Stanford Center for Internet and Society

Michael Tilson Thomas' YouTube Orchestra -- composed entirely of musicians from around the world who auditioned via YouTube video -- rocked last night at Carnegie Hall.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/16/youtube.orchestra/index.html

A paper by M. Chris Riley and Ben Scott called Deep Packet Inspection: The End of the Internet as We Know It?, is available at:
http://www.freepress.net/files/Deep_Packet_Inspection_The_End_of_the_Int...

It is with anticipation that I receive the Ocean Tomo auction catalogs, looking for suprises. There are three lots of patents directed towards Social Networking. CIS speaker and Harvard law prof Jonathan Zittrain ( a great speaker) is the first named inventor of two patents (6,998,984 and 7,324,000) at the March auction.

Quito Enterprises filed a patent infringement suit in Florida against Netflix, Amazon.com, Yahoo!, Slacker, Pandora Media, Strands, Veoh Networks, Realnetworks, Hulu, NBC Universal, News Corp, Last.fm, and CBS Corp on December 26th. Other than filing on Boxing Day, another unusual fact is that this patent was sold at auction last April for $975,000 ($1,072,500 with buyer's commission).

Andy Updegrove of Gesmer Updegrove in Boston advises standards setting organizations on navigating the legal waters surrounding production of technical standards. he also publishes the eJournal, "Standards Today."

Today he addresses technical standards issues and opportunities created with the advent of the new administration.

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/

With increased interest in global warming, green building and ecologically friendly behaviors, I initially observed that there was fairly little chatter concerning intellectual property aspects. This prompted me to examine the extent that IP issues that consume us in other technologies, like the Internet or e-commerce are also affecting progress in the ‘green’ world.

Last week I attended the Israeli Venture Association conference in Tel Aviv. Featured was a demonstration pavilion presenting progress on 30 startups seeking venture capital. The big eye catcher (for me) was 'Ticket2Final', an online marketplace where you can purchase options on a ticket to a future sports event.

Just as I started to consider IP aspects of the green wave, I
stumbled upon the Eco-Patent
Commons, a repository for IP relating to sustainable growth and other ‘green technologies’ placed into the public domain.  The agency is sponsored by the World

An ongoing project reviews patent claim construction orders adding the salient features into a thesaurus of claim constructions. Additionally, I characterize the constructions according to several factors including the ‘prevailing construction’, or more simply, ‘who won.’ Presented here is a summary chart of a limited set of outcomes.

In the context of aspects S1145 for Patent Reform, attached is a chart that illustrates the effect of patent reexaminations and litigation on patents. This compares 4522 instances of assertion of reexamined patents in both Federal Courts and the ITC. It simply shows the number of litigations initiated before or after the filing of a reexamination.