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STLR Link Roundup – April 16, 2010

STLR — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:32:43 +0000

The latest on the STLR radar:

Ephemeral Law takes a look at the court documents in Microsoft’s challenge to the Waledac botnet, which it describes as on the “cutting edge of legal efforts to shut down hacking operations.”

The Wall Street Journal reports that the US Department of Justice is stepping up its antitrust investigation into technology firms’ “no-poach” policy and salary fixing.

Eric Goldman reports on a decision of the California Court of Appeals rejecting an argument that a California statute prohibiting eavesdropping precluded admitting Yahoo! chat logs in evidence.

Why the anti-commons aren’t so tragic, from Patent Docs.

The MTTLR Blog writes about falsely-convicted victims of DNA forensics errors.

Wired: a new malware scam threatens BitTorrent with copyright infringement suits.

Spicy-IP blogs about BioPiracy – the practice of mining the traditional knowledge of indigenous communities for biological and medicinal patents – in Africa.

Feature from The Register: the Russian Association of Electronic Communications promises to crack down on spam and cybercrime.

British Election special: the mother of British hacker Gary McKinnon, who was at the heart of a recent UK-US extradition battle, has announced that she will run against Chancellor Jack Straw in the upcoming parliamentary elections, from bbc.co.uk.

STLR Link Roundup – November 6, 2009

STLR — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:32:31 +0000

The latest on the STLR radar:

Patently-O wonders whether the Supreme Court might take the opportunity afforded by the upcoming Bilski method patent case to scrap software patents, and states the socio-economic case for abandoning them.

Engineering crime scenes: Lawyers.com considers a study which suggests that fabricating DNA evidence is far from science fiction.

On the Edges of Science and Law blogs about the latest developments in the challenge to the constitutionality and validity of patents in two breast cancer genes by the Association for Molecular Pathology.

Second Life and death: The New York Times reports on the issues raised by online virtual estates after the passing of their owners.

Gigaom recaps the substance of the recent FCC approval of draft proposed rules on net neutrality.

Ephemerallaw takes a look at the nation’s first federal personal data security breach provisions, tucked away in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Not all omega-3 fatty acids are created equal: The Economist describes the developments in the regulation of food health and nutrition claims on both sides of the Atlantic.

For an international perspective: European blogs Marques and Catch Us If You Can!!! weigh in on the use of “RNA” in trademarks as addressed by the European Court of First Instance (full text of the CFI’s judgment here).