Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2015-12-05
Trans-Pacific Trade and the Intellectual Property Challenge https://t.co/Yr0xSwsezU -> Canada, TPP and NAFTA – It’s All About Preferential Treatment https://t.co/PoUeB9FD7I -> TPP hits business...
View ArticleDistrict Court Grants Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Standing Where Plaintiff...
Plaintiff Max Sound Corporation ("Max Sound") filed a First Amended Complaint ("FAC") against three defendants: Google, Inc., YouTube, LLC and On2 Technologies (collectively, "Defendants"), for the...
View ArticleThe Changing Landscape of IP Investments – A Conversation with Abha Divine
Abha Divine is the founder and managing director of Techquity Capital Management, which is an IP investment firm that partners with IP owners to help them deploy their assets into untapped markets to...
View ArticleThe Changing Landscape of IP Investments – A Conversation with Abha Divine
Abha Divine is the founder and managing director of Techquity Capital Management, which is an IP investment firm that partners with IP owners to help them deploy their assets into untapped markets to...
View ArticleDifferent Patent Claim Terms Can Have Same Meaning
Courts will presume different meanings attach to different words when construing claim language. See, e.g., Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. v. U.S. Surgical Corp., 93 F.3d 1572, 1579 (Fed. Cir. 1996)...
View ArticleBest Practices for Drafting Software Patent Applications post-Alice
Don't be afraid to make the technical disclosure long, dense and difficult to read, at least for those without technical training. In my opinion one of the biggest reasons the Supreme Court has...
View ArticleBest Practices for Drafting Software Patent Applications post-Alice
Don't be afraid to make the technical disclosure long, dense and difficult to read, at least for those without technical training. In my opinion one of the biggest reasons the Supreme Court has...
View ArticleCourt Rejects TCPA Claim on the Basis of Implied Consent
do not call me male phone stress. The subscriber spam work // studiostoks / shutterstock Plaintiff sued on behalf of a putative class, alleging that he received marketing messages from Five Stars...
View ArticleRecorded Live At the D.C. Circuit: Net Neutrality Oral Arguments!
If you’ve got three hours to kill (and who doesn’t?), and you don’t feel like spending $15 for a movie (and who does?), we have a suggestion. Curl up next to your computer (or laptop, or tablet or...
View ArticleCBS Sunday Morning on December 6, 2015
The Almanac feature on CBS Sunday Morning on Dec. 6 concerned the Mont Blanc explosion in Halifax Harbor on December 6, 1917. 1800 people were killed, and 9000 were injured. Wikipedia notes: The blast...
View ArticleWhat’s the Answer to Revenge Porn?
What The . . . ? by Reinis Traidas from Flickr (Creative Commons License) I’m frustrated. I regularly review the terms people search for and end up on this site. Almost every day people are asking...
View ArticleInnovative Gifts For Budding Inventors
At the Damon R. Hickman Law Firm, the holiday season is a very busy time of the year. As the year draws to a close the holidays are always overshadowed by patent filing deadlines leaving our firm with...
View ArticleStockholders Can’t Sue Yelp Because Of Fake Reviews (Forbes Cross-Post)
Are there fake user reviews on Yelp? Sure–Yelp freely admits it. Nevertheless, plaintiffs have attempted a variety of legal theories to hold Yelp legally responsible for those fake reviews. Recently, a...
View ArticleSling CEO: Comcast data caps so low they hurt competing video providers
(credit: Sling TV) Sling TV CEO Roger Lynch accused Comcast of setting its data caps just low enough to prevent customers from replacing cable TV with online video streaming. In an interview with...
View Article“Nemesis” malware hijacks PC’s boot process to gain stealth, persistence
Malware targeting banks, payment card processors, and other financial services has found an effective way to remain largely undetected as it plucks sensitive card data out of computer memory. It...
View ArticleGuest Post by Prof. Contreras – CSIRO v. Cisco: The Convergence of RAND and...
Guest Post by Jorge L. Contreras, Associate Professor, University of Utah College of Law. In Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation v. Cisco Systems, Inc. (Fed. Cir., Dec. 1,...
View ArticleCriminal Counterfeit Law: U.S. Marshals Selling Thousands of Bottles of...
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Marshals are currently auctioning approximately 4,711 bottles of wine, deemed authentic, that belonged to Rudy Kurniawan, the man convicted of fraud in federal court in 2013...
View ArticleWith gun control off-limits, politicians want tech sector to fight terror
(credit: Whitehouse.gov) Last week, a San Bernardino couple armed with two .223-caliber assault rifles and two 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistols killed 14 people. And the very next day, the Senate...
View ArticleIPR amendments discussed in PROLITEC, INC v. Scentair
The majority noted:In Proxyconn, we affirmed the Board’s denial of thepatentee’s motion to amend because it failed to show thatits proposed substitute claims were patentable over “priorart of...
View ArticleCharlie Sheen Wants "Extortionist" Ex's HIV Lawsuit Out of...
The actor denies he abused Brett Rossi and hid his HIV diagnosis from her, calling for confidential arbitration of her explosive new claims.read more
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