Bridge Span: 15-5 Is An Economically Solid Mobile Future in the Pipeline?

Earlier this year Cisco released its annual Visual Network Index (VNI) Forecast Report: Mobile Data Traffic Update, 2014-2019. The report makes clear that North America, mostly the United States, has been a global leader in mobile broadband development. Case in pont, North America had 39.1 percent of all global 4G connections in 2014 with projections […]

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 […]

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 […]