Volume 9, Number 1: Winter 1996

Policy Commentary

• Bringing Information to the World: The Global Information Infrastructure - Vice President Al Gore
• Renewing The Deal Between Broadcasters and the Public: Requiring Clear Rules for Children's Educational Television - Reed Hundt & Karen Kornbluh

Articles

• Can Computers Make Contracts? - Tom Allen & Robin Widdison
• DNA Is Different: Legal Obviousness and the Balance Between Biotech Inventors and the Market - Anita Varma & David Abraham
• Cybersmut and the First Amendment: A Call for a New Obscenity Standard - Debra D. Burke
• Secret Prior Art-- Get Your Priorities Straight! - C. Douglass Thomas

Notes

• Markman v. Westview Instruments, Inc. & Hilton Davis Chemical Co. v. Warner-Jenkinson Co.: The Federal Circuit Gets Its Laws and Its Facts Straight - Richard A. Machonkin
• The Limits Of Computer Conversion: United States v. Collins - Orin S. Kerr

Book Notes

• Software Patents, by Gregory S. Stobbs - Reviewed by Robert L. Bocchino, Jr.
• The Patent Wars: The Battle to Own the World's Technology, by Fred Warshofsky - Reviewed by Jeffrey B. Hawkins
• Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave, by Alvin & Heidi Toffler - Reviewed by Elizabeth Weiss
• The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era, by Jeremy Rifkin - Reviewed by Brian Dorini

 
Volume 9, Number 2: Summer 1996

Symposium: High Technology, Antitrust, and the Regulation of Competition

• Reverse Engineering of Computer Software: The Antitrust Issues - Robert H. Lande & Sturgis M. Sobin
• Should Technology Choice Be a Concern of Antitrust Policy? - S.J. Liebowitz & Stephen E. Margolis
• You Keep on Knocking but You Can't Come in: Evaluating Restrictions on Access to Input Joint Ventures - Dennis W. Carlton & Steven C. Salop

Note

• Competition in the Local Telecommunications Market: Legislate or Litigate? - Elizabeth A. Nowicki

Articles

• Maladjusted Contrivances and Clumsy Automation: A Jurisprudential Investigation - Leon E. Wein
• The Patent Marking and Notice Statute: A Question of "Fact" or "Act"? - Michael D. McKeon

Notes

• Computers, Copyright, and Functionality: The First Circuit's Decision in Lotus Development Corp. V. Borland International, Inc. - Robert L. Bocchino, Jr.
• Trademark Law Lost in Cyberspace: Trademark Protection for Internet Addresses - Kenneth Sutherlin Dueker
• Live and Let Die?: Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Right to Die - Christopher N. Manning
• Correcting a Chromatic Aberration: Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co. - Jonathan D. Baker

Book Notes

• Jihad vs. McWorld, by Benjamin Barber - Reviewed by Jamie F. Metzl
• Biotechnology and the Federal Circuit, by Kenneth J. Burchfiel - Reviewed by Marc A. Cavan
• Interfaces on Trial: Intellectual Property and Interoperability in the Global Software Industry, by Jonathan Band & Masanobu Katoh - Reviewed by Zack Higgins
• Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America, by Sheila Dasanoff - Reviewed by Brian S. Salsberg
• Bits, Bytes, and Big Brother: Federal Information Control in the Technological Age, by Shannon E. Martin - Reviewed by Bailey J. Korell