Podcast: The Briefing from the IP Law Blog - The Right to Repair and More New Exemptions
The Briefing from the IP Law Blog – DMCA: The Right to Repair and More new Exemptions
It has been over 18 months since Massachusetts voted to approve an update to the state’s ‘right to repair’ law, however, the changes have still not gone into effect. Why? Well, the automakers’ lawsuit that seeks to block the...more
In our January 2021 blog post The Right to Repair in Massachusetts Rolls Forward, we discussed how Massachusetts voters in November 2021 approved Question One, a ballot initiative amending the commonwealth’s 2012 Right to...more
In November 2020, Massachusetts voters approved Question One, a ballot initiative amending the Commonwealth’s 2012 Right to Repair Law. The amendment provides that motor vehicles sold in Massachusetts “with model year 2022”...more
As I wrote about previously on our blog, the Massachusetts Right to Repair amendment passed in November is up against a lawsuit from auto manufacturers. Now, the Massachusetts’ Attorney General’s office has responded stating...more
Massachusetts federal district court judge Douglas Woodlock did not mince words during an hour-long hearing on Thursday, December 3, urging lawyers for the Alliance for Automotive Innovation and Massachusetts Attorney General...more
With the effective date looming for changes to Massachusetts law that will require automobile manufacturers to make significant changes to telematics systems, a trade association representing OEMs on Tuesday, December 1,...more
A group of automakers through the Alliance for Automotive Innovation is suing Massachusetts in federal court to block the new ‘Right to Repair’ law that passed on November 3rd . This law was known as “Question 1” to...more
In a roller coaster of an election week, it was easy for smaller ballot measures to become overshadowed. One ballot measure that you may have missed is Massachusetts’s Ballot Question 1 regarding the “right to repair” motor...more
Voters in Massachusetts overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative that gives independent mechanics greater access to vehicle data, a move that vehicle manufacturers have foreshadowed could have significant cyber and privacy...more
I previously wrote about a ballot question in Massachusetts this year that would update the “Right to Repair” initiative that was first passed in 2013. As a quick refresher, the Right to Repair law allows consumers to take...more