The folks over at Americans for Tax Reform hosted a debate Monday among the candidates for chairman of the Republican National Committee. At one point, ATR President Grover Norquist asked representatives of RebuildTheParty.com to ask the candidates a few questions based on their organization’s “A 10-point action plan to strengthen [...]
It's a miracle of miracles, but it appears that we agree on something with Thomas Vinje, legal counsel to the Microsoft Hater's Caucus, and anti-software patent campaigner, Peter Hintjens. On Friday, Alison Brimelow, president of the European Patent Office, referred how to assess the patentability of software-related inventions to the [...]
Last week I attended the Copyright Alliance's 2008 EXPOnential in D.C. This event gave the copyright industries an opportunity to showcase their contribution to the economy and the lost revenues due to piracy. "Ho Hum" you might be thinking. However, two things really stuck me while walking through the exibits: [...]
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in Jacobsen v. Katzer, issued a very important decision in a case of first impression relating to the enforcement of software licenses. In particular, it was the first federal appellate court decision to clarify whether failure to follow obligations [...]
Thanks to Ed Paisley over at Center for American Progress for pointing me toward this interesting tidbit in the Wall Street Journal's interview with Barack Obama yesterday. Buried in the last section of the article is a section entitled "Startup Companies":Sen. Obama also proposes eliminating capital-gains taxes on start-up companies, [...]