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Looking for some advice and suggestions on our new forum: http://patentlyo.com/forums. One purpose behind these is to allow for a more coherent longer-term discussion over a particular topic in a way...
View ArticleClass Action Targets Ashley Madison Over Lack of Real Women on Cheating Site
A hack seems to have revealed many "fembots." Can that be used in court?read more
View ArticleVienna Commercial Court quashes Austrian law on private copying levies
Is there any topic in the copyright world that is more appealing and exciting than private copying and related levies? Following Eleonora's post earlier this week on the recent Opinion of the European...
View ArticleIPO Webinar on Advanced Conflict Waivers
The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Advanced Conflict Waivers: How to Avoid Unpleasant Surprises" on September 22, 2015 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET)....
View ArticleAustralian Patent Office Rejects ‘Free Energy’ Application for Lack of Utility
Back in April I published an article about patenting perpetual motion and free energy machines. One of the points I made in that article was that prior to the passage of the Intellectual Property Laws...
View ArticleLesenswerte juristische Weblinks #127
Ausgewählte Weblinks zu lesenswerten juristischen Inhalten – heute unter anderem zu Blockwarten und Sittenwächtern im digitalen Raum und zum Aufstieg von Algorithmen beziehungsweise Plattformen …...
View ArticleComputer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2015-09-12
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 ArticleHow the NFL—not the NSA—is impacting data gathering well beyond the gridiron
Video shot and edited by Christopher Schodt. (video link)SANTA CLARA, Calif.—As guards were going so far as to check inside NFL fans' wallets as part of routine security measures before a recent...
View ArticleKenya to copy DMCA, block hosts of infringing sites?
Via Infojustice comes "Upcoming Kenyan Copyright Amendments to Target Local Internet Service Providers Hosting Infringing Content", which tells us the following:The Kenya Copyright Board (KEBCO) is...
View ArticleAriosa v. Sequenom: Dire consequences for biomedicine require rehearing en...
The panel decision in this case reads recent Supreme Court precedent to create an existential threat to patent protection for an array of meritorious inventions. It avowedly holds that “groundbreaking”...
View ArticleAriosa v. Sequenom: Dire consequences for biomedicine require rehearing en...
The panel decision in this case reads recent Supreme Court precedent to create an existential threat to patent protection for an array of meritorious inventions. It avowedly holds that “groundbreaking”...
View ArticleSunday snippets
Free guide to patent analytics, and patent landscape reports. While many practitioners, and organizations provide, or use patent landscape reports, there are precious few resources for learning how to...
View ArticleThe Advantages of Enacting a Patent Box Regime
The exact terms of a patent box will vary depending on what the drafter is trying to promote. For example, the tax preference could require that the profits be derived only from a patent secured in...
View ArticleThe Advantages of Enacting a Patent Box Regime
The exact terms of a patent box will vary depending on what the drafter is trying to promote. For example, the tax preference could require that the profits be derived only from a patent secured in...
View Article"Fees, please!" say the Courts, but can IP owners preserve their cash?
Money: a precious commodityThere have been dark and foreboding rumblings in England and Wales to the effect that the recent increase in court fees is a dire and dreadful thing, and something that will...
View ArticleLaws don’t kill free speech, legislators do
All is proceeding as I have foreseen: http://t.co/NMS2CBQjdO https://t.co/Mgi79j8ieP — Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) September 10, 2015
View ArticleCBS Sunday Morning on September 13, 2015: Jan Crawford interviews Justice...
Charles Osgood introduced the stories for September 13, 2015, beginning with the cover story by Lee Cowan on athletes not managing their finances well. A later pulse poll revealed 67% of the population...
View ArticleInventorship dispute at the University of Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article about academic intrigue and patents, titledFederal patent office rules against two Pitt doctors on vaccine application.There was a patent application filed by...
View Article"Invention companies that rely on patent-licensing fees are outnumbered...
TheHill has commentary related in part to non-practising entities (NPEs):Meanwhile, policy discussions have focused on theories, promoted by parties that would profit from lower patent licensing fees,...
View ArticleDept. of Justice shutters Sharebeast, the largest US-based filesharing service
On Friday, the Department of Justice and the RIAA claimed another victory in the never-ending battle against file-sharing when the government agency seized the domain of Sharebeast.com. The site now...
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