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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, ...

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 ...

By Audrey Mitchell, J.D. Candidate, 2026 GenAI’s threat to authenticating evidence In June 2023, the story of Mata v. Avianca swept the nation— the first highly publicized case of AI-hallucinated citations in a brief. A multitude of hallucinated citation cases have since followed, often eclipsing their underlying cases in terms ...

By Grace Murphy, J.D. Class of 2026 Prescription drugs have a reputation for making liberal use of the patent system. However, the medications picked up at the pharmacy are not the only patent-protected products in the local drugstore. Many of the lotions, serums, and face washes that line the aisles ...

By Xiaoyun Hu, LL.M. Candidate, 2025 Introduction Nowadays, AI tools can not only generate full sentences and pictures, but can also produce voice clones using audio samples as input. Some people have used these tools to fabricate a singer ‘covering’ someone else’s song, or to replace the current dubbing of ...