Intellectual Property Law

Rational Market
I have to admit that I have always been more interested in the average Doug Jones than the Dow Jones average, but then I am just a common guy. But, the big drop in Google stock price is just proof positive that the stock market is gambling with all of the precision of betting on a horse race...

Airline Code-Share Alliances and Their Competitive Effects
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Airline mergers and alliances are at the forefront of the news. We get some empirical evidence of Airline Code-Share Alliances and Their Competitive Effects from Philip G...

More Airline Price Fixing in Europe
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Today's WSJ reports that the European Commission has begun a price fixing probe into Europe-Japan airline routes.

What to do about airline service
Putting aside for the moment airline industry's seemingly intractable financial problems, lousy airline service has become such an issue that even Judge Posner and Gary Becker are trying to figure out what to do about it...

Airline Mergers
US Air and United will not merge. We should not weep. Airline mergers have a terrible recent history. Most are prompted by airline desires to restructure. A merger ought not be needed to restructure a poorly performing airline; CEOs find...

WSJ: Wealthy Americans' Income Soars, Average Tax Rate Plummets
Wall Street Journal: Richest Americans See Their Income Share Grow, by Jesse Drucker: In a new sign of increasing inequality in the U.S., the richest 1% of Americans in 2006 garnered the highest share of the nation's adjusted gross income...

FAA
Signficant Lack of Oversight in Airline Maintenance

Fume Event
Leaves Airline Attendant Sick

Bank Website Security
New Report Finds Widespread Flaws

Murphy City, TX
$255,000 settlement in controversial pedophile news program case.

Newspaper Employees
Chinese Daily News must pay $5.19 million class action settlement for failing to pay overtime.

New Study Links Cell Phone Radiation to Increased Health Risks
Cell Phone Radiation Is Your Phone Toxic?