The first round of talks gave 15 minutes for presentation and 15 for Q&A. The first presenters were Gaia Bernstein, Tun-Jen Chiang and Carliss Balwin. 1. For Bernstein, user adoption problems are proportional to the novelty and complexity of the hardware in question, and referencing Benjamin, should be resolved with the formation of an office [...]

The Technology Adoption Problem Established corporations (hereafter firms) make decisions about when and which technologies to adopt to increase revenues and stay competitive. The types of technologies they adopt are diverse, from information technology infrastructures that facilitate communication and customer service to manufacturing equipment that increase output and precision. The process a firm undergoes in [...]

Josef Solterer, writing in 1950, quipped that “If there were no entrepreneurs at all, i.e. all acts are merely repetitive, then all durable goods could be replaced only” (Solterer, 1950).[i] His statement cuts at the heart of the purpose and value of the entrepreneur: to propel an otherwise stagnant society towards progress, improvement, and, generally, [...]

Bilski v. Kappos is a 2010 Supreme Court case concerning process patents, as allowed under section 101 and defined under section 100 as a “process, art or method, include[ing] a new use of a known process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or material.” At issue in Bilski is whether patent protection should be granted over [...]

          This article attempts to describe the contemporary landscape of University Technology Transfer. Part 1 presents a brief history of the field. Part 2 summarizes the Litan-Mitchell model of university tech transfer and licensing optimization. Part 3 augments this optimization model. Part 4 supplements the licensing gap with entrepreneurial considerations. I.                    University Technology Transfer: An [...]

Introduction In his “Taking the Utilitarian Basis for Patent Law Seriously” Professor Olson suggests we reevaluate the current US patent regime with an eye for economic efficiency.[1] Olson points out that granting a patent is only efficient when the social benefits flowing not from the invention, but the patent itself, outweigh the deadweight loss to [...]

E-PARASITES Bill: ‘The End Of The Internet As We Know It’ | Techdirt. New Video On How PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet | Techdirt.  

Aging ‘Privacy’ Law Leaves Cloud E-Mail Open to Cops. via Wired. Microsoft collects license fees on 50% of Android devices, tells Google to “wake up” via Arstechnica.

Google Brings Books, Authors Guild Brings Lawsuits (via SingularityHub) ITC to investigate Apple based on HTC’s Google-Fueled Patent Complaint (via Techcrunch) Details Emerging On Stingray Technology, Allowing Feds To Locate People By Pretending To Be Cell Towers (via Techdirt) Once Again, Amazon’s One-Click Patent Is Found Not To Infringe On Cordance’s One-Click Patents (via Techdirt) [...]

In the annals of Internet attacks, this is likely to go down as a moment of reckoning. For activists, it shows the downside of using online tools to organize: an opponent with enough determination and resources just might find a way to track their every move.It also calls into question the reliability of a basic [...]

Are you interested in Intellectual Property and Technology Law? Do you want to meet some fellow BC Law students with similar interests? Do you want to get some experience writing about developments in Intellectual Property and Technology Law?   If so, sign up to blog for the BC IPTF blog! It’s a great organization to [...]

On Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected a patent on a method of detecting credit card fraud. The result was unsurprising, but the court broke new ground with its reasoning. Citing the Supreme Court’s famous rulings against software patents from the 1970s, the court ruled that you can’t patent [...]

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), who tries to estimate the cost to taxpayers of all new laws proposed by Congress has put out its report on the PROTECT IP Act, noting that it will cost taxpayers $47 million (pdf) from 2012 to 2016. Specifically, the CBO notes that the Justice Department would have to go [...]

Google announced plans to acquire Motorola Mobility this morning for $12.5 billion in cash. One of Google’s biggest motivations for the purchase is to bolster its patent profile, which has been under relentless attack by companies including Microsoft and Apple. With the purchase, Google will gain control of more than 17,000 mobile-related patents worldwide, with [...]

The patent system has received a lot of attention recently, and not the good kind. Recent pieces have called patent enforcers “modern-day robber barons” and their investors “suckers.” They vilify those who don’t make anything and use patents to sue those that do – patent “trolls” – and leave the reader wondering: how can this [...]

IP News from around the internet: Smartphones store too much private data about their owners. This is what happens when programmers are not financially motivated to make their apps as secure as possible– via ViaForensics Using Florida’s “liberal public records laws,” some companies have managed to capitalize on individuals’ desires to keep mugshots off of [...]

Image via idownloadblog Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves … a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries via When Patents Attack! | This American Life. [...]

Welcome to the Boston College Law School IPTF Blog.   This blog will feature posts by students and alumni of Boston College Law School concerning the developments in the Intellectual Property and Technology field. Some of the posts will merely be news, and some will feature in-depth analysis on developments in the field. We hope [...]