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
Should Traditional Radio Stations Pay Music Royalties?
Congressional hearings this week focused on whether or not traditional radio stations should have to pay royalties for the music they play. Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins, was among those who testified in support of H.R. 848, The Performance Royalties Act....
Federal Stem Cell funding approved – which states to benefit?
Monday, President Obama signed an executive order intended to foster stem-cell research, reversing the policies of the previous administration that limited research to existing stem-cell lines. Further Congressional action will be necessary to remove all federal...
Supreme Court to consider federal jurisdiction over unregistered copyrights
The Supreme Court has granted cert in Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick, a case arising from settlement negotiations following New York Times v. Tasini. In Tasini (full decision), the court determined that freelancers who had not explicitly licensed electronic publication...
Legal Issues Arising From New Requirements for Licensing of Computer Forensics in Michigan
by: Rodney Tolentino, Associate Editor, MTTLR There is a current trend among states, including Texas, Georgia and South Carolina, to require computer forensic technicians to be licensed by state agencies as private investigators.1 On May 28, 2008, Michigan joined...
The Implication of Quanta for Patentees
by: Ali-Reza Boloori, Associate Editor, MTTLR The Supreme Court in Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Elecs., Inc.1 made a broad, contemporary affirmation of the principle of patent exhaustion. By answering in the affirmative the question of “whether patent exhaustion...
Tiffany v. eBay – Transnational Trademark Problems?
by Jeff Liu , MTTLR Associate Editor Last summer, a federal district court ruled, in Tiffany v. Ebay, that online marketplace eBay was not liable under trademark and unfair competition law for facilitating the sale of counterfeit items on its website. The court noted...