by Jonathan Woodard | May 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
On May 14, 2018, the Supreme Court issued a landmark 6-3 ruling in favor of striking down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (“PASPA”), which came into effect in 1992. PASPA was a federal law that barred state-authorized sports gambling on...
by Jason LaCosse | Mar 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
It is fairly well known that the framers of the United States Constitution had a profound respect for intellectual property, and that Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution explicitly establishes copyrights and patents on a federal scope: ...
by Jared Doster | Jun 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
In April of this year, IBM and IPwe[1] announced a project to use Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) to record the ownership of patents on a blockchain run by IBM.[2] This development is meant to make it easier to buy, sell, and license patents. Patent ownership is...
by Francisco Ferreiro | Oct 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Supreme Court returned to session this morning in accordance with a long-held tradition of opening the annual term on the first Monday in October. The recent changes to the Court’s composition, coupled with...
by Francisco Ferreiro | Oct 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
On October 13th, a bill increasing protection of intellectual property, namely, the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2007 (the “PRO-IP Act”) was signed into law by President Bush. The Act increases civil...
by Francisco Ferreiro | Jan 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
For years now the federal judiciary has made documents filed in federal court litigation available through a search platform known as PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records.) While the documents available through PACER are in the public...
