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• It's a Cartel, Not a Class (Action)
  Reuters reports (here on HuffPo) that U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton has denied a request by a group of "copyright owner" - which we understand to mean giant media corporations - to be certified as a class for class-action lawsuit status. That giant media corporations have no class should come as no surprise. […]
• Computer and Internet Law Updates for 2013-05-18
  The Industrial Internet economy: Canada 2025 http://t.co/vfY4CA0O8r -> UK court jails four LulzSec hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets including the CIA http://t.co/7NbclcDgT5 -> Twitter comment about British politician leads to defamation case http://t.co/qmCUAkUFOB -> Supreme Court Looks More Closely at Reviewing Therasense http://t.c […]
  Barry Sookman
• When A Lawyer Isn't Enough, Get an IP Lawyer
  Mike Masnick has a long but really excellent column up on a tempest in my local teapot. The short form is that Jonathan Monsarrat and his lawyer/business partner have caused quite a stir in my part of the world by filing a raft of copyright, defamation, and generic John Doe claims over a years'-old incident. I don't plan to write much about this be […]
• Episode 8 of the Fairly Competing Podcast: Has The Time Come for a Federal Trade Secrets Statute?
  Kenneth Vanko, Russell Beck and I have completed our eighth Fairly Competing Podcast, "Has the Time Come for a Federal Trade Secrets Statute?"  In Episode 8, Russell, Ken and I discuss the need for a federal statute for civil claims of trade secret theft.  The Fairly Competing team discusses the proposed Protecting American Trade Secrets and Innova […]
• Google's FRAND-zero patent license for VP8 threatens to divide Web and FOSS communities
  Google is already promoting the VP9 video codec, which may very well raise new patent issues, while pushing for adoption of VP8 as an Internet standard. But the patent license it has drafted for VP8 and just published doesn't meet the requirements of the Open Source Initiative's definition of open source, says the President of the OSI's Board […]
  Florian Mueller
• Chisum Patent Academy Patent Law Seminar
  The Chisum Patent Academy will be offering its next Advanced Patent Law Seminars from July 31 to August 2, 2013 and from August 5-7, 2013 in Seattle, WA. The three-day seminar will focus on the following patent law topics: • Patent Practice Gone Wrong: Lessons from Recent Cases on Patent Malpractice and Rule 11 Sanctions • CLS Bank v. Alice Corp.: Making Sen […]
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