Author Archives: Brandon Butler

About Brandon Butler

Practitioner-in-Residence at the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic.

Clinic Students File Brief for Former Copyright Register in Supreme Court Raging Bull Case

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Brandon Butler

On Thursday, September 21, 2013, students at the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic of the Washington College of Law filed an amicus brief in the pending Supreme Court case Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., involving the 1980 Martin Scorsese film Raging Bull. … Continue reading →

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Clinic Students Prepare Comments on Statutory Damages for USPTO Inquiry

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Brandon Butler

Attorneys, professors, and law students have all engaged in debate over patent trolls in recent years, but copyright has its own trolls whose legal threats and lawsuits may be even more dubious. Student attorneys with the Glushko–Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic … Continue reading →

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This Week In Clinic: IP Clinic Student Attorney Will Stanley

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Brandon Butler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E2LOff1c3s&feature=c4-overview&list=UUSBmL8M3WDi3uCz9jOQb0_w Will describes his work with a client who had questions about how patents might affect his business.

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IP Clinic Students Prepare Filing for ARL, Urging Accessible E-Readers

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Brandon Butler

IP Clinic Students Prepare Filing for ARL, Urging Accessible E-Readers. See ARL’s news report, linked above, for details on a filing prepared by one of our IP Clinic policy teams, urging the Federal Communications Commission to enforce its rules requiring … Continue reading →

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NPR’s On the Media Chats with RetroReport

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Brandon Butler

On September 6, 2013, the NPR media analysis show On The Media did a fantastic interview with an IP clinic client: publisher Taegan Goddard, one of the people behind Retro Report. Taegan and his team are doing an extraordinary public … Continue reading →

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