By: Qingrong Ruan
The Supreme Court decided to grant certiorari to the case ZF Automotive US, Inc. v. Luxshare, Ltd., and the parties will argue in front of the Court tomorrow, March 23. The issue is whether 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) applies to private commercial arbitral tribunals. The statute gives litigants the right to…
By: James M. Cooper
PDF: Games Without Frontiers: The Increasing Importance of Intellectual Property Rights for the People’s Republic of China
For years, the People’s Republic of China was known as the “Pirate Nation” for its outright theft of Western innovation and acquisition of innovation through mandatory technology transfer from Western companies to Chinese partners.…
By: Noelle Henry
TikTok, a video-sharing platform, has quickly become one of the most popular social media platforms to date. In fact, some statistics have shown that, in 2021, TikTok overtook Google as the year’s most popular domain. However, as the platform becomes more popular, it opens its doors to a multitude of legal challenges…
Our third and final Symposium Spotlight features student commentary from three members of the JBIPL Editorial Board.
Symposium Editors Mona Ibadi and Hunter Revord reflect on the process of bringing tomorrow’s event to fruition.
Cara Cook shares what excites her most about the symposium and sheds some light on the symposium’s practicum course taught by JBIPL Advisor, Alan Palmiter.…
The Journal of Business & Intellectual Property Law looks forward to its three panel discussions on Friday, Feb. 25.
Following words of welcome and introduction by 3L Hunter Revord and Professor Alan Palmiter, we will begin our first panel discussion on SME Sustainability Governance. This session will be followed by a panel conversation on the Role…
As the country slowly addresses and learns to control the prevalence and spread of COVID-19, conversations that were put on hold during the pandemic re-emerge with vigor and debate, including sustainability. Our student organization, the Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law (JBIPL), seeks to narrow and focus the issue of sustainability into…
By: Joshua Durham
With an astounding $17.7 billion in sales in 2021 alone, the non-fungible token (“NFT”) has recently undergone a dramatic rise in prominence in the cryptoverse, similar to the “crypto summer” of 2017-18 or the “DeFi summer” of 2020. Although NFTs have been around since 2014, this asset class has only…
By: Teala Volkamer
December 31, 2021—the date that had been looming over the financial world for the last few years—has finally come and gone. It was on this day that one-week and two-month U.S. dollar London Inter-Bank Offered Rates (LIBOR) ceased to be published.
Established in 1984, LIBOR was a daily calculated and…
By: Kathryn Overby
With the emergence of Bitcoin in 2009 and its rapid growth over the last year, supporters and skeptics of cryptocurrency are asking one main question: What is the future of crypto? As of 2021, there were nearly 6,000 types of cryptocurrencies, many of which made headlines when Reddit traders…
By: Ben Suslavich
In 2015, DeepMind, owned by Alphabet, developed Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) AlphaGo to beat the reigning three-time European Champion, Fan Hui, in the board game “Go.” This victory marked a milestone in the development of AI because of the complexity of the game. Within the game, there are more possible board configurations…
