Under 35 U.S.C. § 101, only a “new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof” is patent eligible. Long-recognized judicial exceptions to § 101 bar patenting laws of nature, natural...
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...
