Yearly Archives: 2016

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 ...

BTLJ’s Volume 30, Issue 3 includes Articles from the 19th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium: Open Data: Addressing Privacy, Security, and Civil Rights Challenges.

A forthcoming BTLJ Article by Jonathon Penney titled “Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use” has made international news. The Article discusses the results of the first empirical study of regulatory “chilling effects” of Wikipedia users associated with online government surveillance around the NSA/PRISM revelations in June 2013.

A forthcoming BTLJ Article by Jonathon Penney titled “Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use” has made international news. The Article discusses the results of the first empirical study of regulatory “chilling effects” of Wikipedia users associated with online government surveillance around the NSA/PRISM revelations in June 2013.

Cyber-crimes, such as data breaches and cyber-attacks, have posed a constant threat to the United States Government and its citizens in the post-Snowden era. A study suggests that in 2015 a total of 58 cyber-attacks occurred on US companies, which marked a significant increase from the previous year. The average cost per attack ...