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Eben Moglen on Patents @ Cardozo Mon 11/2
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| The Internet Society â New York Chapter
| (ISOC-NY) was happy and interested to co-
| sponsor, with the Intellectual Property Law
| Society, a lunchtime lecture at the
| Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law on Monday
| Nov 2 2009. Eben Moglen, Chairman of the
| Software Freedom Law Center, spoke on the
| topic â âPatent Law at a Crossroads: Bilski
| and Beyondâ.
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http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1009
Patent lawyers don't understand software
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| AN EXPERT IN COMPUTING has suggested that
| most patent lawyers can't locate their
| buttocks with both hands when it comes to
| the nitty gritty of computing, and that
| computers quite simply don't work the way
| that most members of the legal profession
| presume that they do.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/1562231/patent-lawyers-understand-software
Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Others Sued For Patent Infringement
For Appearing Larger Than Life
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| Of course the lawsuit was filed in East
| Texas, and it's amusing to see the
| reasoning for this: according to the
| lawsuit, all of the performers likely had
| residents from East Texas who attended some
| of their concerts, and thus it makes sense.
| As for the Lakers, well, their games are
| broadcast in East Texas (even if the screen
| in question is in LA and probably not of
| much use or concern to those watching at
| home in East Texas).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091114/1841446942.shtml
Recent:
Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Teaches Wrong Lesson On Freedom Of The Press
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| You would think that a Supreme Court Justice
| (and the people who work for one) would know
| better than to tell any sort of news
| publication -- even a high school newspaper
| -- that he needed to approve any articles
| written about a speech he gave, but that
| appears to be exactly what happened with
| Justice Anthony Kennedy and a recent speech
| to Dalton High School students in Manhattan.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091111/0722276896.shtml
Porsche vs. Crocsâ
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| But this one weâre giving away: in the 10-Q
| that footnoted frequent flyer Crocs (CROX)
| filed last week, there was an interesting
| new disclosure about Porsche, the German
| car-maker, suing Crocs, the Colorado-based
| shoe manufacturer over the use of the name
| Cayman.
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http://www.footnoted.org/buried-treasure/porsche-vs-crocs/
Free Doesn't Mean Devalued
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| More importantly, songwriters who get hung
| up on "devaluation" confuse recordings with
| music. They equate the two. A recording is
| not the song, it's just an instance of it,
| and a digital audio file is just an instance
| of the recording.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091109/1521136859.shtml
Google Doesn't Rely On Intellectual Property For Its Leadership Position
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| And that -- right there -- is the key point
| we keep trying to make around here. You
| don't need to rely on intellectual property.
| And, if you do, you are opening yourself up
| wide to competition that doesn't rely on IP
| and innovates in a way that simply cuts your
| legs out from under you. Yet... we'll still
| hear stories for years about how all of
| Google's billions are because of its
| intellectual property, even as it gives away
| more and more of it each and every day.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091110/0843176877.shtml
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