Apr 11, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
A new article titled “‘Worst of Both Worlds’ FOSTA Signed Into Law, Completing Section 230’s Evisceration” was just posted to law professor Eric Goldman’s Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Eric’s post is well worth reading...
Apr 10, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
My 200th United States patent issued today, titled Device Power and Resource Management. According to data that I analyzed in the blog post I made when I received my 100th issued patent, there are well under 1,000 people in the world with that many issued patents. I...
Apr 5, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
Olivia de Havilland will celebrate her 102nd birthday on July 1. She was famous as an actor, starring in such films as Gone With the Wind and winning two Academy Awards (losing a third one to her sister, Joan Fontaine). Among lawyers, though, she was perhaps most...
Apr 5, 2018 | Business Litigation, Intellectual Property law
Typically, the two most concerning provisions of cross border agreements is the arbitration and termination provisions. Often times, these agreements are not well thought out and disputes as to their content and enforceability are disputed. With regard to arbitration...
Mar 27, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
This morning, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals revived the long-running case of Oracle America, Inc. v. Google LLC. in a 56-page ruling. The ruling is particularly important to programmers, as it holds that Google’s copying of the declaring code and...
Mar 22, 2018 | Intellectual Property law, News
After a massive dispute, streaming services will now be required to pay more for the music they play. The Copyright Royalty Board ruled to increase royalty payments to songwriters and music publishers from music streaming companies by 43.8 percent (they go into effect...