by jhevey | Apr 27, 2012 | Commentary |
Imbued with its new fee setting authority after the America Invents Act (AIA), the USPTO has, unsurprisingly, decided to raise its fees. Taking a page out of the USPS playbook, the PTO is not promising any better or faster service with its increased fees. In fact,...
by mmconrad | Apr 26, 2012 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
The advent of the internet has accelerated the evolution of business models by creating the possibility for countless novel companies with low start-up costs. One need only look at the fate of newspapers across the country and the pains of the music industry to...
by robinska | Apr 25, 2012 | Cases, Commentary |
The death of Tyler Clementi in 2010 stocked the country as it added another example of bullying of LGBT teenagers ending in suicide. Last Friday, Clementi’s roommate, Dharun Ravi, was found guilty of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation, evidence tampering and...
by bfin | Apr 24, 2012 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations |
Last month, copyright students at Michigan Law were able to engage in a Q&A after a presentation from Alfred Perry, the VP of Worldwide Content Protection at Paramount Pictures. The topic? SOPA, PIPA, and the legal issues that surround file-sharing websites, like...
by anickow | Mar 29, 2012 | Commentary |
On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted down an amendment to FCC legislation that would prohibit employers from asking or demanding that potential employees disclose their Facebook usernames and passwords as part of the interview screening process. This...
by anickow | Mar 22, 2012 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
Wrapping up six years of heated litigation, Sony offered an $8 million settlement this week in a class action lawsuit led by The Allman Brothers and Cheap Trick, accusing Sony of underpaying the bands’ digital record royalties. Originally filed back in 2006,...