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Fighting the Boxopoly What Does It Mean to “Unlock the Box”? Originally, Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed that pay-tv companies be prohibited from requiring that consumers rent set-top boxes directly from the company.[1] The proposal further stipulated that consumers have the choice of using third-party devices to access cable ...

Chante Westmoreland (JD Candidate ’18) interviews Todd Bontemps from Cooley, and discusses how brands receive trademark protection and how branding strategies may change from country to country and over time.

What is the proper legal model (or models) for understanding the online platform phenomenon? What burdens and responsibilities should these platforms face? What is the right mix of government and corporate policy that would support human rights, social values, traditional public policy goals, competition, and innovation? To address these questions, the ...

By EYAL BENVENISTI, TAMAR KRICHELI-KATZ, and TALI REGEV Do large corporations own the data given to them by their users? Or are corporations obliged to share the data with the public and not-for-profit academics? eBay launched its first big data lab in Israel and provided selected researchers with access to ...

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 ...