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Student Podcast
October 15th, 2020
Hosts Ibrahim Hinds ’23 and Kurt Fredrickson ’23 cover recent criminal charges against the founders of one of the world’s largest BitCoin exchanges, the House’s antitrust report on  Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon, and the Supreme Court copyright case between Oracle and Google. [Ibrahim] You’re listening to the Berkeley Technology ...
BTLJ Blog
March 1st, 2016
Apple is opposing an order by a federal magistrate judge to help the FBI unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the shooters of the San Bernardino attacks. A judge ordered the tech giant to break into the iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook. ...
BTLJ Blog
March 1st, 2016
Those “who sweat in the clammy gymnasia of patent law” were impatiently waiting for the Alice decision. They thought they would get an answer to the question of whether or not software is patentable. In its June 19, 2014 ruling, the Supreme Court held that the patentability turned on a ...
BTLJ Blog
November 11th, 2015
Reverse payment settlements exist at the intersection among antitrust, patent and healthcare laws. Also known as pay-for-delay agreements, these occur when a patent holder agrees to pay a potential patent infringer to settle litigation and delay its entrance to the market. The payment is called a reverse one because, in the ...
BTLJ Blog
November 8th, 2015
By: Jaideep Reddy “These days a developer will do a Google search, find five open-source products that fit his[/her] need and the next thing you know one of them is in a product.” – Phil Robb. Because open source code presents such a valuable resource for programmers, for-profit companies regularly ...
BTLJ Blog
October 26th, 2015
In eDekka LLC v. 3Balls.com Inc., Eastern District of Texas Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled against plaintiff eDekka’s patent infringement claims and invalidated the patent in question. This jurisdiction has been considered friendly toward so-called patent trolls, and Judge Rodney’s opinion may indicate tougher scrutiny going forward for overly broad patents. ...
BTLJ Blog
April 15th, 2015
How should digital evidence be presented to juries? Should emoticons and other symbols be translated into words and read aloud by prosecutors and defense attorneys? As their popularity has grown with the advent of apps, such as Emoji, emoticons, have been figuring into litigation more and more frequently over the ...
BTLJ Blog
March 18th, 2015
Are you curious to know what a certain address or location looks like in frontal or perspective view? So are the one billion regular users of Google’s Street View, a component of Google Maps that allows users to virtually navigate through 360° views and panoramic images of streets. Yet, Street ...
BTLJ Blog
December 26th, 2014
On the heels of a business-crushing Supreme Court decision, television-streaming giant Aereo announced in November that it would be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Founded in 2012 with nearly $100 million in venture funding, the company allowed users to live-stream 30 different television channels for a low monthly subscription fee. ...
BTLJ Blog
April 10th, 2013
The Supreme Court recently handed down its decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, a copyright exhaustion case concerning the sale of “gray-market” works published outside the United States and imported for sale. In a surprisingly decisive 6-3 decision, the Court reversed the Second Circuit’s decision and held that ...