Beyond Preemption: The Law and Policy of Intellectual Propert Licensing Mark a. lemle Introduction I. The Tension Between Article 2B and Intellectual Property A. Article 2B's Expansion of the Scope and Power of Contracts B. Potential Conflicts with Intellectual Property Law aw 2. Copyright Law 4. Trademark law C. Conclusions II. Preemption as a Partial Solution A. The Nature of Intellectual Property Preemption 1. The Basic Nature of Preemption 2. Intellectual Property Preemption a. Patent law b. Copyright Law c. Applying Preemption to Contract Law School of rowe ssri ve saw of5出a油沿F出B是HkH是op 长a上Be品m8是最 Berkeler centee fos aw ea TercaralogwsoGonfesense no Aratinck' va thei a aito sh eomm esearch assistandBeyond Preemption:The Law and Policy of Intellectual Property Licensing Mark A. Lemley1† Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I. The Tension Between Article 2B and Intellectual Property . . . . . . . A. Article 2B’s Expansion of the Scope and Power of Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. Potential Conflicts with Intellectual Property Law . . . . . . . . . . . 1. Patent Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Copyright Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. Trade Secret Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4. Trademark Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II. Preemption as a Partial Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. The Nature of Intellectual Property Preemption . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. The Basic Nature of Preemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Intellectual Property Preemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a. Patent Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b. Copyright Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . c. Applying Preemption to Contract Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Copyright © 1999 Mark A. Lemley and California Law Review, Inc. † Professor of Law, University of Texas School of Law; Visiting Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley (Fall 1998); of counsel, Fish & Richardson P.C., Austin, Texas. I would like to thank Stephen Barnett, Julie Cohen, Richard Craswell, Robert Denicola, Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss, Paul Goldstein, Robert Gomulkiewicz, Rose Hagan, Paul Heald, Dennis Karjala, Eric Lode, David McGowan, Charles McManis, Rob Merges, Maureen O’Rourke, Malla Pollack, Lloyd Weinreb, and participants in a faculty workshop at Stanford Law School and in the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology’s Conference on Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code for comments on an earlier draft. I would also like to thank Ryan Garcia and Sherri Shaw for research assistance. 111