by Meera Bhaskar | May 25, 2015 | Commentary |
After years of struggling with what the federal government’s role should be in regulating the “free internet,” the FCC voted to enforce net neutrality rules under Title II of the Communications Act. Under the new Rules, major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like...
by Alyssa Walker | Apr 17, 2015 | Commentary |
Twitter has recently announced that it will be rolling out a new “quality filter” that is designed to “remove all Tweets from your notification timeline that contain threats, offensive or abusive language, duplicate content, or are sent from suspicious accounts.” The...
by Eve Nguyen | Apr 15, 2015 | Commentary |
On February 26, 2015, proponents of the open Internet celebrated the Federal Communications Commission’s vote to reclassify broadband Internet as a public utility and approve new net neutrality rules. The goal of the FCC’s vote is to protect Net neutrality by...
by Andrew Chipouras | Apr 11, 2015 | Commentary |
The United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) recently began an enhanced patent quality initiative. Over the past few years, the USPTO has significantly reduced patent application backlog and pendency and is now turning its attention to patent quality. The...
by Melanie Capuano | Apr 8, 2015 | Commentary |
Mercedes, BMW, Infiniti, Honda, and Volvo have produced cars that have the ability to be in a semi-autopilot mode in certain situations. Google has even produced bubble-like experimental self-driving cars that completely take the human driver out of the equation....
by Mark McLoughlin | Apr 7, 2015 | Commentary |
In the past two months, three major pop artists have paid royalties to older musicians because new pop songs sounded too much like older hits: Sam Smith paid Tom Petty for the similarities between “Stay With Me” and “Won’t Back Down” and Pharrell Williams and Robin...
