Written By: Olivia Reinoso Imagine walking into a store, reaching for a shirt that catches your eye, and flipping the tag to find the price when, instead, you see a picture of the worker who made it—her tired eyes stare… Continue Reading
Written By: Batseba Rufael In the U.S., about 66 percent of adults take prescription medication.[1] There has been a consistent increase of prescription drug prices over the years. This increase does not only affect newly invented drugs but also drugs… Continue Reading
Written By: Frances Asha As society, including younger generations, becomes increasingly more cognizant of instances of cultural appropriation and view the practice with disdain, companies and researchers can get their reputations into hot water by utilizing copyright, patent, and trademark… Continue Reading
Written By: Alice Chuang Life in 2020 has been heavily been dictated by the novel COVID-19 virus. With alarming infection and fatality rates has been changing what is considered the “new normal.”[1] Vaccine research and development around the world has… Continue Reading
Written By: Andrew Campbell Lee, Ph.D. Practitioners must consider both the prior art [1] and the language [2] used in claims when preparing a patent application. Patentable subject matter includes “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter,… Continue Reading
Written By: Sophia Iams In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, infecting over 193,000 individuals and contributing to over 7,800 deaths [1], the Chinese government is aggressively trying to stop the transmission of the disease and treat those infected.… Continue Reading
Written By: Aaron Shaw The genetic engineering tool, CRISPR-Cas9, represents the center of an ongoing patent dispute between the University of California, Berkeley, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. CRISPR is a protein-based mechanism rendered from bacteria that… Continue Reading
Written By: Gabriela Vasquez Initially, virtual reality was confined to a two-dimensional screen. [1] Over the years, virtual reality has surpassed its capacity, moving in a 3-dimensional direction with the ability to interact with humans and other physical objects. This… Continue Reading
Written By: Ashley Kim Today, it is questionable whether current patent infringement remedies are adequately furthering the goal of patent law – that is, “[promoting] the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and… Continue Reading
Written By: Elyse Gottschalk If you Google the top 10 life-improving inventions of the 2000s, unsurprisingly, the top of the list is “mobile broadband”, the technology that brought live streaming to “cat video” lovers across the globe. [1] While Apple… Continue Reading
