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"Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina who advises the NHTSA on autonomous car law, thinks drivers are within their legal ri…
"“For years I’ve warned about a potential automated driving patent war that could rival the notorious smartphone patent war,” says Bryant Walker-Smith, a l…
"Riana Pfefferkorn, one of the lawyers who first found this judicial opinion and publicized it on Twitter, told Ars that part of the problem with these typ…
The chief political aide of Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front party and candidate for the French presidential election, has just be…
"Since Waymo is alleging intentional patent infringement (among other claims), if it prevails, it could win triple damages, as well as other relief, said B…
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These comments were prepared and submitted in response to the U.S. Copyright Office's November 8, 2016 Notice of Inquiry requesting additional pub…
"In an opinion found by Stanford cryptography fellow Riana Pfefferkorn, from magistrate Judge M. David Weisman (published below), the court denied the gove…
"Systems like those Ford is researching will become far more vital as auto companies develop autonomous cars, said Bryant Walker Smith, an engineering prof…
"The former PCAP member who did respond, Stanford privacy scholar Omer Tene, told The Intercept that he was unaware of “any specific relationship, agreemen…
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Though scholars have identified the expanding scope of First Amendment speech doctrine, little attention has been paid to the theoretical transformati…
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina, says that federal and state laws probably don’t pose much of a barrier to those…