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
Proposed Bill Attempts to Take the Wind Out of the Sails of Internet Piracy
A bi-partisan group of members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by the Chairman Patrick Leahy, recently introduced a bill that would increase the government's power to battle online violators of copyright laws. The bill, officially dubbed The Combating Online...
Lawsuits Filed Over “Zombie” Cookies
About a year ago, a study by University of California Berkeley researchers found that many websites were using so-called "zombie" cookies that re-spawn even when a user tries to delete them. This issue is not unique to computer based browsers; similar zombie cookies...
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...
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...
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...
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...