- Space and Existential Risk: The Need for Global Coordination and Caution in Space Development
By: Chase Hamilton
This Article examines urgent risks resulting from outer space activities under the current space law regime. Emerging literature alarmingly predicts that the risk of a catastrophe that ends the human species this century is approximately 10–25%. Continued space development may increase, rather than decrease, overall existential risk due in part to crucial and ...
- Homography of Inventorship: DABUS and Valuing Inventors
By: Jordana Goodman
On July 28, 2021, the Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (“DABUS”) became the first computer to be recognized as a patent inventor. Due to the advocacy of DABUS’s inventor, Dr. Stephen Thaler, the world’s definition of “inventor” has finally fractured – dividing patent regimes between recognition of machine inventorship and ...
- Personalized Smart Guns: A Futuristic Dream or a Pragmatic Solution
By: Andres Paciuc
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Cite: 19 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 198
- Professor Brandon Garrett on Exposing the Flaws in Forensics
By Brendan Clemente
This past March, Duke Law’s Professor Brandon Garrett released his newest book, Autopsy of a Crime Lab: Exposing the Flaws in Forensics. Professor Garrett founded the Wilson Center for Science and Justice and studies the use of forensic evidence in criminal cases. Brendan Clemente, Duke Law & Technology Review’s (DLTR) Managing Editor, sat ...
- Food for Thought: Intellectual Property Protection for Recipes and Food Designs
By: Kurt M. Saunders and Valerie Flugge
As any chef will tell you, cooking and food preparation is a creative, sometimes innovative, endeavor. Much thought and time is invested in selecting ingredients, developing the process for preparing the dish, and designing an interesting or appealing look and feel for a food item. If this is ...
