Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal articles

Recent articles from Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal

The necessity of eGovernment.
March 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION For more than 40 years, the proponents of computerization have promised significant benefits from the increased use of information technology (IT). Many could not contain their enthusiasm and faith in the idea that IT would enable improved speed, prospective recording and...

A policy and economic exploration of wireless Carterfone regulation.
March 1, 2009... I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Critics assert that certain practices by wireless service providers--such as handset locking, data bandwidth limitations, and control over features included on handsets--unduly hamper the ability of consumers to access advanced data communications services....

Intangible or embodied information: the non-statutory nature of human genetic material.
March 1, 2009... INTRODUCTION While intellectual property law has not treated it as such, academic discourse has situated human genetic material, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and DNA sequences, within a conceptual framework that characterizes its inherent nature as information. In Who Wrote the Book of...

Carterfone: my story.
March 1, 2009... TELEPHONE ORIGINS Our story begins not forty years ago, when Carterfone was decided, (7) but 132 years ago in 1876--a good year, a vintage year for telephony, and sufficiently so that I chose it as my postal box number in Iowa City. Alexander Graham Bell, better known for the telephone...

Common sense: treating statutory non-obviousness as a novelty issue.
March 1, 2009... TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction I. 35 U.S.C. [section] 103 and the Tyrannical Ghost of "Invention" II. Establishment of the Patent Acts of 1790 and 1793 III. Genesis of a Judicial Standard under the Patent Act of 1793 IV. Ninety Years of Solitude A. Hotchkiss v....