights and Consumer Protection in Standards-Setting Organizations
  Theresa R. Stadheim, University of Minnesota Law School
• Making Non-Obviousness More Obvious After KSR v. Teleflex: The Technology-Landscape Approach
  Daniel J. Reaume, Thomas M. Cooley Law School

HONORABLE MENTION PRIZE WINNERS

• The Impact of KSR on the Obviousness Inquiry
  Tiffany Gehrke, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
• The Impact of AT&T v. Microsoft on Infringement Under United States Patent Law
  Brooke Hazan, St. John's University School of Law
• Finding Synergy: How KSR v. Teleflex Will Affect Patent Prosecution in the Electrical and Mechanical Arts
  Theresa R. Stadheim, University of Minnesota Law School

Pictured from left to right: Marion Baker (IP Department Operating Officer), Daniel Reaume, Theresa Stadheim, Tiffany Gehrke, and Glenn Law (Partner and Competition Judge).

8th Annual Writing Competition Winners

GRAND PRIZE WINNERS

• Competing Lockean Claims to Virtual Property
  Steven Horowitz, Harvard Law School
• The Adequacy of the Mark: Raising the Standard Under 35 U.S.C. 287(a) for Patented On-line Software Methods
  Timothy Hsieh, UC Hastings College of Law

HONORABLE MENTION PRIZE WINNERS

• The Hatch-Waxman Act and Its Relevance to Biologies
  Vladimir Gusev, Loyola Law School
• The Implications of a Taking in the Patent Infringement Exception: Support for an Alternative Approval Process for Therapeutic Biologic Medicine
  Julie B. Peng, The George Washington University Law School
• Parallel Imports: The Tired Debate of the Exhaustion of Intellectual Property Rights and Why the WTO Should Harmonize the Haphazard Laws of the International Community
  Christopher B. Conley, Tulane University Law School

Pictured from left to right: Glenn Law (Foley Partner and Competition judge), Steve Horowitz, Vladimir Gusev, Tim Hsieh, Julie Peng and Marion Baker (IP Department Operating Officer).

7th Annual Writing Competition Winners

GRAND PRIZE WINNERS

• Dividend Infringement: Expanding the Extraterritorial Scope of Patent Law 
  Melissa Freeney Wasserman, New York University School of Law
• Subpoenaed Sources and the Internet: A Test for When Bloggers Should Reveal Who Misappropriated a Trade Secret
  Matthew Bloom, Yale Law School

HONORABLE MENTION PRIZE WINNERS

• The Federal Circuit's Claim Construction Timeframe Odyssey
  Lowell D. Jacobson, George Mason University School of Law
• Territoriality's Destruction of Patent Rights for Services
  David S. Nay, Michigan State University College of Law
• The Value of a Broad Experimental Use Exception 
  Gordon Wright, University of Wisconsin Law School

6th Annual Writing Competition Winners

GRAND PRIZE WINNERS

• Nanotechnology and the New Paradigm in University Tech Transfer (PDF)
  Andrew S. Baluch, Boston University School of Law

• In Search of Validity: The Proper Stimulus and its Presentation in Trademark Violation Surveys (PDF)
  Irina D. Manta, Yale Law School

HONORABLE MENTION PRIZE WINNERS

• The GNU General Public License: Constitutional Subversion? (PDF)
  Tennille M. Christensen, University of California Hastings College of Law
• The United States Database Debate: Proteins as Virtual Commodities (PDF)
  Will Rosellini, Hofstra Law School
• Adducing the Viability of Alternative Measures to Recent Copyright Legislation and Litigation in the Digital Age of Peer-to-Peer (PDF)
  Matthew C. Winterroth, Franklin Pierce Law Center

5th Annual Writing Competition Winners

GRAND PRIZE WINNERS

• Intellectual Property Rights of Graduate Students in Their Software Creations (PDF)
  Richard DeVries, Marquette University Law School
• An Analysis for the Valuation of Venture Capital Portfolio Company Patents (PDF)
  John Dubiansky, Harvard Law School

HONORABLE MENTION PRIZE WINNERS

• The World Heath Organization's Prequalification Program and its Potential Effect on Data Exclusivity Laws (PDF)
  David Childs, Second-Year Law Student, Florida State University College of Law
• Reducing Delay in Hatch-Waxman Multidistrict Litigation (PDF)
  William Martin, Second-Year Law Student, University of Chicago Law School
• Please Ignore This Case: An Empirical Study of Nonprecedential Opinions in the Federal Circuit (PDF)
  Beth Shaw, Second-Year Law Student, George Mason University Law School

The winners of the 5th Annual IP Writing Competition receive their awards from Foley's Mike Kaminski and Tom Rodriguez. L to R: Kaminski, Dubiansky, DeVries, Childs, Rodriguez.

3rd Annual Writing Competition Winners

GRAND PRIZE WINNERS

• HOW MUCH? Proposing a New Valuation Standard for Intellectual Property Assets in Early-Stage Bioscience Companies (PDF), David B. Dashefsky, Second-Year Law Student, University of Maryland Law School
• Does the Compulsory Licensing of Pharmaceuticals Hurt Licensor Innovation? (PDF), Colleen Chien, Third-Year Law Student, UC-Berkeley Law School

HONORABLE MENTION WINNERS

• Warez Groups and Copyright Enforcement: A Rational Approach (PDF), Steven Snyder, Second-Year Law Student, New York University Law School
• Strategic Disclosure in Patenting and the Signaling of Patent Invalidity (PDF), Mustafa M. Abdul-Baqi, Third-Year Law Student, Wake Forest University Law School
• Using Economic Tools to Analyze the Purposes and Effects of Copyright's Damages Structure (PDF), Alisha R. Bloom, Third-Year Law Student, Columbia Law School