United States District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell recently ruled that artwork that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence (A.I.) does not qualify for copyright protection, noting that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright [1].”
Read MoreWith the rise of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence assistants, many people have begun to wonder if their job may one day be taken over by A.I. As a computer engineer, I told myself that A.I. wouldn’t take …
Read MoreWhen most people see the 2021 action-adventure/comedy film Free Guy, they probably enjoy watching an adorably innocent character in an absurdly violent video game world. Or perhaps they empathize with an AI grappling with questions of reality and …
Read MoreElysium assisted counsel from Lawyers for Civil Rights in a pro bono capacity.
Read MoreIf you have ever acquired a vintage baseball card, you might have experienced the feeling brought on by exclusive ownership of something rare. Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, combine limited supply with ownership verification features to evoke this feeling.
Read MoreWhen given a collection of source code to analyze, what are the advantages of reading it versus running it?
Read MoreWe’ve spent the last two posts describing the most basic levels of system software. Most recently, we considered how a series of boot loaders create and enforce a chain of trust. Consumer devices didn’t include this feature in …
Read MoreIn our previous post, we described how the early moments of smartphone power-on involve a set of boot loaders sequentially handing off control after making incremental progress. These increasingly complex programs essentially run a relay race to bring …
Read MoreNot so many years ago, sitting down at a computer meant waiting several minutes for it to start. By contrast, our phones are nearly always on, typically only needing to be restarted when the battery runs out or …
Read MoreDuring discovery, litigants request and receive information and documents from each other that are relevant to the case so that both sides can learn the facts and develop their legal strategies around them. As technical experts, we often …
Read MoreIn our increasingly digital age, databases sit behind the scenes retaining and managing our digital data—whether financial records, text messages, a company sales list, or the “trivial” statistics of fantasy football—nearly everywhere.
Read MoreIn late 2018, Apple acquired three issued patents and five patent applications from the defunct home security camera startup Lighthouse AI (the "Lighthouse portfolio").
Read MoreIf you follow the online advertising or privacy communities closely, you have likely heard of cross-device tracking. For those less familiar with the topic, cross-device tracking attempts to link an individual’s activity as that person switches between computers, …
Read MoreLast week, FBI Special Agent Carmine Nigro gave a fascinating talk at Elysium on economic espionage and intellectual property theft. Although the presentation covered a broad range of threats and mitigation strategies, one theme was the danger posed …
Read MoreWhen Ken Liu isn't consulting on areas of computer science such as software development and mobile devices, he's busy writing award-winning science fiction. His recently published first novel, The Grace of Kings, was featured yesterday on The ARTery, the arts and …
Read More"With Republicans and Democrats announcing their intentions to run for president, it’s a reminder that the 2016 election cycle is just around the corner," states Joe Calandrino in a recent article on electionLine.org. He opines, "As the races …
Read MoreThe first installment of the Elysium Digital Speaker Series will take place on Wednesday, June 24 and will feature Carmine Nigro, Special Agent, FBI Boston.
Read MoreElysium Digital is proud of today's announcement that Ed Felten has become the new Deputy United States Chief Technology Officer. In this position, which is part of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, Ed will …
Read MoreEarlier this week, advice website Lifehacker featured Elysium digital forensics expert Jason Eaddy in a live question-and-answer session. During the forum, Jason fielded Lifehacker community members' questions about topics such as forensic training, encrypted data, and wireless devices. …
Read MoreKiller robots have been a part of the popular imagination for much of the past half century: see, for example, Robocop, the Terminator films, and both iterations of the Battlestar Galactica television series. But just how likely is the …
Read MoreThe Supreme Court’s January ruling in Hana Financial, Inc. v. Hana Bank puts the issue of trademark tacking in the jury’s hands, but the underlying question of when the mark was first used still remains.
Read MoreAnyone who ordered a computer from Gateway or Dell in the 1990s probably remembers choosing software for the system while placing the order, then having their computer arrive days or weeks later with the software they selected. Today, …
Read MoreElysium has been proud to help organize the annual Trade Secret Law Summit for the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), to be held next week (December 4 and 5, 2014) at Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
Read MoreEarlier this week, Google agreed to settle patent litigation with Rockstar, the consortium backed by Apple, Microsoft and other large tech companies.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, November 12, Elysium’s founding witness Ed Felten presented his thoughts on preserving privacy in the counterterrorism age at a public meeting of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). The PCLOB is “an independent, bipartisan …
Read More"As companies and users store and manipulate more data in the cloud, opportunities increase for outgoing employees to misappropriate work products," writes Elysium co-founder and president Christian B. Hicks in a recent article discussing the importance of safeguarding …
Read MoreElysium Digital was featured this morning on “Good Morning America” in a story about cell phone data privacy and security. The segment warned consumers that hackers can easily find personally identifying information on lost, stolen, or recycled phones, and …
Read MoreAn article recently published in New England In-House explores the impact of the "flurry of patent and other intellectual property decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court." Writer Brandon Gee spoke with Elysium testifying expert Geoff A. Cohen, along with other observers …
Read MoreElysium expert Joseph Calandrino noted to CNET that "[o]ne possible goal of this attack is to facilitate future targeted attacks. The type of data that was stolen from the hospital system is often used to verify a person's …
Read MoreElysium analyzed a snapshot of the U.S. patents and patent applications that made up the Rockstar portfolio as of February 21, 2014. The report focuses on the U.S. patents and applications, and includes analysis of current assignments of …
Read MoreWhat should you, as a lawyer, do to help your clients prepare in advance for litigation involving electronic evidence? Elysium's Cristina Lenares Antalik provides critical, yet relatively simple, steps that lawyers can take to help their clients avoid …
Read MoreToday, Elysium launched Legion, a unique patent analysis tool. As reported by Bloomberg, Legion is designed to enhance and improve collaboration, understanding, and effectiveness within legal teams involved in patent review work.
Read MoreOn Monday 4/7/14, the Internet-wide OpenSSL "Heartbleed" vulnerability was publicly announced. Elysium secured all applicable systems against this flaw shortly after updates were released, and new server-side SSL keys and certificates have been installed.
Read MoreIn this white paper, we describe a brief prior art search we conducted against two of the patents held by Summit 6 LLC, which have been asserted against some of today’s leading web and mobile devices companies. We …
Read MoreElysium Digital today named Cristina Antalik as the firm’s Electronic Discovery Manager. Reporting to Jason Eaddy, head of the firm’s Forensics & Discovery Practice, Antalik will oversee Elysium’s electronic discovery (eDiscovery) services including collection and processing of electronically …
Read MoreElysium's Geoff Cohen, a computer science expert, has kept a close eye on legislative and judicial activity related to patent law. Dr. Cohen notes the potential dramatic impact of the Supreme Court decision on Alice Corp. v. CLS …
Read MoreWe are happy to introduce Elysium CLASSIFY™ as the latest service launched in response to clients expressed needs. Elysium CLASSIFY™ is an extension of Elysium’s proven eDiscovery capabilities that have been tested by some of the world’s most …
Read MoreGeoff Cohen, one of Elysium's testifying experts, has been tracking the Goodlatte bill (the "Innovation Act") and the associated changes that it could bring to the patent litigation world. Geoff provided an interview to Patrick Thibodeau at Computerworld …
Read MoreEarly in the morning of November 7, a serious fire damaged the San Francisco facility and equipment used by the Internet Archive. IA is a non-profit technical organization that, among its many projects, built and maintains the "Wayback …
Read MoreWhen a company becomes aware that it may be accused of patent infringement, the instinct for in-house counsel is to engage the company’s engineering staff to perform an analysis of the technologies and patents involved. After all, the …
Read MoreDiscovering a suspected data breach in your systems can be a harrowing experience. Available details might be confusing or unclear at first, and concerns about what the incident may mean for your business, your customers, and others can …
Read MoreMany vendors have entered the computer forensics market to fulfill the needs of law firms, law enforcement agencies, and businesses. The challenge many organizations now face is finding a forensic analyst who can quickly and clearly explain technical …
Read MoreWe are excited to announce that Elysium has relocated to Boston's Financial District as of Monday, October 15th. We now occupy the 11th floor of 2 Oliver Street, an office tower located one block from Post Office Square …
Read MoreEvery week, the USPTO publishes more than 5,000 applications for new patents. Some will be abandoned or languish in examination for years, but many others will issue within two years as patents covering a broad range of activity. …
Read MoreVideo game developer Epic Games, Inc. makes the award-winning Unreal Engine 3 technology that powers hundreds of successful PC, console, and mobile games, including Epic’s own critically-acclaimed “Gears of War” series. However, after several years of licensing Unreal …
Read MoreWe are excited to announce that Elysium will relocate to Boston's Financial District in October 2012. We will occupy the 11th floor of 2 Oliver Street, an office tower located one block from Post Office Square and in …
Read MoreWe are excited to announce that Elysium has formed a partnership with Chipworks, a leader in reverse engineering and patent infringement analysis of semiconductors and electronic systems. We expect that Elysium's customers will benefit from Chipworks' expertise and …
Read MoreElysium's intellectual-property practice encompasses software code and device analysis (and expert testimony) for patent and copyright cases. Increasingly, this means we practice in front of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
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