Oil States: SCOTUS Preserves IPR Status Quo
On April 24, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a 7-2 majority, decided Oil States Energy Services v. Greene’s Energy Group, holding that Inter Partes Review (IPR)…
Data Privacy and Children
The topic of data privacy and information security is continually highlighted as one of the preeminent challenges of a rapidly advancing society. Issues of privacy and security are often seen…
Post-GDPR: Will the U.S. Implement a Comprehensive Data Privacy Law?
On May 25, 2018, the European Union began to enforce its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which aims to comprehensively protect data privacy by addressing how companies collect, store, and…
Enhancement or Replacement: The Advent of AI and the Future of the Legal Field
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term, used to describe how computers can mimic certain operations of the human mind. Upon hearing the term, many people had vaguely pictured sci-fi…
Star Athletica and the Future of Design Litigation
For decades, the fashion industry has gone without the rigorous copyright protections that other creative industries have enjoyed. That may be rapidly changing. Historically, copyright law has provided little protection…