Kurt M. Saunders

California State University, Northridge

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18111 Nordoff Street

College of Business & Economics

Northridge, CA 91330

United States

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1.

Why Study Law?

32 Southern Law Journal (2023)
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 11 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2023
Lawrence J. Trautman, Judith Bohr, Rachel Chambers, Michael Conklin, Brian Elzweig, Dr. Angélica Guevara, Larry D. Foster II, Christopher P. Guzelian, Ella McCown Jones, Lora Koretz, Rebecca Nieman, Kurt M. Saunders and Destynie Sewell
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business, Prairie View A&M University - College of Business, University of Connecticut - School of Business, Angelo State University - Business Law, University of West Florida, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, Prairie View A&M University - College of Business, Texas State University School of Business, Ohio University, W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State, University of San Diego, Knauss School of Business, California State University, Northridge and University of Nebraska at Omaha - College of Business Administration
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admiralty, administrative law, alternate dispute resolution, antitrust, appellate, business organizations, communications, community law, constitutional, contract, corporations, corporate governance, criminal law, disability, employment, environmental, estates and trusts, human rights, immigration,

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Contract Formation and Performance Under the UCC and CISG: A Comparative Case Study

Journal of Legal Studies Education, volume 32, issue 1, pages 1–46 (Winter 2015)
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 28 Jun 2015
Kurt M. Saunders and Leonard Rymsza
California State University, Northridge and California State University, Northridge - Department of Business Law
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Uniform Commercial Code, UCC, Convention on the International Sale of Goods, CISG, sales, contracts, international business

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Counteracting Identity Fraud in the Information Age: The Identitiy Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 8, p. 661, 1999
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 18 Dec 2005
Kurt M. Saunders and Bruce Zucker
California State University, Northridge and California State University, Northridge
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Internet, cyberlaw, identity theft, fraud, sentencing, crime, criminal, privacy, security, online

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Confusion is the Key: A Trademark Law Analysis of Keyword Banner Advertising

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 71, No. 101, pp. 101-131, 2002
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Dec 2005
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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trademark, infringement, intellectual property, Internet, cyberlaw, dilution, advertising, electronic commerce, domain name, technology, copyright, comparative advertising, competition

5.

Learning to Think Like a Lawyer

University of San Francisco Law Review, Vol. 29, No. 121, 1994
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 19 Dec 2005
Kurt M. Saunders and Linda Levine
California State University, Northridge and Carnegie Mellon University
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law school, legal education, law, rhetoric, education, lawyer, legal reasoning, ethical reasoning, learning, pedagogy

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The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Negotiating and Planning a Research Joint Venture

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Jul 2004
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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Intellectual property, patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, joint venture, research, antitrust

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The Liability of Online Markets for Counterfeit Goods: A Comparative Analysis of Secondary Trademark Infringement in the United States and Europe

23 Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business 37 (2011)
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2014
Kurt M. Saunders and Gerlinde Berger-Walliser
California State University, Northridge and University of Connecticut - School of Business
Downloads 400 (148,119)
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trademark infringement, secondary liability, e-commerce, on-line auction, host-provider

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Can You Keep a (Trade) Secret? - the Pennsylvania Uniform Trade Secrets Act

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 10 Jul 2004
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
Downloads 399 (148,558)
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Intellectual property, trade secret, patent, trade secrets

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Patent Nonuse and the Role of Public Interest as a Deterrent to Technology Suppression

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 10 Jul 2004
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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Patent, technology, competition, intellectual property

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Thinking Like a Rhetor

Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 43, p. 108, 1993
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Dec 2005
Kurt M. Saunders and Linda Levine
California State University, Northridge and Carnegie Mellon University
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law, rhetoric, law school, legal education, learning, pedagogy, argument, argumentation, teaching, legal writing, legal reasoning, legal argument

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Skill or Secret? -- The Line Between Trade Secrets and Employee General Skills and Knowledge

New York University Journal of Law and Business, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2018
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Jun 2019
Kurt M. Saunders and Nina Golden
California State University, Northridge and California State University, Northridge
Downloads 364 (164,420)
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trade secrets, intellectual property, employee, employment law, business

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Food for Thought: Intellectual Property Protection for Recipes and Food Designs

Duke Law & Technology Review, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2021
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 28 Sep 2021
Kurt M. Saunders and Valerie Flugge
California State University, Northridge and California State University, Northridge
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intellectual property, patent, copyright, trademark, trade dress, trade secret, recipe, food, design

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A Day at the Beach: A Multidisciplinary Business Law Case Study

Journal of Legal Studies Education, Vol. 27, pp. 129-62, Winter/S[ring 2010
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Jun 2011
Kurt M. Saunders, Leonard Rymsza, Paul Baum and Richard Tontz
California State University, Northridge, California State University, Northridge - Department of Business Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN and California State University, Northridge - David Nazarian College of Business and Economics
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legal education, pedagogy, business law, torts, negligence, strict tort liability, products liability, economics, statistics

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Intellectual Property Law: Legal Aspects of Innovation and Competition - Table of Contents

Saunders' Intellectual Property Law: Legal Aspects of Innovation and Competition, West Academic Publishing, 2016; ISBN 978-63459-698-5
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 16 Nov 2017
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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intellectual property, patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright, trademark, right of publicity, idea protection, misappropriation, international intellectual property

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A Review of State Criminal Trade Secret Theft Statutes

UCLA Journal of Law & Technology, Volume 21, Issue 2 (Fall 2017)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Dec 2017
Kurt M. Saunders and Michelle Evans
California State University, Northridge and Texas State University - Legal Studies
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trade secret, trade secrets, criminal law, intellectual property, Uniform Trade Secrets Act, Economic Espionage Act

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Dilution Revisited: A First Look at the Trademark Dilution Revision Act

Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 69, 2007
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 16 May 2007
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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trademark, dilution, trademark infringement, intellectual property, Pennsylvania

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More than an Academic Question: Defining Student Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 26 Apr 2018
Kurt M. Saunders and Michael Lozano
California State University, Northridge and Loyola Law School Los Angeles, Students
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intellectual property, patent, trade secret, copyright, trademark, right of publicity, students, academic, university

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Employee or Independent Contractor?

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 14 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2024
Michael Conklin, Ella McCown Jones and Kurt M. Saunders
Angelo State University - Business Law, Ohio University and California State University, Northridge
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employment law, independent contractors, worker classification, IRS twenty-factor test, employee benefits

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A Crusade in the Public Domain: The Dastar Decision

Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal, Vol. 30, No. 161, 2004
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 20 Jul 2004
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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copyright, trademark, public domain, intellectual property

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Does the First-Sale Doctrine Apply to Your Digital Music?

Intellectual Property Newsletter, Pennsylvania Bar Association 2-5 (Spring 2013)
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 05 Jul 2013
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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intellectual property, copyright, first sale doctrine, contributory infringement

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Is Contributory Cybersquatting the Next Front in Domain Name Litigation?

Intellectual Property Law Newsletter, p. 15, Spring 2011
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 25 Jun 2011
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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trademark, domain names, cybersquatting, infringement, dilution

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The Law and Ethics of Trade Secrets: A Case Study

California Western Law Review, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2006
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Mar 2023
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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trade secrets, intellectual property, business ethics, pedagogy

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Race and Representation in Jury Service Selection

Duquesne University Law Review, Vol. 36, p. 49, 1997
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Dec 2005
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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jury, jury duty, jury service, race, constitutional law, trial, civil procedure, criminal procedure, ethnicity, discrimination, voir dire

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Criminal Trade Secret Theft Cases Against Judgment Proof Defendants in Texas and California

10 William & Mary Business Law Review 579 (2019)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 17 Jun 2019
Kurt M. Saunders and Michelle Evans
California State University, Northridge and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Trade Secrets, Intellectual Property, Economic Espionage Act, California Law, Texas Law

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Can You Ever Disclaim an Express Warranty?

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2016
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 06 May 2016
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
Downloads 112 (485,695)
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UCC, Uniform Commercial Code, express warranty, disclaimer, sales, contracts

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Better, Faster, Cheaper - Later: What Happens When Technologies are Suppressed

Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, Vol. 11, No. 23, 2004
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 13 Nov 2008
Kurt M. Saunders and Linda Levine
California State University, Northridge and Carnegie Mellon University
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patent, intellectual property, antitrust, technology, invention, innovation, compulsory licensing, policy

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Intellectual Property and the Law of Ideas

Intellectual Property and the Law of Ideas (New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis 2021)
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 01 Jun 2023
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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idea, idea theft, intellectual property, contracts, misappropriation, preemption, patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, marketing

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Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Argument

Journal of Legal Education, volume 44, number 2, December 1994
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 15 Mar 2023
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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legal education, law school, rhetoric, legal argument, law, justification, Stephen Toulmin, Chaim Perelman

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Unconscionability as 'Lemon-Aid'

Pace Law Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1986
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Mar 2023
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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lemon law, uniform commercial code, unconscionability, commercial law, warranty, contracts, consumer protection, products liability, automobile

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Diluting Our Antitrust Laws: Federal Standing Analysis Under Section 4 of the Clayton Act

University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Vol. 46, 1984
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 15 Mar 2023
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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antitrust, competition, standing, Clayton Act, technology, business

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The Regulation of the Internet Encryption Technologies: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

Journal of Computer & Information Law, volume 17:3, Spring 1999
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 15 Mar 2023
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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exports, regulation, encryption, technology, privacy, computers, cryptography

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Ethics and Idealism in Law: A Study

Legal Education for the 21st Century (D. King, ed., Rothman & Co. 1999)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 16 Mar 2023
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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legal education, law school, students, case study, ethics, ethical reasoning, legal reasoning, lawyers, cognition

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Plying the Erie Waters: Choice of Law in the Deterrence of Frivolous Appeals

Georgia Law Review, Vol. 21, 1986
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 15 Mar 2023
Kurt M. Saunders
California State University, Northridge
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Erie doctrine, federal courts, federal civil procedure, state law, substantive law, procedural law, Rules Enabling Act, Rules of Decision Act, choice of law