Trademark Guide to the 2015 World Series®
Tonight, the Mets and the Royals will square off in the baseball World Series. Both teams have a lot of trademarks, with multiple logo variations. Surprisingly, I can’t find any players from either...
View ArticleThe EU rejects Safe Harbor: Stunning? Really? Nah.
If you do a Google search on the recent decision handed down by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice in Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner, et, al.holding that the U.S. Safe Harbor...
View ArticleVictory for Users: Librarian of Congress Renews and Expands Protections for...
The new rules for exemptions to copyright's DRM-circumvention laws were issued today, and the Librarian of Congress has granted much of what EFF asked for over the course of months of extensive briefs...
View ArticleIndiana Intellectual Property Litigation: Roche Seeks Declaration of...
Indianapolis, Indiana - Indiana intellectual property attorneys for Plaintiff Roche Diagnostics Corporation of Indianapolis, Indiana filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Indiana asking for a...
View ArticleCalifornia Supreme Court should force cops to give up LPR data, case argues
(credit: Brett J.) Two civil liberties groups filed their opening brief with the California Supreme Court late Monday, forcefully arguing that the millions of automated license plate reader records...
View ArticleVideo Privacy Protection Act Narrowed – App’s Transmission of Roku ID Not...
A New York district court opinion is the latest addition to our watch of ongoing VPPA-related disputes, a notable decision on the issue of what exactly is a disclosure of “personally identifiable...
View ArticleUnpatched browser weaknesses can be exploited to track millions of Web users
Enlarge (credit: Yan Zhu) Over the past decade, there's been a privacy arms race between unscrupulous website operators and browser makers. The former wield an ever-changing lineup of so-called zombie...
View ArticleChoosing a District for Patent Infringement Filing and Giving Meaning to...
by Dennis Crouch Back in 2008, I remember speaking with Judge Rader about the court’s recent jurisprudence. My thought was that In re TS Tech (Fed. Cir. 2008) was the most important of the year thus...
View ArticleIt’s still illegal to rip DVD and Blu-ray discs for personal use
(credit: Brian Herzog) Movie enthusiasts hoping to legally make backup copies or space-shift or format-shift their legally purchased DVD or Blu-ray discs are out of luck. Agreeing with rights holders'...
View ArticleU.S. Patent No. 7,654,903: Online gaming cheating prevention system and method
U.S. Patent No. 7,654,903: Online gaming cheating prevention system and methodIssued Feb. 2, 2010Summary:The ‘903 patent describes a system which observes players playing online for any signs of...
View ArticleWhy one software CEO agreed to meet a patent troll—and then fought it to the end
Pegasystems founder Alan Trefler, speaking at PegaWORLD conference earlier this year. (credit: Pegasystems) When the business software company Pegasystems got sued in 2013 by a mysterious shell company...
View ArticleEuropean Court Gives Bitcoin a Tax-Free Boost
In an important ruling for digital currency service providers, EU’s top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), ruled that transactions to exchange a traditional currency for bitcoin...
View ArticleWe Did It! 100,000 People Call on Obama to Support Strong Crypto
Crack open a Club-Mate and raise a glass to strong crypto. There’s reason to celebrate. Today, the 100,000th person signed our petition calling on President Obama to reject compelled backdoors in our...
View ArticleUS gov’t grants limited right to revive games behind “abandoned” servers
(credit: Flickr / craigfinlay) After nearly a year of debate and deliberation, the Library of Congress (LoC) has granted gamers and preservationists a limited legal method to restore access to games...
View ArticleEFF Disappointed as CISA Passes Senate
CISA passed the Senate today in a 74-21 vote. The bill is fundamentally flawed due to its broad immunity clauses, vague definitions, and aggressive spying authorities. The bill now moves to a...
View ArticleDrone downs power lines in Hollywood, hundreds affected for a few hours
Consider this a dramatization (it's not the actual drone in question). (credit: Kevin Baird) Officials in Los Angeles told Ars that a small drone knocked out power to hundreds of Hollywood residents...
View ArticleSenate passes controversial cybersecurity-cyberspying bill 74-21
(credit: mag3737) The Senate overwhelming approved the so-called Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) on Tuesday. The measure would allow companies to share consumers' data with the US...
View ArticlePatent process timeline and major milestones
The patent process timeline may be drawn out and expenses incurred over and above the cost of preparing and filing the patent application. The discussion below is directed to the typical life cycle...
View ArticleAt Long Last – AM Revitalization!
Translator windows, interference protection changes, MDCL … and adios to the ratchet rule Two years in the making, the FCC’s AM Revitalization decision (full name: “First Report and Order, Further...
View ArticleOrwell estate again rattling copyright saber over 1984 novel
If he were alive today, Eric Arthur Blair (better known by his pen name of George Orwell) might add another theme to the three defining political ideologies of 1984's Ingsoc. The themes in the...
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