STLR Link Roundup – October 14, 2011

John Atallah — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:10:25 +0000

This week, Aurobindo Pharma became the first major generic drugmaker to join a patent pool designed to increase accessibility of AIDS/HIV treatments to the poor around the world.
Lawmakers from across the country have written the Obama Administration in hopes of housing new satellite branches of the Patent and Trademark Office in their respective districts. The America Invents Act, signed into law last month, calls for the creation of three regional offices to help ease a backlog of more than 680,000 pending patent applications.
Twitter has agreed to drop its lawsuit against Twittad in exchange for the latter’s registered trademark in the word “tweet.” Twitter had previously argued in its legal filings that “tweet” was already famous as a Twitter term before rivals filed trademark applications.
As part of its bid to acquire Cephalon Inc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has been required by the FTC to sell its rights to generic versions of a pain drug and a muscle relaxant to Par Pharmaceutical. Teva must also provide Par with a limited right to market a generic version of Cephalon’s Provigil, a wakefulness drug.
Google and Samsung have delayed the Nexus Prime over patent fears stemming from litigation already in the works with Apple, which is presently pushing for an injunction to bar Samsung from selling a number of allegedly infringing models in their Galaxy and Infuse product lines.
In an early win for net neutrality opponents, the D.C. Court of Appeals was recently chosen as the venue for challenges against the FCC’s controversial open Internet order. Verizon filed suit last week against the FCC, characterizing the rules as “arbitrary” and “capricious.”
Kodak is facing pressure from bondholders seeking to profit from a potential sale of its digital imaging patents. The sale process, which has been in the works since July, seeks to capitalize on appraisals valuing Kodak’s patent portfolio at upwards of $3 billion.

STLR Link Roundup – January 1, 2010

STLR — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:27:50 +0000

Happy New Year! We bring you the last links from the second half of December 2009 on the first day of 2010.

Clever or illegal? How online retailer Amazon escapes paying sales tax (and saves you from it as well), from Gizmodo.

South Korea pardons former chairman of Samsung… a second time. From the Wall Street Journal.

Your text messages just got a little safer: The Times reports the Ohio Supreme Court has decided a warrant is needed to search a cell phone.

Obama picks Howard Schmidt as the Chief of Cybersecurity, from the New York Times.

A modern day Catch Me If You Can: An escaped criminal taunts police with Facebook updates, from Gizmodo. (Also see this updated link.)

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upholds an injunction against Microsoft, requiring it to stop selling certain versions of Word. From the IT World of Canada.

Verizon defends its $350 smartphone early termination fee to the FCC. From Gizmodo.

Microsoft sued over “Bing” name for trademark infringement… by a tiny business in St. Louis. CNet’s Technically Incorrect reports.

Against all odds, Psystar claims it will be back, Gizmodo reports.

An in-the-closet lesbian mother of two sues Netflix for releasing her movie preferences, reports Wired’s Threat Level.

Google’s controversial Google Book Search program runs into more legal trouble, this time in France. From the New York Times.

Columbia Science and Technology Law Review » samsung

STLR Link Roundup – October 14, 2011

STLR Link Roundup – January 1, 2010