This Week in Intellectual Property, January 26th
News and Commentary A bill signed into law by then-President Donald Trump, the "Orange Book Transparency Act of 2020," is designed to remove invalid patents from the Orange Book list [...]
Intellectual Property Rights vs The Bill of Rights
For all the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, which celebrates its 229th birthday this week, there is one that you won’t find: the right to intellectual property, specifically [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, December 17th
Rent Check There's been significant confusion surrounding a bill proposed by Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) closing the so-called "felony streaming loophole." It's certainly a problem that these misconceptions exist, but [...]
This is No Way to Run a Railroad
Yesterday, #EndDMCA was trending on twitter, largely due to the promotion of Chelsea Manning. The hashtag was in response to a bill introduced by Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) to deal [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, December 10th
News and Commentary Lila Bailey is profiled in this Fortune piece. It discusses her legal career, her move to the Internet Archive, and her history with the publishing industry and how [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, November 19th
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 [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, November 18th
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 [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, November 3rd
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, [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, October 27th
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 Dedicates his Songs to the Public Domain…Sort of
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 [...]