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10 Nov 2009, 9:43 am
" IBM to withdraw second patent application on outsourcing IBM's US 7,571,105: issues of patent quality and exam quality TechDirt trashes Locke and Kappos [read post]
23 May 2016, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
“Earnhardt Family Fighting Over Whether One Earnhardt Son Can Use His Own Last Name” [Timothy Geigner, TechDirt] Freddie Gray charges, bad new laws on pay, the state’s stake in world trade, armored vehicles for cops, bar chart baselines that don’t start at zero, and more in my latest Maryland policy roundup [Free State Notes] “You can be fined for not calling people ‘ze’ or ‘hir,’ if that’s the pronoun they demand that you… [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 8:22 am by Sam Bayard
  As Mike Masnick at Techdirt points out, Goldsmith and Lessig are elaborating and sharpening some of the arguments raised by our very own Andrew Moshirnia back in February. [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 9:30 am by Paul Levy
  Since then, a few others have taken up the report (for example, Techdirt and Consumerist). [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 1:40 pm
Link:  Public Citizen's blogLink:  Techdirt [read post]
20 Apr 2018, 3:05 am by Walter Olson
[Mike Masnick, TechDirt] “16 Pulse survivors sue Google, Facebook, Twitter for ‘supporting’ ISIS” [Daniel Dahm, WKRG Orlando] Not the group it used to be: ACLU calls for government-owned broadband, claims First Amendment may require as opposed to forbid state-operated communications infrastructure [Randolph May and Theodore Bolema, Free State Foundation] Cato amicus commercial speech triple-header: Virginia’s ban on promoting happy hours (bars may hold… [read post]
23 Oct 2008, 5:48 am
-->of some relevance-->See a post on Techdirt titled A Business Relationship Built At The End Of A Pointy Stick Isn't Much Of A Relationship concerning an interview between Mike Masnick and Horacio Gutierrez, the company's VP and Deputy General Counsel.There is one reference to "patent thickets" which is not entirely accurate. [read post]
1 Apr 2019, 2:58 am by Walter Olson
(The paper published anyway) [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Tags: Donald Trump, First Amendment, free speech, New Zealand, social media, trademarks [read post]
12 Oct 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
[Tennessee: Watchdog] Louisiana town getting 87% of its revenue from traffic tickets has 188 people, 5 cop cars [Marshall Project via Balko] For second time, this time in Chicago case, former CEO of red light camera company cops a federal plea [Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica] Opposition from law enforcement shoots down asset forfeiture reform in California [Scott Shackford/Reason, more] Despite talk of being friendlier to forfeiture reform, Department of Justice fed talking points to reform opponents… [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 10:07 am by Lee Hutchinson
The problem with the suit, as outlined in a scathing response from Techdirt, is that the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 was specifically written to allow exactly the kind of personal copying that in-car CD-ripping audio units perform. [read post]
21 Aug 2007, 10:09 pm
Criminal charges dropped against Oregon 13-year-olds over fanny-swatting in school corridors [CBSNews.com, Malkin, KGW.com and AP; earlier] Elasticity of "medical error" concept: Medicare will stop paying hospitals for treatment of "reasonably preventable" injuries that happen in hospitals, such as patient falls -- we all know those are preventable given enough duct tape [NCPA, Right Side of the Rainbow; and before assuming that bed sores invariably result from negligent care,… [read post]
14 Aug 2016, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Then denies all of it” [Mike Masnick, TechDirt] Lawsuit demanding R ratings on films with “tobacco imagery” deserves to be hit with SLAPP sanctions; “suing the MPAA to force censorship raises the stakes. [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 5:37 am by David Canton
The latest example of that is a post on Techdirt that says police in Long Beach California have a policy that they can detain someone taking photos with “no apparent esthetic value”. [read post]
20 Feb 2014, 8:05 pm by Walter Olson
[Popehat] That’s productivity: North Carolina grand jury managed to crank out roughly one indictment every 52 seconds [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Tweet Tags: Alaska, animals, crime and punishment, guns, Iowa, North Carolina, police, stand your groundPolice and prosecution roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
13 Mar 2020, 2:56 am by Walter Olson
” [Michael Wilner, McClatchy; latest on HHS proclamation] Between death, business interruption, and enormous disruption to business practice, a landscape of litigation opens up [Fortune] Proposed executive order would bar import of critical medical supplies from China, closing supposed “loophole” that could save your loved one’s life as shortages of ventilators loom [Ana Swanson, New York Times; Greta Privitera, Politico Europe on triage decisions at Italian hospitals… [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 5:52 am
” [Michael Masnick, Techdirt, Against Monopoly (Stephen Kinsella)] Tags: Australia, Brazil, fraud, Kentucky fen-phen settlement fraud, libel slander and defamation, McDonald's, Nevada, Ninth Circuit, patent law, Phoenix, police, third party liability for crime Related posts June 21 roundup (5) Will your lunch violate intellectual property laws? [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 5:38 pm
Confirmed blogger-attendees so far include Harry Boadwee, the Blawg Review editor, Matt Cutts of Google (75% confirmed), Stephen Diamond, Mike Dillon of Sun, Sean Garrett of 463 Communications (trying to make it), Cathy Gellis, Eric Goldman of SCU, Joe Gratz of Keker & Van Nest, Beth Grimm, Patrick Guevara of Randick O'Dea, Matt Holohan, Chris Hoofnagle of Boalt, Cathy Kirkman of Wilson Sonsini, Kim Kralowec of the Furth firm, David Levine of Stanford Law CIS, Mike Masnick of… [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
[Michael Greibok, FreedomWorks via Scott Shackford] Maryland delegate alleges that vetoed bill “would have made it easier for criminals to get their forfeited property back,” seemingly unaware that it focused on rights of owners *not* found guilty of anything [Haven Shoemaker, Carroll County Times] Arizona counties said to have nearly free rein in spending money [Arizona Republic via Coyote] I took part last week in a panel discussion in Washington, D.C. on civil asset forfeiture,… [read post]
29 Dec 2011, 1:47 pm by Eric E. Johnson
Marietje Schaake linked America’s proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) with China’s censorship of political expression (a point also picked up by Techdirt’s Glyn Moody.) [read post]