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
Facebook Sued for Violating Social Networking Patent
The patent in question was filed by WhoGlue on May 9, 2002 and granted on July 17, 2007. The patent very broadly covers "an information management system, method and computer program code and means for facilitating communications between user members of an online...
The Bilski Effect: Not Just Business Methods
In Diamond v. Diehr, the Supreme Court held that a process claim is not patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 if the claim preempts a “fundamental principle,” such as a law of nature, a natural phenomenon, or an abstract idea. On the other hand, a claim is...
The law (firm) is your friend: Is social networking changing legal culture?
Law firms have empirically been a pretty conservative group, and they are not usually known for embracing technological fads very quickly, if at all. This is why it is all the more surprising that Bloomberg reported yesterday that social networking sites, including...
Gawronski v. Amazon Update
The New York Times reported today that Amazon has changed its mind yet again about deleting Kindle copies of Orwell works, due to it lacking the rights to them. Amazon is now offering affected customers a free upload of a different, legally authorized edition--and...
Bill Would Give President Emergency Control Over Internet
Speaking of destroying the internet, CBSNews.com reporter Declan McCullagh reports Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) recently introduced legislation that would give the president the authority to seize control of the Internet and order a...
Posner’s idea to save the newspaper industry: Get rid of the internet.
Richard Posner, 7th circuit appellate judge and expert on all things law and economics, recently commented on the impending death of newspapers. His post blames the "free riding" of blogs and other websites for the year-over-year decline of newspaper revenue. Many...