Tom Saunders
Renting Space on the Shoulders of Giants: Madey and the Future of the Experimental Use Doctrine
113 Yale L.J. 261 (2003) The experimental use doctrine in patent law protects alleged infringers who use patented inventions solely for experimental purposes, such as testing whether a device functions as claimed or re-creating a process to observe its effects from a scientific perspective. The judicially created exception traces its lineage back nearly two hundred years. Although the exception has...
The Limits on University Control of Graduate Student Speech
112 Yale L.J. 1295 (2003) In the spring of 1999, Christopher Brown, a master's degree candidate in material sciences at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), submitted his thesis for approval. The copy reviewed by Brown's thesis committee contained no acknowledgments page. After the committee approved his thesis, Brown inserted an additional two pages entitled "Disacknowledgements," in which...