Books
Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patent, Trademark, 6th ed. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2018. With S. Tu and A. Reid.
Comparative Law: Law and the Legal Process in Japan, 3d ed. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2015. With G. McAlinn and S. Mehra.
Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patent, Trademark, 5th ed. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2015. With S. Halpern and S. Seymore.
Deciphering the History of Japanese War Atrocities: The Story of Doctor and General Shiro Ishii. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2014.
Trademark Law & Policy, 3d ed. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2013.
Transcending Law: The Unintended Life of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2010.
Trademark and Unfair Competition Law and Policy in Japan. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2007.
Licensing Intellectual Property in the Information Age, 2d ed. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2005.
Japanese Trademark Jurisprudence. Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1998.
Book Chapters
Intellectual Property and the Nursing Professional Development Practitioner; Legal Aspects of Nursing Professional Development Practice. Chicago, IL: Association for Nursing Professional Development, 2018. Ed. M. Harper, S. Holy.
Trademark Dilution in Japan; International Trademark Dilution. Eagan, MN: Thomson West, 2013. Ed. D. Bereskin.
Trademarks, United States; International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Intellectual Property. Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands: Kluwer Law International, 2009- (updated annually). Ed. H. Vanhees.
The Myth of Trademark “Harmonization”; Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007. Ed. P. Yu.
Efficacy of the ACPA and Related Issues; Domain Name Dispute. Tokyo, Japan: Kobundo, 2001. Ed. K. Matsuo and K. Sato.
Articles
Patent Jobs and the Myth of the Employment Hypothesis, 9 Cybaris, issue 2, 130 (2018). With L. Hjelle and M. Littman.
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
The Commodification of Trademarks: Some Final Thoughts on Trademark Dilution, 46 Hofstra Law Review 669 (2017)
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
In Pursuit of Patent Quality (and Reflections on Reification), 20 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 79 (2016). With L. Hjelle and M. Littman.
SSRN | Hein
Copyright Law Basics for the Nursing Professional: Part 2: Protecting Your Work, 32 Journal for Nurses in Professional Development, 2 (2016).
Revisiting Park ‘N Fly: In Pursuit of Constraints on Trademark Bullies, 16 Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law, 135 (2015).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
“Regionally Based Collective Trademark System” in Japan: Geographical Indicators by a Different Name or Political Misdirection? 6 Cybaris® (2015).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Where Have All the Patent Lawyers Gone? Long Time Passing…, 97 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 193 (2015). With L. Hjelle and M. Littman.
SSRN | Hein
Trademark Extortion Revisited: A Response to Vogel and Schachter, 14 Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property 217 (2015).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Copyright Law Basics for the Nursing Professional: Part I: Using the Work of Others, 31 Journal for Nurses in Professional Development 252 (2015).
Foreward, 5 Cybaris i (2014). With J. Baker, J. Erstling, and S. Krelitz.
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
A Case Against the ACTA, 33 Cardozo Law Review 1131 (2012).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
On Nontraditional Trademarks, 38 Northern Kentucky Law Review 1 (2011).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Open Letter to Director David Kappos of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2 Cybaris® 13 (2011).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
On Balance: General Casualty Co. v. Wozinak Travel, Inc., 3 William Mitchell Journal of Law and Practice (February 25, 2010).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
The Expansion Trajectory: Trademark Jurisprudence in the Modern Age, 92 Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society 474 (2010).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Eighth Circuit Trademark Opinions, 36 William Mitchell Law Review 1657 (2010).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
Introduction to Cybaris®, 1 Cybaris® [i] (2010).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access
Judging Dilution in the United States and Japan, 17 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 667 (2008).
Hein
Trademark Extortion: The End of Trademark Law, 65 Washington & Lee Law Review 585 (2008).
SSRN | Hein
“Dead Copies” Under the Japanese Unfair Competition Prevention Act: The New Moral Right, 51 St. Louis University Law Journal 93 (2006).
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Trademark Dilution in Japan, 4 Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property 228 (2006).
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Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution and the Rule of Law, 13 Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law 127 (2005).
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The Straight Skinny on the Madrid Protocol, New Matter 22 (2005).
Intellectual Property Curricula in the United States, 46 IDEA 165 (2005).
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Will Victoria Secret Chill Dilution Litigation?, The IPC Legal Browser, Winter 2004, at 8.
The Trademark Super Register: A Response to Professor Smith, 94 The Trademark Reporter 881 (2004).
Hein
Trademark Monopolies in the Blue Nowhere, 28 William Mitchell Law Review 1091 (2002).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
On Red Haired Waitresses, Shakespeare, and Product Configuration: A Response to Justice Stevens, 1 John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law 218 (2002).
Hein
The Genesis of the Japanese Foreign Investment Law of 1950, By Richard Rabinowitz (1999) [book review], 3 Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal 243 (2002).
SSRN | Hein
The Spirit of Japanese Law [book review], 1 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 573 (2002).
Hein
Japanese Intellectual Property Law in Translation: Representative Cases and Commentary, 34 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 847 (2001).
Hein
Protection of Trade Dress before the U.S. Supreme Court [rittashouhyoukenga mitomerarerujokenni kansuru renposaikosai hanketsu] (in Japanese), 1201 Jurist 116 (2001).
The Congressional Expansion of American Trademark Law: A Civil Law System in the Making, 35 Wake Forest Law Review 827 (2000).
SSRN | Hein
Foreign Legal Consultants in Wisconsin, 82 Marquette Law Review 827 (1999).
Hein
Trademark Harmonization: Norms, Names and Nonsense, 2 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 33 (1998).
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Protection of Famous Trademarks in Japan and the United States, 15 Wisconsin International Law Journal 259 (1997).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
To Dream of Dreams [book review], 51 Monumenta Nipponica 494 (1996).
JSTOR
Learned Hand’s Trademark Jurisprudence: Legal Positivism and the Myth of the Prophet, 27 Pacific Law Journal 221 (1996).
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A Comparison of Japanese and American Trademark Jurisprudence, 29 Chuo University Comparative Law Review 23 (1995).
Sports Trademarks in the International Forum, 6 For the Record (1995).
The “Unnatural” Expansion of Trademark Rights: Is a Federal Dilution Statute Necessary? 18 Seton Hall Legislative Journal 433 (1994).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Japanese Law, by Hiroshi Oda (1992) [book review], 42 American Journal of Comparative Law 452 (1994).
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The Case for Teaching Japanese Law in American Law Schools, 43 DePaul Law Review 643 (1994).
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The United States’ Legal System as a Bargaining Chip? Milwaukee Business Journal, Oct. 1, 1994, at 12.
The Illegitimacy of Trademark Incontestability, 26 Indiana Law Review 519 (1993).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Foreward: Symposium on Intellectual Property Law Theory, 68 Chicago-Kent Law Review 585 (1993).
SSRN | Hein
The Japanese International Law “Revolution”: International Human Rights Law and its Impact in Japan, 28 Stanford Journal of International Law 139 (1991).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Copyright Protection of Fictional Characters in Japan: The Popeye Case: It’s Not Just a Mick[e]y Mouse Affair, 7 Wisconsin International Law Journal 205 (1988).
Mitchell Hamline Open Access | SSRN
Other Publications
The Mitchell Study on Trademark Litigation, 2007
Graphs
A–K are real-time using the latest data. Graphs L–U are using Static Data current thru 2007
- Graph A: Total Number of Reported Cases per Year
- Graph B: Total Infringement Claims Established/Not Established
- Graph C: Infringement Claims Established/Not Established By Decade
- Graph D: Total Reported Claims of Infringement per Year
- Graph E: Infringement Claims Established or Not Established per Year
- Graph F: Percentage of Injunction Claims Granted or Denied
- Graph G: Claims for an Injunction Granted/Denied by Decade
- Graph H: Total Number of Claims for an Injunction per Year
- Graph I: Claims for an Injunction Granted or Denied per Year
- Graph J: Total Damages Awarded Per Year
- Graph K: Total Aggregate Attorneys’ Fees per Year
- Graph L: Total Number of Initial Claims of Infringement per Year
- Graph M: Total Bench or Jury Trial per Year
- Graph N: Total Number and Percentage of Cases That Reached a Trial on the Merits
- Graph O: Treble Damages Demanded and Granted
- Graph P: Frequency of Damages Awards Within Select Ranges
- Graph Q: Percentage of Cases from Each Circuit Out of All Cases with Infringement Established
- Graph R: Percentage of Cases from Each Circuit Out of All Cases with Infringement Not Established
- Graph S: Comparison of the Percentage of Cases in Each Circuit with Infringement Established and Not Established
- Graph T: Percentage of Cases in Database From Each Circuit
- Graph U: Average Ultimate Damages Award Per Circuit (Adjusted to 2007 C.P.I.)
Rising Sun? Amending the Japanese Pacifist Constitution, JURIST (2007).
JURIST
Iwasasaki and the Occupied Screen, by Eric Barnouw, 2 Film History 337 (translator, 1988).
Cross Cultural Comparison of Work Values and Behavior, by Mitsuyo Hanada. Tokyo: Human Resources Development Center (translator, 1984).
Training Course for Small Group Leaders, Vol. 1 and 2, Tokyo: SANNO Institute of Business Administration (translator, 1985).
Introduction to QC Circles, Vols. 1-4, Tokyo: SANNO Institute of Business Administration (translator, 1985).
Seven Steps in QC Circles, Tokyo: SANNO Institute of Business Administration (translator, 1984).
12 Questions Regarding Japanese-style Management, by Mitsuyo Hanada, Tokyo: SANNO Institute of Business Administration (translator, 1984).