Carolina Academic Press

This book has been replaced by a newer edition:

Patent Law and Policy: Cases and Materials, Eighth Edition by Robert Patrick Merges, John Fitzgerald Duffy2021, 1334 pp, casebound, ISBN 978-1-5310-1175-8 $219.00 2022 Teacher's Manual forthcoming

ISBN	978-1-63282-451-6
e-ISBN	978-1-63282-452-3

To view or download the 2020 Summer/Fall Supplement, click here.

This updated seventh edition provides numerous diagrams and figures, concise explanations of relevant legal principles, and, to the extent possible, cases involving relatively simple technologies. In addition to providing the most recent developments, the authors have also tried to put the current evolution of the law in historical context, thus expanding coverage of historically important cases in areas where the law is changing dramatically. This casebook's authors have a webpage that features supplemental teaching tools.

PowerPoint slides are available to professors upon adoption of this book. Download a sample of the full 1,328-slide presentation here. If you are a professor using this book for a course, contact bhall@cap-press.com to request your slides.