Recent Articles
Saliency, Anchors & Frames: A Multicomponent Damages Experiment
By Bernard Chao and Roderick O’DorisioArticle, Fall 2019
Privacy Preserving Social Norm Nudges
By Yifat Nahmias, Oren Perez, Yotam Shlomo & Uri StemmerArticle, Fall 2019
Patents for Sharing
By Toshiko TakenakaArticle, Fall 2019
Antitrust Overreach: Undoing Cooperative Standardization in the Digital Economy
By Jonathan M. BarnettArticle, Spring 2019
Bank On We The People: Why and How Public Engagement Is Relevant to Biobanking
By Chao-Tien ChangArticle, Spring 2019
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Blog Posts
The Future of Autonomous Vehicles and the Fourth Amendment
Level 4 autonomous vehicles, vehicles that do not require human interaction in most circumstances, are predicted to be on the road as soon as 2021. Experts believe that as autonomous vehicles grow in popularity and availability, the prevalence of car ownership will dramatically decrease.
read moreSCOTUS Dodges Patent Eligibility Question, Ball is Now in Congress’s Court
What is the line dividing nature and patentable invention in life sciences and biotechnology? On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to answer this question by denying all pending petitions concerning patent eligibility.
read moreWhy the “Right to be Forgotten” Won’t Make it to the United States
In 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) began to govern members of the European Union. The GDPR allows individuals the “right of erasure” — the ability to request erasure of personal data from the Internet. But the European Union’s top court recently stymied the regulation’s effect, ruling that search engine operators are not required to de-reference subjects globally. Thus, the potential spillover effects — i.e., the potential issue of whether a U.S. court ought to enforce a European de-referencing — won’t allow for a cascading privacy right debate to enter American discourse.
read morePrivacy Policies in a World Without Privacy. Is There Such a Thing as a Good Privacy Policy?
Questions surrounding data privacy and what happens to our personal data when companies collect it have risen to the forefront of public discussion more in recent years than ever before.
read moreTrademark Infringement in Virtual Reality Spaces: When Your Virtual World Gets Too Real
Increased development of virtual reality (“VR”) technology brings a host of legal questions surrounding both the intellectual property (“IP”) of the actual technology as well as unlawful activity within the VR space itself.
read moreCars, Smartphones and Waste: Fighting for the Right to Repair in 2019
Massachusetts is a hot battleground for Right to Repair movements – first for cars, and now for smartphones.
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