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/2010/04/stlr-link-roundup-april-2-2010/ http://www.stlr.org/2010/04/stlr-link-roundup-april-2-2010/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:03:39 +0000 STLR http://www.stlr.org/?p=895 The latest on the STLR radar:

• The Southern District of New York‘s decision in Association for Molecular Pathology and ACLU v. USPTO and Myriad (the “gene patents case”) handed down last Monday, has generated a lot of commentary this week. Here’s a selection: reports from Wired and On the Edges of Science and Law; IP Watchdog describes the ruling as “inane”; Patent Docs gives more detail on the patents at issue; Patently O thinks the Federal Circuit is likely to reverse the decision; and Holman’s Biotech IP Blog takes the investor’s perspective.

• British science writer Simon Singh (of Fermat’s Last Theorem, The Code Book and Big Bang fame) wins libel case brought against him by the British Chiropractic Association, from The Guardian.

• Jonathan Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It comments on the iPhone developer license agreement, disclosed through a Freedom of Information Act request.

• From OutLaw, Google, Microsoft, eBay et al call for U.S. privacy law update.

• Salt Lake City jury rejects “copyright troll’s” claim to Unix - Wired reports.

• The European and FCC antitrust complaints against Google are not about Microsoft, opines The Register.

• US criticizes Australian internet filtering plan, from E-Commerce Times.

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