An information technology project “Apps.Gov” was announced by the Federal Government on September 15th, 2009. Google, Inc. is the principal contractor and is building a special data center facility for the project. In December, Google discovered a breach at another one of it data centers, which led to public concerns about cyber security and even …
Although recent decades have seen a boom in the development of technologies that manipulate the human reproductive cycle, many states have been slow to adopt laws regulating third-party reproduction. While a handful of states recognize the validity of gestational surrogacy contracts, others find such contracts to be against public policy. Most states’ statutes, however, are …
Several metered-usage pricing schemes for broadband Internet are struggling or have already failed, with each experiencing large amounts of end-user backlash. The problem with price experiments is the severity of user backlash in response to even minimal tests of new schemes. Users often perceive pricing tests as threats to low-cost broadband, but Internet Service Providers …
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. v. FCC (1997) set the standard of review for challenges by cable television operators who claim that federal laws such as the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 violate their First Amendment right to free speech. That standard, intermediate scrutiny, holds that a content-neutral law will be upheld …
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Mobile analytics software companies must walk a fine line between providing useful data to their customers—handset manufacturers and wireless network operators—and protecting the privacy rights of consumers whose data they collect. In late 2011, a relatively unknown Connecticut-based systems administrator named Trevor Eckhart revealed that mobile analytics software developer, Carrier IQ, may have crossed this …
Thousands of people die every year in the United States waiting for a matching bone marrow donor. This is attributed to a shortage of willing donors. One solution that has been suggested is to incentivize donation with compensation. However, since 1984, the National Organ Transplant Act has made it illegal for anyone in the United …
The Supreme Court’s recent Stern v. Marshall decision both rekindled and revived the oft-overlooked public rights exception. In light of this development, this Article seeks to argue that patents, where subject to final, binding decisions, are unconstitutionally before Article I tribunals. Such tribunals include, for example, the Bankruptcy Court, as well as the newly-created Patent …
In 2009, President Barack Obama allocated $8 billion in stimulus funding for high-speed rail projects across the United States. One year later, in 2010, an additional $2.5 billion was distributed to corridors with High-Speed Rail Projects. Even though the most recent congressional budget eliminated high-speed rail funding, many corridors are working diligently to break ground …
This Article provides a basic understanding of the law of inventorship and a practical approach to handling inventorship review when patenting. Considerations of inventorship under the present case law and under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, signed into law on September 16, 2011, are also presented.
