Showing posts with label supreme court. Show all posts
Showing posts with label supreme court. Show all posts
11 February 2013

Here's A Taste Of What Publishers Will Do If First Sale Rights For Foreign Goods Disappear

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As Techdirt reported a few months back, the Supreme Court Justices seem rightly concerned about the " parade of horribles " -- ...
15 July 2012

James Watson, Co-Discoverer Of DNA's Structure, Says 'Patenting Human Genes Was Lunacy'

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Techdirt has been covering the important Myriad Genetics case for a while. Although the CAFC decided that isolated genes could be patent...
22 November 2011

Why The Supreme Court's 'Grokster' Decision Led To More, Not Less, P2P Filesharing

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In the 2005 "Grokster" decision, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that file sharing networks could be held liable for copyr...
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24 November 2007

(Copyright) Darkness Visible

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The benighted policy of extending copyright terms again and again is made visible in a nice graphic accompanying this post : The term of cop...
01 November 2007

Software Patents: Abolition Now!

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One of the constant themes of this blog is the pernicious effect of software patents - both in countries where they exist, like the US, and ...
12 October 2007

Behold: Son of SCO

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Well, that nice Mr. Ballmer did warn us, and here it is: Plaintiffs, IP Innovation L.L.C. and Technology Licensing Corporation (collectivel...
30 April 2007

US Patents: Is the Tide Turning?

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Maybe I'm an incorrigible optimist, but these look hopeful signs : The U.S. Supreme Court made it easier to challenge patents for failin...
23 April 2007

The Supreme Blog?

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Who knew that there was a blog about the US Supreme Court? And it seems that there are some interesting things happening there in the fiel...
20 May 2006

Good News Patently Comes in Threes

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I've written often enough about patent absurdities, so it's been a real pleasure to observe this last week not one, but three promis...