Should the Pirates get 10 Years, or just walk the Plank?
Some considerable time after the Gowers Review (pdf) recommended (recommendation 36) that the maximum term of imprisonment for online criminal infringement should be increased, the IPO has launched a...
View ArticleBig Tobacco Heads to Court Over Cigarette Plain Packaging Laws
The British legislation, aimed at curbing demand for cigarettes, requires that all cigarettes be sold in uniform packs with all branding, including colors, logos and other trademarks, removed....
View ArticleComputer and Internet Weekly Updates for 2015-07-18
Computer and Internet Law Weekly Updates for 2015-07-11: Why East Texas is ground zero for settling patent cas… http://t.co/RUs8uZ99hh -> Computer and Internet Law Weekly Updates for 2015-07-11...
View ArticleCBS Sunday Morning on July 19, 2015
Jane Pauley, not Charles Osgood, introduced the stories for July 19, 2015. Mark Strassman does the cover story on blind people playing baseball. John Blackstone on comedians Keegan-Michael Key and...
View ArticleStudy of the Post Grant Procedures Is Needed Now
Very few thought that the IPR procedure would be used by creative hedge fund managers to reap benefits for the price drop of pharmaceutical companies’ stock that have had their important drugs...
View ArticleSending Emails Isn’t Workplace Stalking–People v. Marian
Do you remember the 1990s debates over whether cyberspace is a “place,” and why that might matter? Yeah, we’re back to that. This case involves N.Y. Penal Law § 120.45(3), which occurs when a person...
View ArticleLong-Term Care Planning, Part 1
A Central Requirement Health care has been the topic of discussion lately, but the greatest threat to your financial health is long-term care. This is the kind of care you need if you are not able to...
View ArticleDrones ground helicopters fighting fire that burned across CA highway
On Friday, a wildfire northeast of Los Angeles spread so quickly that it jumped onto I-15 during gridlock, forcing passengers to flee as the flames engulfed their vehicles. But amid the chaos,...
View ArticleLetter from Japan 2: non-traditional trade marks embraced as new tradition?
From one-time guest Kat and Class 46 trade mark blogger Laetitia Lagarde comes the second of an occasional series of blog posts from Japan, where she is spending some time imbibing the local IP...
View Article35 U.S.C. § 101 Alice Train Rolls on in the District Courts
Here are brief summaries of nine recent cases in which district courts have considered validity of patent claims under 35 U.S.C. 101. The trend is not good for patent owners. Two Patents Survive a...
View ArticleEleven Field Offices Culled in Reorganization
Moving to “refocus” and “update” field office operations, FCC preserves more offices than originally anticipated, but some field personnel will lose jobs. A few months ago, we reported on Chairman...
View ArticleHacking Team built drone-based Wi-Fi hacking hardware
Leaked e-mails from the Italy-based computer and network surveillance company Hacking Team show that the company developed a piece of rugged hardware intended to attack computers and mobile devices via...
View ArticleJudge Stoll
On July 17, 2015, Kara Farnandez Stoll took the oath of office as Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit with a lifetime appointment from the President of the...
View ArticleTHE 4TH CIRCUIT AUTHORIZES A HEADS I WIN, TAILS YOU LOSE ATTORNEYS’ FEE AWARD...
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ recent ruling on attorneys fees in Shammas v. Focarino, No. 14-1191 (April 23, 2015), will, unless overturned by the Supreme Court, make the “direct” appeal to...
View ArticleEthiopian Arrests for Internet Security Training Undermine Right to Privacy
The simple act of taking steps to protect oneself online is enough to send a journalist to jail, according to charges issued by Ethiopian prosecutors in several cases to be heard this week. An...
View ArticleHacking Team goes to war against former employees, suspects some helped hackers
Italian prosecutors have begun a criminal investigation of six former employees of the embattled company Hacking Team, according to a Reuters' report citing anonymous sources. Hacking Team was hacked...
View ArticleBest Available Screen Challenges to the Wireless Lovefest
With growing momentum, wireline incumbent carriers have achieved general consensus that copper-based technologies should reach end of life, the sooner the better. The incumbents...
View ArticleNew brew for Starbucks and trademark?
I’ve written so much, for so long, about the branding and trademark adventures — overwhelmingly unhappy ones — of Starbucks that I’ve pretty much run out of ways of starting blog posts such as this...
View ArticleTechcrunch on Google’s New, Simplified Patent Search
Google modifies Google.patents on July 16. Techcrunch observes:Google has been a significant player in many facets of the patent world — as a creator, critic, litigator, buyer and big data indexer....
View ArticleVersata alleges Ford stole trade secrets
From within a post by Alisa Priddle, Detroit Free Press :"We are in a serious dispute with Ford," said Michael Richards, president of the global automotive division of Trilogy, parent company of...
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