Bridge Pier 15-1: As featured in The Hill – Patents and Pugilism in the Piney Woods

Patents, which protect and encourage technological and scientific advance, and pugilism, “the sweet science,” seem to have more in common than one might suspect. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. a professional boxer who is recognized as the best boxer of his generation, has quipped, “Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to […]

September 24th, 2015 | Category: Intellectual property, Technology | Comments are closed

Bridge Span 15-6: Trial Trolls

Over the last several decades, trial lawyers have found increasingly “creative” ways to use the legal system to enable themselves to cart off huge portions of legal settlements for themselves. Some of these high profile abuses made headline news, such as the class action exploitations of the 1990s. But actually being required to take a […]

September 24th, 2015 | Category: Intellectual property, Technology | Comments are closed

Bridge Span 14-17: NOW SHOWING! The Hack that Ate the Internet Ecosystem!

Recently Sony Pictures became the most recent victim of hackers. This hack captured American attention in ways that many previous hacks had not despite the seriousness of each of them largely because of the trove of private embarrassing emails, sensitive employee information such as salary negotiations and results, and intellectual property being made public. Attention […]

January 2nd, 2015 | Category: Communications policy, Intellectual property | Comments are closed
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