A United States patent owner’s right to exclude others from using, offering for sale, selling, and importing a patented article is subject to the doctrine of patent exhaustion. When ownership of a patented article is transferred by sale, patent exhaustion allows...
This Article hypothesizes that the privacy implications in imposing such surveillance upon rideshare drivers keep rideshare providers like Uber and Lyft from implementing the proposed safety measures despite growing safety concerns and external pressure to do so. The...
Employee covenants not to disclose and not to use confidential information without authorization are widely used to protect employer trade secrets and other confidential information. However, the covenants are not as routinely enforced as many believe. At a minimum,...
Stealing music is legal again. On June 2, 2016, in VMG Salsoul, LLC v. Ciccone, the Ninth Circuit held that a sampled horn hit in Madonna’s “Vogue” was de minimis, infringing on neither the composition nor the recording of its source. The Ninth thus...
Patents are notoriously complex. Unsurprisingly, litigation involving patents shares its subject matter’s innate intricacies. In the face of rising patent filings and increasingly complicated patent infringement lawsuits, Congress created the Patent Pilot...
