Chart of Assignments
Updated as of: April 11, 2012
Week No 1
MONDAY Jan 9 No 1
Module 1: The Basic Framework and Initial Questions
[no reading]
WEDNESDAY Jan 11 No 2
Module 2: Blackletter Overview
Reading Packet No. 1 (downloadable)
Week No 2
MONDAY Jan 16
No class – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
WEDNESDAY Jan 18 No 3
Reading Packet No. 2 (downloadable)
Week No 3
MONDAY Jan 23 No 4
Reading Packet No. 3 (downloadable)
WEDNESDAY Jan 25 No 5
In-class multiple-choice quiz on blackletter law
Module 3: The Basic Framework and Initial Questions
[no reading]
Week No 4
MONDAY Jan 30 No 6
Module 4: Copyright
McJohn: Chapter 2 (pp. 9-58)
Field: Baker v. Selden (5.7-5.8 / 173-174)
Field: Feist Publns. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. (5.32-5.35 / 198-201)
WEDNESDAY Feb 1 No 7
McJohn: Chapter 3 (pp. 59-95)
Field: Morrissey v. Procter & Gamble Co. (5.8-5.9 / 174-175)
Field: Lotus Development Corp. v. Borland Int’l (5.10-5.15 / 176-181)
Week No 4
MONDAY Feb 6 No 8
[continuation from last class, no new reading]
WEDNESDAY Feb 8 No 9
McJohn: Chapter 4, Part 1 (pp. 97-111)
Field: Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid (6.5-6.8 / 213-216)
Week No 5
MONDAY Feb 13 No 10
McJohn: Chapter 4, Part 2 (pp. 112-142)
EEJ: Eldred v. Ashcroft (narrative, in Reading Packet No. 4) [pdf]
WEDNESDAY Feb 15 No 11
EEJ: Golan v. Holder (opinion, in Reading Packet No. 5) [pdf]
EEJ: Golan v. Holder (interview, in Reading Packet No. 5) [pdf]
Week No 6
MONDAY Feb 20
No class – Presidents Day
WEDNESDAY Feb 22 No 12
McJohn: Chapter 5, Part 1 (pp. 143-169)
Field: ABKCO Music v. Harrisongs Music, Ltd. (6.15-6.16 / 223-224)
Week No 7
MONDAY Feb 27 No 13
McJohn: Chapter 5, Part 2 (pp. 169-193)
Field: Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music (7.11-7.16 / 251-256)
Field: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. (7.23-7.25 / 263-265)
WEDNESDAY Feb 29 No 14
McJohn: Chapter 6 (pp. 199-228)
Week No 8
MONDAY Mar 5 No 15
McJohn: Chapter 7, Part 1 (pp. 229-247)
EEJ: City of Elizabeth v. Pavement Co. (opinion, in Reading Packet No. 6) [pdf]
EEJ: Egbert v. Lippmann (opinion, in Reading Packet No. 6) [pdf]
EEJ: Lough v. Brunswick Corp. (opinion, in Reading Packet No. 6) [pdf]
WEDNESDAY Mar 7 No 16
McJohn: Chapter 7, Part 2 (pp. 248-263)
Field: KSR Int’l. Co. v. Teleflex (3.36-3.42 / 130-136)
Spring Break
MONDAY Mar 12
No class – Spring Break
WEDNESDAY Mar 14
No class – Spring Break
Week No 9
MONDAY Mar 19 No 17
McJohn: Chapter 8 (pp. 265-289)
WEDNESDAY Mar 21 No 18
McJohn: Chapter 9 (pp. 291-223)
Field: Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., Ltd. (2.14-2.18 / 62-66)
Week No 10
MONDAY Mar 26 No 19
McJohn: Chapter 14-16 (pp. 443-500)
WEDNESDAY Mar 28 No 20
[no new reading]
Week No 11
MONDAY Apr 2 No 21
McJohn: Chapter 10 (pp. 327-347)
WEDNESDAY Apr 4 No 22
McJohn: Chapter 11 (pp. 349-377)
Field: Two Pesos v. Taco Cabana (10.20-10.22 / 360-362)
Field: Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co. (10.23-10.25 / 363-365)
Week No 12
MONDAY Apr 9
No class – Easter Monday
WEDNESDAY Apr 11 No 23
McJohn: Chapter 12 (pp. 379-404)
Week No 13
MONDAY Apr 16 No 24
McJohn: Chapter 13 (pp. 405-439)
Field: Champion Spark Plug Co. v. Sanders (11.1-11.3 / 381-383)
Field: Smith v. Chanel, Inc.
(11.4-11.8 / 384-388)
Field: In re E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co. (11.12-11.14 / 392-394)
Field: McGregor-Doniger Inc. v. Drizzle Inc. (11.14- 11.19 / 394-399)
WEDNESDAY Apr 18 No 25
McJohn: Chapter 17 (pp. 503-526)
Field: Bonito Boats v. Thunder Craft Boats (9.11-9.15 / 319-323)
Field: National Basketball Ass’n v. Motorola (9.16-9.20 / 324-328)
Field: ProCD v. Zeidenberg (9.25-9.27 / 333-335)
MURSDAY Apr 19 No 26
[no new reading]