DOC Releases Digital Valedictory The Department of Commerce has released a report “Enabling Growth and Innovation in the Digital Economy,” which it describes as a chronicle of the Commerce Department’s efforts in support of the digital economy over the course of the Obama Administration in areas of a free and open internet, privacy and intellectual property. The report…
April 20, 2015 A Dozen Things in Tech You Need to Know Happy Patriot’s Day! Patriot’s Day commemorates that Battle of Lexington and Concord and the “shot heard ’round the world” that began the American Revolution. It is a holiday in Maine and Massachachusetts and celebrated by, among other things, the running of the Boston…
Spotlight Falls on Patent Trolls and Junk Patents One of Silicon Valley’s top legislative priorities has been addressing patent trolls. In the last few days there have been major developments on this front in both Washington and at the State level. States Declare Troll-Hunting Season The first shot in the battle over trolls was fired…
Pace Latin reports in Performance Marketing Insider that: On Wednesday, [Plaintiff] filed a suit in US District Court against several Las Vegas casinos for sending out email to customers that contained links claiming that these “email communications to past, present, and potential future customers that contain links to data comprising website pages.” Email Link Corp basically claims that…
WASHINGTON WATCH Patent Reform, Privacy and Copyright Enforcement Congress Approves Patent Reform With Bank Bailout Provision Patent Reform legislation that would change patent approvals from a first to invent to a first to file standard and create a procedure for a post grant review process to challenge bad patents has been sent from Congress to…
Passage of the America Invents Act once seemed a fait accompli (it passed the Senate 95-5) and was originally scheduled for a House vote yesterday. The bill has been stalled by growing opposition to a provision buried in the bill that would allow banks to retroactively invalidate business process patents for check processing and similar items –…
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