by Manuel Arreaza | Nov 23, 2009 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations, Technology |
“So if I know about a stock’s activity one day before it’s insider trading, but if I know about a stock’s activity one second before it’s high frequency trading?” -Samantha Bee, The Daily Show Ms. Bee doesn’t have it quite right, but mainstream comedy shows rarely...
by ghans | Nov 11, 2009 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
The New York Times reported Wednesday that a man arrested in connection with a robbery got the charges against him dropped by proving that a status updated was posted to his Facebook account at the time. Rodney Bradford, 19, hired a criminal defense attorney who...
by ghans | Nov 7, 2009 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
One of the most prominent copyright/fair use cases over the last year has been artist Shepard Fairey’s dispute with the Associated Press (AP) over his famous poster of now-President Obama during the 2008 Presidential Campaign. The poster, which featured a...
by chadray | Oct 4, 2009 | Commentary |
The patent in question was filed by WhoGlue on May 9, 2002 and granted on July 17, 2007. The patent very broadly covers “an information management system, method and computer program code and means for facilitating communications between user members of an...
by Joshua Ney | Sep 14, 2009 | Cases, Commentary |
In Diamond v. Diehr, the Supreme Court held that a process claim is not patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101 if the claim preempts a “fundamental principle,” such as a law of nature, a natural phenomenon, or an abstract idea. On the other hand, a claim is...
by Daniel Warsh | Sep 11, 2009 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
Law firms have empirically been a pretty conservative group, and they are not usually known for embracing technological fads very quickly, if at all. This is why it is all the more surprising that Bloomberg reported yesterday that social networking sites, including...