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By Emily Liu • January 22nd, 2012

Over the past three years, students in Columbia Law School’s Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic have teamed up with the judges at New York City’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings and the Legal Aid Society to create a website to help people who had their cars confiscated during an arrest get their cars [...]

Online shopping sites celebrated their second annual Cyber Monday, with more than 75% of online retailers offering some sort of discount for making purchases on the Monday after Thanksgiving. This year’s Cyber Monday comes after shoppers set a record for online spending – racking up $816 million — on Black Friday. The next status conference [...]

This week, Aurobindo Pharma became the first major generic drugmaker to join a patent pool designed to increase accessibility of AIDS/HIV treatments to the poor around the world. Lawmakers from across the country have written the Obama Administration in hopes of housing new satellite branches of the Patent and Trademark Office in their respective districts. [...]

Tech visionary Steve Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011. His name was listed on 317 Apple patents, including the Macintosh, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. Sprint is urging the FCC to quickly hold hearings to rule on whether the transfer of spectrum licenses from T-Mobile to AT&T serves the public interest. AT&T’s [...]

Privacy rights advocates filed a letter with the FTC, asking the commission to investigate Facebook’s user tracking after log off and whether Facebook’s new Ticker and Timeline feature constitute unfair or deceptive business practices.   The United States signs the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement this Saturday, an accord targeting intellectual property piracy. Some academics argue, however, that [...]

Inequitable Conduct and the Duty to Disclose 37 CFR 1.56 (Rule 56) establishes that there is a duty to disclose information to the Patent Office. The regulation states that “[e]ach individual associated with the filing and prosecution of a patent application has a duty of candor and good faith in dealing with the Office, which [...]

As eBooks proliferate, traditional print publishers are challenged to adapt to the changing market.  The latest obstacle involves the role of eBooks in libraries.  HarperCollins, one of six major U.S. publishers, recently announced changes in its eBook policy for libraries.  The new policy, reported by Library Journal, limits each copy of an eBook to twenty-six [...]

Health law is largely a matter of state law, however, many aspects are common to all jurisdictions. Licensing by state medical boards, physician malpractice liability, hospital liability, and even nurse liability. One area has seemed to slip through the cracks however: technician liability. A recent article documenting the “malpractice” of radiology technicians underscored the dangers [...]

Electronic Medical Records provide many convenient features to the medical community: ease of record-keeping and information sharing among various providers, storage of large amounts of data, as well as a better accountability regarding past occurrences. Therefore, despite its many potential drawbacks and unresolved risks, Electronic Medical Records will likely replace paper-based records in the next ten to fifteen years.

Individuals increasingly rely on sophisticated technologies to perform tasks: automobiles to move, calculators to calculate, social networks to socialize.  In recent years, however, technology has mechanized some very human affairs, with very human costs. The complexity of the technologies, as well as the vast number of parties involved in the creation and use of the technologies [...]