Ninth Circuit Orders Stay in O’Bannon Case
On July 31, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted the NCAA’s request to stay the injunctions ordered by the District Court in the O’Bannon v. NCAA case. In August 2014,...
View ArticleUniversal Sued for "Secretly" Distributing Children's Film...
There's some trouble in the "zhu-niverse."read more
View ArticleEFF Tells Federal Appeals Court: Google Subpoena Threatens Online Speech and...
Today, EFF and a coalition of public interest groups filed an amicus brief with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in a high-profile battle over whether Google must respond to an unusual and dangerous...
View ArticleLack of Focus on IP Strategy Destroys $100 Millions in Value
As an IP Strategist, I am fascinated by stories from which declining business fortunes can be traced directly to failed patent strategies. Often, the failures can be traced to patent attorney errors...
View ArticleNew Street-Level Surveillance Project Tracks Spying Technologies Used by...
EFF Web Portal Provides In-Depth Resources About License Plate Readers, Biometric Collection, and Other High-Tech Surveillance ToolsSan Francisco – Responding to a troubling rise in law enforcement’s...
View ArticleA piece of trivia associated with Warren Spahn
Within a post titled 12 Mind Blowing Baseball Statistics is mention that Warren Spahn had the same number of career base hits as career wins (363).The article mentioned that Spahn batted below .200....
View ArticleForbes says weakening the patent system will hurt older Americans
A post at Forbes titled Attacks On The Patent System Are Going To Make Older Americans Worse Off includes text:As people live longer, we must make their lives better. Few would deny patents to Genetch,...
View ArticleObama rolls out the final EPA plan to cut carbon emissions
In the latest step of a saga that dates back to the Bush administration, the EPA issued its final rules on how the US will cut back on the carbon emissions created by electricity generation. During the...
View ArticleMore Washington Post criticism of telecommuting at the US Patent Office
Lisa Rein has another post on telework at the USPTO, with the title indicating the focus of "unmanageable" examiners:Report on patent office: Working from home has become a right, not a privilege. And...
View ArticleMovie Studios Seek SOPA Power Through Broad Site-Blocking Order
Major movie studios are again trying to make a website they don’t like disappear without a trial. This time, the studios are asking for one court order to bind every domain name registrar, registry,...
View ArticleObviousness in Britain
See the post at IPKat titled Taking the pH? Trial judge's decision on psoriasis patent doesn't come up to scratch As to a post-hoc "pick and mix" operation , recall the CAFC Unocal case.Of the IPKat...
View ArticleBoca Raton Principal loses his principal job over plagiarism, but not his salary
Of the graduation speech plagiarism matter in Boca Raton, FL by former West Boca High principal Mark Stenner:[Stenner] said he immediately regretted not crediting the authors of his 2014 and 2015...
View ArticleThe Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2015 was introduced on July 29, 2015
A trimmed down federal trade secrets bill was introduced on July 29, 2015.See the post Another Federal Trade Secret Protection Bill Introduced Absent some IP theft disaster hitting the news, passage of...
View ArticleDirecTV Roasted for Bringing "Cookie-Cutter" Piracy Lawsuit
Popular media monitoring service TVEyes hits back at a lawsuit alleging it intercepted satellite television.read more
View ArticleTuesday tiddlywinks
Henry Carr: a portrait in search of a caption?Hurrah for Henry! It was with a mixture of excitement and pleasure that this Kat read of the canonisation annointment appointment of Henry Carr QC as a...
View Article'Pirates of the Caribbean' Writer Sued For Commission By Former...
Terry Rossio, whose other credits include 'The Lone Ranger' and 'Deja Vu,' allegedly owes two years' worth.read more
View ArticleAnother 285 attorneys fees decision - this time from WD Tex
A number of years ago I was in chambers with an Eastern District judge and opposing counsel discussing a procedural question in a Fair Labor Standards Act case. I admitted to the judge that I didn't...
View Article“Oxygen OS” and the Future of the OnePlus Two
By Yayi Ding On July 27th, 2015, Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus unveiled its second-generation smartphone, the “OnePlus Two.” This was a highly anticipated launch, because OnePlus’ first...
View ArticleJULY 2015 FI&C WEBSITE NEWSLETTER
* Jeff Ireland has been selected to receive a Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his long-term commitment and leadership in ensuring access to justice for the disadvantaged of the Miami...
View ArticleChallenges to Allergan patents fail at the CAFC
The bottom line :For the reasons that follow, we affirm in all respects.The background of this Hatch-Waxman case:After Allergan received FDA-approval of Lumigan 0.01%, Sandoz, Lupin,Hi-Tech, and Watson...
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