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Author Archives: Thomas Carey

Challenges to the rights of inventors beaten back

The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued three opinions involving intellectual property law. One deals with the extent to which the Bayh-Dole Act controls patent ownership, while the other two address the evidentiary standards needed to prove patent invalidity and inducement ...

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DMCA and unauthorized access to software, data

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it unlawful to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected by copyright, or to traffic in devices designed to accomplish that end. See 17 USC §§1201, 1202.

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