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File-Sharers Monitoring The File-Sharing Hunters
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| Although their activities with Hadopi will
| be limited to monitoring and gathering
| evidence against file-sharers, we saw them
| trying to smother a lone file-sharer with
| their P2P-spamming technology, for which
| they have submitted a patent. The
| screenshot below shows TMG âDDoSingâ the
| BitTorrent user in question.
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http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharers-monitoring-the-file-sharing-hunters-100424/
Tech Ticker: Twitter, Microsoft, Ericsson
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| Microsoft's Tellme Networks unit won a
| patent-infringement lawsuit brought by
| Nuance Communications over speech-
| recognition software used in telephone
| systems. Nuance's patent for a way to
| eliminate problems associated with
| background noise and poor audio quality is
| invalid because it didn't cover a new
|
| invention, U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson
| in Wilmington, Del., said in an April 20
| decision. The case had been scheduled for a
| May 3 trial. Instead, the judge closed the
| case in Microsoft's favor. The dispute was
| over Tellme software sold to AT&T and
| Verizon Communications for their directory
| assistance services.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_14949115
Big-Name Litigators Signing on to Apple's Patent Wars
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| Steve Jobs doesn't skimp on lawyers.
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| Apple Inc. just added another big,
| expensive name to the growing list of
| lawyers engaged in the company's latest
| round of patent wars.
|
| Matthew Powers, head of litigation at Weil,
| Gotshal & Manges in Redwood City, Calif.,
| filed a countersuit for Apple against Kodak
| last week. In its dispute with Nokia, Apple
| has already hired Boston's William Lee, co-
| managing partner of Wilmer Cutler Pickering
| Hale and Dorr. And in its patent offensive
| against HTC Corp.'s Google phones, Apple is
| using Kirkland & Ellis top patent lawyer
| Robert Krupka, from Los Angeles.
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202448383798&BigName_Litigators_Signing_on_to_Apples_Patent_Wars
LawPundit Excerpts of and Comments to the ORAL ARGUMENTS in the BILSKI case,
which currently awaits decision by the United States Supreme Court
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| This posting provides LawPundit excerpts
| and comments to the ORAL ARGUMENTS in the
| BILSKI case, soon to be decided by the
| United States Supreme Court (we have added
| the links in the excerpted text). Although
| much of the patent industry seems to expect
| the machine-or-transformation standard in
| Bilski to be overturned, we view the course
| of oral argument to suggest that the
| Supreme Court could well affirm the Federal
| Circuit limitation of patents in Bilski by
| pointing to the context-defined definition
| of "process" in the patent law as
| historically applying to machines and
| transformative inventions, it being the job
| of Congress -- if it so desires -- to
| extend that definition of "process" beyond
| those bounds -- an extension which, in view
| of the desperate need for real patent
| reform, is legislatively in fact not
| desirable.
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http://lawpundit.blogspot.com/2010/04/lawpundit-excerpts-of-and-comments-to.html
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