Tuesday, October 22, 2013, by Daniel Choo When the framers of the Constitution explicitly gave Congress the power to establish a national patent system, there is little doubt that they did so with every bit of good intention. After all, the importance of providing inventors with temporary exclusionary rights over their inventions had been recognized …
Tuesday, October 22, 2013, by Amanda Colley To prey on a community’s fears, almost nothing garners more attention than the threat of sexual predators who prey on children—especially predators that lurk anonymously behind computer screens. Back in the earlier days of the Internet, when MySpace was still a viable social media contender, NBC presented a …
Tuesday, October 15, 2013, by Will Blackton Last week, the FBI seized about $80 million worth of Bitcoin from Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind Silk Road, the anonymous online marketplace for guns and drugs. This most recent chapter of the ongoing saga of Bitcoin in the courts heightens the concern of Bitcoin users of increasing …
Tuesday, October 15, 2013, by Kerry Boehm In our increasingly interconnected and technology-dependent world, the majority of the population routinely uses multiple technological devices in a given day — from a smartphone to a tablet to an actual computer. Have you ever noticed that the same ads seem to follow you from to device to …
Thursday, October 10, 2013, by Christina Wheaton At the end of last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued final guidelines regarding its regulation of mobile medical applications, or “apps.” Mobile medical apps are often targeted at individuals seeking to maintain a healthy lifestyle, as well as those seeking to monitor a particular diagnosis. …
Thursday, October 10, 2013, by Samuel Williams How does the Healthcare exchange work? What is the income cap for Medicaid so that you would need to purchase at least some insurance? Explain the different tiers of available healthcare plans. Do these give you better quality care based on how much you spend? Who are the …
Tuesday, October 8, 2013, by Llogan Walters In the past, even in the most ancient years of scientific research, toxicology and effectiveness testing for substances and procedures to be used on humans was conducted using animals as research subjects. But it is often suggested that the institution is more trouble than it is worth. One …
Tuesday, October 8, 2013, by Matthew Viva At the end of last month Electronic Arts, the largest video game developer in the world, announced that they would be putting one of their most successful game franchises on hold—maybe forever. For the first time since 1997 (1993, if you count EA’s Bill Walsh series) gamers will …
Tuesday, October 8, 2013, by Matthew Spangler Abstract On August 9, 2013, the President signed into law the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013, intended by the House to “facilitate[] the development of new hydropower resources in the United States by streamlining the federal licensing requirements for small hydropower projects and qualifying conduit hydropower facilities.” …
Thursday, October 3, 2013, by Benjamin Szany If you follow @Queen_UK, @notzuckerberg, or @FauxJohnMadden on the popular social media website Twitter, take comfort in a ruling from the Oregon District Court which protected users of those parody accounts from litigation under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA, 18 USC § 1030). In an opinion …
