Timothy Zick is the Mills E. [read post]

Ericsson's opposition brief argues that there is so much technology involved in the operation of a wireless network, it's just impossible to hold such patents to cover abstract subject matter, lest an extreme interpretation of Alice spell doom for patent law as a whole.Reply briefs are often very repetitive, reinforcing points already made in the motion in light of the opposition brief. [read post]

– United States Environmental Protection Agency, July 20, 2010 Subject to court approval, Cardi Materials, LLC of Warwick, R.I., will pay a $55,000 civil penalty and perform an additional project costing $168,500 to resolve numerous violations of the Clean Water Act at its Warwick concrete manufacturing facility. [read post]

But first-to-file clearly favors the better funded (i.e., corporate) patent mills over the small, scrappy inventor who must now keep all ideas secret (and not shown to VCs) until the application is filed. [read post]