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
Harsh Illinois Eavesdropping Statutes Send Citizens to Prison
Ignorance of the law is not a defense, as two Illinois citizens have recently discovered. Christopher Drew and Tiawanda Moore are both facing up to fifteen years in prison for crimes that they did not realize they were committing. The New York Times recently...
A Call to Sunny Arms
Solar panels use sunlight to provide clean, renewable power. And in contrast to the days when solar energy was only feasible for use in small electronics like calculators, today the technology has advanced to the point where it has far greater potential. The White...
Koons’ Balloons: An Infringement Reversal?
The New York Times has an amusing article about Jeff Koons, the prominent artist whose use of pop culture imagery has made him somewhat of a successor to Andy Warhol in the contemporary art scene. Koons is accusing two businesses - a San Francisco bookstore and a...
“Kabletown is a Kind and Generous Company”
Tina Fey and the writers on NBC's hit comedy 30 Rock have gotten a lot of comedic mileage out of the proposed NBC-Comcast (or NBC-Kabletown, in the show's version) merger, but there hasn't been a lot of laughter today as the Federal Communications Commission and the...
Amazon Patents Unwanted Gift Converter
Graciously accepting ill-suited gifts and slyly exchanging or re-gifting these unwanted articles may become antiquated formalities of the past. In November, Amazon received a patent for a System and Method For Converting Gifts, US Patent No. 7,831,439 (issued Nov. 9,...
New Movement on the European Union Patent
European patents are presently granted by the European Patent Office (EPO) under the European Patent Convention (EPC), but they remain expensive for patent seekers, roughly ten times as expensive as an American patent. This expense is due in large part to translation...