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Cyberproperty And Judicial Dissonance: The Trouble With Domain Name Classification, Xuan-Thao Nguyen

Articles

The nature of cyberspace continues to be woven into the fabric of our daily existence. Not surprisingly, cyberspace and the expansion of e-commerce pose challenges to existing law, particularly the legal definition of cyberproperty domain names. The nature of cyberspace allows many e-companies to possess no traditional assets such as buildings and inventories. Some e-companies own few computers, often using service providers to maintain their web sites. In the virtual space that e-companies inhabit, the primary assets that e-companies own are intangibles such as domain names, customer information, and intellectual property that includes business method patents, copyrights, and trademarks.

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Surface Micromachined Force Gauges: Uncertainty And Reliability, Jonathan W. Wittwer, Troy Gomm, Larry L. Howell

Faculty Publications

Surface micromachining of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), like all other fabrication processes, has inherent variation that leads to uncertain material and dimensional parameters. By considering the effects of these variations during the design of micro force gauges, the gauge uncertainty and reliability can be estimated. Without means of calibrating micro gauges, these effects are often significant when compared to experimental repeatability. The general force gauge model described in this paper can be used to measure a wide range of forces, and simple design changes can lead to improved accuracy in measurement. A method of probabilistic design is described that is not …

Bringing Online Learning To Campus: The Hybridization Of Teaching And Learning At Brigham Young University, Gregory L. Waddoups, Scott L. Howell

Faculty Publications

The primary purpose of Brigham Young University (BYU) is to provide students with a combination of sacred and secular education often described as the BYU experience. Achieving this purpose is challenged by the rapid growth in Church membership and an enrollment cap of 30,000 students. To address these challenges, BYU sponsors the use of technology to bridge the gap between the increased Church membership and the number of students allowed under the enrollment caps. This institutional case study shows how these challenges have influenced the hybridization of teaching and learning for on campus (resident) and off campus (distance) students. It …

Judicial Review Of Icann Domain Name Dispute Decisions, David E. Sorkin

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Comedy Iii Productions, Inc. V. Gary Saderup, Inc.: Finding A Balance Between The Right Of Publicity And The First Amendment Right Of Freedom Of Speech, Jennifer L. Koehler

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Population-Based Genetic Studies: Informed Consent And Confidentiality, Michael J. Smith

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Current Patent Protection Granted For Genetically Modified Organisms Under The European Patent Convention And The Scandal Of Ep 0695351, Karen A. Spindler

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Innovation, Software, And Reverse Engineering, Brian Fitzgerald, Cristina Cifuentes, Anne Fitzgerald, Michael Lehmann

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Internet Distribution Of Intellectual Property Protected Works In The United States, In Japan, And In The Future, Howard C. Anawalt

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Source Code Versus Object Code: Patent Implications For The Open Source Community, Daniel S. Lin, Matthew Sag, Ronald S. Laurie

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Planning And Decision-Making For Law School Information Technology, Donald J. Polden

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Real As Pro Wrestling: Johns Hopkins University V. Cellpro And The Federal Court's Power Of Review In Patent Infringement Actions, Gretchen Dunbar

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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The Community Patent, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The English Language, Jason R. Riley

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Ownership Of Electronic Publishing Rights In Collective Works: New York Times Co. V. Tasini, Colby B. Springer

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Doctrine Of Indivisibility Revived - Ninth Circuit Confirms Copyright Exclusive Licensee Has No Right To Transfer License Absent Owner's Consent: Gardner V. Nike, Inc., Peter H. Kang, Jia Ann Yang

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Controlling Patent Rights In The Industry Standard Context: Micron Technology, Inc. V. Rambus Inc., Rita R. Kanno, Frederick M. Gonzalez

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Kelly V. Arriba Soft Corp.: Copyright Limitations On Technological Innovation On The Internet, Khio D. Dang

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Influences Of Elk Management On The Common Raven Population In Jackson Hole Wyoming, Crow White

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Scale Tips In Favor Of Paradists And Freedom Of Speech Advocates, As Other Versions Of Gone With The Wind Held Fair Use Under Copyright Law: Suntrust Bank V. Houghton Mifflin Co., Veronica Soto

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Cloning Californians - Report Of The California Advisory Committee On Human Cloning And Recent Cloning-Related Legislation, Maria S. Quintero

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Quarantine Revision And The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: Laws For The Common Good, Lorena Matei

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Pair Attribute Learning: Network Construction Using Pair Features, Tony R. Martinez, Eric K. Henderson

Faculty Publications

We present the Pair Attribute Learning (PAL) algorithm for the selection of relevant inputs and network topology. Correlations on training instance pairs are used to drive network construction of a single-hidden layer MLP. Results on nine learning problems demonstrate 70% less complexity, on average, without a significant loss of accuracy.

The Algebra And Geometry Of Curve And Surface Inversion, Thomas W. Sederberg, Eng-Wee Chionh, Kent Ridge

Faculty Publications

An inversion equation takes the Cartesian coordinates of a point on a parametric curve or surface and returns the parameter value(s) of that point. A 2-D curve inversion equation has the form t = f(x,y)/g(x,y). This paper shows that practical insight into inversion can be obtained by studying the geometry of the implicit curves f(x,y) = 0 and g(x,y) = 0. For example, the relationship between the singular locus of the parametric curve and the lowest possible degree of an inversion equation can be understood in this way. Also, insight is given into what parameter value will be returned if …

How Long, Oh Lord, How Long? James E. Talmage And The Great War, Richard Bennett

Faculty Publications

What is it that is happening? A war greater in area and scale and more fearful in carnage, than any that has ever been since life on the round world began. Five months--no more--have passed since the first gun was fired, and already the list of men who were strong, healthy, capable, keen, five short months ago, and who are now stark in death, outnumbers anything of its kind in human history. And to reckon up the load of sheer blank sorrow in innumerable homes, and the actual but incidental war sufferings, short of death, or possibly worse than death, …

The Cemetery Record Of William D. Huntington, Nauvoo Sexton, Fred E. Woods

Faculty Publications

When John Butler first visited Commerce (later known as Nauvoo) he recalled, "I asked Brother Joseph what kind of a place it was. He said it was a low, marshy, wet, damp and nasty place, but that if we went to work and improved it, it would become more healthy and the Lord would bless it for our sakes." The Prophet Joseph Smith also stated, "the name of our city (Nauvoo) is of Hebrew origin, and signifies a beautiful situation, or place, carrying with it, also, the idea of rest; and is truly descriptive of the most delightful situation... This …

Has The Lord Turned Bankrupt? The Attempted Sale Of The Nauvoo Temple, 1846-1850, Richard Bennett

Faculty Publications

If Joseph Smith had lived we should not have been here at this time. We should have been in some other country. We can't stay in this house but a little while. We have got to build another house. It will be a larger house than this, and a more glorious one. And we shall build a great many houses, we shall come back here and we shall go to Kirtland, and build houses all over the continent of North America. On 4 April 1999 Gordon B. Hinckley, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, electrified millions …

From Mules To Trax : A Brief History Of Salt Lake City's Mass Transit, J. Michael Hunter

Faculty Publications

The history of the mass-transit system in Salt Lake City is reviewed, and the system is compared to those in other cities, such as Chicago and New York. The advantages and disadvantages of animal-transit systems, electric street cars, buses, and light rail systems are discussed.

A New Occurrence Of Archaeoscyphia Pulchra (Bassler) From The Ordovician Of Western Canada, J. Keith Rigby, Godfrey S. Nowlan, Peter A. Rowlands

Faculty Publications

A few specimens of the ornate anthaspidellid demosponge, Archaeoscyphia pulchra (Bassler), have been collected from the Lower Ordovician Outram Formation or Skoki Formation, from a saddle at the head of South Rice Brook in northeastern British Columbia. This is the first report of the flanged-appearing annulate, steeply obconical sponge in western Canada, although it has been reported from the Mingan Islands of Quebec and was initially described from Nevada, in the western United States. The taxon has also been reported as other species of Archaeoscyphia from Ordovician rocks of Missouri and from the San Juan region of Argentina.

Legal Theory And The Rule Of Law, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

This article proposes that the rule of law can be understood as a set of conditions that rational actors would impose on any authority they would create to act in their stead in creating and administering legally binding rules. The authority and obligation associated with law derive from this fundamental convention, and the principles of the rule of law are the conditions of that agreement, which become thereby governing principles to which legislatures, judges, and enforcement agencies can be held in their official actions. These generally recognized standards are inherent in this conventionalist concept of law in the sense that …

Summer 2002

University of Richmond Magazine

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