On August 14, 2017, the Regulatory Transparency Project of the Federalist Society published a new white paper, Crippling the Innovation Economy: Regulatory Overreach at the Patent Office. This white paper […]
[Archived Post] Letter on FCC Set-Top Box Regulation Once Again Confuses the Issue
By Kevin Madigan Last week, a group of law professors wrote a letter to the acting Librarian of Congress in which they claim that the current FCC proposal to regulate […]
[Archived Post] IP Scholars to FCC: It’s Not About “The Box”
This past April, we joined other IP scholars in explaining how the FCC’s proposed set-top box rules would undermine the property rights of creators and copyright owners. In reply comments […]
[Archived Post] FCC’s Extreme Proposal Threatens the Livelihood of Creators
By Matthew Barblan & Kevin Madigan Earlier this year, the FCC proposed a new regulatory scheme ostensibly designed to improve the market for pay-TV set-top boxes. Chairman Wheeler claimed that […]
[Archived Post] Acknowledging the Limitations of the FTC’s PAE Study
The FTC’s long-awaited case study of patent assertion entities (PAEs) is expected to be released this spring. Using its subpoena power under Section 6(b) to gather information from a handful […]
[Archived Post] A New Librarian of Congress and a New Copyright Office
By Sandra Aistars With the Senate considering the confirmation of Dr. Carla Hayden as the next Librarian of Congress, I have joined thirteen other intellectual property law professors in an […]
[Archived Post] #AliceStorm: When It Rains, It Pours…
The following guest post from Robert R. Sachs, Partner at Fenwick & West LLP, first appeared on the Bilski Blog, and it is reposted here with permission. By Robert R. […]
[Archived Post] Principles and Priorities to Guide Congress’s Ongoing Copyright Review
By Devlin Hartline Last week, CPIP published a new white paper, Copyright Principles and Priorities to Foster a Creative Digital Marketplace, by Sandra Aistars, Mark Schultz, and myself, which draws […]
[Archived Post] #AliceStorm for Halloween: Was it a Trick or a Treat?
The following guest post from Robert R. Sachs, Partner at Fenwick & West LLP, first appeared on the Bilski Blog, and it is reposted here with permission. By Robert R. […]
[Archived Post] Overview of Comments on the USPTO’s July 2015 Update to the Interim Examination Guidance
The following guest post from Robert R. Sachs, Partner at Fenwick & West LLP, first appeared on the Bilski Blog, and it is reposted here with permission. By Robert R. […]