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Judge Posner Chases A Wild Hare
Patent Avenger Jason Schultz is back from the East and through his blog I found Assessment Technologies v. WIREdata, Inc., No. 03-2061, 7th Cir. November 25, 20…
Elizabeth Rader
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Censored Dance-why Fair Use plus $3.25 will get you a nice latte
Saturday's New York Times had a nice article by Dinitia Smith about Carol Loeb Shloss's new biography Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake. While many boo…
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More Scheduling News from the Court of Appeals
The Federal Circuit will hear oral argument en banc in the Knorr-Bremse Systeme v. Dana Corp. appeal on February 5, 2004, according to a November 13, 2003 order…
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Scheduling News in Webcasting Royalty Appeal
Stanford's Cyberlaw Clinic will be closed up tight this holiday week, but on December 29, the Librarian of Congress will be filing his brief in response to…
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Stretching copyright- Judge Gets Warmed Up for Bikram Yoga Case
Yesterday, November 13, the Court held a Case Management Conference in Open Source Yoga Unity v. Bikram Choudhury. I appeared, along with James Harrison, for…
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Fair Use Gets All Shook Up in the Ninth Circuit
On November 6, the 9th Circuit affirmed the district court's preliminary injunction against distribution of "The Definitive Elvis"- a 16 hour docu…
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Swarthmore/Diebold off to a slow start
This morning I went up to US District Court in San Francisco expecting a hearing on the motion for a TRO against Diebold sending out frivolous cease and desist…
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Acacia, flush with porn tribute, targets colleges
For those wondering why I get so excited about patent reform, here's a great article from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Acacia has been threatening an…
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Briefs in the Knorr-Bremse en banc case
As discussed below, the Federal Circuit has decided to revisit the issue of whether it is right to draw an adverse inference supporting willful infringement whe…
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Mad about Magnatune
A few weeks ago I learned from the Creative Commons blog about Magnatune, an all-digital recording "label" (somehow that term seems dated in the digis…
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FTC Takes A Hard Look At Patents and Competition and Innovation
Yesterday the FTC issued its report entitled To Promote Innovation: The Proper Balance of Competition and Patent Law & Policy. This is the culmination of…
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Taking Patent Reform to the Banc
The beautiful and talented Donna Wentworth recently called me a "Stupid Patent Avenger." While I'm usually not tickled when people use the word &…