John Duffy predicts more limited role for Federal Circuit
05 September 2008
Managing Intellectual Property
Managing IP’s first e-symposium, held last week, featured discussions on topics including US patent reform, international litigation strategies, monetising IP rights and how to navigate the patent troll problem
The e-symposium spanned five hours and included four separate one-hour sessions with distinguished in-house and private practitioners, as well as a keynote address delivered by George Washington University Law School professor, John Duffy.
Professor Duffy introduced the event with a presentation entitled “Global legal innovation and the future of patent rights”, which emphasised the need for patent owners and practitioners to be creative to find ways of predicting future changes in the legal landscape.
Duffy pointed out that taking a global perspective and innovatively applying the precedents of other systems to one’s own could help to counter “perceived failings in the patent system”.
In one example, Duffy said that so-called intellectual globalism, an approach that entails looking beyond patent law...
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