Intellectual Property Law

Professor Rebecca Wexler, a faculty co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, talks about how big and small tech companies will need to have a response to the question of what to do with users’ data if new laws try to restrict access to information about abortion and other reproductive services in the post-Roe environment. “Anything they do or don’t do, it’s going to be a choice with consequences. It also means they’ve got a lot of power at this point,” she says. “They have power to reclaim some of the privacy from government intrusion that Roe once guaranteed, and that the court has just eviscerated.”

While much is written about the potential promise of quantum computers, “their simpler cousins — quantum sensors — are here now and improving at a rate that demands urgent attention,” writes Professor Chris Hoofnagle and a co-author. “Strategists must understand the new capabilities that quantum sensing will provide and start planning countermeasures today.”

Professor Rebecca Wexler discusses the role of big tech in a post-Roe world, and why the fight over sensitive data will be of essence to protect patients. 

Professor Peter Menell, with Dennis Aftergut of Lawyers Defending American Democracy, writes Sen. Hawley appears ready not only to undo property and free speech rights, but also to bust a foundation of America’s international trade

Professor Pamela Samuelson is one of a dozen law professors who filed an amicus brief telling the Federal Circuit that a ‘dangerous’ split ruling from it to seal patent licensing information belonging to the private equity firm that is funding Uniloc’s legal war against Apple has flipped the legal system’s “presumption of access” in intellectual property cases

Mark Cohen, senior fellow and director of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, discusses the DOJ’s The China Initiative says he is deeply concerned about technology transfer to China, but the FBI is going too far

Mark Cohen, senior fellow and director of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, explains why President Biden’s proposal to waive all IP rights related to COVID-19 is “toothless virtue-signaling at best — and dangerous economic capitulation at worst”

Mark Cohen, senior fellow and director of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, discusses the failure of Trump’s so-called China Initiative

Professor Pamela Samuelson appears on the Techdirt podcast to discuss the Oracle/Google case and what impact the landmark case has on copyright and interoperability

Mark Cohen, senior fellow and director of the Asia IP Project at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, says he expects more lawmakers to take a tougher line on Chinese tech firms operating in America as Beijing’s crackdown continues