Author(s): Peter S. Menell Year: 2010 Abstract: This article critically analyzes Bilski v. Kappos, the Supreme Court’s first decision on patentable subject matter since the early 1980s. It shows how […]
Forty Years of Wondering in the Wilderness and No Closer to the Promised Land: Bilski’s Superficial Textualism and the Missed Opportunity to Ground Patent Law Interpretation and Return Patent Law to its Technology Mooring
Privacy on the Books and on the Ground
Author(s): Deirdre K. Mulligan and Kenneth A. Bamberger Year: 2010 Abstract: U.S. privacy law is under attack. Scholars and advocates criticize it as weak, incomplete, and confusing, and argue that […]
Pre-existing Confusion in Copyright’s Work-for-Hire Doctrine
Author(s): Peter S. Menell Year: 2002 Abstract: In order to protect authors and artists from unremunerative transfers of copyright, Congress for the first time created, in the Copyright Act of […]
Privacy Issues of the W3C Geolocation API
Author(s): Deirdre K. Mulligan Year: 2010 Abstract: The W3C’s Geolocation API may rapidly standardize the transmission of location information on the Web, but, in dealing with such sensitive information, it […]
Section 337 Patent Investigation Management Guide
Author(s): Peter S. Menell Year: 2010 Abstract: The U.S. International Trade Commission has emerged as one of the most salient patent enforcement venues in the United States. Its fast-track procedures […]
Internalizing Identity Theft
Author(s): Chris Jay Hoofnagle Year: 2010 Abstract: Why has identity theft remained so prevalent, in light of the development of ever more sophisticated fraud detection tools? Identity theft remains at […]
Harmonization and its Discontents: A Case Study of TRIPS Implementation in India’s Pharmaceutical Sector
Author(s): Amy Kapczynski Year: 2010 Abstract: In 2005, India amended its patent law to provide product patents on medicines, to comply with the WTO’s TRIPS Agreement. In order to mitigate […]
How Different are Young Adults from Older Adults When it Comes to Information Privacy Attitudes and Policies?
Author(s): Chris Jay Hoofnagle Year: 2010 Abstract: Study by: Chris Jay HoofnagleUniversity of California, Berkeley – School of Law, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Jennifer KingUC Berkeley School of […]
Catalyzing Privacy: New Governance, Information Practices, and the Business Organization
Author(s): Deirdre K. Mulligan and Kenneth A. Bamberger Year: 2010 Abstract: While the turn from traditional regulation to more collaborative, experimentalist, and flexible forms of governance has garnered significant academic […]
Openness, Open Source, and the Veil of Ignorance
Author(s): Suzanne Scotchmer Year: 2010 Abstract: Open source collaborations are increasingly among commercial firms whose interest is profit. Why would profit-motivated firms voluntarily share code? One reason is that cost […]