Today, 28 law professors, economists, and political scientists from across the nation submitted a letter to Congress expressing serious concerns about the recent push for sweeping changes to patent litigation […]
[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] Federal Circuit Brings Some Clarity and Sanity Back to Patent Eligibility Doctrine
By Adam Mossoff and Kevin Madigan Following the Supreme Court’s four decisions on patent eligibility for inventions under § 101 of the Patent Act, there has been much disruption and […]
[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] Copyright Policy Should Be Based On Facts, Not Rhetoric
Here’s a brief excerpt of a post by Kevin Madigan & Devlin Hartline that was published on IPWatchdog. After nearly twenty years with the DMCA, the Copyright Office has launched […]
[Archived Post] Separating Fact from Fiction in the Notice and Takedown Debate
By Kevin Madigan & Devlin Hartline With the Copyright Office undertaking a new study to evaluate the impact and effectiveness of the Section 512 safe harbor provisions, there’s been much […]
[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] Middle Class Artists Want a DMCA System That Works
The following guest post comes from Rebecca Cusey, a second year law student at George Mason University School of Law. By Rebecca Cusey Mason Law’s Arts & Entertainment Advocacy Clinic […]
[Archived Post] Copyright Scholars: Courts Have Disrupted the DMCA’s Careful Balance of Interests
By Devlin Hartline The U.S. Copyright Office is conducting a study of the safe harbors under Section 512 of the DMCA, and comments are due today. Working with Victor Morales […]
[Archived Post] Changes to Patent Venue Rules Risk Collateral Damage to Innovators
By Devlin Hartline Advocates for changing the patent venue rules, which dictate where patent owners can sue alleged infringers, have been arguing that their remedy will cure the supposed disease […]