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Patents: The Times: You Can Get Your Invention on to the Store Shelf; Here's How 26 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
The other day, the New York Times published instructions for aspiring inventors on how to take their inventions through the patent granting process and on to the retailers' shelves link here. The exam...
Patents: ITC Allows Apple Imports That Violate Samsung Patents 14 Aug 2013 | 12:40 am
The blog, Public Knowledge, argues that the International Trade Commission should consider the public interest in reaching regulatory decisions on patents. The Obama has so decreed when it overruled a...
Copyright: Cable and TV Networks Fee Fight Fallout--- Who Pays? The Public 9 Aug 2013 | 01:49 am
Public Knowledge has a couple of pieces up on the fight between CBS and Time Warner Cable over TWC's payment for the right to rebroadcast broadcasts and then charge the public link here and link here....
Copyright: Competition now; But in the Future? 31 Jul 2013 | 08:40 pm
Competition for cable-television providers looks safe at least for a time, as the result of two copyright suits link here. In one, Aereo TV captures from antennas and delivers regular programming via ...
Copyright: Redistributing TV Material Without the Ads Is Legal 27 Jul 2013 | 12:14 am
Here is one for the books; you may record copyrighted material and play it back without the ads, because dumping the ads is covered by fair use link here. Fox TV, the plaintiff, saw it was losing reve...
Patents: Public Knowledge announces a Patent Reform Project 24 Jul 2013 | 09:50 pm
I'm late with this but Public Knowledge announced two weeks ago that it was starting a Patent Reform Project link here. Given that we are surrounded with an incredibly expensive and inefficient and no...
Patent Trolls: Another Big Patent Troll Assessed 19 Jul 2013 | 12:25 am
The New York Times went after another big patent troll yesterday, the second in less than a week link here. This one is called Intellectual Ventures. It seems to be a spinoff from Microsoft, a major p...
Patent Trolls: How the Most Successful Patent Troll Does It 15 Jul 2013 | 09:05 pm
The New York Times goes after patent trolls in a long review in the Sunday paper link here. Its author, David Segal, thinks he has found the worst offender, Erich Spangenberg, whose company, IPNav, ev...
Patents: Another bad patent--guaranteeing more litigation 15 Jul 2013 | 05:39 am
Bad patents are an old story, but they keep getting worse. This one is granted for "displaying pictures of athletes on the fields on which their sport is played" link here. Timothy, in whose name the...
Patents: Does the decline in total factor productivity explain the drop in innovation? 10 Jul 2013 | 08:34 pm
In a long post, Mike Masnick calls attention to an e-book by Alex Tabarrok which focuses on the decline in total factor productivity as a measure of the drop in innovation link here. This has occurred...
