Perhaps more than any other area of the law, intellectual property calls for illustration.

The project of the Museum of Intellectual Property is to collect and display tangible relics from the cases that define the law of copyright, patent, trademark, and other fields.

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About 80 items are now on physical display at the Thormodsgard Law Library at the University of North Dakota. Click here for library hours.

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Featured Exhibits:

TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc., 532 U.S. 23 (2001)

Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc., 964 F. 2d 965 (9th Cir. 1992)

RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc., 180 F.3d 1072 (9th Cir. 1999)

Festo Corp. v. Shoketsu Kinzoku Kogyo Kabushiki Co., Ltd., 535 U.S. 722 (2002)

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