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Complete Volume 26, Symposium 2011 Complete Volume (PDF 2,300KB) Front Matter Front Matter (PDF 430KB) Articles Foreword: Technology’s Transformation of the Regulatory Endeavor (PDF 447KB) by Kenneth A. Bamberger Lost in Translation: Legality, Regulatory Margins, and Technological Management (PDF 584KB) by Roger Brownsword From Preemption to Circumvention: If Technology Regulates, Why ...

Complete Volume 26, Annual Review 2011 Complete Volume (PDF 8,926KB) Front Matter Front Matter (PDF 237KB) Articles Foreword (PDF 154KB) by Elizabeth C. Eraker, David K. Stark Patent Law Bilski v. Kappos: Sideline Analysis from the First Inning of Play (PDF 481KB) by Ebby Abraham Prioritization: Addressing the Patent Application ...

Complete Volume 26, Issue 4 Complete Volume (PDF 2,667KB) Front Matter Front Matter (PDF 415KB) Articles Governance of Intellectual Resources and Disintegration of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age (PDF 553KB) by Peter S. Menell Legal Scholarship and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: An Empirical ...

Complete Volume 26, Issue 2 Complete Volume (PDF 3,146KB) Front Matter Front Matter (PDF 221KB) Articles Secret Inventions (PDF 384KB) by J. Jonas Anderson Intrusive Monitoring: Employee Privacy Expectations are Reasonable in Europe, Destroyed in the United States (PDF 399KB) by Lothar Determann, Robert Sprague The Case for Liberal Spectrum ...

In the Ninth Circuit decision of Omega, S.A. v. Costco Wholesale Corp., the court ruled that the first sale doctrine does not apply to imported works manufactured abroad. Costco appealed, and oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court took place in early November. The case was based on the ...

This month, our team members have been consumed with outlines, papers, and finals, and now the holidays are upon us. Although we won’t be able to write full posts on all of the recent developments in technology law, we wanted to offer some quick updates on some of the biggest ...

On December 14, 2010, the Sixth Circuit held that a search warrant is required before the government can engage in search and seizure of emails stored by an internet service provider (ISP). The government directed—without a warrant for probable cause—an ISP, NuVox, to “preserve” all Steven Warshak’s future emails without Warshak’s ...

In the recent Finjan v. Secure Computing decision, the Federal Circuit affirmed that software that is sold in locked or inactivated form can directly infringe apparatus claims even before the customer unlocks or activates the software in separate subsequent steps. The patents at issue in Finjan concern software for computer ...

In May 2007, at the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, Google launched Street View, a program allowing users to navigate panoramic images of thousands of street level locations. Advocating for mapping efficiency via technological innovation, Google aspired to “provide users with a rich, immersive browsing experience in Google Maps, ...

In the recent Solvay v. Honeywell (PDF) decision, the Federal Circuit dealt with the issue of who qualifies as a prior inventor for the purpose of 35 U.S.C. § 102(g)(2). In particular, this case concerns an invention that was invented in Russia but later duplicated in the United States (“U.S.”). ...