Aspen Forum panel explores international Internet regulations, territoriality...
Territoriality has been a difficult aspect of public international law to apply to the Internet and information technology sectors. It’s a central aspect of the current flap between Google and CNIL,...
View ArticleFAA launches investigation after drone crashes, hits baby
GTimofey The Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation after a DJI Inspire 1 crashed and injured a nearly one-year-old girl in Pasadena, California earlier this month. The crash of...
View ArticleEFF Urges Federal Appeals Court to Protect Speech, Guard Against Censorship...
Net Neutrality Rules Under Attack by U.S. Telecommunications ProvidersWashington—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking a federal appeals court to approve Federal Communications Commission...
View ArticleUPC-ing is Believing: Preview of London's UPC location
The AmeriKat steps foot onto the carpet of the new London UPC locationAfter wringing the London rain from her whiskers and tail in the lobby of Aldgate Tower last Wednesday, the AmeriKat bounced up to...
View ArticleResearchers Could Have Uncovered Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheat If Not Hindered...
Automakers argue that it’s unlawful for independent researchers to look at the code that controls vehicles without the manufacturer’s permission. We’ve explained before how this allows manufacturers to...
View ArticleSecurity firm pledges $1 million bounty for iOS jailbreak exploits
A broker of software attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in widely used software is placing a $1 million bounty on critical iOS bugs that allow hackers to remotely commandeer iPhones and iPads. "Apple...
View ArticleEFF Urges State Appeals Court to Protect Twitter Parodies
Courts have long recognized that the First Amendment protects parodies, and last Friday, EFF filed a “friend of the court” brief urging a state court of appeals in Michigan to apply the same...
View ArticleJury finds for Exmark against Briggs & Stratton in patent infringement case
See Exmark awarded 24.3 million in patent case
View ArticleCity of Berkeley fends off wireless industry suit over health warning
ali sinan köksal The City of Berkeley has fended off a lawsuit filed against it by CTIA, the wireless industry trade lobby. In a preliminary injunction today, the city has been asked to change a single...
View ArticleJoin us at the Freedom to Innovate Summit
EFF is working with the Center for Civic Media at MIT to organize the Freedom to Innovate Summit (F2i) at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 10 and 11. The conference will bring...
View ArticleUniversity of Arizona places gag order on discussion of promoted professor...
From within an Arizona Daily Star article on plagiarism by Professor Susannah Dickinson titled UA professor who plagiarized student gets tenure :“The provost has explicitly prohibited us from...
View ArticleNext up: trade secret trolls?
From The Verge:Of course, frivolous lawsuits are nothing new, but recent shifts have made trade secrets a particularly attractive claim for anyone looking to go after a deep-pocketed tech company. As...
View ArticleDid PTAB and the NLR analyze the facts of the Tecfidera petition properly?
A post in the National Law Review, dated 10 September 2015,Clinical Trials As Prior Art: PTAB Denies Bass IPR Petition With Only A "Hope" of Efficacy includes the text:The Board rejected the challenge...
View ArticleSouth African Cybercrime Bill Would Throw the Book at Copyright Infringers
Last month South Africa released its draft Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Bill for public comment; the latest in a wave of such laws that has been sweeping the continent and beyond. EFF is currently...
View ArticleNetwork Engineers Weigh In to Support the Open Internet
Yesterday, EFF and the ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief (press release) defending the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules in the federal Court of Appeals for the District of...
View ArticleIf elected president, Jeb Bush will get rid of net neutrality rules
Jeb Bush Jeb 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush today pledged to "repeal or reform the most onerous Obama rules and regulations," and net neutrality would be one of the first things on his...
View ArticleDallas Buyers Club files third lawsuit over Popcorn Time
In recent years, no mainstream movie has resulted in more litigation than Dallas Buyers Club, starring Matthew McConaughey. Voltage Pictures, the studio that produced the Oscar-winning film, followed...
View ArticlePETA wants court to grant copyright to ape that snapped famous selfie
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is trying to turn copyright law on its head: in this instance, with the mug of a macaque monkey named Naruto, whose selfies went viral and have been...
View ArticleU.S. Patent No. 7,628,697: Game apparatus, game progressing method, program,...
U.S. Patent No. 7,628,697: Game apparatus, game progressing method, program, and recording mediumIssued Dec. 8, 2009, to Square EnixSummary:The ‘697 patent describes a game apparatus where a character...
View ArticleJudge Gilstrap Grants 101 Motion Disposing of eDekka Cases; Requires 285...
EDekka v. 3Balls.com, Inc., 2:15cv541-JRG (9/21/15) eDekka LLC has filed approximately 253 cases in the Eastern District since 2013, all involving one patent. The 2015 tranche consisted of...
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