【博客搬家】写于2019年11月21日

Today, we gonna talk about the "quartet extraordinaire"in the US IP laws, mentioned in Merges's book - 'Justifying intellectual property':

Donald S. Chisum (in Patent Law)

Donald is co-founder of the Chisum Patent Academy, established in 2009. He is the sole author of Chisum on Patents, a multiple volume treatise, which was first published in October 1978. He regularly revises the treatise to account for developments in the US patent law. He is also the sole author of the Patent Law Digest (annually since 1991 and as the 25th Federal Circuit Anniversary Edition, LexisNexis Mattew Bender, 2008). He is also author of the Chisum Patent Law Reference Guides, which are available at www.chisum.com. Chisum was professor of law at the University of Washington from 1969 to 1996 and professor of law at Santa Clara University from 1997 to 2006. From 1997 to 2006, he directed the Santa Clara Summer Institute on International and Comparative Intellectual Property, Munich, Germany. From 1989 to 1992, he served on the Board of Directors, American Intellectual Property Law Association. 

Paul Goldstein (specially in Copyright law)

Paul is a law professor at Stanford Law School. A globally recognized expert on IP law, Glodstein is the author of an influential four-volume treatise on US copyright law and a five-volume treatise on international copyright law, as well as leading casebooks on IP and international IP. He has authored nine books, such as 'Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox'.

...He has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright, and Competition Law, and was a founding faculty member of the Munich IP Law Center.

 J. Thomas McCarthy (Trademark and unfair competition law)

Thomas is a professor emeritus at the University of San Francisco School of Law. He is the founding director of the McCarthy Institute for IP and Technology Law. He has practiced, written, and taught in the field of trademarks and unfair competition and is a frequent speaker on the subject. McCarthy is a member if the California and US Supreme Court bars and is admitted to practice before the USPTO.

... He is an of counsel consultant with the law firm of Morrison & Foerster. He was a member of the ALI advisory committee involved in drafting the 1995 restatement of the law of unfair competition, was a member of the Trademark Review Commission, which drafted the 1989 revisions to the Lanham Act, and has served for several years on the Editorial Board of the Trademark Reporter.

... McCarthy is the author of the seven volume treatise McCarthy on Trademark and Unfair Competition, which has been relied upon as authority in over 5,000 judicial opinions. Other books include the two-volume treatise the Right of Publicity and Privacy, with Schechter & Franklyn.

David Nimmer (in Copyright law) 

David is an American lawyer, law professor, renowned as an expert in US copyright law. He received an AB with distinction and honors in 1977 from Stanford University and his JD in 1980 from Yale law school, where he served as editor of the Yale law journal. David is of counsel to Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles, California. He also serves as a Professor from Practice at University of California, LA Law School and distinguished scholar at the Berkeley center for law and tech. In 2000, he was elected to the American Law Institute. He has served as a guest professor at the University of Haifa, Yeshiva University (Cardozo Law school), the University of Miami, and Syracuse University.

David has updated and revised Nimmer on Copyright, the standard reference treatise in the field, first published in 1963 by his late father, Professor Melville B. Nimmer. Routinely cited by domestic and foreign courts at all levels in copyright litigation, cases within the US have relied on Nimmer on Copyright as persuasive authority in over 2,500 judicial opinions.

Thanks to wiki and other relevant websites.