by wellerbe | Sep 30, 2010 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations |
The horrifying natural gas explosion in San Bruno, California on September 9th ripped across headlines the nation over. As of September 29th, eight people had died from injuries sustained directly from the explosion. According to a San Francisco Chronicle report of...
by rapincb | Sep 30, 2010 | Commentary |
In an amicus brief filed on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 in support of Eli Lilly & Company’s (“Lilly”) petition for an en banc hearing of Sun Pharm. Indus., Ltd. v. Eli Lilly & Co., trade organization Biotechnology Industry Organization (“BIO”) alleged that...
by lkoskey | Sep 27, 2010 | Commentary |
A bi-partisan group of members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led by the Chairman Patrick Leahy, recently introduced a bill that would increase the government’s power to battle online violators of copyright laws. The bill, officially dubbed The Combating...
by Daniel Prieve | Sep 21, 2010 | Commentary |
About a year ago, a study by University of California Berkeley researchers found that many websites were using so-called “zombie” cookies that re-spawn even when a user tries to delete them. This issue is not unique to computer based browsers; similar...
by ghans | Jul 28, 2010 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
The recent controversy over Wikilinks’ online posting of internal war documents (aka the Afghan War Diary) pertaining to the Afghan War have reminded some commentators of the similar debate surrounding Daniel Ellsberg’s leaking of the Pentagon Papers. Last...
by En Hong | Jul 3, 2010 | Cases, Commentary |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), on October 30, 2008, decided In re Bilski (545 F.3d 943), which had serious implications for the future of business method patents. The eleven members of that court found that a method of hedging risk...
