Intellectual Property Law

How much does a patent cost?The Invent Blog??

Posted on February 29, 2008
According to Alan Kasper, the First Vice President of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA), more than I expected. In recent testimony before Congress, Mr. Kasper noted that: ???the preparation and filing of an original application of minimal complexity (10 page specification, 10 claims) on average by a firm having my firm???s size is $8,548...

Bush Calls Surveillance Bill an ???Urgent Priority???NYT > Technology

Posted on February 29, 2008
\n \n\nIt looks like one of the pseudonymous posters in the AutoAdmit case has decided to fight the plaintiffs??? discovery efforts. \nThe motion to quash makes some good points. Mr. AK47 is correct ??? his statement was outrageous, nasty, and mean??? but it does not seem to speak to any of the claims in the case...

Stanford / Google "Legal Futures Summit"The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog

Posted on February 29, 2008
Wow, look at the lineup for this Google and Stanford Law School event that I am speaking at next week as part of a "Legal Futures Summit," which is billed as "a conversation between some of the world's leading thinkers about the future of privacy, intellectual property, competition, innovation, globalization, and other areas of the law undergoing rapid change due to technological advancement...

Patently-O Bits and Bytes No. 18Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)

Posted on February 28, 2008
Harvard?s Journal of Law & Technology is generally considered on of the top two academic journals focusing on Law & Technology (along with Berkeley?s TLJ). JOLT recently increased its online footprint with the JOLT DIGEST where they regularly cover important new cases...

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"End Software Patents" Launches With Website and ReportPeter Zura's 271 Patent Blog

Posted on February 28, 2008
Coming in fashionably late to the "great patent reform debate", this organization (covered previously here) "will initially focus on two approaches: 1) assisting corporations that choose to challenge software patents in the courts and at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on the basis that patents for software and designs with no physically innovative step have no legal validity, and 2) public education aimed at passing laws to protect software from patent law...

AutoAdmit Case - Motion to Quash by ?AK47?The Legal Satyricon

Posted on February 28, 2008
It looks like one of the pseudonymous posters in the AutoAdmit case has decided to fight the plaintiffs? discovery efforts. The motion to quash makes some good points. Mr. AK47 is correct ? his statement was outrageous, nasty, and mean? but it does not seem to speak to any of the claims in the case...

Bush Calls Surveillance Bill an ?Urgent Priority?NYT > Technology

Posted on February 28, 2008
\n \n\nIt looks like one of the pseudonymous posters in the AutoAdmit case has decided to fight the plaintiffs? discovery efforts. \nThe motion to quash makes some good points. Mr. AK47 is correct ? his statement was outrageous, nasty, and mean? but it does not seem to speak to any of the claims in the case...

Keep Track of Competitors With Google® Patents RSS FeedsMaryland Intellectual Property Law Blog

Posted on February 28, 2008
\\n \\n\\nIt looks like one of the pseudonymous posters in the AutoAdmit case has decided to fight the plaintiffs? discovery efforts. \\nThe motion to quash makes some good points. Mr. AK47 is correct ? his statement was outrageous, nasty, and mean? but it does not seem to speak to any of the claims in the case...

Will Tasini Get Birched?The Patry Copyright Blog

Posted on February 28, 2008
Last June, I had a post about the Eleventh Circuit vacating its pre-Tasini panel opinion in the Greenberg v. National Geographic case, 244 F.3d 1267 (11th Cir. 2001), vacated, 488 F.3d 1331 (11th Cir. 2007), vacated and pet. for reh?g en banc granted, 497 F...

Is WikiLeaks Judge Having Second Thoughts?Wired: Threat Level

Posted on February 28, 2008
The WikiLeaks judge might be softening. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White issued a document late Thursday suggesting he might have erred last week when he signed an order that took down the WikiLeaks site and also locked "the WikiLeaks.org domain name to prevent transfer of the domain name to a different domain registrar...

RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue (Enigmax/TorrentFreak)Techmeme

Posted on February 28, 2008
Karaoke cases continue to flood the courts of appeals, much like plonk (in the sense of bad wine, not in the sense of female police officers or of adding posters to one?s kill file in UseNet-speak; see here). The most recent addition to the back shelves of copyright case law is Sybersound Records, Inc...

AutoAdmit Case - Motion to Quash by ???AK47???The Legal Satyricon

Posted on February 28, 2008
It looks like one of the pseudonymous posters in the AutoAdmit case has decided to fight the plaintiffs??? discovery efforts. The motion to quash makes some good points. Mr. AK47 is correct ??? his statement was outrageous, nasty, and mean??? but it does not seem to speak to any of the claims in the case...

Keep Track of Competitors With Google?? Patents RSS FeedsMaryland Intellectual Property Law Blog

Posted on February 28, 2008
\\n \\n\\nIt looks like one of the pseudonymous posters in the AutoAdmit case has decided to fight the plaintiffs??? discovery efforts. \\nThe motion to quash makes some good points. Mr. AK47 is correct ??? his statement was outrageous, nasty, and mean??? but it does not seem to speak to any of the claims in the case...

Speech on Your Dorm Room Door:The Volokh Conspiracy

Posted on February 27, 2008

NBC Sued for Suicide of Alleged Pedophile ProsecutorWSJ.com: Law Blog - WSJ.com

Posted on February 27, 2008
On the afternoon of November 5, a camera crew from the ?To Catch a Predator? series, produced by investigative reporter Chris Hansen, accompanied a SWAT team to the house of a Texas prosecutor, Louis William Conradt Jr. Since 2004, the TV program has worked with local police departments and an online watchdog group called Perverted Justice that provides ?decoys? ? adults who pose as teenage boys ? to lure suspected pedophiles to so-called sting houses...

Video Of Comcast's Opening Remarks During Net Neutrality Hearing With Seats Stuffed By Company Employees [Net Neutrality]Consumerist

Posted on February 27, 2008
On the afternoon of November 5, a camera crew from the ?To Catch a Predator? series, produced by investigative reporter Chris Hansen, accompanied a SWAT team to the house of a Texas prosecutor, Louis William Conradt Jr. Since 2004, the TV program has worked with local police departments and an online watchdog group called Perverted Justice that provides ?decoys? ? adults who pose as teenage boys ? to lure suspected pedophiles to so-called sting houses...

German Court Shoots Down Computer SurveillanceNYT > Technology

Posted on February 27, 2008
On the afternoon of November 5, a camera crew from the ?To Catch a Predator? series, produced by investigative reporter Chris Hansen, accompanied a SWAT team to the house of a Texas prosecutor, Louis William Conradt Jr. Since 2004, the TV program has worked with local police departments and an online watchdog group called Perverted Justice that provides ?decoys? ? adults who pose as teenage boys ? to lure suspected pedophiles to so-called sting houses...

Claim Construction Reversal Rates I ? Overall Reversal RatesPatent Law Blog (Patently-O)

Posted on February 27, 2008
By David Schwartz How do district court judges with varying levels of experience perform on claim construction? To study that question, I compiled a large database that includes every single post Markman Federal Circuit decision involving claim construction...

Duke Lacrosse II: First Amendment Implications?PrawfsBlawg

Posted on February 27, 2008
Continuing my thoughts on the latest Duke lacrosse lawsuit. One interesting feature is the role that the First Amendment might play for the defendants. Much of the conduct described in the complaint, and much of the conduct that presumably forms the basis for the players' claims against Duke and Duke officials (and to law-enforcement officials to a lesser degree), centers on all sorts of public statements that stated or suggested that some or all the players had done something wrong...

Wikileaks UpdateDiscourse.net

Posted on February 27, 2008
Updated docket Notable filings include:Application by EFF and others to intervene as defendants or to appear as amici Motion by EFF and others to intervene, with proposed Answer and Counterclaims in Intervention Thanks to James S. Tyre for making these available...

The Counterfeit Triangle?Counterfeit Chic

Posted on February 27, 2008
Updated docket\n\nNotable filings include:Application by EFF and others to intervene as defendants or to appear as amici\nMotion by EFF and others to intervene, with proposed Answer and Counterclaims in Intervention\n\nThanks to James S. Tyre for making these available...

Wikileaks gets legal help after domain name deletionThe Iconoclast

Posted on February 27, 2008

German Court Shoots Down Computer SurveillanceNYT > Technology

Posted on February 27, 2008
On the afternoon of November 5, a camera crew from the ?To Catch a Predator? series, produced by investigative reporter Chris Hansen, accompanied a SWAT team to the house of a Texas prosecutor, Louis William Conradt Jr. Since 2004, the TV program has worked with local police departments and an online watchdog group called Perverted Justice that provides ?decoys? ? adults who pose as teenage boys ? to lure suspected pedophiles to so-called sting houses...

Wiki Community Patent Review Update.Anticipate This!? | Patent and Trademark Law Blog

Posted on February 26, 2008
  Many months ago, we had posted on WikiPatents, an online community designed to review U.S. patents and published applications. WikiPatents has the largest database of patents on the Internet that are open for public comment.  The site allows PDF downloading of patents and free patent translation into multiple languages...

Times Online on DomainingThe Legal Satyricon

Posted on February 26, 2008
If you type in ?debts.com? for example, you get a site filled with nothing but paid links to other sites. Presumably, this is not what someone going to that page is looking for, but it?s a nice business for the domain owner. It seems peculiar and unjust that so much money could be made by taking advantage of people?s clumsiness in finding what they are looking for on the web...

Nashville copyright bill protest this WedsBoing Boing

Posted on February 26, 2008
Chris sez, "This Wednesday we are going to protest at the State Capitol in Nashville against a Bill restricting the exchange of information at all institutions of higher learning. (Please help us spread the word to others!) Hearing scheduled for 8:30AM - Wed Feb 27th - Room LP 12...

3/6: Bruce Perens: Innovation Goes Public(title unknown)

Posted on February 26, 2008
Chris sez, \"This Wednesday we are going to protest at the State Capitol in Nashville against a Bill restricting the exchange of information at all institutions of higher learning. (Please help us spread the word to others!) Hearing scheduled for 8:30AM - Wed Feb 27th - Room LP 12...

Criminal Law in Virtual Worlds:The Volokh Conspiracy

Posted on February 26, 2008
Chris sez, \\\"This Wednesday we are going to protest at the State Capitol in Nashville against a Bill restricting the exchange of information at all institutions of higher learning. (Please help us spread the word to others!) Hearing scheduled for 8:30AM - Wed Feb 27th - Room LP 12...

Fox News Porn - Fair Use Orgy!The Legal Satyricon

Posted on February 26, 2008
This is going to be a fun election for intellectual property wonks. We?ve already seen the Clash of the Anti-Hillaristas! Now, Fox News finds itself in a fair use maelstrom. In an effort to criticize the network that brought us eight years of darkness, an anonymous webmaster has created the Fox News Porn website...

ReliefPatent Prospector

Posted on February 26, 2008
Carlos Amado owns 5,293,615, which claims an interface method between spreadsheet and database programs. Amado sued Microsoft for its Office product infringing, and won 4¢ per copy royalty, and an injunction. The injunction was stayed pending post-trial motions, during which Amado got 12¢ per copy royalty...

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