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5 Apps to Help Get You Through the Winter Blues
By Casey C. Sullivan, Esq. | Last updated on
Another nor'easter is bearing down on New York. It's a balmy 37 degrees in Chicago. Even Los Angeles was hit by cold and rain yesterday, their equivalent of a...
Uber Settles FTC Case for $20 Million
By William Vogeler, Esq. | Last updated on
The FTC filed its complaint in federal court on Thursday, and Uber settled the case before the court closed the same day. That's about as fast as Uber gets, no...
'Inventor of Email' Cites Copyright Registration as Proof
By Casey C. Sullivan, Esq. | Last updated on
Shiva Ayyadurai wants to be known as the man who created email -- so much so that he once trademarked the phrase "the inventor of email." Ayyadurai says...
Who Gets to Patent Inventions Made by AI?
By Casey C. Sullivan, Esq. | Last updated on
If you give 1,000 monkeys 1,000 typewriters, sooner or later they'll get around to writing "Hamlet" -- or so the theory goes. But what if those primates do a...
Zuckerberg Testifies in Virtual Reality Case
By William Vogeler, Esq. | Last updated on
If virtual reality cameras would have been permitted in the courtroom, Mark Zuckerberg might have appeared to be spinning on the witness stand. The Facebook...
EU Considers If Future Robots Have Legal Rights
By William Vogeler, Esq. | Last updated on
Should a robot be granted legal status with rights like human beings? I know I saw a movie about this somewhere, but now it's a real-life question in the...