Court Says Copying Journal Articles To Show Prior Art In Patent Proceedings Is Fair Use

Posted by BernardSwiss on Jun 5, 2013 8:36 AM EDT
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Here's one that touches on both patents and copyrights. Last year, we wrote about how some academic journals were ridiculously claiming that law firms, who made copies of journal articles to submit to the US Patent and Trademark Office to show examples of prior art, were infringing on their copyrights. Yes, they were arguing that you couldn't use their journals as examples of prior art without paying them for the privilege.

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