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Process Patents: Hearing Before The S. Comm. On The Judiciary, 110th Cong., May 1, 2007 (Statement Of John R. Thomas, Geo. U. L. Center), John R. Thomas
Process Patents: Hearing Before The S. Comm. On The Judiciary, 110th Cong., May 1, 2007 (Statement Of John R. Thomas, Geo. U. L. Center), John R. Thomas
Testimony Before Congress
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The Patent Reform Act Of 2007: Hearing Before The Subcomm. On Courts, The Internet, And Intellectual Property Of The H. Comm. On The Judiciary, 110th Cong., April 26, 2007 (Statement Of John R. Thomas, Geo. U. L. Center), John R. Thomas
Testimony Before Congress
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Full Committee Hearing On The Importance Of Patent Reform On Small Business: Hearing Before The H. Comm. On Small Business, 110th Cong., Mar. 29, 2007 (Statement Of Professor John R. Thomas, Geo. U. L. Center), John R. Thomas
Testimony Before Congress
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Network Stories, Julie E. Cohen
Network Stories, Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In 1962, Rachel Carson named the natural environment. Scientists were beginning to understand the complex web of ecological cause and effect; naming that web gave it independent existence and invested that existence with political meaning. In 1996, James Boyle named the cultural environment. Boyle’s act of naming was intended to jumpstart a political movement by appropriating the complex web of political meaning centered on the interdependency of environmental resources.
But naming, although important, is only a beginning. The example of the natural environment shows us that to build from a name to a movement requires two things. First, you have …
Cyberspace As/And Space, Julie E. Cohen
Cyberspace As/And Space, Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The appropriate role of place- and space-based metaphors for the Internet and its constituent nodes and networks is hotly contested. This essay seeks to provoke critical reflection on the implications of place- and space-based theories of cyberspace for the ongoing production of networked space more generally. It argues, first, that adherents of the cyberspace metaphor have been insufficiently sensitive to the ways in which theories of cyberspace as space themselves function as acts of social construction. Specifically, the leading theories all have deployed the metaphoric construct of cyberspace to situate cyberspace, explicitly or implicitly, as separate space. This denies all …