EFF to Court: Posting 3-D Design Files Online Is Free Speech
Government Has Created Impermissible Licensing Regime for Computer-Readable DesignsSan Francisco - The government cannot require Americans to go through an export licensing scheme prior to posting and...
View ArticleNW Brewpub Chain McMenamins Uses Own Site to Openly Solicit Accredited Investors
Those of you that enjoy beer or securities laws (or both), may have recently seen news articles from various Puget Sound media outlets amorphously mentioning “crowdfunding” when reporting on the...
View ArticleCongress approves surveillance legislation tucked into budget package
(credit: Brad Clinesmith) Congress on Friday adopted a $1.15 trillion spending package that included a controversial cybersecurity measure that only passed because it was slipped into the US...
View ArticleLeveraging Employment Restraints to Protect Business Assets
When a key employee subject to an employment restraint leaves a business to join a competitor, fast decisions need to be made to protect client goodwill or guard against misuse of confidential...
View ArticleFrying Small Potatoes: Will Amazon’s Pursuit of Individual Fake-Review...
Amazon’s customer reviews have long been a go-to resource for consumers researching prospective purchases. Unfortunately, fake customer reviews—product critiques commissioned by merchants and...
View ArticleTTB Ruling 2015-1: Exempt Malt Beverage Formula Ingredients
Hooray! Brewers can eschew time-consuming Formula Approvals for more than fifty additional ingredients, thanks to TTB Ruling 2015-1!Behold, more exempt beer ingredients (scroll down for the entire...
View ArticleMartin Shkreli steps down as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals
Martin Shkreli, chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals LLC, exits federal court in New York, US, on Thursday, December 17, 2015. Shkreli was arrested on alleged securities fraud related to...
View ArticleChanges to Facebook’s "Real Names" Policy Still Don’t Fix the Problem
In response to feedback from activist groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Facebook announced Tuesday that it would change some aspects of its real names policy. As it currently...
View ArticleEFF's 2015 Holiday Wishlist
For the last four years, EFF has greeted the holiday season by publishing a list of things we'd like to see happen in the coming year. Sometimes these are actions we'd like to see taken by companies,...
View ArticleGovernment Succeeds in Stalling, Again—But Jewel v. NSA Goes On
We were disappointed today to learn that a federal appeals court in Pasadena declined to consider EFF’s appeal of a ruling in Jewel v. NSA, our long-running lawsuit battling unconstitutional mass...
View ArticleFederal Court of Appeal Strikes Down Overbroad Permanent Injunction on...
The United States Court of Appeal for the Seventh Circuit today struck down an overbroad permanent injunction against online speech issued by a lower court in a defamation case. The lower court had...
View ArticlePost in TIME attacks Wright Brothers as pioneering trolls
There is a sad post at TIME magazine ripping the Wright Brothers as the pioneering patent trolls. Link: http://time.com/4143574/wright-brothers-patent-trolling/There are at least two things wrong with...
View ArticleWill.i.am. And The I AM Trademark Dispute
William Adams (aka “will.i.am”) member of the well-known music group, The Black Eyed Peas filed a trademark application for the mark I AM at the United States Patent & Trademark Office. The...
View ArticleTWiL 331: I Find Your Lack Of Safe Harbor Protection Disturbing
Hosts: Denise Howell Victories and letdowns for new exemptions to the 2015 DMCA Anti-Circumvention provisions, YouTube's new Fair Use Protection Program and DMCA reform, the trial over "Happy Birthday"...
View ArticleManagement Firm Industry Entertainment Sued for Alleged Client-Stealing
New Wave Entertainment claims manager Paul Brown improperly took actors Laura Prepon and Tommy Dewey with him when he left for Industry earlier this year.read more
View ArticleProtecting cuisine in Italy: photographs of dishes and recipes in recent case...
Not an average risottoThe recent and growing obsession with food and food porn [see here for a collection of IPKat posts] has been raising not just anthropological questions about ourselves but also...
View ArticlePandora shares soar after Copyright Royalty Board set new rate
Pandora, the world's largest Internet radio service, will pay record companies more money to stream its music following a long-awaited decision on Wednesday by the three-judge panel of the U.S....
View ArticleComputer and Internet Updates for 2015-12-18
PROPOSAL FOR ANALYSIS OF COPYRIGHT RELATED TO THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENThttps://t.co/FoRrjeR28W -> Dot-sucks domain name not our problem, Ottawa says https://t.co/yViL3fGiFJ -> Review of the Year:...
View ArticleChief Judge Stark Dismisses Parties’ Implied License Claims and Defenses...
By Memorandum Order entered by The Honorable Leonard P. Stark in S3 Graphics Co., Ltd. v. ATI Technologies ULC, et al., Civil Action No. 11-1298-LPS (D.Del., December 11, 2015), the Court dismissed...
View ArticleSpace Technology Hall of Fame includes NASA tech made because of research...
The unintended positive impacts of research and development pursued in the improvement of space flight have been a topic of conversation here on IPWatchdog in recent months. In the wake of NASA’s...
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