The Yale Law Journal

Tom Saunders

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Renting Space on the Shoulders of Giants: Madey and the Future of the Experimental Use Doctrine

Tom Saunders

113 Yale L.J. 261 (2003)

The experimental use doctrine in patent law protects alleged infringers who use patented inventions solely for experimental purposes, such as testing whether a device functions as claimed or re-creating a process to observe its effects from a scientific perspective. The judi…

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The Limits on University Control of Graduate Student Speech

Tom Saunders

112 Yale L.J. 1295 (2003)

In the spring of 1999, Christopher Brown, a master's degree candidate in material sciences at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), submitted his thesis for approval. The copy reviewed by Brown's thesis committee contained no acknowledgments page. After the c…