Archive for May, 2006
BoingBoing: ” Supreme Court makes it harder to be patent predator”
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Link to opinion.
Writup from blogger and BoingBoing reader Glenn Fleishmann:
The Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that injunctions shouldn’t be rubberstamped for patent cases. They specifically singled out business-method patents that are litigated by those who have no stake in producing the product or offering the service; i.e., patent trolls. (There are [...]
ABC News: “Federal Source to ABC News: We Know Who You’re Calling”
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The U.S. Government is apparently (according to an undisclosed “senior federal law enforcement official”) keeping track of phone numbers called by ABC News employees, as well as employees of other news outlets.
While for many Americans, a simple list of numbers called and received would reveal little more than soccer practice times and [...]
