I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
Next month Stanford CIS is hosting a conference about Legal Futures. Judging by the list of participants, the upcoming even should be nothing less than electrif…
There's a new law school ODR competition that's just kicking off -- full details and enrolment are at www.DontSue.net where you can also see screenshots…
We agreed to help represent RDR Books in its litigation against J.K. Rowling because she asserts rights that go far beyond those the Copyright Act gives her, an…
On Friday, we filed our opposition to J.K. Rowling's motion to enjoin publication of the Lexicon. In our brief, we explain both why the Lexicon is the sort…
In the context of aspects S1145 for Patent Reform, attached is a chart that illustrates the effect of patent reexaminations and litigation on patents. This com…
Now this is my kind of negotiation training. Long live Shpigler!…
In the classic Lessig style. I don't know why he writes like Prince ("What r Obama's supporters 4?") but I found it quite persuasive.…
Michael Chabon in today's Washington Post: "There are many reasons not to support Barack Obama's candidacy for president, but every one of them is…
Michael Oreskes in the Feb. 3 NYT: "...Call it a split between whether politics should be a pursuit of consensus or an effort to enact a party’s fundamenta…
Some time ago I did a post on the new copyright legislation in Israel. There are many interesting things about this law, and now, at the curtsey of Prof. Niva E…
On January 4, the Supreme Court denied the petition for cert in Kahle v. Gonzales. On that same day, in a victory for CIS, the 10th Circuit refused the governm…
Technology transfer, and the exchange of patents in particular, entering a phase reflecting a maturing of the practice. In the past I’ve reported about the Oc…