Intellectual Property Law
New Matter WINTER 2021, VOLUME 46, EDITION 4
Content
- 2022 New Matter Author Submission Guidelines
- A Look At the Trademark Modernization Act - Part 2
- CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION, "RETURN OR DESTROY" CLAUSES AND THE PERNICIOUS PERSISTENCE OF ELECTRONIC RECORDS
- Federal Circuit Report
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECTION Executive Committee 2021-2022
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECTION Interest Group Representatives 2021-2022
- Intellectual Property Section New Matter Editorial Board
- Ip and Art: An International Perspective
- Letter From the Chair
- Letter From the Editor-in-chief
- My Holiday Wish List From the Uspto
- Online Cle For Participatory Credit
- Quarterly International Ip Law Update
- Table of Contents
- The American Rule
- The California Lawyers Association Intellectual Property Alumni
- The Doj's China Initiative and the Controversy of Prosecuting Professors and Researchers In the U.S. For Trade Secrets Theft
- The Nascent Showdown Between the Ninth Circuit's Server Test and Its Detractors
- Trade Secret Report
- Ttab Decisions and Developments
- Ninth Circuit Report
NINTH CIRCUIT REPORT
Anne-Marie Dao
Sheppard Mullin
Happy Winter, Ninth Circuit report readers! This issue covers the Ninth Circuit’s clarification of the de minimis use defense.
DE MINIMIS USE DEFENSE
The concept of de minimis use of a Copyright is "properly used to analyze whether so little of a copyrighted work has been copied that the allegedly infringing work is not substantially similar to the copyrighted work and is thus non-infringing."1