Non-Compete Agreements and the Race for Self-Driving Technology

Lindsey Mattila (CMC ’17) Non-compete agreements, or the lack thereof, have played an instrumental role in the quick growth and innovation of Silicon Valley. Non-compete agreements, which are generally built into employment contracts, require employees to wait a year, or some other designated amount of time, before joining a competitor. In theory, these agreements should…

An Argument for the Exclusive Rights of Authors/Inventors for Dissemination of Information

Dhruv Shekhar, Suryaksh Manot, & Nirav Bakshi Intellectual property may be broadly understood as property created by the mind or the power of thought. The rights to intellectual property have been historically contested as challenging the traditionalists’ belief of rights not arising out of non-property. Intellectual property is asymmetric to the traditionalist understanding of property…