Vacation from Competition

About this Episode

We talk technology and law with Kevin Collins and begin with the law of the horse. The Supreme Court has given us decisions about searching cell phones, tiny antennae and broadcast television, and patents on business methods implemented in software. Molecules, hair-drying calculating machines, DNA, and the meaning of knowledge. It’s an IP festival this week.

This show’s links:

• Kevin Collins’ faculty profile and writing
• Edinburgh’s statue of Adam Smith, though not the photo taken by listener Barbara:
• Riley v. California, the cell phone search case, PDF and HTML
• Frank Easterbrook, Cyberspace and the Law of the Horse
• Lawrence Lessig, The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach
• Christian Turner, The Information Law Crisis
• Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, Inc., the VCR case
• American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo, PDF and HTML
• Mike Masnick, Aereo Fallout Begins: Fox Uses Ruling To Attack Dish's Mobile Streaming Service
• Summary of the history of cable television in the U.S.
• Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, PDF and HTML
• Episode 3: Cut It Off (guest Paul Heald)
• O’Reilly v. Morse, the telegraph case
• Nautilus v. Biosig Instruments, PDF and HTML
• Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics
• Kevin Collins, The Knowledge/Embodiment Dichotomy
• Kevin Collins, Bilski and the Ambiguity of 'An Unpatentable Abstract Idea’
• Michele Boldrin and David Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly
• Michele Boldrin and David Levine, The Case Against Patents