Show # 242 — Prof. Natasha Schüll, author of Addiction By Design — posted
The third show for today’s salvo of new shows is Show # 242, July 24, my interview with Prof. Natasha Schüll of MIT, author of Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas. Natasha’s...
View ArticleShow # 243 — Prof. Jacqueline Lipton, author of Rethinking Cyberlaw — posted
For the final of the July shows, I’m thrilled to post Show # 243, July 31, my interview with Prof. Jacqueline Lipton of The University of Akron Law School, author of Rethinking Cyberlaw: A New Vision...
View ArticleSecond Circuit Enforces Terms Hyperlinked In Confirmation Email–Starkey v. G...
Plaintiff Starkey booked a trip online through G Adventures. She alleges a G Adventures employee assaulted her during the trip. She sued G Adventures in the Southern District of New York. That court...
View ArticleInvited Faculty: 2nd Annual Wineries, Breweries, and Distilleries Seminar
Join us at the 2nd Annual Wineries, Breweries, and Distilleries Seminar on October 15th in Seattle, WashingtonReiser Legal PLLC is pleased to join as faculty for the 2nd annual Wineries, Breweries, and...
View ArticleNew Documents and Reports Confirm AT&T and NSA’s Longstanding...
Reports today in the New York Times and ProPublica confirm what EFF’s Jewel v. NSA lawsuit has claimed since 2008—that the NSA and AT&T have collaborated to build a domestic surveillance...
View ArticleAlphabet: Google spells out its reasons -- but does this also spell trouble?
The news that online search-and-services giant Google was cultivating an alter ego for itself by opting for the name Alphabet for restructured holding company received less attention than one might...
View ArticleFree Mentoring at IDEAWorksFW 8/19
Come for the Salsa; Stay for the Mentoring The Damon R. Hickman Law Firm is pleased to announce that we will again be offering mentoring services through IDEA Works FW this week. Around 10:00 am on...
View ArticleSeminar on European Patent Law
Grünecker will be offering a two-day seminar on European Patent Law on September 24-25, 2015 in Munich, Germany. The seminar will offer presentations on the following topics: • The UPC and the Unitary...
View ArticleWorld IP Forum 2015
Intellectual Professionals LLP will be holding the next World IP Forum on September 15-17, 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Forum will offer presentations on the following topics: • Trade Secrets and IP...
View ArticleWebinar on Trade Secrets and Cybersecurity
Strafford will be offering a webinar/teleconference entitled "Trade Secrets and Cybersecurity: Protecting Intellectual Property, Mitigating Loss and Navigating Legal Responses" on September 24, 2015...
View ArticleLesenswerte juristische Weblinks #125
Ausgewählte Weblinks zu lesenswerten juristischen Inhalten: Markenrecht: «Die Markenpiratin, die die Luxus-Konzerne narrt.» Anwaltsporträt I: «Marcel Bosonnet – ein Linksanwalt alter Schule.» Freiheit...
View ArticleCo-branding and multiple brands; what they don't teach in your trade...
At its core, trade mark law is based on a simple premise—a trade mark is an indication of source. If only matters were that simple. For a century, trade marks have been used in advertising as well as...
View ArticleNew Horizons rips past Pluto to explore the outermost reaches of our solar...
The scientific instruments installed upon New Horizons were dormant for the vast majority of the trip so as to make sure that they were all in good working condition when the craft reached its target....
View ArticleBritax v Infa-Secure
Case: Britax Childcare Pty Ltd v Infa-Secure Pty Ltd (No 4) [2015] FCA 651 (30 June 2015) Date: 30 June 2015Middleton J.Notes:Claim ConstructionExpert witnessesExternal fair basis (note that the new...
View ArticleCBS Sunday Morning on August 16, 2015
Lee Cowan, not Charles Osgood, introduced the stories, and news,for August 16, 2015.A clip about Farmers Almanac predicting a cold winter.Lee Cowan did the cover story on the absenceof running water in...
View ArticleFive Easy Ways to Fix the Innovation Patent System
As I reported last week, IP Australia has opened a consultation on the belated recommendation by the now-defunct Australian Advisory Council on Intellectual Property (ACIP) that the government consider...
View ArticleLetter from AmeriKat: No CAFC hearing for Samsung, Apple top patent...
The AmeriKat cherishes the perspective that an airline journey can provide, if not thestatic-y fur caused by synthetic seat fabric(photo over Boston on her recent flight home)After almost 20 years of...
View ArticleEmerging Antitrust Regulation of Intellectual Property Licensing in Asia
Both Korea and China are major players on the global patent stage, and the leading companies of these countries file and obtain thousands of patents annually. But it seems increasingly clear that the...
View ArticleAT&T’s “Extreme Willingness to Help” is key to NSA Internet surveillance
A unique and unusually productive relationship with AT&T has helped the US National Security Agency trawl through vast quantities of Internet traffic, much of it transmitted through networks...
View ArticleHow BitTorrent could let lone DDoS attackers bring down big sites
Some of the most widely used BitTorrent applications, including uTorrent, Mainline, and Vuze are also the most vulnerable to a newly discovered form of denial of service attack that makes it easy for a...
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