As some of you may know, I am very much interested in patent law and internet/computer law, especially in areas where they intersect. This interest is in fact what led me to decide, approximately two years ago, to apply to law school in the first place. I picked SMU because of it’s strength and reputation in this field.
I am aware, however, that intellectual property (IP) is a vast, nebulous field that covers a lot of different things, and when I tell people I want to do “patent law” or “intellectual property law” I could be talking about approximately 64,001* different things, from entertainment law (book copyrights, movie rights, etc.) to software patents.
I thought it would be interesting, then, to every once and a while do a brief post on some of the cases/issues I’m following and why I think they’re important, and what, as a Computer Science major, Political Science minor, and general geek with (for the time being) no legal training, I think about them.
If you’re interested, I’ve pulled a few things off Slashdot that caught my attention. They’re under the cut.
*This number brought to you by the US Department for Impressive Fake Facts and Figures (US DIFF), Hyperbole Division.
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