Articles by Elizabeth Shen
Elizabeth Shen is a 3L at WCL with an interest in IP Law, Energy Law, and Administrative Law. Elizabeth is a Senior Blogger for the IP Brief. Currently, she is a student attorney in the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic. Last term she worked at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in its Office of the General Counsel, and she has also been a Dean's Fellow for the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property. Elizabeth earned a B.A. in Legal Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is originally from Northern California (Go Bears!) and has been in Washington, D.C. since 2007. In her spare time, Elizabeth enjoys taking food photography and dancing with reckless abandon.
Edgenet, Inc. v. Home Depot was decided on September 2, 2011. The Seventh Circuit had little trouble with this decision for Home Depot but this case is one of many that act as a good reminder to act carefully when drafting those contracts.
This past week, Nike released 1,500 pairs of the shoes Marty McFly wore in ‘Back to the Future II’ for an eBay charity auction benefitting the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. Often, nostalgia products such as these are purely for collectors and obsessed fans to drool over, but in this case, Marty’s kicks has real-world implications for a lot of people who could use the technology.
CNN sues Haiti Live Networks over its use of “HLN” mark, which CNN has been using since 2008. CNN claims that the use is willful, intentional, and deliberate, and is asking for triple the normal damages against the small Haitian news service.
Amazon recently launched its new web-based storage and music services, Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player. Early reports indicated that Amazon had not and was not planning on obtaining licenses from record companies for music content. This choice may prove legally unsound, but courts have yet to fully define the legal landscape for cloud-based services.
Twitter is an exemplary model for a lot of social media. Since the publication of the first tweet in 2006, the company has grown to over 175 million registered, users averaging 95 million tweets a …
The Senate voted 87 to 13 on Thursday to table Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s amendment to the America Invents Act. The Act, also referred to as the Patent Reform Act of 2011, proposes to change the …
On February 8, 2011, a class action lawsuit was filed against Coach, Inc. and Coach Services, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle. Gina Kim, a former …
