Speaking just to the little slice of the world I know:
Using a legal research platform (i.e. Westlaw, LexisNexis, Casetext) could be really helpful with several of these. If you’re good at thinking up search terms and analogous products/actors/circumstances (3D firearms, banned substances, and squatting on patents are good examples here), there’s basically always a case where someone wasn’t happy someone else was doing X, so they hired lawyers to figure out which laws were implicated by X and file a suit/indict someone, usually on multiple different theories/laws.
The useful part is that courts will then write opinions on the theories which provide a clear, lay-person explanation of the law at issue, what it’s for, how it works, etc. before applying it to the facts at hand. Basically, instead of you having to stare at some pretty abstract, high-level, words in a statute/rule and imagine how they apply, a lot of that work has already been done for you, and in an authoritative, citable way. Because cases rely on real facts and circumstances, they also make things more concrete for further analogy-making to the thing you care about.
Downside is these tools seem to cost at least ~$150/mo, but you may be able to get free access through a university or find other ways to reduce this. Google Scholar case law is free, but pretty bad.
Speaking just to the little slice of the world I know:
Using a legal research platform (i.e. Westlaw, LexisNexis, Casetext) could be really helpful with several of these. If you’re good at thinking up search terms and analogous products/actors/circumstances (3D firearms, banned substances, and squatting on patents are good examples here), there’s basically always a case where someone wasn’t happy someone else was doing X, so they hired lawyers to figure out which laws were implicated by X and file a suit/indict someone, usually on multiple different theories/laws.
The useful part is that courts will then write opinions on the theories which provide a clear, lay-person explanation of the law at issue, what it’s for, how it works, etc. before applying it to the facts at hand. Basically, instead of you having to stare at some pretty abstract, high-level, words in a statute/rule and imagine how they apply, a lot of that work has already been done for you, and in an authoritative, citable way. Because cases rely on real facts and circumstances, they also make things more concrete for further analogy-making to the thing you care about.
Downside is these tools seem to cost at least ~$150/mo, but you may be able to get free access through a university or find other ways to reduce this. Google Scholar case law is free, but pretty bad.