Kenneth L. Port

Mitchell Hamline School of Law

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William Mitchell College of Law

Director of Intellectual Property Law Studies

875 Summit Ave

St. Paul, MN 55105-3076

United States

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1.

On Nontraditional Trademarks

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-05
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 04 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2010
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Trademark, Non-Traditional Trademark, Color Mark, Sound Mark, Scent Mark

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Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and the Rule of Law

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 4
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Mar 2005
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Where Have All the Patent Lawyers Gone? Long Time Passing...

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Feb 2015
Kenneth L. Port, Lucas Hjelle and Molly Littman
Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Independent and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Patent Law, Patent Lawyers, Patent Bar

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Patent Jobs and the Myth of the Employment Hypothesis

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 09 Oct 2017
Kenneth L. Port, Lucas Hjelle and Molly Littman
Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Independent and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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patent, employment, enrollment, stem

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A Case Against the ACTA

33 Cardozo Law Review 1131 (2012), William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2011-04
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 13 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2015
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, ACTA, Trademark, Counterfeit Goods, Knock-Off Goods, Imitative Commodities

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Trademark Extortion: The End of Trademark Law

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 83
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 11 Sep 2007
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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trademark, litigation, database, damages, injunction, infringement, dilution, cybersquatting, success-rate, attorney fees

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Essay on Intellectual Property Curricula in the United States

IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review, Vol. 46, p. 165, 2005, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 29
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Oct 2005
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Intellectual Property, Copyright, Patent, Law Schools, Curriculum

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Dead Copies Under Japanese Unfair Competition Prevention Act: The New Moral Right

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 37, St. Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 51, pp. 93-126, 2006
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Mar 2006
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Japan, trademark, unfair competition, product configuration, product design

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Learned Hand's Trademark Jurisprudence: Legal Positivism and the Myth of the Prophet

27 Pac. L.J. 221 (1996)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Jun 2005
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Trademark Dilution in Japan

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 30
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 08 Nov 2005
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Dilution, Japan, Trademark

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Trademark Harmonization: Norms, Names & Nonsense

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, Vol. 2, p. 33, 1998
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 04 Jun 2005
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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The Japanese International Law 'Revolution': International Human Rights Law and its Impact in Japan

Stanford Journal of International Law Vol. 28, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 30 Nov 2010
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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international law, foreign law, Japan, human rights, treaties

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The Expansion Trajectory: Trademark Jurisprudence in the Modern Age

William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-21
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 04 Nov 2010
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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intellectual property, trademark, copyright, civil law, common law, Lanham Act

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The Congressional Expansion of American Trademark Law: A Civil Law System in the Making

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 35, p. 827, 2000
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 21 Jun 2005
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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The Unnatural Expansion of Trademark Rights: Is a Federal Dilution Statute Necessary?

Seton Hall Legislative Journal, Vol. 18, 1994, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 02 Dec 2010
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Federal Trademark Dilution, Dilution, Trademark Rights, Federal Dilution Legislation, Federal Dilution Statute, Intellectual Property Rights Justification, Proposed Section 43(C )

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Trademark Monopolies in the Blue Nowhere

William Mitchell Law Review Vol. 28, p. 1091, 2002
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 21 Jun 2005
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Protection of Famous Trademarks in Japan and the United States

Wisconsin International Law Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, 1996, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 30 Nov 2010
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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trademark law, Japan, United States, comparative law

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Copyright Protection of Fictional Characters in Japan

Wisconsin International Law Journal, Vol. 7, 1988, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 30 Nov 2010
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Japanese copyright law, fictional character copyright, Japanese Copyright Act, cartoon, Japanese copyright case law, Sazae-san Case, the Popeye Scarf Case

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The Case for Teaching Japanese Law at American Law Schools

DePaul Law Review, Vol. 43, p. 643, 1994
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 04 Jun 2005
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Trademark Extortion Revisited: A Response to Vogel and Schachter

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 17 Oct 2013
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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trademark, bullying, extortion, litigation

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The Commodification of Trademarks: Some Final Thoughts on Trademark Dilution

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 23 Jun 2017
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Trademark, Dilution, Litigation, Repeal

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The Illegitimacy of Trademark Incontestability

Indiana Law Review, Vol. 26, 1993, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 27 Jan 2011
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Intellectual property, Lanham Act, trademarks

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Book Review: Japanese Law (1992), by Hiroshi Oda

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 42, 1994
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 14 Jul 2010
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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japan, comparative law

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'Regionally Based Collective Trademark System' in Japan: Geographical Indicators by a Different Name or a Political Misdirection?

6 Cybaris ___ (2015 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Apr 2015
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Japan, trademark, regionally based, collective mark, regionalism, politics

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Symposium on Intellectual Property Law Theory - Forward

Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 68, p. 585, 1993, William Mitchell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 29 Jun 2010
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Intellectual Property, Copyright, Trademark, Patent, Chicago-Kent Law Review, Property, Philosophy, Law

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In Pursuit of Patent Quality (and Reflections on Reification)

Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, Vol. 20, 2015
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2015
Kenneth L. Port, Lucas Hjelle and Molly Littman
Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Independent and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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patent, patent attorneys, PTO, patent quality, reification of patent attorneys

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Revisiting Park ‘N Fly: In Pursuit of Constraints on Trademark Bullies

Wake Forest Intellectual Property Law Journal, Vol. 16, 2015
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Oct 2015
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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trademark, incontestability, Park 'N Fly, fair use

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Book Review: 'The Genesis of the Japanese Foreign Investment Law of 1950' (1999), by Richard Rabinowitz

Asian-Pacific Law & Policy, Vol. 2, 2002
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 14 Jul 2010
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
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Japanese law, comparative law

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The Story of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution

Posted: 12 Sep 2008
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

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Japanese Constitution, Japanese Law, Article 9

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Judging Dilution in the United States and Japan

Posted: 12 Sep 2008
Kenneth L. Port
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

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