by Magnus Gan | Sep 9, 2015 | Commentary |
Today, Sep 9 2015, is an historic day. Microsoft, buoyed by the briefs of some 94 amici curiae including Apple and Amazon, the ACLU and NPR, CNN and Fox News, is before a three-judge panel (Judges Lynch, Carney, and Bolden) at the Federal Court of Appeals for the...
by Daniel Quarfoot | Jun 7, 2015 | Commentary |
As the scope of Google’s dispute with European competition regulators widens by the month, consumers in very different positions with very different preferences have been drawn into the debate over what is and what isn’t good for them. Another section of them was...
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...
