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Samuelson Clinic Featured on Wired Threat Level Blog for Amicus Brief Filed in Support of Accused Coupon Hacker

Samuelson Clinic student interns Hari O’Connell and Domenic Ippolito, with help from Clinic faculty Jennifer Lynch and Jason Schultz, filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Elecronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in support of accused “coupon hacker” John Stottlemire’s motion to dismiss in the case Coupons, Inc. v. Stottlemire in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The Clinic argued that Coupons, Inc’s DMCA claims and common law trespass to chattels and conversion claims constitute a strained and improper interpretation of the law and should be dismissed.  read more »

Clinic Accepting Applications for Summer, Fall 2008

The Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic has openings for several summer research assistants for a broad range of legal and public policy projects. Topics may include: privacy, cyber-security, IP considerations in developing health technologies and medicine for the developing world, consumer protection, video surveillance, synthetic biology, personal genetic information, patent reexamination and opposition processes, injunctions in 1st Amendment cases, fair use, and the DMCA safe harbors. Full and part-time paid positions are available.  read more »

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