-- Law Library of Congress, Legal Research Methodology, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awlaw3/legal.html

-- James C. Duff, The Federal Court System In The United States, (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts 3d ed. 2010), available at http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/FederalCourts/Publications/English.pdf.

-- Bench trial v. Jury Trial - Fed. R. Civ. P. 38, 39. (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, available at http://www.uscourts.gov/uscourts/RulesAndPolicies/rules/2010%20Rules/Civil%20Procedure.pdf.)

Class 2 Reading Skills for Court Decisions: Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S.A., 131 S.Ct. 2060 (2011); 陳秉訓（2011年10月）, ”A Methodology of Analyzing American Patent Law Cases for Non-American-trained Lawyers,” 2011專業英語文國際學術研討會暨工作坊，弘光科技大學應用英語系主辦，2011年10月27-29日，台中市。

Class 3 Introduction of the Westlaw International: Key numbers, ALR, CJS, American Jurisprudence, and other databases; Discussion about the Final Term Paper: Apple v. Samsung regarding the trade dress issue. Read the Apple’s trial brief, 2012 WL 3204607.

Class 4 Research Practice; Katherine Guerin, International Contracts and Terminology: An Annotated Research Guide for the U.S. Practitioner, 29 Int’l J. Legal Info. 575 (2001).

Classes 5-16 Independent Research Project.

Class 16 Final Term Paper Due.

Class 17 Oral Argument I

Class 18 Oral Argument II