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…
it seems that MySpace and YouTube are about to check fingerprints of media placed on their websites. This should become possible with the help of Audible Magic,…
Audio from our January symposium, Search and Seizure in the Digital Age, is available for three of the five speaker panels. * Freiwald panel: Jennifer Granic…
The month of February has been a blur, primarily spent doing all (and then some) of the new parent things about which I was warned and cautioned. So, for the t…
Packets is production of the Stanford Center for Internet & Society (CIS). It is written by members of the Stanford Law and Technology Association (SLATA),…
Plaintiff Auto Inspection Services, Inc. (“AIS”) owns the copyright to an automotive inspection program (“AIS’s Program”) that contains a quality control featur…
Petitioner MedImmune entered a patent license agreement with respondent Genentech in 1997. Under the arrangement, MedImmune agreed to pay royalties on sales of…
As part of its ongoing investigation into the Bay Area Lab Cooperative (“Balco”) and its alleged distribution of steroids to professional baseball athletes, the…
Declining to follow similar cases in other circuits, a federal district court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that a website’s attempt to increas…
Lambert filed suit against Greg Hartmann and the Hamilton County Board of County Commissioners under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violating her constitutional right of…
Plaintiff, formerly SFX Motor Sports, Inc. (now Live Nation Motor Sports, Inc.), produces motorcycle racing events known as Supercross and broadcasts these race…
The court started its analysis by re-stating that there are three groups of parties that are entitled to bring a patent suit: (1) patentee, (2) successors in ti…
The Second Circuit upheld a summary judgment finding of fair use by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in a case involving “appropria…