CT member Peter Carnes (CEO of Traffax, Inc.) testified before of the House Committee on Small Business today about “The Impact of Intellectual Property on Entrepreneurship and Job Creation”. Peter shared the stage with a really diverse group of IP owners – from ABRO, which has problems protecting its trademarks, [...]
The Google book search settlement seemed all but wrapped up in a bow, that is, until hundreds of objections were filed with the Court, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on September 10 examining the antitrust, privacy and copyright issues implicated by the deal, and then the Department of Justice [...]
Caution: because I am talking about code libraries, this discussion will be technical - a combination of the worst of geek and lawyer-speak. Sorry.I had a discussion with a colleague yesterday about Apple’s choice of licenses used for open-sourcing of its Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) concurrency framework, which is a [...]
Yesterday the Supreme Court declined to hear the television and movie producers' appeal from a Second Circuit decision which held that Cablevision's new Remote Server DVR did not violate copyright law. This case is a complex copyright case and it is easy to get lost in the weeds. However, I think [...]
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 [...]