On Monday, the US Department of Justice’s lead antitrust enforcer announced a new direction for her agency. In a speech before the Center for American Progress, Christine Varney, assistant attorney general for antitrust, said “as antitrust enforcers we cannot sit on the sidelines any longer.”According to the San Jose Mercury [...]
MSNBC reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) plans to permanently base a computer crime expert in Estonia this year to fight international threats against computer systems. According to FBI assistant director Shawn Henry, this is the first time the bureau is placing outside of the United States an [...]
FoxNews.com had a front-page article this week about a study showing that, despite the president’s dedication to openness and transparency in government and his campaign’s landmark use of the Internet, there is a drop in satisfaction among those who use federal government websites in search of information, and that the [...]
Whew… Big week last week for events about IP. Sunday was World Intellectual Property Day (did you sign on to the Statement of Principles yet?). Monday and Tuesday brought the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s transatlantic collaboration event where representatives from governments and various industries discussed their efforts to fight counterfeiting [...]
Vivek Kundra spoke to a 150+ crowd at a Northern Virginia Technology Counsel event on Saturday morning in Tysons Corner. He has his speech crafted pretty well at this point, but did have an interesting response to a question on open standards from someone who said he was affiliated with [...]