http://www.stlr.org Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:21:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.stlr.org/2010/08/stlr-link-roundup-%e2%80%93-august-2-2010/ http://www.stlr.org/2010/08/stlr-link-roundup-%e2%80%93-august-2-2010/#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:36:58 +0000 STLR http://www.stlr.org/?p=982 The latest links from STLR:

• The Copyright Office released its latest group of exceptions to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act’s anti-circumvention provision. Wired and cnet news report on the exception for jailbreaking mobile phones.

• Also in DMCA news, Ars Technica discusses the Fifth Circuit decision that bypassing technological protections to access software for a fair use does not violate the DMCA anti-circumvention provision.

• The Supreme Court ruled on patentable subject matter in Bilski v. Kappos. Cnet, The MTTLR Blog, and IP Watchdog give their takes on the decision.

• Patent Docs reports on the memo issued by the USPTO to its examiners in the wake of Bilski. In a similar vein, Patently-O takes a look at the first post-Bilski test cases.

• The case between Joel Tenenbaum and the RIAA has taken another turn as U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner slashed the jury verdict by 90%, calling it “unconstitutionally excessive.” See the coverage from Wired and Eric Goldman.

• Holman’s Biotech IP Blog looked at the recent limits that the EU Court of Justice has placed on patent protection for gene sequences.

• IP Watchdog has some thoughts on the early stages of a multi-billion dollar lawsuit filed against PayPal by XPRT Ventures, Inc.

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