Bar associations and business publications often publish Jonathan’s articles.
This article informs practitioners and application developers of the Fair Food and Retail Delivery Act, which was passed to address third party apps (i.e. DoorDash, Uber Eats) putting, primarily, restaurants on their platforms without permission.
This article discusses the Supreme Court’s opinion in Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp. v. Wall-Street.com, LLC. There, the Supreme Court resolved a split among the appellate circuits and conclusively required registration of a copyright prior to filing suit.
This article, published by the Illinois State Bar Association, discusses three pieces of legislation impacting solar developments in Illinois.
The Northern District of Illinois recently adopted a Mandatory Initial Discovery Pilot Program. That program essentially front-loads newly cases. In doing so, the MIDP forces forcing litigants to disclose a far greater amount of information than Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 ever did. Given copyright trolls past difficulty in producing evidence of copyright infringement at the outset of cases, and later at summary judgment, will this program end trolling in the Northern District of Illinois?
Note: In the year since this article, the MIDP has not slowed filings in the Northern District of Illinois.
The Supreme Court recently amended the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The changes focused, in part, on the need for early and active judicial case management. The goals of these amendments were to ensure cases moved along at the outset and electronically stored information is preserved. The new Rules became effective on December 1, 2015. Attorneys handling BitTorrent related copyright litigation should take note. This is particularly true for the Illinois attorney, where the Northern District of Illinois remains a hotbed of copyright litigation involving the BitTorrent protocol. Accordingly, these amendments maychange the way Northern District judges approach these cases.
While NOT his paper, The Iowa Law Review recently published Copyright Trolling: an Empirical Study by Professor Matthew Sag.
Given that Jonathan devotes a significant portion of his practice to BitTorrent-related intellectual property litigation, he was honored to have been included in his mentions.
Matthew Sag, Copyright Trolling, An Empirical Study, 100 IOWA L. REV. 1105 (2015).
Copyright & the Artist | InterBusiness Issues (October 2013)
This article, which was published by InterBusiness Issues - a monthly magazine, primarily dealt with the history of Copyright law as a fundamental feature of the Constitution as well as the use and exploitation of these rights to secure revenue for our creative professionals.
FAQs for First Time Renters | Togamag (2011)
Brief article, in magazine aimed at college students, concerning tenants rights in Illinois.
No Hope for Reverse Payments | Update – Food and Drug Law Institute (May 2010)
This article published in the May/June 2010 edition of the Food and Drug Law Institute’s Update trade magazine discusses the current disagreement on reverse payments in pharmaceutical litigation. It touches on court opinions, legislative action, the Hatch-Waxman Act, and executive action pertaining to this intersection of patent law, the FDA, and antitrust law. (Article provided with permission of FDLI).
Physical Properties of Monoestolides with Varying Chain Lengths (abstact only),
Phillips, J.L., Lowery, B.A., Isbell, T., Cermak, S.C. 2005. Physical properties of monoestolides with varying chain lengths [abstract]. Regional Meeting of American Chemical Society.
Estolides, oligomeric secondary esters of fatty acids, have been shown to have properties that make them suitable as potential motor oil. Previous research in synthesizing estolides has only been done with a mixture of estolide numbers (EN) for any given chain length. These studies show that with mixed EN of 2 – 3, a 10 carbon chain capped estolide yielded the lowest pour point (PP). To better determine what effect chain length alone has on the physical properties of estolides, monoestolides were synthesized with varying chain capping lengths, and then tested to determine physical properties. Pyridine catalyzed reactions of hydroxy methyl stearate and anhydrides of appropriate carbon chain lengths (acetic, butyric, and hexanoic) produced estolides possessing an EN of 1. For longer chain lengths, a tin octoate catalyzed reaction between hydroxy methyl stearate and the appropriate carboxylic acid produced estolides that once distilled possess an EN of 1. Data obtained from testing showed that trends emerged in pour point, cloud point and viscosity measurements. This data shows that physical properties of interest are influenced by chain length.