Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley and Sons: Jet Lag and the First Sale Doctrine
The Supreme Court recently handed down its decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, a copyright exhaustion case concerning the sale of “gray-market” works published outside the United States and...
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Aereo’s Next Chapter in Bankruptcy
On the heels of a business-crushing Supreme Court decision, television-streaming giant Aereo announced in November that it would be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Founded in 2012 with nearly $100...
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Google v. Vederi: Street View Aims For the Supreme Court
Are you curious to know what a certain address or location looks like in frontal or perspective view? So are the one billion regular users of Google’s Street View, a component of Google Maps that...
View ArticleEmojis as Evidence: Recent Developments
How should digital evidence be presented to juries? Should emoticons and other symbols be translated into words and read aloud by prosecutors and defense attorneys? As their popularity has grown with...
View ArticleBack Under the Bridge: Judge Rules Against Prolific Patent Troll
In eDekka LLC v. 3Balls.com Inc., Eastern District of Texas Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled against plaintiff eDekka’s patent infringement claims and invalidated the patent in question. This jurisdiction...
View ArticleThe Consequences of Violating Open Source Licenses
By: Jaideep Reddy “These days a developer will do a Google search, find five open-source products that fit his[/her] need and the next thing you know one of them is in a product.” – Phil Robb. Because...
View ArticleUS v. EU: Pay-for-delay Settlements
Reverse payment settlements exist at the intersection among antitrust, patent and healthcare laws. Also known as pay-for-delay agreements, these occur when a patent holder agrees to pay a potential...
View ArticleAlice, Abstract Ideas, and Software-Related Patents
Those “who sweat in the clammy gymnasia of patent law” were impatiently waiting for the Alice decision. They thought they would get an answer to the question of whether or not software is patentable....
View ArticleApple v. FBI: Privacy Issues Related to San Bernardino Shooters
Apple is opposing an order by a federal magistrate judge to help the FBI unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the shooters of the San Bernardino attacks. A judge ordered the tech giant to break into...
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The BTLJ Podcast: This Week in Tech Law – October 15th, 2020
Hosts Ibrahim Hinds ’23 and Kurt Fredrickson ’23 cover recent criminal charges against the founders of one of the world’s largest BitCoin exchanges, the House’s antitrust report on Facebook, Google,...
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