Craig Allen Nard

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Tom J.E. and Bette Lou Walker Professor of Law and Director, Center for Law, Technology & the Arts

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Cleveland, OH 44106-7148

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Invention, Refinement and Patent Claim Scope: A New Perspective on the Doctrine of Equivalents

Boston Univ. School of Law Working Paper No. 04-03, Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 93, 2005, Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-5
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 20 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2015
Michael J. Meurer and Craig Allen Nard
Boston University - School of Law and Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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patent scope, invention, doctrine of equivalents, patent claims

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Constitutionalizing Patents: From Venice to Philadelphia

Review of Law & Economic, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2006, Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 04-12
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 02 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2007
Craig Allen Nard and Andrew P. Morriss
Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Bush School of Government & Public Service / School of Law
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Intellectual Property, Patents, Constitutionalized System, Public Choice

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Rethinking Patent Law's Uniformity Principle

Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-17, George Washington University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 225, Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 101, No. 4, 2007
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 06 Sep 2006
Craig Allen Nard and John F. Duffy
Case Western Reserve University School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
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A Theory of Claim Interpretation

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 09 Apr 2001
Craig Allen Nard
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Institutional Choice & Interest Groups in the Development of American Patent Law: 1790-1870

Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-24, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE07-007
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 04 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2014
Andrew P. Morriss and Craig Allen Nard
Bush School of Government & Public Service / School of Law and Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Legal Forms and the Common Law of Patents

Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-18, Boston University Law Review, Vol. 90, p. 51, 2010
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 01 May 2009 Last Revised: 26 May 2014
Craig Allen Nard
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Intellectual Property, Patents, Rules, Standards, Common Law v. Legislation, Intuitional Choice

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In Defense of Geographic Disparity

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 31 Oct 2003
Craig Allen Nard
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Toward a Cautious Approach to Obeisance: The Role of Scholarship in Federal Circuit Patent Law Jurisprudence

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 Nov 2002
Craig Allen Nard
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Process Considerations in the Age of Markman and Mantras

2001 University of Illinois Law Review 101
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 01 Apr 2001
Craig Allen Nard
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Patent Law's Purposeful Ambiguity

Scheduled for publication in 87 Tenn. L. Rev. 187 (2019), Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-7
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Jun 2020
Craig Allen Nard
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Language, Legal Definition, Patent Law, Reasonable Certainty

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Introduction: The Law, Technology & The Arts Symposium: Copyright in the Digital Age: Reflection on Tasini and Beyond

Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2003, 53 Case Western Reserve Law Review 601 (2003)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 30 Jul 2020
Craig Allen Nard
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Copyrights, New York Times Co. v. Tasini

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Legal Fictions and the Role of Information in Patent Law

69 Vanderbilt Law Review 1517 (2016), Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-35
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2016
Craig Allen Nard
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Common Law, Patent Law, Legal Fiction, Technical Information, Novelty, Public Use Doctrine, prosecution history estoppel, enablement, and doctrine of equivalents

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Empirical Legal Scholarship: Reestablishing a Dialogue Between the Academy and Profession

Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1995, 30 Wake Forest Law Review 347 (1995)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Jul 2020
Craig Allen Nard
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Empirical Scholarship

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Legitimacy and the Useful Arts

Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1997, 10 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 515 (1997)
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 30 Jul 2020
Craig Allen Nard
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Patent Law, Useful Arts, Legal System

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Introduction: The Law, Technology & the Arts Symposium: The Past, Present and Future of the Federal Circuit

Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2004, 54 Case Western Reserve Law Review 669 (2004)
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 30 Jul 2020
Craig Allen Nard
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Federal Circuit, Patent Law

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Deference, Defiance, and Useful Arts

Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1995, 56 Ohio St. L. J. 1415 (1995)
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 30 Jul 2020
Craig Allen Nard
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Patent Law, Legal System

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In Memoriam — Howard B. Eisenberg

Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2002, 86 Marquette Law Review 359 (2002)
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 30 Jul 2020
Craig Allen Nard
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
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Tribute, Howard B. Eisenberg

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Certainty, Fence Building, and the Useful Arts

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 74, Pp. 759-800, 1999
Posted: 21 Sep 1999
Craig Allen Nard
Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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