The Record

Maryna Polataiko & May Cheng
August 26, 2020

Sometimes by choice, but sometimes by fate, artists cede control over their creations. Canadian artist Yarek Waszul lost control over his art when it was memed by a soon-to-be former Republican congressman known for promoting white supremacy.[1]

Jessica L. Roberts, Valerie Gutmann Koch
January 6, 2016

Inconsistencies in the Common Rule and the Law

We are most pleased to announce the publication of the Spring Issue of Volume 15 of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology.

Michael Conklin
September 4, 2020

“The new generations bring with them their new problems which call for new rules, to be patterned, indeed, after the rules of the past, and yet adapted to the needs and justice of another day and hour.”     - Benjamin Cardozo, 1925

Robin Feldman, Vern Norviel
January 8, 2016

Roughly twenty years ago, newspaper headlines were packed with stories about Dolly the sheep — the first cloned mammal. More recently, in 2014, In re Roslin[iii] finally laid the patent claims related to Dolly to rest.  Although Roslin speaks specifically to cloning technologies, the saga highlights an essential problem in the current judicial approach to patenting life science inventions.  We will look first at the history of Roslin and then at its implications for patent law.