Here are EFF’s most influential cases from its first 25 years
On Friday, July 10, the Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrated its 25th anniversary. The San Francisco-based group has been a stalwart of tech and legal advocacy since its founding and has played a...
View ArticleNoteworthy Domain Decisions July 2015
Office Space Solutions, Inc. v. Kneen, 1:15-cv-04941 (SDNY July 7, 2015). The reason for reporting on this case (filed June 24 and withdrawn with prejudice July 8, 2015) is that plaintiff, owner of a...
View ArticleCBS Sunday Morning on July 12, 2015
Lee Cowan, not Charles Osgood, introduced the stories for July 12, a visit to Sunday at the Shore, beginning with East Hampton. arry Peterson does the cover story, a modern day treasure hunt. Second,...
View ArticleAbstract Juggernaut
The steamrolling of software patents continues. Intellectual Ventures asserted two patents against Capital One that went to appeal (CAFC 2014-1506). One claimed tracking spending related to a pre-set...
View ArticlePaternal Justice: A Bill Cosby Approach to Patents by the PTO
Bill Cosby quipped 'I brought you in this world, and I can take you out.' The Patent Office makes similar arguments in court defending inter partes review. In a filing by the United States Patent and...
View ArticleCops nab fugitives in Cabo San Lucas by tracking Spotify IP address
A seven-month search for two Colorado children came to an end days ago after the authorities tracked the IP address of the alleged abductors' Spotify account to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Brittany Nunn,...
View ArticleChina New Balance decision - lessons for Africa in #sandtondiscussion
Lita tells Afro-IP that this week's #sandtondiscussion turns east to consider a recent case where famous footwear and apparel brand New Balance lost a trade mark case in China and is ordered to pay...
View ArticleWelsh government uses Klingon to respond to serious UFO questions
The Welsh government has used the Klingon language to respond to serious questions about UFO sightings in Wales. Rather than the native tongue of an extraterrestrial warrior species that inhabits the...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Limits Review of Attorney Fee Issues
SFA Systems v. Newegg (Fed. Cir. 2015) Although it received a somewhat favorable claim construction ruling and won a summary judgment challenge, the patentee (SFA) dropped its case against Newegg and...
View ArticleMonday miscellany
Prior to the Directive, Europe had a longand colourful history of enforcement ...Enforcement event. This year's JIPLP-GRUR Int London seminar takes place on Tuesday 8 September. The subject is the...
View ArticleLetter from AmeriKat: Hospira's Angiomax win, Apple jury award vacated...
The AmeriKat is no stranger to hissingwhen she thinks change is needed...or if she is hungryHarmony is overrated. Passivity for the sake of a peaceful life can leave bad behavior unchallenged....
View ArticleHow Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle East
Shortly after Microsoft Bing launched in 2009, researchers at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society found that the search engine was enforcing “safe search” in a number of countries, including...
View ArticleThe Problematical IPR Proceedings of the AIA: BRI, Reviewability,...
In three related decisions (most recently including a denial of rehearing en banc by a badly divided 6-5 decision issued concurrently with reissuance of the earlier panel decision) titled In re Cuozzo...
View ArticleSony Pictures Ex-Employees Report Being Victim to Identity Fraud
Plaintiffs seek class certification in their negligence lawsuit over breached data from a hack.read more
View ArticleNTIA Schedules Drone Stakeholder Confabs
NTIA steps up effort to develop consensus as to best practices for drone use In the race to see what agency will get gets its arms around drone management first, it looks like the dark horse is moving...
View ArticleEircode Launches with Privacy and Data Protection Issues
Today is the launch of eircode, Ireland’s new postcode system. From a technology and privacy perspective, there are potentially numerous benefits to adopting such a system in Ireland. A postcode should...
View ArticlePrime Rights Grab
One of my happiest moments: petting gray whales in Magdalena Bay Along with Amazon’s Prime Day, “a one-day shopping event on July 15, 2015, with more deals than Black Friday,” Amazon is hosting a...
View ArticleGhost in the “New Machine”: How Alice Exposed Software Patenting’s Category...
The Alice Court’s characterization of computer programming has effectively repudiated, inter alia, the doctrine that programming a general-purpose computer creates a patent-eligible “new machine.” This...
View ArticleThe Three Faces of Prometheus: A Post-Alice Jurisprudence of Abstractions
While Alice v. CLS Bank has confirmed that patent claims require a further “inventive concept” beyond an underlying abstract idea or law of nature for patent-eligibility, there is little agreement on...
View ArticleOscar and Pulitzer Award-Winning Journalist Laura Poitras Sues U.S....
Poitras, Filmmaker Behind Snowden Documentary CITIZENFOUR, Searched and Questioned Every Time She Entered U.S. From 2006 to 2012Washington, D.C. – Academy and Pulitzer Prize Award-winning documentary...
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