By Junichiro Nishimura, LL.M. Class of 2026 As part of the 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy, on January 6, 2025, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the Security Rule under the Health ...

Hyunsoo Kim, J.D. Class of 2028 The development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries at an unprecedented pace, with nearly all sectors incorporating AI models into their practice. While AI has undergone significant development in the past several years, the usage of AI in the legal industry has ...

Andi Cao, J.D. Class of 2028 If you have ever used a 5G smartphone, whether an iPhone or an Android device, you have benefited from global technical standards forged through decades of patent licensing battles in the telecom sector. As cars become “connected computers on wheels,” the automotive industry is ...

Anita Srinivasan, LL.M. Candidate, Class of 2026   Artificial intelligence assistants are becoming the new gateways to online information. Products such as Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, and Apple’s integration of ChatGPT into Siri allow users to ask questions directly and receive synthesized answers. These assistants are being built into phones, ...

COMPLETE VOLUME 40, ISSUE 3 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES Foreword by Nicole Boucher and John Moore Antitrust and the Orange Book: An Analysis of Efforts to Reduce Improper Listings by Monica Jeung Collateral Estoppel of PTAB Decisions in the Wake of United Therapeutics Corp. v. Liquidia Tech., ...

Sidney Wright, J.D. Class of 2027 Patents have long been the cornerstone of intellectual property protection, rooted in decades of precedent and a long-standing belief that ownership drives innovation. Patents have offered inventors exclusivity in exchange for transparency, shaping how technology has been created and shared. But as artificial intelligence ...

Cristina Pullen, J.D., Class of 2028   Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly being integrated into every major industry in the United States. From chatbots to business automation to predictive tools, corporations and government entities want to embrace this technology as a way to boost efficiency like never before. Thus, it’s ...

By Sauntharya Manikandan, J.D. Class of 2027 Introduction Dark patterns. The phrase itself sounds sinister—perhaps even something out of a Star Wars movie. And while that comparison might seem playful, the reality isn’t far off. The term refers to the types of purposeful deceptive online practices that manipulate users into ...

By Kaarthika Thakker, J.D. Class of 2028 Travis, like over half a billion other people, downloaded an AI companion app, mostly out of curiosity. He never expected to fall in love, let alone have a digital wedding with his AI companion, Lily Rose. Now, he advocates for human-AI relationships: “We’re ...

By Tommaso Mambrini, LL.M. Candidate, 2026 Platforms like Robinhood, Webull, and crypto exchanges are increasingly turning financial investing into a game, using elements taken from the gambling and video game sector such as nudging, interface designs that subtly steer users toward specific actions, confetti animations that celebrate completed trades, badges ...