Open filters Close filters
Student Podcast
October 15th, 2020
Hosts Ibrahim Hinds ’23 and Kurt Fredrickson ’23 cover recent criminal charges against the founders of one of the world’s largest BitCoin exchanges, the House’s antitrust report on Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon, and the Supreme Court copyright case between Oracle and Google. [Ibrahim] You’re listening to the Berkeley Technology ...
Student Podcast
October 6th, 2020
Hosts Matt Sardo ’23 and Meg Sullivan ‘ 23 follow up on last week’s coverage of TikTok’s request for an injunction to the ban of its app, and cover Epic Games’ lawsuit against Apple following the companies’ dispute over banning Fortnite from Apple’s App Store, the EU’s draft of antitrust ...
BTLJ Blog
April 14th, 2016
On February 3, 2016 a federal jury returned a verdict finding Apple guilty for willfully infringing four VirnetX Inc. patents in its products, including Apple’s VPN on Demand, iMessage and FaceTime. Apple was ordered to pay $625.6 million in damages and ongoing royalties. Following the verdict, Apple filed a motion for ...
BTLJ Blog
December 17th, 2015
While it has never topped the charts of the Billboard 100, the Happy Birthday song is arguably one of the most popular songs, if not the most popular song, in history. The Guinness Book of World Records declared it as the most frequently sung in the English language, accompanying other ...
BTLJ Blog
October 26th, 2015
In eDekka LLC v. 3Balls.com Inc., Eastern District of Texas Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled against plaintiff eDekka’s patent infringement claims and invalidated the patent in question. This jurisdiction has been considered friendly toward so-called patent trolls, and Judge Rodney’s opinion may indicate tougher scrutiny going forward for overly broad patents. ...
BTLJ Blog
April 15th, 2015
On March 12, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) released its order captioned In re Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet, (“Open Internet Order”). This order, one of the most important in the history of the Internet in the United States, reclassifies broadband Internet access services from an “information service” ...
UncategorizedBTLJ Blog
February 26th, 2015
In the midst of its recent film release, 50 Shades of Grey is raising eyebrows for a new reason: possible copyright infringement. News outlets have begun to question whether the author of the best-selling Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer, ultimately holds the copyright to 50 Shades of Grey, written by E.L. ...