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Fear of Oversight: The Fundamental Failure of Business-like Government 对监督的恐惧:商业型政府的根本失败
Pub Date : 2001-09-13 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.283369
Steven L. Schooner
This article discusses the National Performance Review's (NPR's) broad-reaching effort to reinvent government by making it more businesslike, focusing on its successful effort to reform the Federal procurement process. The article shows that the reformed system couples greatly increased buyer discretion with dramatically reduced oversight of government spending - both internal and external. This article asserts that this combination erodes the public's confidence in the procurement system, violates established norms, and is antithetical to a host of Congressional mandates and policies. More particularly, the article provides empirical evidence of the dramatic, sustained reduction in government contract related litigation during the 1990's. The article expresses concern because the trend coincided with two significant changes: (1) a large-scale Congressionally-mandated reduction in acquisition personnel, which materially reduced internal oversight, and (2) the sweeping NPR re-invention initiatives, which considerably increased purchaser discretion. The article offers a provisional list of explanations for the decrease in litigation. It asserts that, in this context, litigation - a form of external monitoring initiated by private attorneys general - is a public good. Reduced litigation relating to the award and performance of the government's contracts threatens the public's trust in the reinvention agenda. Litigants, in this context, serve the public interest while pursuing their own self interest. Moreover, the need for the private sector to provide this service increases as internal oversight decreases. The article suggests that, despite the success of procurement reform, the current paradigm elevates its facially attractive norms - efficiency and discretion - at the expense of other established, yet apparently undervalued, norms that guide the procurement system, e.g., transparency, integrity, and competition. It cautions that businesslike government has diluted existing internal and external oversight mechanisms and threatened sustained public confidence in the procurement system.
本文讨论了《国家绩效评估》(National Performance Review,简称NPR)通过使政府更商业化来重塑政府的广泛努力,重点讨论了其在改革联邦采购流程方面的成功努力。这篇文章表明,改革后的体制大大增加了购买者的自由裁量权,同时大大减少了对政府支出的监督——无论是对内还是对外。这篇文章断言,这种组合侵蚀了公众对采购系统的信心,违反了既定的规范,并且与许多国会授权和政策背道而驰。更具体地说,本文提供了经验证据,证明在20世纪90年代,与政府合同有关的诉讼急剧持续减少。这篇文章表达了关注,因为这一趋势与两个重大变化相吻合:(1)国会授权大规模削减采购人员,这大大减少了内部监督;(2)全面的NPR重新发明倡议,这大大增加了购买者的自由裁量权。本文对诉讼减少的原因提供了一个暂定的解释清单。它断言,在这方面,诉讼- -由私人总检察长发起的一种外部监测形式- -是一种公益事业。与授予和履行政府合同有关的诉讼减少,威胁到公众对改革议程的信任。在这种情况下,诉讼当事人在追求自身利益的同时,也为公众利益服务。此外,由于内部监督减少,私营部门提供这种服务的需要也增加了。这篇文章表明,尽管采购改革取得了成功,但目前的范例提升了其表面上吸引人的准则- -效率和自由裁量权- -而牺牲了指导采购制度的其他既定但显然被低估的准则,例如透明度、廉正和竞争。报告警告说,商业作风的政府削弱了现有的内部和外部监督机制,威胁到公众对采购制度的持续信心。
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引用次数: 36
Shifting the Paradigm in E-Commerce: Move Over Inherently Distinctive Trademarks--The E-brand, I-brand and Generic Domain Names Ascending to Power? 电子商务范式的转变:超越固有的显著性商标——E-brand、I-brand和通用域名的崛起?
Pub Date : 2001-01-01 DOI: 10.31228/osf.io/ptyzu
Xuan-Thao N. Nguyen
50 American University Law Review 937 (2001)
50《美国大学法律评论》第937期(2001)
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引用次数: 5
From Pirates to Partners: Protecting Intellectual Property in China in the Twenty-First Century 从海盗到合作伙伴:21世纪中国的知识产权保护
Pub Date : 2000-12-07 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.245548
Peter K. Yu
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the United States repeatedly threatened China with a series of economic sanctions, trade wars, non-renewal of most-favored-nation status, and opposition to entry into the World Trade Organization. Such threats eventually led to compromises by the Chinese government and the signing of intellectual property agreements in 1992, 1995, and 1996. Despite these agreements, intellectual property piracy remains rampant in China. Although China initially had serious concerns about the United States's threats of trade sanctions, the constant use of such threats by the U.S. government has led China to change its reaction and approach. By 1996, it had become obvious that the existing American foreign intellectual property policy was ineffective, misguided, and self-deluding. The United States not only lost its credibility, but its constant use of trade threats helped China improve its ability to resist American demands. Such threats and bullying also created hostility among the Chinese people, making the government more reluctant to adopt Western intellectual property law reforms. Thus, scholars, policymakers, and commentators have called for a critical assessment and reformulation of the existing ineffective policy. While many commentators have criticized the wrong-headed U.S.-China intellectual property policy, so far no scholarship has utilized the constructive strategic partnership model pronounced in the Joint Statement issued after the 1997 U.S.-China Summit. This Article argues that this partnership model not only presents a new model upon which the two countries are to build their diplomatic relations, but also provides a conceptual framework under which a new bilateral intellectual property policy is to be developed. This Article traces the breakdown of the American intellectual property policy toward China and examines the constructive strategic partnership model. To help policymakers formulate a new policy, this Article develops a twelve-step action plan that aims to cultivate a more stable and harmonious relationship of the two countries, to foster better mutual understanding between each other, and to promote a self-sustainable intellectual property regime in China.
上世纪80年代末90年代初,美国多次以经济制裁、贸易战、不再给予最惠国待遇、反对加入世界贸易组织等手段威胁中国。这些威胁最终导致中国政府妥协,并在1992年、1995年和1996年签署了知识产权协议。尽管有这些协议,知识产权盗版在中国仍然猖獗。虽然中国最初对美国的贸易制裁威胁表示严重关切,但美国政府不断使用这种威胁,导致中国改变了反应和方法。到1996年,美国现有的对外知识产权政策显然是无效的、被误导的和自欺欺人的。美国不仅失去了信誉,而且不断使用贸易威胁帮助中国提高了抵制美国要求的能力。这种威胁和欺凌也在中国人民中产生了敌意,使政府更不愿意采用西方知识产权法律改革。因此,学者、政策制定者和评论家呼吁对现有的无效政策进行批判性评估和重新制定。虽然许多评论家批评美中错误的知识产权政策,但到目前为止,还没有一项学术研究利用了1997年美中首脑会议后发表的联合声明中提出的建设性战略伙伴关系模式。本文认为,这种伙伴关系模式不仅为两国建立外交关系提供了一种新的模式,而且为制定新的双边知识产权政策提供了一个概念框架。本文追溯了美国对华知识产权政策的崩溃,并对建设性战略伙伴关系模式进行了考察。为了帮助决策者制定新的政策,本文制定了一个12步行动计划,旨在培养两国更稳定、更和谐的关系,促进彼此之间更好的相互了解,并促进中国知识产权制度的自我可持续发展。
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引用次数: 77
Review of the 1999 Patent Law Decisions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 1999年美国联邦巡回上诉法院专利法判决的回顾
Pub Date : 2000-01-01 DOI: 10.1089/blr.2006.25.355
Phil N. Makrogiannis
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引用次数: 0
Pediatric testing of prescription drugs: the Food and Drug Administration's carrot and stick for the pharmaceutical industry. 处方药的儿科检测:食品和药物管理局对制药业的胡萝卜加大棒。
Pub Date : 2000-01-01
K R Karst
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引用次数: 0
Review of the 1999 Trademark Decisions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 对1999年美国联邦巡回上诉法院商标判决的复审
Pub Date : 2000-01-01 DOI: 10.1089/073003102761698025
Stephen R. Baird
ion. Bancorp, 687 F.3d at 1273-74 (“[T]he determination of patent eligibility requires a full understanding of the basic character of the claimed subject matter.”) For the ’505 Patent, the end result of “maintaining the state” is described as the innovation over the prior art, and the essential, “most important aspect”: The most important aspect of the user interface of the present invention is not that it has tabs or that it enables a certain amount of non-sequential (non-linear) access to the various form sets within a virtual application, but that it maintains data state across all panes. INTERNET PATENTS CORPORATION v. ACTIVE NETWORK, INC. 10 Col. 9 ll. 45-49. IPC stresses the unconventionality of the claim elements of maintaining the state, furnishing icons on a web page with a browser having Back and Forward navigation functions, and displaying an online application form. IPC Supp. Br. at 9-10. We agree with the district court that the character of the claimed invention is an abstract idea: the idea of retaining information in the navigation of online forms. Mayo notes the insufficiency of “well-understood, routine, conventional activities previously known” to found an “inventive concept.” 132 S. Ct. at 1298. The ’505 Patent specification refers to the “browser Back and Forward button functionality” as “conventional.” Col. 3 ll. 5-10. The specification also refers to the Back and Forward functionality as “well-known” and “common,” e.g., “Furthermore, the common convenience of the ‘Back’ and ‘Forward’ buttons (provided in all well-known Internet browsers) generally does not function properly when filling in online forms.” Col. 2 ll. 37-40. The specification also states that the use of internet web pages for users to fill out online applications was brought about by “[t]he increasing popularity of the Internet and the World Wide Web,” and describes these online application systems as generating information to the user based on information inputted by the user. Col. 1 ll. 40-60. As the district court observed, claim 1 contains no restriction on how the result is accomplished. The mechanism for maintaining the state is not described, although this is stated to be the essential innovation. The court concluded that the claim is directed to the idea itself—the abstract idea of avoiding loss of data. IPC’s proposed interpretation of “maintaining state” describes the effect or result dissociated from any method by which maintaining the state is accomplished upon the activation of an icon. Thus we affirm that claim 1 is not directed to patent-eligible subject matter. INTERNET PATENTS CORPORATION v. ACTIVE NETWORK, INC. 11
离子。Bancorp, 687 F.3d at 1273-74(“[T]专利资格的确定需要充分了解所要求保护的主题的基本特征。”)对于505专利,“维持状态”的最终结果被描述为对现有技术的创新,以及必不可少的,“最重要的方面”:本发明的用户界面最重要的方面不是它具有选项卡,也不是它支持对虚拟应用程序中的各种表单集进行一定数量的非顺序(非线性)访问,而是它维护所有窗格中的数据状态。互联网专利公司诉活跃网络公司案45-49。IPC强调维护状态、在具有后退和前进导航功能的浏览器的网页上提供图标以及显示在线申请表格等要求元素的非常规性。IPC供应商Br在9至10。我们同意地区法院的观点,即要求保护的发明的特征是一个抽象的概念:在在线表格的导航中保留信息的概念。梅奥指出,“众所周知的、为人熟知的、常规的活动”不足以形成一个“创造性的概念”。第132卷。在1298年。505专利说明书将“浏览器后退和前进按钮功能”称为“常规”。上校3;5 - 10。该规范还将“后退”和“前进”功能称为“众所周知的”和“通用的”,例如,“此外,‘后退’和‘前进’按钮(在所有知名的Internet浏览器中提供)的通用便利性通常在填写在线表单时不能正常工作。”上校2。37-40。该规范还指出,使用互联网网页供用户填写在线申请是由“互联网和万维网的日益普及”带来的,并将这些在线应用系统描述为根据用户输入的信息向用户生成信息。上校:1。奖金的。正如地区法院所观察到的那样,权利要求1没有对如何实现结果进行限制。维持这种状态的机制没有被描述,尽管这被认为是最基本的创新。法院的结论是,索赔针对的是概念本身——避免数据丢失的抽象概念。IPC对“保持状态”的建议解释描述了在激活图标时完成保持状态的任何方法所产生的效果或结果。因此,我们确认权利要求1不是针对专利合格的主题。互联网专利公司诉活跃网络公司案
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引用次数: 1
Beyond 43 million: the "regarded as" prong of the ADA and HIV infection--a tautological approach. 超过4300万:“被认为”是《美国残疾人法》和艾滋病毒感染的一部分——这是一种同义反复的方法。
Pub Date : 1999-12-01
B K Esser
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引用次数: 0
How Much Fuel to Add to the Fire of Genius? Some Questions About the Repair/Reconstruction Distinction in Patent Law 给天才之火加多少燃料?关于专利法中修复/重建区分的几个问题
Pub Date : 1999-01-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3474127
Arthur J. Gajarsa, Evelyn Aswad, Joseph S. Cianfrani
Does the right to exclude in patent law give patentees the right to prevent repairs of their inventions? Typically, patentees are considered to have given to the purchasers of their patented devices the authority to use the patented devices. Generally, such authority also includes the ability to repair the device. This grant of authority, however, does not include an unrestricted license to “make” another device. At some point, repairs may be so extensive that they constitute a reconstruction, or unauthorized “making,” of the patented device. The distinction between minor repairs and extensive repairs that result in an impermissible reconstruction is not always clear. This Article raises issues for discussion with respect to the distinction between permissible repair and impermissible reconstruction. Part I explores the emerging inconsistencies in the repair/reconstruction jurisprudence. Part II discusses problems patentees may face in attempting to redefine what constitutes “impermissible reconstruction” through private contracts with purchasers of their patented goods.
专利法中的排他权是否赋予专利权人阻止对其发明进行修复的权利?通常,专利权人被认为给予其专利设备的购买者使用专利设备的权力。一般来说,这种授权还包括修理设备的能力。然而,这种授权并不包括“制造”另一种设备的无限制许可。在某种程度上,维修可能是如此广泛,以至于它们构成了对专利设备的重建或未经授权的“制造”。小修和大修之间的区别并不总是很清楚,大修会导致不允许的重建。本文提出了关于允许修复和不允许重建之间的区别的讨论问题。第一部分探讨了修复/重建法理中出现的不一致性。第二部分讨论了专利权人在试图通过与其专利产品的购买者签订私人合同来重新定义什么是“不允许的重建”时可能面临的问题。
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引用次数: 1
The Burdens of Qualified Immunity: Summary Judgment and the Role of Facts in Constitutional Tort Law 条件豁免的负担:即决判决与事实在宪法侵权法中的作用
Pub Date : 1998-09-09 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.125048
Alan K. Chen
Individuals may file damages actions against public officials who violate their constitutional rights. The Supreme Court, however, has held that officials are entitled to qualified immunity from such actions if no reasonable official would have believed their conduct violated clearly established constitutional rights. This doctrine is largely driven by the goal of minimizing the social costs of constitutional tort litigation. This Article challenges the conventional understanding of qualified immunity, arguing that the Court has created an analytical paradox by promoting early pretrial resolution of qualified immunity claims on summary judgment, while simultaneously articulating the relevant legal directive as a reasonableness standard, which requires an inevitably fact-intensive inquiry. The Article argues that the confluence of this fact-based immunity standard and conventional summary judgment doctrine has burdened the federal courts and civil rights litigants in their comprehension and application of the doctrine in civil rights litigation. By disaggregating the distinct doctrinal components of qualified immunity and summary judgment, the Article illustrates how these two gatekeeping mechanisms create a confusing and self-contradictory doctrinal structure that makes pretrial resolution of immunity claims unlikely. Moreover, even where qualified immunity's factual nature does not entirely preclude summary resolution of constitutional tort claims, it substantially increases litigation costs, thus conflicting with the doctrine's central objective. The modest step of acknowledging qualified immunity's factual nature will lead to a clearer understanding of the doctrine and may promote a reconsideration of its benefits and burdens.
个人可以对侵犯其宪法权利的公职人员提起损害赔偿诉讼。然而,最高法院认为,如果没有一个理智的官员认为他们的行为侵犯了明确确立的宪法权利,官员有权对这种行为享有有条件的豁免。这一原则在很大程度上是由最小化宪法侵权诉讼的社会成本这一目标所驱动的。该条挑战了对有条件豁免的传统理解,认为法院促进审前及早解决即决判决的有条件豁免要求,同时将相关法律指示阐明为合理性标准,从而造成了一种分析性悖论,这必然需要进行大量事实调查。这种基于事实的豁免标准与传统的简易判决原则的融合给联邦法院和民事诉讼当事人在民事诉讼中对该原则的理解和应用带来了负担。通过分解有条件豁免和即决判决的不同理论组成部分,该条说明了这两种守门机制如何造成一种令人困惑和自相矛盾的理论结构,使豁免要求不可能得到审前解决。此外,即使有条件豁免的事实性质并不完全排除对宪法侵权索赔的即决解决,它也大大增加了诉讼费用,从而与该原则的中心目标相冲突。承认有条件豁免的事实性质这一小步将使人们更清楚地了解这一理论,并可能促使人们重新考虑其利益和负担。
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引用次数: 3
Native Americans and the Vaccine Act: excluding those we found here. 美洲原住民和疫苗法案:不包括我们在这里发现的那些。
Pub Date : 1997-08-01
J D Leach
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