1. Sales Law September 29, 2009 Winn

2. Sales Law September 29 Reading estimate for Thursday 10/1 – Chapter 2, p. 40 and problems 2-1 to 2-4 Gallagher Law Library Guides – UCC http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/ucc.htmlhttp://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/ucc.html – Contract Drafting http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/drafting.htmlhttp://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/drafting.html Internet access to EDGAR contracts: – www.oncle.org – www.techagreements.com www.techagreements.com CALI www.cali.orgwww.cali.org Why will revised Article 2 never be adopted? Revised 1-105/1-301 Choice of Law – http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/1/article1.htm#s1-301 http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/1/article1.htm#s1-301 Purposive interpretation 1-103 Compare intellectual property transactions to tangible goods transactions

3. IPR versus Sales Law Early modern history: commerce versus real property – Free alienability of property won over restrictions Recent history: IPR in narrow economic sectors – Article 2: goods versus services a bigger problem – Publishing, industrial manufacturing – Balance social interest in promoting progress of science & useful arts with incentives to invent Now: IPR everywhere – All rights not transferred are reserved—scope of license not to sue is limited to what owner chooses to grant – Acceleration of innovation, expansion of IPR mean it is everywhere