Law firm bosses envision Watson-type computers replacing young lawyers
Your honor. May it please the court.... (credit: peyri) "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." —Henry VI, Part 2. Shakespeare interpretations aside, it seems that artificial intelligence...
View ArticleIt's Still the Cable Company--Part 179
After months of regular and largely uninterrupted cable television service my home Video On Demand access suddenly evaporated. Research on the regularly appearing error code showed that...
View ArticleGuest Post: Fair Use or Foul Ball?
Gregory J. Winsky of Archer & Greiner, PC See below for more information about my partner Greg Winsky, who is just snarky enough to merit a guest post on LIKELIHOOD OF CONCLUSION on a topic I’ve...
View ArticleTeaching Millennials
Teaching mostly college juniors and seniors provides me with the opportunity to observe cutting edge early adopters of new technology. I am mostly invisible; they regularly walk into me,...
View ArticleThere's No Place Like My Trademark
"home" for geeksDear Rich: We have a t-shirt business in which we use a slogan and then add a geographic location -- imagine something like, "I Wish I Were in [City]" or "There's No Place Like [City]."...
View ArticleWhere does a Defendant “Reside” for Jurisdictional Purposes in Patent...
By Dennis Crouch In re TC Heartland LLC (on mandamus to the Fed Cir. 2015) (read-it: Heartland Mand) An interesting mandamus action was recently filed by the Prof John Duffy and Jim Dabney (both now...
View ArticleTop German official infected by highly advanced spy trojan with NSA ties
A diagram of the Regin platform. (credit: Kaspersky Lab) German Chancellor Angela Merkel may not be the only high-ranking leader from that country to be spied on by the National Security Agency....
View ArticleDeadmau5 Sues Over Remixes and Mashups
The EDM star signed away rights to early recordings, but alleges that derivatives put out by his former manager are violating his moral rights.read more
View Article“HONEY BADGER DON’T CARE” YouTube video creator files intellectual property...
Recently, the creator of the “HONEY BADGER DON’T CARE” YouTube video filed a lawsuit against Kohl’s Department Stores alleging various federal trademark and copyright claims.[1] The Plaintiff published...
View ArticleThe Zone 9 Bloggers are Free: but Ethiopia Still Thinks Digital Security is...
The last of the Zone 9 Bloggers are finally free from jail, after nearly 18 months of detention for simply speaking out online. All the bloggers were acquitted of terrorism charges by the Ethiopian...
View ArticleWhy Europe’s net neutrality plan is more controversial than US rules
An EU flag at the European Parliament. (credit: European Parliament) The European Parliament is scheduled to vote on net neutrality rules on Tuesday, and at first glance the proposed regulations appear...
View ArticleIndiana Patent Litigation: German Lawyers and Law Firm Sued on Allegations of...
South Bend, Indiana - An Indiana patent attorney for Plaintiffs Never Lost Golf, LLC of South Bend, Indiana; Michael Carnell, a domiciliary of California who resides in Berlin, Germany and who does...
View ArticleA Digital Library of Alexandria: Google Books Remains Fair Use
By Sam Hampton In the latest development in a decade long case, the Second Circuit ruled on October 16th that Google Books was fair use and did not violate book copyrights. The service provides fully...
View ArticleUS Congressman subpoenas NOAA climate scientists over study
(credit: Luis Ramirez) In his position as Chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Texas Congressman Lamar Smith has spent much of the last few years pressuring the National...
View ArticleEFF, ACLU Ask California Supreme Court to Order Release of Los Angeles...
Groups Appeal Lower Court Ruling Finding Police Agencies Don’t Have To Disclose RecordsSan Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California (ACLU...
View ArticleJudge orders school to delete Facebook post about school board candidate
Bob Schaffer, principal at Liberty Common High School. (credit: Rocky Mountain News) A judge ruled recently (PDF) that a post on a high school’s Facebook page about a school board candidate in a...
View ArticleMonday miscellany
Are you creating or disseminating information about IP? This year's IP Publishers and Editors Lunch on Wednesday 25 November is starting to fill up nicely, with people travelling from France and...
View ArticleValeant stock takes a beating after drug price increases
Not unrelated to the controversy related to Turning Pharma, Valeant was under scrutiny in a poston Reuters Drugmaker Valeant raises detailed defense but doubts remainText on Wikipedia summarizes the...
View ArticleV.K Gupta on TDKL database: "If we give access, these multinationals...
Nicola Twilley has an interesting post at the New Yorker titled: Who Owns the Patent on Nutmeg?.Apart from the predictive quote of V.K. Gupta, which may have great relevance to issues in patent reform,...
View ArticleCO2 Makes Humans Dumber
That’s what Joe Romm says, quoting research from Harvard. If true, this finally solves the great mystery of global warming: How can humanity be both so clever as to develop modern civilization in the...
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