Writs of Mandamus, Data Accessibility, and the Federal Circuit
Patent – Patently-O 2022-03-17
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By Jason Rantanen
Spring 2022 is roaring forward – and this semester is an especially busy one for me. I’m teaching my usual Introduction to Intellectual Property course, together with an especially large Civil Procedure class (which at Iowa is 4 credit hours), and the Iowa Innovation, Business & Law Center is running an exciting speaker series on Genetics, Law and Society. All of this has given me a terrific opportunity to really think about procedure, law, and data. And it’s fortuitously come at a time when several related projects are coming to fruition. In light of that, rather than write a bunch of mini-blog posts on my current projects, I thought I’d just write about them all at once.
A few months ago, Jonas Anderson, Paul Gugliuzza and I ran a series of posts on our project examining petitions for writs of mandamus at the Federal Circuit. I’m delighted that our paper, Extraordinary Writ or Ordinary Remedy: Mandamus at the Federal Circuit, forthcoming in the Washington University Law Review, is now available for everyone to read. (As usual with SSRN, if you get an infowall, you can bypass it by clicking the skip option on the login page; it’s there, although SSRN sometimes buries it).
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