West Virginia University College of Law professor and clinic director Nicole McConlogue's latest scholarship, Discrimination on Wheels: How Big Data Uses License Plate Surveillance to Put the Brakes on Disadvantaged Drivers, was recently featured by Jotwell, in its Technology Law section. The review, Automated Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems and ALPRs in Consumer Lending Transactions, was written by Stacy-Ann Elvy and praised Professor McConlogue's work as and "important contribution to scholarship in the consumer and technology law fields by exposing the relationship between ALPR technology and automated algorithmic decision-making in the automobile lending industry".

Professor McConlogue's article is forthcoming in volume 18 of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

During September 2021, the contents of the WVU College of Law community in the Research Repository @ WVU had 10,143 new full-text downloads of the 5,653 total works archived in our collections. Readers came from 865 different institutions across 136 different countries. This brings the total full-text downloads of scholarship from the College of Law collections to 262,152.

The most downloaded faculty scholarship in September 2021:

West Virginia University College of Law professor Sean Tu published two new articles in the latest issue of IP Litigator. In the September/October 2021 issue, Professor Tu's authored "Characteristics of Patent Examiners Who Issue Litigated / Invalidated Patents" and "Fast versus Slow Examination: How Examiners Use Allowances or Rejections to Delay or Compact Patent Prosecution".

From the abstract of "Characteristics of Patent Examiners Who Issue Litigated / Invalidated Patents":

West Virginia University College of Law professor Jena Martin recently posted commentary at The Conversation on Facebook about potential action by the SEC based on public statements by Mark Zuckerberg that contradict the company's internal documents. The issue in controversy is Facebook's enforcement on its policy for offensive material. Zuckerberg's public statements indicate that all Facebook users are on equal footing with regard to application of the policy while internal documents suggest otherwise. Professor Martin offers expert commentary as a scholar and former enforcement attorney with the SEC. The article is titled "Why Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg may be in hot water with the SEC".

Find more of Professor Martin's scholarship on SSRN and on her SelectedWorks scholarship profile.

West Virginia University College of Law professors Sean Tu and Amy Cyphert co-authored new scholarship to be published in the Texas Tech Law Review. The article, "Limits of Using Artificial Intelligence and GPT-3 in Patent Prosecution", discusses the possible expansion of patent rights as a result of increased use of AI by inventors.

From the abstract: