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Diamonds Aren't Always A Consumer's Best Friend: Considering The Need For Regulation In The Diamond Grading Industry, Hannah Ponders Feist
Diamonds Aren't Always A Consumer's Best Friend: Considering The Need For Regulation In The Diamond Grading Industry, Hannah Ponders Feist
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
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Patent Law And Means-Plus-Function Claim Language: Where It Was, Where It Is (Post Williamson V. Citrix), And Where It Should Go In The Future, Joel Bradley
Georgia Law Review
In response to proliferating abuse of the functional
language allowances governing means-plus-function
patent claims in 35 U.S.C. § 112, the Federal Circuit, in
its recent decision Williamson v. Citrix, lowered the
presumption againstpatent claims arising under § 112.
Before Citrix, there existed a strongpresumption that the
scope of § 112 did not encompass claims not including
the specific language "means"-aloophole that drafters
employed to avoid being subject to § 112 limitations.
The Federal Circuit sought to remedy this loophole by
lowering the strength of the presumption and also by
shifting the focus of the presumption to language
analogous to "mean." …
Perfecting Bitcoin, Kevin V. Tu
Perfecting Bitcoin, Kevin V. Tu
Georgia Law Review
Bitcoin is still here. The price of Bitcoin rebounded-
setting a record high of $19,783.21 per Bitcoin in
December 2017 before dropping to a price of $8,690 per
Bitcoin as of March 22, 2018. Moreover, legal and
regulatory developments, like New York's BitLicense and
federal taxation of virtual currency as property, can be
viewed as legitimizing its use. The normalization of
virtual currency is evidenced by its increasingly
mainstream applications. Virtual currency can be used
as a faster and lower cost method of transferringfunds
domestically and internationally. A growing number of
retailers now accept virtual currency as a method of …