Recent Articles
The 'License as Tax' Fallacy
Article, Spring 2022
Unreasonable: A Strict Liability Solution to the FTC's Data Security Problem
Article, Spring 2022
The Ping-Pong Olympics of Antisuit Injunction in FRAND Litigation
Article, Spring 2022
Content Moderation Remedies
Article, Fall 2021
An Empirical Study: Willful Infringement & Enhanced Damages in Patent Law After Halo
Article, Fall 2021
Recent Notes
The Best Data Plan Is to Have a Game Plan: Obstacles and Solutions to Reaching International Data Privacy Agreements
Note, Spring 2022
Mental Health Mobile Apps and the Need to Update Federal Regulations to Protect Users
Note, Spring 2022
Blog Posts
The Law and Economics of Cellulosic Fuels
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s ruling in American Petroleum Institute v. EPA (issued January 25, 2013) regarding cellulosic biofuel regulation is an interesting example of the interplay between law and economics. The court ruled in...
Should Fashion Design Be Given Copyright Protection?
January 3, 2013 marked the end of the 112th Congress and beginning of the 113th Congress, and with it, the death of the Innovative Design Protection Act of 2012 (IDPA). The bill, proposed by Senator Chuck Schumer in September 2012, would have amended Chapter 13 of the...
Yelp and Other Google Competitors’ Failed Cry for Help Leaves Internet Users the Ability to Keep Googling Away
After an almost two-year probe by the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") into whether Google Inc. used its monopoly on the Internet search market to illegally injure its rivals, on January 3, Google avoided a potentially crippling federal antitrust lawsuit. The...
MTTLR Blog now publishing to Twitter and Facebook
The MTTLR Blog will now publish to Twitter as @MTTLRBlog and to Facebook. If you use either of those services, follow the MTTLR Blog there.
The Internet, Innovation, and Entrepreneurialism: Legislation v. Self-Regulation
I recently had a conversation with a friend about an innovative coffee cup design he had discovered on the popular crowd-funding website, Kickstarter. Kickstarter was troublingly described to me as a glorified electronic bulletin board with seemingly little to no...
Got a negative review on Yelp? Seems like you’re out of luck!
Certainly, most of you are familiar with Yelp, a website that provides user reviews on various companies, organizations, etc. I, for one, use this website religiously as a guidance for which restaurants to try out and which to avoid (since I am a student on a tight...