Proximate Cause Is Required to Win Your Fraud Claim
To state a cause of action for fraud in Virginia, a plaintiff must plead that there was (1) a false representation of (2) a material fact, (3) made intentionally and knowingly, (4) with intent to...
View ArticlePinterest Loses Trademark Battle
IPNews® - Pinterest lost two cases it filed over trademark infringement, one in the United States and one in the United Kingdom. Both cases focused on the concepts and phrases surrounding the ideas of...
View ArticleFacebook Beats Privacy Lawsuit Alleging Persistent Tracking
Shutterstock / SoulCurry – I love My Privacy This is a lawsuit against Facebook alleging that it tracked people visiting websites throughout the web even if they were not logged on to Facebook. As the...
View ArticleAfter guilty plea, judge confused as to why prosecutors still want iPhone...
(credit: Paul) Federal prosecutors have said that they are moving forward in their attempt to compel Apple to unlock a seized iPhone 5S running iOS 7, even after the defendant in a felony drug case has...
View ArticleTWiL 325: You Got Kafka In My Orwell
Hosts: Denise Howell, Sarah Pearson Guests: Nina Paley, Jorge Roig Google Books is legal after 10 years, new DMCA rules for copyright, using DNA to store information, and more! Photo credit: Gido...
View ArticleApple Ordered to Pay $234 Million in Patent Infringement Suit
Jeremy McKinney On October 16, 2015, as a result of a District Court case in Wisconsin, Apple was ordered to pay the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the University of Wisconsin-Madison's...
View ArticleCrypto is For Everyone—and American History Proves It
Over the last year, law enforcement officials around the world have been pressing hard on the notion that without a magical "backdoor" to access the content of any and all encrypted communications by...
View ArticlePoor Employer Onboarding and Departure Procedures Can Lead to Horrifying...
This upcoming Halloween reminds us that employers face their own terrors in trying to protect trade secrets and other valuable company information in the workplace, particularly if they have poor...
View ArticleIf At First You Don’t Succeed (at passing a cybersecurity intelligence...
By Brennen Johnson Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate just passed CISA (the “Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act”) on Tuesday, October 27. If the White House does not veto it, CISA will allow tech...
View ArticleEnergy Union and Climate Change Policy Report
Tomorrow the Juncker EU Commission will be in office for one year. For the occasion they have prepared overview reports on what they have achieved in that time frame. The report for energy and climate...
View ArticlePodcasting is better than ever! A list of favourites
Bring back The Bugle!I have to admit that I am not a big fan of radio. Other than the occasional listen to the always excellent BBC Radio 6, I tend to spend most of my listening time with my own music...
View ArticleComputer and Internet Updates for 2015-10-30
Anonymous plans to 'unhood' 1,000 Ku Klux Klan members online https://t.co/TvenjD85Lo -> Political promises mean nothing to the law, U.K. court rules https://t.co/YWbZzlIFbI -> "Internet search...
View ArticleNASA is seeking answers for growing plants, constructing buildings on Mars
Now that NASA has announced its goal of sending a manned space mission to Mars sometime in the 2030s, the race is on to accomplish many of the scientific discoveries that will be required to support...
View ArticleNASA is seeking answers for growing plants, constructing buildings on Mars
Now that NASA has announced its goal of sending a manned space mission to Mars sometime in the 2030s, the race is on to accomplish many of the scientific discoveries that will be required to support...
View ArticleVeterans, We’ve Been Heard! Your Right to See a Private Physician Under the...
Bob Goss, founder of the Law Office of Robert B. Goss, P.C. Back in September, we posted a blog about VA’s handling of the “Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014,” P.L. 113-146...
View ArticleJudge Robinson Denies Plaintiffs’ Class Certification and Dismisses Case in...
By Memorandum Opinion entered by The Honorable Sue L. Robinson in In Re Class 8 Transmission Indirect Purchaser Antitrust Litigation, Civil Action No. 11-00009-SLR (D.Del., October 21, 2015), the Court...
View ArticleFederal Circuit Looks for Briefing on Automatic Assignment En Banc Challenge
Following up on the Shukh v. Seagate petition for en banc rehearing, the Federal Circuit has now taken an important first step of asking Seagate for its response to the petition, due by November 13,...
View Article2015 Global IP Summit
October 31, 2015 — On November 5 and 6, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will host the 2015 Global IP Summit in Washington, D.C. Speakers will include: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT),...
View ArticleHow Does Patent-Eligibility Relate to Novelty and Non-obviousness?
Is prior art relevant to determining patent-eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101, or isn’t it? In finding, on a motion for summary judgment, that claims drawn to “presenting information on a...
View ArticleAn exercise in foreseeability: Morgan Robertson "predicts" Titanic...
After KSR, there is much discussion of foreseeability in the obviousness analysis.An interesting, and eerie, example of foreseeability is found in the novella by Morgan Robertson titled: Futility.The...
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