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Maurice E. Stucke & Ariel Ezrachi Personal digital assistants are alluring. Many of us already benefit from basic digital assistants such as Google Assistant, Apple’s Siri, Facebook’s M, and Amazon.com’s Alexa. They can read to our children, order beer and pizza, update us on traffic and news, and stump us with ...

Is the DTSA Toothless? Early DTSA cases and ex parte seizure By: Drew Schmidt Congress passed the Defend Trade Secrets Act (or “DTSA”) on April 27th, 2016, and the President signed it into law on May 11th, 2016. The bill experienced remarkable bipartisan support; the House passed it 410-2[1], while ...

Chante Westmoreland (J.D. Candidate ’18) interviews Associate Dean and Professor, Molly Van Houweling about her path to Berkeley Law and her recent piece, Authors Versus Owners.

By Amit Elazari Bar On, Adv., LL.M., Doctoral Law Student (J.S.D.), UC Berkeley School of Law, CTSP Fellow, Information School, UC Berkeley | March 22, 2017 In an economy where data is an emerging global currency, software vulnerabilities and security breaches are naturally a major area of concern. Data breaches’ ...

Chante Westmoreland (JD Candidate ’18) interviews Tom Counts (Partner, Paul Hastings) and Danielle Decker (Associate, Paul Hastings) after their BCLT Sponsored Lunch Talk. Tom and Danielle explain their client-centered approach for helping corporations protect trade secrets and working to remedy a possible leak in information.

Fighting the Boxopoly What Does It Mean to “Unlock the Box”? Originally, Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed that pay-tv companies be prohibited from requiring that consumers rent set-top boxes directly from the company.[1] The proposal further stipulated that consumers have the choice of using third-party devices to access cable ...

Chante Westmoreland (JD Candidate ’18) interviews Todd Bontemps from Cooley, and discusses how brands receive trademark protection and how branding strategies may change from country to country and over time.

What is the proper legal model (or models) for understanding the online platform phenomenon? What burdens and responsibilities should these platforms face? What is the right mix of government and corporate policy that would support human rights, social values, traditional public policy goals, competition, and innovation? To address these questions, the ...

By EYAL BENVENISTI, TAMAR KRICHELI-KATZ, and TALI REGEV Do large corporations own the data given to them by their users? Or are corporations obliged to share the data with the public and not-for-profit academics? eBay launched its first big data lab in Israel and provided selected researchers with access to ...

By: Chante Westmoreland On May 18, 2016, Judges Stewart, King and Higginson of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion and order vacating an injunction that would have prevented the Mississippi Attorney General, Hood, from enforcing a subpoena against Google. The court’s opinion in Google, Inc. v. Hood ...