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
AIA and Double Patenting- Not Worth Taking Advantage Of
The America Invents Act (AIA) was passed in September 2011, bringing with it many changes to patent law. The most noteworthy change was the shift from inventorship being granted on a first to invent system to a first to file system. However, there were many...
Free Speech Online is No LOL Matter to the American Public
The people have spoken—and the people want their digital freedom! As the 112th Congress found out just last week, the prospect of the federal government infringing on the open and free Internet has been both politically tumultuous as well as philosophically unpopular...
Megaupload takedown creates trouble for users and cyberlocker community
On January 19, US authorities shut down Megaupload.com, a Hong Kong-based digital storage and file sharing company. Megaupload provided a cloud service that enabled users to easily share content, including hosting video and entire music libraries. The site is...
Will the end of tax credits take the wind out of alternative energy?
As the New York Times recently reported, certain tax credits that were included in the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (P.L. 102-486) are set to expire at the end of this year unless Congress acts to extend them. Of particular importance to producers of wind turbines is...
On the Proposed Exemptions to the DMCA’s Access Control Provisions
On February 10, 2012, the U.S. Copyright Office will stop accepting public comment on proposed administrative exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's "access control" provisions. Fresh from their SOPA and PIPA victories, organizations such as the...
“we’re not pirates, we’re just providing shipping services to pirates :)”
These were the words written in an email by Mathias Ortmann to Bram Van Der Kolk. Who, you might ask? Ortmann and Van Der Kolk are two of the recently indicted parties to the Megaupload conspiracy, and this email was publicized in the indictment. You know, that...