by David Feigenbaum | Nov 8, 2017 | Commentary
What are Trademarks and Why Do We Have Them? Trademarks designate the source of goods in commerce and servicemarks designate the source of services in commerce. An example of a trademark is the polo player on polo shirts. An example of a service mark is the...
by Christine Umbright | Oct 30, 2017 | Commentary
Google-owned artificial intelligence company DeepMind recently succeeded at designing a program capable of defeating some of the world’s best players of Chinese strategy game Go. While this may not appear groundbreaking, the real triumph comes from the fact that...
by Brian Yang | Oct 27, 2017 | Commentary
On January 11, 2017, the term “fake news” entered the mainstream discourse when Donald Trump, during his first press conference as President-elect, refused to take a question from CNN reporter Jim Acosta and told him, “You are fake news.” The source of that outburst...
by Jake Lipnik | Oct 26, 2017 | Commentary
There’s a worrying trend occurring in the world of patents. As Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Daniel Nazer points out, more and more patents are being filed for the application of relatively “fundamental machine-learning techniques” to new areas, such as food...
by André Rouillard | Oct 14, 2017 | Commentary
There is a 3.5 percent chance that lawyers’ jobs will be automated. That statistic seems appealing to those of us in the profession—especially relative to the chances for other “skilled” professions like financial advisers (58 percent of automation) and accountants...
by Megan Andersen | Oct 12, 2017 | Commentary
Wearable fitness trackers and wellness app technology use innovation to let consumers quantify and track their health. One burgeoning trend is the smartwatch. Smartwatches are equipped to track exercise, heart rate, GPS location of the wearer, and just about anything...
