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Apple vs. Samsung: Is Copying Theft or Innovation?
Does anyone own the rectangle? Should anyone own the rectangle?These questions may sound absurd, but they're at the heart of U.S. patent law's Battle of…
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Hackers claim FBI file 12 million Apple device IDs
A hacking collective on Monday released what it claims are more than one million unique device numbers for Apple products that it allegedly pulled from an FBI a…
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Hackers Leak 1 Million Apple Device IDs
To cap off a summer of devastating corporate data breaches, hackers yesterday posted online what might be the crown jewel of 2012 data dumps: 1 million identifi…
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Use Social Media to Get Into Law School
As with Facebook, if you decide to follow a law school on Twitter, you should make your Twitter profile private unless you use Twitter purely as a professional…
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Twitter’s Free Speech Defender
Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter’s chief lawyer, says that fighting for free speech is more than a good idea. He thinks it is a competitive advantage for his com…
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Drone-Tracking App Gets No Traction From Apple
CIS Affiliate Scholar Ryan Calo is quoted in this All Things Considered piece on Apple's decision to block a drone-tracking app due to objectionable content…
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Apple vs. Samsung
Chris Sprigman, professor of law at the University of Virginia, co-author of The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation,and CIS Affiliate Scholar dis…
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Can You Trademark Your Pot?
Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman, continuing their excellent blogging (soon to be in book form) about markets succeeding in absence of intellectual property, ha…
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License plates scanned at border, data shared with car insurance group
"These documents are illustrative of why individuals often feel so helpless with information that is shared with others or in public—it is very difficult f…
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Who should pay when your robot breaks the law?
Robots are unquestioningly getting more sophisticated by the year, and as a result, are becoming an indelible part of our daily lives. But as we start to increa…
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The Origins of the Investigation into Google Privacy Violations
For the past two months, a fight has been raging in the blogosphere about whether Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer can take credit for spurring the government…
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Google: Selbstlenkende Autos legen 300.000 Meilen unfallfrei zurück
Analyst Bryant Walker Smith of Stanford Law School opines that Google vehicles have to cover 750,000 miles in order to gain the necessary trust with governmenta…