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Saturday, September 6th, 2008
At this week's Republican National Convention, U.S. presidential candidate John McCain accepted his party's nomination in front of a picture of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. But there was one small problem. He instead used a picture of the Walter Reed Middle School. While the McCain campaign was silent ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Just days ago, a U.S. court made a decision that has reinforced the strength of "fair use". From the EFF:
"A judge's ruling today is a major victory for free speech and fair use on the Internet, and will help protect everyone who creates content for the Web. In Lenz v. ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Christopher Hansen, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, has become involved in a patent case for an "abstract idea". The patent in dispute belongs to Bernard L. Bilski:
"In 2006, Bilski sought a patent for his idea that the weather risk involved in buying and selling commodities could be ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Under Canadian patent law, the scope of patentable subject matter is still expanding. But under U.S. patent law, “anything under the sun made by man” is patentable. This has come to include patents for computer software.
Software patents raise a debate over which algorithms are novel, and which are non-obvious. Some ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
A patent is a bundle of exclusive rights. This allows an inventor to make, use, and sell a novel invention, without the threat of competition. It may seem odd, then, to acquire a patent without any intention of using or making that patented invention. But a new breed of company, ...
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