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Lawyers Fined $72.6 Million For Screwing Up Patent Application, Not Letting
Company Sue For Enough Cash
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| Rob Hyndman points us to the news that a law firm has been hit with a $72.6
| million judgment for legal malpractice, after a company who had hired the law
| firm to handle its patent applications claimed that the law firm screwed up
| the applications, making it that much harder for the company to shake down
| other companies for cash.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090515/0202514893.shtml
Of Patent Trolls and Trademark Champions: A Tale of Two Spangenbergs
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| But that version misses the byzantine backstory to this suit: Spangenberg and
| her husband Erich already sit atop a sizable fortune, won through
| intellectual property litigation.
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http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2009/05/fpx-v-google-spangenberg-patent-empire-moves-into-trademark.html
We've Had Patent Trolls And Copyright Trolls... So Why Not Trademark Trolls?
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| So, it was really only a matter of time before we got "trademark trolls," as
| well. To be honest, we've had a few stories about a guy named Leo Stoller,
| who has been dubbed a trademark troll after registering trademarks on all
| sorts of common words and then insisting no one could use those words without
| paying.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090522/0235284973.shtml
This is innovation???
Recent:
Has the US patent system gone too far?
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| When Samuel Hopkins came up with a method for improving the production of
| potash, it was probably just the kind of invention that President George
| Washington had in mind when he created the US patent system. Hopkins, who in
| 1790 received the first American patent ever issued, had discovered a way to
| increase the production of a critical resource used to make glass, soap, and
| soil fertilizer.
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http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/03/12/has-the-us-patent-system-gone-too-far/
Backlog At The Copyright Office Highlights Massive Problem With The System
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| As you hopefully know, you don't need to register to get a copyright these
| days (and haven't since 1976), but you can still register, and need to do so
| if you want to sue someone else for damages. So, professional creators still
| register copyright on pretty much everything they do -- though the process is
| still a bit unclear even to the experts. At the recent copyright conference
| at Santa Clara University, one of the more amusing moments was when someone
| asked about registering blog posts and how that could/should be done -- and a
| bunch of the world's foremost experts in copyright law (including multiple
| representatives from the Copyright Office) effectively threw up their hands
| and said they had no clue what actually needed to be registered and how. It
| resulted in a lot of rather awkward laughter from folks in the room.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090520/0151534942.shtml
Intellectual Monopolies Kill: Two Examples
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| If people with breast cancer genes are demonstrably suffering in this way,
| statistics tells us that some of them will be dying as a direct result of
| Myriad's aggressive defence of its unwarranted intellectual monopolies.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/intellectual-monopolies-kill-two.html
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