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…
TSA announced in hearings before the Senate Commerce Committee that they've suspended plans for Secure Flight, the "ambitious program to check every do…
An anxious (bored?) blog reader (I didn't know there were any!) has just emailed me saying: "It has been so long since you blogged. Your public demand…
In this patent infringement suit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit considered the question of whether a patent holder retained the sta…
The Federal Circuit denied a petition for rehearing en banc over the issue of what is required in the written description to justify a patent’s claims. Lizardte…
Plaintiff Shelly Landry-Belle sued defendant Various Inc., the operator of AdultFriendFinder.com and several other websites, after Landry-Belle’s ex-boyfriend p…
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California, granted plaintiffs’ Video Software Dealers Association (VSDA) and Entertainment Softwa…
The district court for the Southern District of Texas remanded this Internet libel action to state court. Plaintiff had originally filed suit in state court ag…
This case involves the GNU General Public License (GPL), which governs the use of many products sold and distributed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF), incl…
Defendant Thomas Millot worked for Aventis Pharmaceuticals as a systems analyst in the company’s information security department. Among other duties, Millot wa…
This decision granted a motion by intervenor the United States to reconsider a motion to dismiss granted on December 21, 2004, in the United States District Cou…
The California Court of Appeals for the Second Appellate District found that the forum selection clause in defendant EarthLink, Inc.’s (“EarthLink”) membership…
This is a GREAT article by Tim Wu, Columbia Law School, explaining in really readable language the history and problems associated with the patent system that h…