News and Commentary The CASE Act risks dragging people to court for small-time or inadvertent copyright infringement. This policy could not affect the real problems of corporate or foreign piracy [...]
Rent Check A new blog post examines the recent copyright disputes involving Katy Perry and Led Zeppelin. If successful, these suits threaten to tie up the entire industry in expensive [...]
The $2.8 million in damages that Katy Perry and those involved in the production of the song “Dark Horse” must pay to the Christian rapper Marcus Gray (AKA Flame) for [...]
Rent Check Senators Rick Scott (R-FL) and Chris Van Hollen's (D-MD) We PAID Act, which would prevent patented drugs financed in part by government research from exceeding the price needed [...]
If you listen to the representatives of patent-intensive industries, particularly in the field of prescription drugs, you will be led to believe that these firms provide life-saving innovations (true) that [...]
Say what you will about Bill Barr’s Department of Justice, but apparently a few G-Men are Zeppelin fans. The Department of Justice filed an amicus brief in support of Led [...]
News and Commentary The USPTO is proposing an across the board hike in all its fees. The increases are rather moderate, and their goal is simply to keep pace with [...]
News and Commentary July's entry in EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month" series is up! This particular stupid patent is owned by Anuwave LLC, and it covers technology that allows [...]
In four cases handed down between 2010 and 2014, the Supreme Court articulated a new two-step patent eligibility test that drastically reduced the scope of patent protection for software inventions. [...]
Rent Check This blog post details the profits earned by 2019's top movies. The worldwide box office totals alone have earned the films (all owned by Disney) fantastical returns, demonstrating how [...]