by zzolling | Feb 12, 2012 | Commentary |
These Are My Followers Well, I think they are, anyway. Litigation over the ownership of a Twitter account is pending in the Northern District of California right now. Here are the facts of PhoneDog v. Kravitz. Noah Kravitz was hired as an independent contractor to...
by lkoskey | Feb 12, 2012 | Commentary |
In the days leading up to the Super Bowl the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized $4.86 million worth of counterfeit merchandise and 307 websites. 291 of those sites were engaged in selling counterfeits, and the other 16 were set to stream...
by tashaf | Feb 12, 2012 | Commentary, Legislation/Regulations |
The America Invents Act (AIA) was passed in September 2011, bringing with it many changes to patent law. The most noteworthy change was the shift from inventorship being granted on a first to invent system to a first to file system. However, there were many...
by ericajan | Feb 4, 2012 | Commentary, Legislation/Regulations, Technology |
The people have spoken—and the people want their digital freedom! As the 112th Congress found out just last week, the prospect of the federal government infringing on the open and free Internet has been both politically tumultuous as well as philosophically unpopular...
by amyhw | Feb 1, 2012 | Commentary |
On January 19, US authorities shut down Megaupload.com, a Hong Kong-based digital storage and file sharing company. Megaupload provided a cloud service that enabled users to easily share content, including hosting video and entire music libraries. The site is...
by kevanv | Feb 1, 2012 | Commentary |
As the New York Times recently reported, certain tax credits that were included in the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (P.L. 102-486) are set to expire at the end of this year unless Congress acts to extend them. Of particular importance to producers of wind turbines is...
