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Some crucial privacy questions about the use of neuroscience in criminal courts may be headed our way. And before the tryptophan hits, the Thanksgiving dinner table might be just the forum to gather the likely myriad perspectives on the matter. Are our brains due more privacy consideration than our bodies? ...

“Go green” is a common expression to refer to the use of eco-friendly products. The basic idea of this expression is to encourage companies and consumers to conserve and protect the environment by changing their current practices or applying new ones that conserve natural resources, reduce waste, protect ecosystems and ...

In October, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated a European Commission ruling from 2000 and held that the “Safe Harbor Privacy Principles” were insufficient in providing Europeans their privacy rights under EU law. Leading up to this decision, the “Safe Harbor Privacy Principles” had been exploited to ...

American Chemical Society (ACS) Summary: The American Chemical Society (ACS) supports Proposal 1 under Pillar 1 since it helps bring issues to the Office of Patent Quality Assurance as they arise during examination. It supports Proposal 5 under Pillar 3 because it allows applicants to resolve or reduce issues before ...

By: Jaideep Reddy On September 14, 2015, the Ninth Circuit in Lenz v. Universal Music laid down the legal standard that copyright holders must meet before issuing takedown notices. Given the scale of online video generation and consumption, this is significant for content generators and copyright holders. Frivolous takedown notices ...

On October 22, 2015, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a proposal recommending the enforcement of current aircraft registration laws on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), commonly known as drones. The proposal comes at a time when the public, with its growing acceptance of drones, is pressuring the FAA to relax ...

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 ...

The 2004 decision in Center for Democracy and Technology v. Pappert sheds light on the complications surrounding the use of technology to reduce the consumption of child pornography today. Government filtering as a mechanism to combat child pornography In 2003, the plaintiffs in Pappert – the Center for Democracy and ...

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 ...

On October 16, the Second Circuit issued its decision in Authors Guild v. Google, affirming Google’s fair use defense against Authors Guild’s claim of copyright infringement of the Google Books search engine. Background This is the latest chapter in a longstanding legal battle between the authors’ advocacy organization, Authors Guild, and ...