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Recent Articles

The 'License as Tax' Fallacy

By  Jonathan M. Barnett
Article, Spring 2022

Unreasonable: A Strict Liability Solution to the FTC's Data Security Problem

By  James C. Cooper & Bruce H. Kobayashi
Article, Spring 2022

The Ping-Pong Olympics of Antisuit Injunction in FRAND Litigation

By King Fung Tsang & Jyh-An Lee
Article, Spring 2022

Content Moderation Remedies

By  Eric Goldman
Article, Fall 2021

An Empirical Study: Willful Infringement & Enhanced Damages in Patent Law After Halo

By  Karen E. Sandrik
Article, Fall 2021

Recent Notes

The Best Data Plan Is to Have a Game Plan: Obstacles and Solutions to Reaching International Data Privacy Agreements

By  James Wang
Note, Spring 2022

Mental Health Mobile Apps and the Need to Update Federal Regulations to Protect Users

By  Kewa Jiang
Note, Spring 2022

Blog Posts

The Pentagon ePapers?

The recent controversy over Wikilinks' online posting of internal war documents (aka the Afghan War Diary) pertaining to the Afghan War have reminded some commentators of the similar debate surrounding Daniel Ellsberg's leaking of the Pentagon Papers. Last week, NPR's...

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Business Method Patents after Bilski v Kappos

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), on October 30, 2008, decided In re Bilski (545 F.3d 943), which had serious implications for the future of business method patents. The eleven members of that court found that a method of hedging risk...

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National Trademark DNS Servers

Much has been written about the enforcement of trademarks in cyberspace. The rationale behind trademarks is to allow companies to protect their identifiable brand names and goodwill developed through investing in service, quality, etc.  Traditionally the geographic...

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Trademark Infringement in Google AdWords

Google AdWords is a juggernaut of online advertising, generating huge amounts of revenue for both Google and for AdWords account holders.  It has revolutionized the way advertisers and consumers connect with each other online—and lately, it has also strained the...

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FCC and the Internet: Edit->Undo?

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that the FCC was not authorized to prohibit Comcast from interfering with P2P networking applications, erecting what appears to be a large roadblock on the FCC's path to net neutrality. The court held that the FCC's...

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Copyright and Religion

If Jesus told you to sue for copyright infringement to protect the purity of your religion, would you?  At least one person has answered “yes.”  If someone stole your “secret” religious text and criticized it on the internet, would you sue them for copyright...

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