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Supreme Court Looking to Resolve Federal Circuit Split In Patent Act §101 Case Image

Supreme Court Looking to Resolve Federal Circuit Split In Patent Act §101 Case

Eric Alan Stone & Catherine Nyarady

The Supreme Court is considering a petition in a §101 case, in which the Federal Circuit split six-to-six in denying rehearing en banc, and in which the Supreme Court recently called for the views of the Solicitor General.

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SCOTUS Narrowly Interprets CFAA to Avoid Criminalizing 'Commonplace Computer Activity' Image

SCOTUS Narrowly Interprets CFAA to Avoid Criminalizing 'Commonplace Computer Activity'

Patricia Kim & Maren Messing

The Court held that only those who obtain information from particular areas of the computer which they are not authorized to access can be said to "exceed authorization," and the statute does not — as the government had argued — cover behavior where a person accesses information which he is authorized to access but does so for improper purposes.

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Supreme Court Narrowly Interprets CFAA to Avoid Criminalizing 'Commonplace Computer Activity' Image

Supreme Court Narrowly Interprets CFAA to Avoid Criminalizing 'Commonplace Computer Activity'

Patricia Kim & Maren Messing

The Court held that only those who obtain information from particular areas of the computer which they are not authorized to access can be said to "exceed authorization."

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U.S. Supreme Court Largely Upholds IPR Proceedings In 'Arthrex' Image

U.S. Supreme Court Largely Upholds IPR Proceedings In 'Arthrex'

Robert E. Browne, Jr. & Ryan C. Deck

In a decision authored by Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court ruled that the statutory scheme appointing PTAB administrative patent judges (APJs) to adjudicate IPRs violates the appointments clause of the U.S. Constitution.

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Fifth Amendment Protection of Cellphone Passwords Remains Murky As Supreme Court Declines to Weigh In Image

Fifth Amendment Protection of Cellphone Passwords Remains Murky As Supreme Court Declines to Weigh In

Robert J. Anello & Richard F. Albert

When law enforcement seeks to compel a subject to provide a passcode to allow them to rummage through a cellphone, courts have not spoken with a unified voice. Some, including New Jersey's highest court, have arrived at the dubious conclusion that requiring an individual to communicate cellphone passcodes to the government does not warrant Fifth Amendment protection. Commentators had hoped that the U.S. Supreme Court would reject that expansive view, however, the Supreme Court declined to wade in, seemingly guaranteeing that continued uncertainty on this critical issue will continue to bedevil criminal practitioners.

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Supreme Court on APIs and Fair Use Image

Supreme Court on APIs and Fair Use

Scott Graham

Google didn't get an answer from the U.S. Supreme Court on whether the Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) it copied from Sun Microsystems were copyrightable. But it got just about everything else it could have hoped for in a decision that ended its 11-year copyright clash with Sun's successor, Oracle.

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Supreme Court Leaves As Many Questions As It Answers In 'Google v. Oracle' Image

Supreme Court Leaves As Many Questions As It Answers In 'Google v. Oracle'

Shaleen Patel

The Court cleared Google of copyright infringement in terminating a 16-year long dispute as to whether Google's Android mobile platform had infringed Oracle's Java programming language's copyright. However, the Court did not answer the question of whether specific components of computer software qualifies for copyright protection at all.

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U.S. Supreme Court Allows Repossessing Secured Lender to Hold Collateral Pending Bankruptcy Stay Image

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Repossessing Secured Lender to Hold Collateral Pending Bankruptcy Stay

Michael L. Cook

A secured lender's "mere retention of property [after a pre-bankruptcy–repossession] does not violate" the automatic stay provision of the Bankruptcy Code, held a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court in City of Chicago v. Fulton.

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Not-So-Incidental Byproducts of 'Kelly'

Gary Stein

Early returns are in, and they indicate that the Supreme Court's decision in the so-called "Bridgegate" case will be an effective tool for pruning the wild overgrowth that has built up around the federal fraud statutes.

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Implications of a More Conservative Supreme Court for White-Collar Practitioners Image

Implications of a More Conservative Supreme Court for White-Collar Practitioners

Robert J. Anello & Richard F. Albert

A review of recent decisions of the Roberts court and of decisions in which Barrett participated during her limited tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit provides some hints regarding how the Supreme Court's future decisions may affect the law relevant to white-collar criminal practice.

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