Managing the Legal Nexus Between Intellectual Property and Employees

Edited by Lynda J. Oswald, Professor and Area Chair of Business Law, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and Marisa Anne Pagnattaro, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor and Director of the Legal Studies Certificate Program, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, US

Contents:

Introduction
Lynda J. Oswald and Marisa Anne Pagnattaro

PART I: PUBLIC POLICY CONSIDERATIONS
1. The Individual Liability of Corporate Officers Under Patent and Copyright Law
Lynda J. Oswald

2. Employee-Created Health Care Innovation at a Crossroads
Julie Manning Magid

3. Contracts for Knowledge Protection Across a Global Workforce
Norman D. Bishara

PART II: WORKPLACE RAMIFICATIONS
4. Certification Marks as Private Employment Regulation
Jamie Darin Prenkert

5. The Intersection of Smartphone Technology and Fair Labor Standards
Robert C. Bird

PART III: GLOBAL INTERSECTIONS
6. Employee Misappropriation: Using Section 337 to Combat Trade Secret Theft
Marisa Anne Pagnattaro and Stephen Kim Park

7. Reducing the Risk of Cross-Border Trade Secret Misappropriation
Elizabeth A. Brown

8. Who Owns Employee Works? Pitfalls in a Globally Distributed Work Environment
Susan J. Marsnik and Romain L. Lorentz

9. Patent Grant-Back Clauses in International License Agreements: A Survey and Ethical Analysis
David Orozco

10. Political, Economic, and Public Policy Constraints on the Use of Human Resource Practices to Protect Intellectual Property in China and the United States
Christine M. Westphal

Index