Intellectual Property Law
New Matter VOLUME 50, EDITION 2, SUMMER 2025
Content
- 2025 New Matter Author Submission Guidelines
- Contents
- Copyright Roundup
- Current Landscape of Cannabis Technology Patents
- Editorial Board
- EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN HARMONY AI, Crypto, and Policy Innovation
- Federal Circuit Report
- Inside This Issue
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECTION Executive Committee 2025-2026
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECTION Interest Group Representatives 2025-2026
- Letter from the Chair
- Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
- MCLE Self-Study Article
- Ninth Circuit Report
- Online Cle For Participatory Credit
- The California Lawyers Association Intellectual Property Alumni
- TTAB Decisions and Developments
- What Is New for the Patent Public Advisory Committee
- The Licensing Corner
The Licensing Corner
MATT DEDON
The Law Office of Matthew Dedon
THE END OF NET NEUTRALITY
NET NEUTRALITY IS THE PRINCIPLE THAT Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all online communications equally. This means that users and content providers should experience consistent transfer speeds regardless of the content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, source, destination address, or communication method.1 Under this principle, ISPs are prohibited from charging higher prices for certain online content or throttling access to competitors’ content.2 In an environment where the largest ISPs can dominate and crowd out smaller players, net neutrality is essential for a truly free market and the preservation of free speech online. Unfortunately, net neutrality’s future in the U.S. is likely doomed.
This article examines the statutory history and case law that shaped net neutrality in the United States and explores the likely future of this vital principle.