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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 ...

Chante Westmoreland (JD Candidate ’18) and Patrick Johnson (JD Candidate ’19) interview Chris Hoofnagle of the UC Berkeley School of Law and School of Information. Chris discusses how consumers unknowingly expose their data to companies, the consequences of exposure, and provides some tips on how consumers can better protect their ...

By: Jacqueline de Souza Abreu Jacqueline de Souza Abreu (@jacqueabreu) is Project Lead at InternetLab, a São Paulo-based law and technology research center. She holds LL.M. degrees from UC Berkeley and LMU Munich. Brazilian judicial authorities ordered that access to the U.S. messaging service WhatsApp be blocked three times within the last ...

Chante Westmoreland (JD Candidate ’18) and Patrick Johnson (JD Candidate ’19) interview Fred VonLohmann, Copyright Counsel at Google to learn about his work at Google, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and YouTubes’s “Content ID” service.

Complete Volume 31, Annual Review 2016 Complete Volume Front Matter Front Matter Articles Foreword by Virginia E. Scholtes and Sorin G. Zaharia Patent Law Saving Patent Law from Competition Policy and Economic Theories: Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment LLC. by Cassandra E. Havens Teva v. Sandoz: The Supreme Court Rejects Millennial ...

Complete Volume 31, Issue 1 Complete Volume Front Matter Front Matter Articles A Few Kind Words for Absolute Infringement Liability in Patent Law by Robert P. Merges Strategic Decision Making in Dual PTAB and District Court Proceedings by Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Arti K. Rai & Jay P. Kesan Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia ...

Contemporary consumer privacy law in the United States is largely based on the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs). These FIPPs are conceptually challenged by the “Internet of Things,” the digital ecosystem where sensors embedded in everyday physical objects – from watches and shoes to refrigerators and roads – communicate with ...

If privacy policies are meant to secure informed consent from consumers before their personal data is collected, several studies have shown that they have failed. Consumers do not know what privacy policies are, often because they either do not read them or they cannot understand them. This creates a conundrum ...

In the United States, the unreasonably high price of college textbooks does more than encourage a futile “arms race” with students; it reveals troublesome failures in the market and in the copyright system. Increased Prices A few months ago, the American Enterprise Institute announced the “new era of the $400 ...

Peter S. Menell Koret Professor of Law and Director Berkeley Center for Law & Technology University of California at Berkeley School of Law I submit these comments in response to the PTO’s Request for Comments on Enhancing Patent Quality (80 FR 6475 (Feb. 5, 2015)). These comments represent my own ...