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/2010/03/stlr-link-roundup-march-26-2010/ http://www.stlr.org/2010/03/stlr-link-roundup-march-26-2010/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:40:56 +0000 STLR http://www.stlr.org/?p=885 The latest on the STLR radar:

• The working text of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement has been released. See Wired and The Register coverage of the story, and our post on the draft treaty here.

• The Federal Circuit rules on patent dispute Applera Corp v. Illumina, Inc. on the basis of Californian employment law, writes Patent Docs.

• Holman’s Biotech IP Blog discusses the patent law implications of the Federal Circuit’s ruling in Ariad v. Eli Lilly.

• Less than two months after hacker Max Vision was sentenced to thirteen years, the sentencing record is broken again as TJX hacker gets twenty years, from Wired.

• Ephemerallaw asks whether it is worth chasing cybercrooks (see our recent post on cybercrime here).

• The European Court of Justice rules in favor of Google in a challenge to its practice of selling trademarked keywords for its adwords paid results service to competitors. The Stanford Center for Internet and Society and the E-Commerce Times report.

• The Register reports that a twenty-five-year-old Frenchman has been arrested on suspicion of hacking President Obama’s Twitter account.

• Early in 2009, a settlement between Ireland’s leading internet service provider and four record companies looked set to put in place the world’s first three-strikes-you’re-out copyright violation rule. Tech law blogger TJ McIntyre reports on the latest.

• Spicy IP discusses proposed amendments to the Copyright Act and digital rights managements in India.

]]> http://www.stlr.org/2010/03/stlr-link-roundup-march-26-2010/feed/ 0 http://www.stlr.org/2010/02/stlr-link-roundup-february-12-2010/ http://www.stlr.org/2010/02/stlr-link-roundup-february-12-2010/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:33:21 +0000 STLR http://www.stlr.org/?p=833 The latest on the STLR radar:

• Wired reports on Max Ray Vision’s thirteen-year sentence for hacking – the longest yet in U.S. legal history.

• The District Court for the Western District of Washington dismisses a lawsuit alleging that Microsoft misled its customers by representing anti-piracy code as a critical security update. ComputerWorld reports.

• The E-Commerce Times looks into codec licensing issues and what it means for the development of the next generation of HTML.

• The Register says Google’s recent take-down of six popular music blogs is further demonstration that the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a “ridiculously blunt instrument.”

• Out-Law reports on a UK Court of Appeal ruling upholding two convictions for publishing racially inflammatory material, rejecting the defendants’ argument that English law should not apply because the content was hosted on servers located in the U.S.

• Patently-O examines the expanding jurisprudence of the Federal Circuit.

• The Wall Street Journal Law Blog asks if India is setting the bar too high for patent protection eligibility, especially for pharmaceuticals.

• Patent Docs writes a series of posts debating gene patenting.

• Law Technology News reviews recent case law for online defamation claims against anonymous defendants.

• The Electronic Frontier Foundation (which just turned 20 – happy birthday, EFF!) is fighting to suppress evidence gathered by law enforcement from a suspect’s iPhone without a warrant.

• The New York State Bar Association warns against the ethical pitfalls of social networking, reports Law Technology News.

• Dr. Dre is suing Death Row Records over unpaid royalties and sale of digital copies of “The Chronic” without the proper rights, says Billboard.

• The New York Times discusses the outrage over Google Buzz’s consequences for privacy.

• Can software licensing agreements prevent people from selling their copies of software? The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, and other organizations have filed an amicus brief urging an answer of “no” to this question in a case before the Ninth Circuit.

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