In light of a recent FCC proposal to abrogate the exclusivity rules which prevent a cable provider from reproducing a program where a broadcaster has obtained exclusive rights, this post will discuss the history and justification of these rules. A.…
In following with the recent trend, earlier this week yet another one of the previously prominent Intellectual Property Boutiques, Kenyon & Kenyon moved its practice and joined Andrews Kurth, a full-service Texas based firm.[i] As a current law student hoping…
The Internet has become an expansive virtual world users around the world are exploring, annexing, and defining, just as they always have always done in terra firma, or the natural physical world. With the click of a mouse, anybody has…
((“Copyright is for losers©™” is attributed to Banksy)) To exist in intellectual property’s “negative space” is characterized as existing in “the territory where IP law might regulate, but (perhaps for accidental or nonessential reasons) does not.” ((Kal Raustiala and Christopher…
Author: Sam Castree, III, Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D. Class of 2013 (For a more extensive treatment of this and related issues see A Problem Old as Pong: Video Game Cloning and the Proper Bounds of Video Game Copyrights) Advances in technology…
We are so proud to congratulate our Volume 31 Editor-in-Chief, Sarah L. Farhadian, on having her Note cited by Callmann on Unfair Competition, Trademarks and Monopolies (4th Edition). Sarah’s Note, Stealing Bacardi’s Thunder: Why the Patent and Trademark Office Should Stop Registering…
Amie Gibbons, Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D. 2013 Consider these scenarios: A man on the run from a corporation who has the rights to a specific gene line in his body, and the willingness to take samples from him by…
Author: Paul G. Anderson, Associate, Ritholz Levy Sanders Chidekel & Fields LLP An action for declaratory judgment provides a party with the unique opportunity to obtain a preventative, binding ruling on “a case of actual controversy.” Crucially, if a declaratory…
