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, [...]

D.J. Girl Talk is one of the budding artists in the music industry today, and his instrument is a laptop. D.J. Girl Talk (hereinafter also referred to as “Girl Talk”), whose real name is Gregg Gillis, “samples,” or uses short clips, from other artists’ songs to create popular dance music. Girl Talk’s songs combine old, [...]

The dawn of peer-to-peer networks and the subsequent rise of file sharing over the Internet have proved to be a considerable threat to the revenues of the Recording Industry Association of America (“RIAA”) and the international music community.  While early music downloading across peer-to-peer networks on the Internet was largely limited “to college students with [...]

Cloud computing, a computer networking model that gives users on-demand access to shared software applications and data storage, [1] is becoming increasingly popular among businesses and individuals. For example, if you use Google’s Gmail [2] for your email and calendaring, or Snapfish [3] for your online photo sharing and storage; or if your business remotely [...]

History has venerated the free transfer of tangible property, and this is partly why students of copyright law can purchase their textbooks “used” at discount prices. [1] If 2L Dave buys Professor William Patry’s copyright treatise at the bookstore, Dave acquires title to the book and can freely transfer it to thrifty 1L Sara the [...]

Mainstream search engines derive their principal source of revenue from advertising. [1] Pay Per Click Advertising (hereinafter “Paid Placement”) is one of the most widely utilized advertising practices, offering content providers the opportunity to create short textual advertisements hyperlinked to their website. [2] Providers bid on keywords associated with their advertisement, [3] and when a [...]

Abstract–“The descriptions in patents are not addressed to the public generally, to lawyers or to judges, but, as [35 U.S.C.] section 112 states, to those skilled in the art to which the invention pertains ***.” [1] This leads to a tenet of patent law, that the meaning of patents and claim terms must be construed [...]

The Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) regulation of drugs and medical devices impacts the everyday lives of Americans in both noticeable and inconspicuous ways. [1] For example, a recall of contaminated food or adulterated pharmaceuticals illustrates how the FDA noticeably affects impacts our everyday lives. [2] Additionally, unobservable consequences springing from the overlap between FDA [...]