by sandc | Feb 16, 2012 | Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations, Technology
The USPTO recently announced a new awards competition called Patents for Humanity. The competition is a pilot program meant to encourage the development of technology to meet humanitarian rather than strictly business means. The prize? Accelerated processing of the...
by sandc | Nov 3, 2011 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology
Back in August, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) garnered national attention when it shut down cell phone service to limit a political protest over the shooting death of a homeless man by BART police. BART released a statement the following day stating that “a civil...
