By Jeffery Atik The recent experience of forks and potential forks in response to the various Segregated Witness and blocksize increase proposals highlights the nature of governance on the B...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2018/05/hard-forks-and-governance-on-bitcoin.html
BY JEFFERY ATIK In the development of blockchain applications, we now find ourselves in an exhilarating rush of proofs of concept, of mock-ups and test-beds. Real implementation of major appli...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2017/06/innovation-and-keeping-old-ways-on.html
ChromaWay is a major innovator in blockchain technology, headquartered in Stockholm. ChromaWay is developing - together with other collaborators - a blockchain-based solution for the Swedish L...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2017/06/trust-on-blockchain-chromaways-swedish.html
by Jeffery Atik There continues to be a flow of academic writing and field studies concerning technology transfer, but there are no great breakthroughs to report. That said, there is an observa...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2015/10/new-directions-in-technology-transfer.html
This is the third and final comment in a series on the Second Circuit’s June 30 decision in the Apple e-books antitrust case. The Second Circuit's decision in the Apple e-book case contains ...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2015/09/apple-loses-appeal-in-e-book-antitrust.html
This is the second in a series of comments on the Second Circuit’s June 30 decision in the Apple e-books antitrust case. The Second Circuit has upheld a federal trial court finding that Apple...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2015/08/apple-loses-appeal-in-e-books-antitrust_27.html
This is the first of a series of comments on the Second Circuit’s June 30, 2015 decision in the Apple e-books antitrust case. Through a series of spectacular commercial moves, Apple succeede...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2015/08/apple-loses-appeal-in-e-books-antitrust.html
Flash Boys is the latest from Michael Lewis; it's a pointedly literary business book featuring arresting characters, punchy (though not always credible) dialogue, and a comforting good versus ev...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2014/10/flash-boys-wall-street-revolt-by.html
In this note, we prepare for our coverage of the Trinko case with an introduction to the essential facilities doctrine. Let’s start will two fairly clear propositions about patent and copyrig...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2014/05/licensing-notes-introduction-to.html
It would not be difficult to convince the various constituencies arrayed against the expansion of intellectual property rights to support the removal of the IP chapter from the projected U.S.-Eur...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2014/04/ttips-ip-chapter-nothing-to-be-gained_28.html
President Obama announced in his 2013 State of the Union address that negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a United States-European Union free trade agreeme...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2014/04/ttips-ip-chapter-nothing-to-be-gained.html
Stealing a trade secret (reprehensible though this may be) has generally not attracted federal criminal liability. Yet in the recent prosecution of David Nosal, the Justice Department applied a c...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2014/01/federal-conviction-for-trade-secret.html
I saw a caravan once, in Afghanistan. It was a little caravan: three camels and a small family. But it was enough of a caravan to invoke in my imagination the Old Silk Road. I wondered (until a F...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2014/01/the-electronic-silk-road-how-web-binds.html
We each deploy an array of identities in forming our social selves -- we can be, say, a Methodist and also a Southerner, and black and a civil engineer and gay. And all of this and still an Ameri...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2013/12/the-sovereign-citizen-denaturalization.html
The federal government -- and its contractors and subcontractors -- have long enjoyed an effective ‘compulsory license’ for the use or manufacture of inventions covered by a U.S. patent. 28 U...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2013/12/extraterritorial-government-use-of-us.html
Orly Lobel is not writing about love in Talent Wants to be Free, but she’s not terribly far off topic, for she writes about the suffocating attachments firms can form with their employees. The ...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2013/12/talent-wants-to-be-free-why-we-should.html
In Hunting Season, Mirta Ojito tells the horrific story of the killing of an Ecuadorian immigrant, Marcelo Lucero, in Patchogue, Long Island at the hands of a group of brutish teenagers. It is a...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2013/11/hunting-season-immigration-and-murder.html
The readers of business books are a fragile lot. They’re uncertain of their talents and the scope of human possibility, confused as to direction (they’re largely not one-percenters). Their ...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2013/11/post-financial-crisis-spiritual-reading.html
Brad Stone’s treatment, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, is the talk of the business press this week. Jeff Bezos’ wife, MacKenzie Bezos, posted a ‘one-star review’...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2013/11/jeff-bezos-and-age-of-amazon-by-brad.html
This is the first of a series of reflections on the social meaning of the Euro. Investigations of the social character of money often feature an analogy to language. Like words, money forms int...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2013/11/euro-money-as-euro-language.html
Making It Happen is the story of the crash of RBS (née Royal Bank of Scotland), momentarily Britain’s largest bank. Iain Martin tells a peculiarly Scottish story in Making It Happen (Martin h...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2013/10/making-it-happen-fred-goodwin-rbs-and.html
Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In has been a major event; it’s been well received and thoroughly discussed. The book and the debates it stimulated appropriately returned attention to the ongoing gap ...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2013/10/lean-in-women-work-and-will-to-lead-by.html
Forgive me for being thick: after reading Anita Raghavan’s book I had to think a moment in order to name the billionaire’s apprentice. The apprentice has to be Rajat Gupta -- himself a humble...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2013/10/the-billionaires-apprentice-rise-of.html
In Scarcity, economist Sendhil Mullainathan and social psychologist Eldar Shafir introduce the study of scarcity as a ‘science in the making.’ One of their colleagues, perhaps a sceptic and c...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2013/09/scarcity-why-having-too-little-means-so.html
Pity Joe Studwell. He has written a very intelligent, very thoughtful book. You might not agree with much of it; I have my doubts about his recipe. But there is little doubt what the book is: an ...
https://attraverso.lls.edu/2013/09/how-asia-works-success-and-failure-in.html