News and Commentary Robert Schmidt, Jesse Hamilton, and Yalman Onaran trace Joe Biden’s dual task of pleasing Wall Street and his party’s more progressive figures on financial regulation. Tension could [...]
News and Commentary With the announce of the Pfizer vaccine, much hay has been made over claims by the firm and supporters that they did so without R&D support from [...]
Happy Election Day! News and Commentary Last week, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu made a statement tweeted out from the USPTO's official account reminding voters about how "under President Trump's leadership, [...]
Rent Check Despite his best efforts, Tom Lehrer's dedication of all of his lyrics to the public doesn't mean that they're in the public domain due to features of U.S. [...]
Tom Lehrer is one of the most brilliant people in human history. Though a Harvard-trained mathematician, his most famous works are in the field of musical satire. A pioneer in [...]
Sonny Bunch at The Bulwark’s media newsletter “Screen Time” (which I encourage readers to subscribe to) had an interesting article about how movie studios are continuing to leverage their power [...]
Rent Check We don't have much to go on in figuring out how a Justice Amy Coney Barrett would rule when it comes to intellectual property, but an exchange with [...]
Intellectual property is usually the red-headed stepchild of Supreme Court nomination hearings, and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is no exception. With few cases to go on, most of [...]
San Francisco has just released the final report of its Economic Recovery Task Force. There are a lot of good parts to it--reducing regulatory burdens associated with housing construction among [...]
Rent Check Last week were the oral arguments in Google v. Oracle. Here are my initial impressions from the day of the arguments. As everything moves online, so too does library [...]