Sapna Kumar

University of Minnesota Law School

Henry J. Fletcher Professor of Law

United States

http://https://law.umn.edu/profiles/sapna-kumar

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Scholarly Papers (18)

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1.

Compulsory Licensing of Patents During Pandemics

54 Conn. L. Rev. 57 (2022)
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 29 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2023
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
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COVID-19, pandemic, patents, pharmaceuticals, drugs, compulsory licensing

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Regulating Digital Trade

Florida Law Review, Vol. 67, No. 6, 2015
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2017
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
Downloads 433 (142,133)

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digital trade, Tariff Act, ITC, 3D Printing, ClearCorrect

3.

Enforcing the Gnu Gpl

University of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy, Vol. 1, 2006
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Oct 2006
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
Downloads 433 (142,133)

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GPL, GNU, open source, Free software, Linux, copyleft

4.

The Other Patent Agency: Congressional Regulation of the ITC

Florida Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 3, 2009
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 28 May 2008 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2014
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
Downloads 408 (152,235)
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ITC, international trade commission, trade

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Patent Damages Without Borders

25 Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal 73 (2017), U of Houston Law Center No. 2017-A-5, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2025
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
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271(f); extraterritoriality, damages, westerngeco

6.

Scientific and Technical Expertise After Loper Bright

74 Duke L. J. XX (2025) (forthcoming), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 24-33
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 Aug 2024 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2025
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
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administrative law, Loper Bright, Chevron, expertise, judicial review, statutory interpretation

7.

Innovation Nationalism

51 Connecticut Law Review 205 (2019), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 09 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2025
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
Downloads 220 (290,542)
Citation 1

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patents; nationalism; innovation; Trump

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The Accidental Agency?

65 Fla. L. Rev. 229 (2013)
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 25 May 2014
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
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agency, rulemaking, adjudication, federal circuit, PTO, patents

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Brief of Thirty-Four Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellants in Altera Corp. v. Papst Licensing GMBH

Southwestern Law School Research Paper No. 2015-25
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 22 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2021
Debra Lyn Bassett, Anya Bernstein, Jeremy Bock, Patrick Joseph Borchers, Michael J. Burstein, Michael A. Carrier, Bernard Chao, Colleen V. Chien, Jorge L. Contreras, Scott Dodson, Joshua A. Douglas, Catherine Ross Dunham, Katherine Florey, Roger Allan Ford, Leah Chan Grinvald, Paul R. Gugliuzza, Timothy R. Holbrook, William Hubbard, Sapna Kumar, Megan M. La Belle, Mark A. Lemley, David I. Levine, Joseph Scott Miller, Patricia W. Moore, Ira Steven Nathenson, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Philip A. Pucillo, Charles W. (Rocky) Rhodes, Cassandra Burke Robertson, Christopher B. Seaman, Gregory C. Sisk, Howard Wasserman, Buzz and Matthew K. Telford
Southwestern Law School, University of Connecticut School of Law, Tulane University - Law School, Creighton University School of Law, Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Rutgers Law School, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law, University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law, UC Law, San Francisco, University of Kentucky - J. David Rosenberg College of Law, Elon University School of Law, University of California, Davis, University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV, Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, University of Baltimore - School of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, Catholic University of America (CUA) - Columbus School of Law, Stanford Law School, UC Hastings Law, University of Georgia School of Law, St. Mary's University - School of Law, St. Thomas University - School of Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Center for Intellectual Property & Innovation, Michigan State University College of Law, South Texas College of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Washington and Lee University - School of Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota), Florida International University (FIU) - College of Law, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School - Student/Alumni/Adjunct
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patent, declaratory judgment, jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction, patent assertion entity, minimum contacts

10.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Genetic Information

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 65, No. 3, 2014, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 20 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2025
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
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genetics, gene patents, due process, myriad, diagnostic testing

11.

Expert Court, Expert Agency

44 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1547 (2011)
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 03 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2011
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
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ITC, Agency, Patent, Validity, Trade, Tariff, Chevron, 337, administrative

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Planning for Pandemic and Epidemic-Related Scarcity of Medicines

Intellectual Property, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures (Haochen Sun & Madhavi Sunder, eds) (Cambridge University Press 2024), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-25
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 09 May 2022 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2025
Sapna Kumar and Ana Santos Rutschman
University of Minnesota Law School and Villanova University - Charles Widger School of Law
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pandemic, epidemic, COVID-19, intellectual property, IP, know-how, access to medicine

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Centralizing Pharmaceutical Innovation

83 Maryland Law Review 653 (2024), Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-24
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 23 May 2023 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2025
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
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Standing Against Bad Patents

32 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 87 (2017), U of Houston Law Center No. 2017-A-6, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 04 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2025
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
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standing, APA, PTAB

15.

Judging Patents

62 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 871 (2021)
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 09 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2021
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
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patents, speciality court, international intellectual property

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Patent Court Specialization

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 104, 2019
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 May 2019
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
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patents, Federal Circuit, PTO

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Promoting Public Health Through State Sovereign Immunity

4 Journal of Law & Innovation 1 (2021) , Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 May 2021 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2025
Sapna Kumar
University of Minnesota Law School
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state sovereign immunity, public health, patents

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Amicus Brief of the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association in Support of Neither Party, 16-1011, WesternGeco L.L.C. v. ION Geophysical Corp.

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 08 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2020
Sapna Kumar and Ifti Ahmed
University of Minnesota Law School and Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing P.C.
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extraterritoriality, patents, RJR Nabisco, 271(f)