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Discussion: Federal Data Privacy or Security Law
Nearly every day we hear about a new data breach in the news. Data breach fatigue is a consequence of data breaches becoming so common that people have gotten accustomed to them, and have become less motivated to protect themselves.
States have created many laws to protect personal information and to notify consumers of data breaches. There is currently no single comprehensive federal data privacy or security law.
Answer the following question(s):
Would a federal data privacy or security law help prevent data breach fatigue? Why or why not?
Discussion: Implications of Patent Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court heard LabCorp v. Metabolite, Inc. in 2006. Metabolite accused LabCorp of infringing on a patent that covered a diagnostic test.
Metabolite claimed that the patent for the test, which correlated between levels of homocysteine and vitamins B6 and B12, is infringed upon each time a doctor orders and interprets such a test. LabCorp argued that the correlation is a principle of nature and therefore the patent is invalid. The court dismissed the case.
Metabolite wrote a brief to the court. The brief suggested that invalidating the patent might lead to the invalidation of all drug patents on the grounds that the inventors “merely discovered that certain chemicals interact with the human body in ways directed by chemistry.”
Answer the following question(s):
Do you think a patent case should be able to have such broad implications for any industry? Why or why not?
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