Singularity Law

After a year of planning, and encountering a few “bumps” along the way, I am pleased to announce that my law school, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, will begin a summer abroad program in International Information Technology Law in London in 2009. The program will be open to law students worldwide, although we expect the [...]

In 1998 the Federal Circuit decided in State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc., 149 F.3d 1368 (Fed. Cir. 1998), that there was nothing in patent law that prevented business methods from being patented, as long as they met all of the requirements for patentability. Now, ten years later, the Federal [...]

In my last post, I noted that the Internet is incredibly vulnerable to outages at various points where there is little or no redundancy. A recent event seems to indicate that global Internet vulnerability is more serious than I thought. According to news reports, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told Internet service providers within the country [...]

Two underwater telephone cables were apparently cut by a ship’s anchor near the port of Alexandria in Egypt on January 30th. According to published reports, Egypt has suffered disruption of 70% of its nationwide Internet network, while India has suffered a 60% disruption. The problem has had a significant impact on European and U.S. east [...]