From Three Mile Island to Fukushima Daiichi, a look back at what we’ve learned
In all, the world’s nuclear power plants have accrued a total of 16,000 cumulative reactor-years of commercial operation and yet there have only been 12 total nuclear power reactor accidents around the...
View ArticleFrom Three Mile Island to Fukushima Daiichi, a look back at what we’ve learned
In all, the world’s nuclear power plants have accrued a total of 16,000 cumulative reactor-years of commercial operation and yet there have only been 12 total nuclear power reactor accidents around the...
View ArticleCopyright Registration Systems Are Back Online
Systems of the United States Copyright Office are back online as of 8:00 am, Sunday, September 6, 2015 and customers may resume submitting registration applications electronically. As previously...
View ArticleJane Pauley does CBS Sunday Morning on September 6, 2015
Jane Pauley, not Charles Osgood, introduced the stories for September 6, 2015. Martha Teichner did the cover story which began with a peak at rust belt city Port Clinton, Ohio. Mo Rocca on Steven...
View ArticleConcurrent Trademark Rights Not Grounds for Cybersquatting
It is out of the ordinary for respondents in UDRP proceedings to have registered trademarks; it is more so that parties should also be in the same business. It may be suspicious that the later to...
View ArticleMonday miscellany
... must at least be identifiableReminder for all readers: from today, Monday 7 September, readers' comments will no longer be accepted if they are not submitted (i) in the name of their author or (ii)...
View Article2015 AIPLA/USPTO Road Show Series
2015 AIPLA/USPTO Road Show Series-Enhanced Patent Quality Initiative Patent Quality? Does it Matter to Me? #WeAreTheAnswer Ensuring our clients’ competitive advantage in the marketplace continues to...
View ArticleT178/10 : redondant ?
La revendication 1 de la requête principale avait pour objet une "structure multicouche formant une couverture de passeport" Selon une des caractéristiques de la revendication, "la puce est logée, sans...
View ArticleAmicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc:...
By Donald Zuhn -- Earlier this summer, in Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the District Court for the Northern District of California granting...
View ArticlePM cancellation case subject of #SandtonDiscussion at 9am CAT
The twitter series hosted by Adams & Adams continues with a discussion on this case involving a spat with Philip Morris and Westminster Tobacco Products over the PARLIAMENT trade mark in South...
View ArticleA Feast for the Eyes - Food Porn Banned in Germany?
Since the emergence of Instagram and other similar social networks, the power and marketability of pictures, especially of food, has sky-rocketed. This writer fondly remembers a time when he could go...
View ArticleNoteworthy Domain Name Decisions April through August 2015
Don’t miss earlier Noteworthy Domain Decisions for April through July 2015. For information on Domain Name Arbitration, A Practical Guide to Asserting and Defending Claims of Cybersquatting under the...
View ArticleWhy are Fictions so Common in Law?
Legal Fictions in Theory and Practice, (Maksymilian Del Mar and William Twining, eds., 2015). Brian Tamanaha Law is filled with legal fictions, roughly defined as statements known to be false but...
View ArticleComputer and Internet Updates for 2015-09-06
Computer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2015-09-05 http://t.co/Nenf47GOmn -> Times Magazine Editor on ‘Creative Apocalypse’ Article http://t.co/4rOyOplCfs -> Computer and Internet Weekly Updates...
View ArticlePublishers should not be the beneficiaries of any fair compensation, says the...
As summer is sadly approaching its end, there may be nonetheless some reasons not to feel completely blue, one of these being that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has just resumed its...
View ArticleThe Red Web: In Putin’s Russia, Internet watches you
While the Soviet Union may be long gone, much of its mentality still lingers. A desire for control continues to motivate the Kremlin to impose an authoritarian regime not only in Russian media and...
View ArticleNo substitute for the real thing: Bonningtons and friends prepare for Battle...
First, a definition: “substitute sellers” are individuals and companies who take advantage of systems on online sales platforms which enable their users to list their own products under existing...
View ArticleNorwegian Pirate Party provides DNS server to bypass new Pirate Bay blockade
Following a court-ordered block of The Pirate Bay and a number of other file-sharing websites in Norway, the Norwegian Pirate Party (Piratpartiet Norge) has now set up free, uncensored DNS servers that...
View ArticleTeacher Who Blogged Pseudonymously About Students Being “Rat-Like” or...
This case involved a teacher who maintained a pseudonymous blog that, along with her personal observations and musings, chronicled some of her frustrations with students. One post in particular talked...
View ArticleThe Recycling of Brand Vessels?
Brand signals have been described as meaning vessels before, and vessels of trust too. Does that make a branded product package, container, or configuration a vessel within vessel? The tin cans below...
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