Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace retiring Justice David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court, could become the first justice with a background in Intellectual Property law, as well as a history of precedent-setting rulings on cyberlaw issues. Prior to joining the bench, Judge Sotomayor was a private IP lawyer, and her cyberlaw decisions ranged from copyrights in a digitized world to warrantless computer searches, so-called click-wrap agreements and the Patriot Act.

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