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John Travolta is confused. He is confused in the doll aisle of a toy store, confused about an answer on the TV show Jeopardy!, and even confused and alone inside the late-night diner in Edward Hopper’s famous painting, “Nighthawks.” But these are not promotional trailers for a new HBO Max series or Netflix original movie. Looking around various locations in his black suit and bolo tie, John Travolta is the subject of a form of shared cultural consciousness prevalent across the
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Campbell Law School's Intellectual Property Law Society hosted a Patent Law Symposium on April 10, 2015.
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The scanner-patent troll MPHJ Technologies takes its claims to court and seeks sanctions against the government.
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Each time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes faced an especially challenging problem, he called it “a five pipe problem.” By this, Holmes meant that finding a solution was difficult enough to keep him up through the night, enough time for him to fill his pipe with tobacco five times. The legal problems that arose before Sherlock Holmes was added to the public domain in the United States are complicated enough to be dubbed “five pipe problems.” Over 125
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BY: KRISTOPHER HAWKINS, Guest Contributor Editor’s Note: The Campbell Law Observer has partnered with Judge Paul C. Ridgeway, Resident Superior Court Judge of the 10th Judicial District, to provide students from his International Business Litigation and Arbitration seminar the opportunity to have their research papers published with the CLO. The following article is one of many guest contributions from Campbell Law students to be published over the next two weeks. The advent of
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Editor’s Note: The Campbell Law Observer has partnered with Judge Paul C. Ridgeway, Resident Superior Court Judge of the 10th Judicial District, to provide students from his International Business Litigation and Arbitration seminar the opportunity to have their research papers published with the CLO. The following article is one of many guest contributions from Campbell Law students to be published over the next two weeks. Imagine a local software corporation in North Carolina is
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The Innovation Act introduces a number of measures that level the playing field between patent trolls and defendants.
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After experiencing the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, photojournalist Daniel Morel posted several photos of the devastation to his Twitter page in hopes of selling them to news agencies and other potential buyers. Instead, Lisandro Suero, a resident of the Dominican Republic, copied the photos and sold them to Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Getty Images as his own, in violation of Twitter’s copyright policy. The photos eventually surfaced in news sources such as The Washington Post, leading
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A string of lawsuits surrounding the internet radio leader calls into question the integrity and objectives of Pandora’s conventional radio station purchase.
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