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STLR Link Roundup – April 24, 2010

STLR — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:29:52 +0000

The latest on the STLR radar:

Authorities in San Mateo, California, contemplate filing criminal charges in connection with the sale of an Apple prototype (of a new iPhone), lost by and possibly stolen from an Apple software engineer and bought for $5,000 by the website Gizmodo.com, the New York Times reports.

From the San Francisco Chronicle: citing a desire to help fight censorship, Google has launched a tool that discloses requests the company receives from governments for content removal and user data.

India’s new copyright proposals, which include both fines and jail time for offenders, are still not strict enough for the RIAA, MPAA, and other organizations that lobby for greater intellectual property enforcement, Ars Technica explains.

From CNET, a summary of the recent Supreme Court decision declaring unconstitutional a law banning Internet videos of animal cruelty, while leaving open the possibility that a narrower law would be permissible.

A new study funded by net neutrality opponents claims that the FCC’s proposed net neutrality rules would cost the telecommunications industry over 340,000 jobs in the next ten years, PC World reports.

PatentlyO notes that the Supreme Court has decided to hear a case on international copyright exhaustion, and gives a summary of the case.

Also from PatentlyO, links to videos of patent attorney Kevin Noonan defending genetic patents on 60 Minutes and the Colbert Report.

STLR Link Roundup – March 26, 2010

STLR — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:40:56 +0000

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.