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Problems with Cell Phone Locking?
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CIS is Hiring!!
SUMMER INTERNSHIP POSITION WITH STANFORD’S CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School is hiring a Summer…
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CIS is talking
Larry Lessig's column in the Financial Times: "Creatives face a closed Net," Jennifer Granick's column in Wired News: Go Back to Afghanistan,…
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Utah District Court Rejects Personal Jurisdiction Based on Cease-and-Desist Letters Sent By “Patent Troll”
The United States District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division recently granted defendant Furnace Brook LLC’s (“Furnace Brook”) motion to dismiss p…
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Court Orders Justice Department to Deliver Patriot Act Documents
In March 2005, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for documents pertaining to the U.S.…
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Eleventh Circuit Does Not Extend Alabama State Shield Law To Magazine Reporters
Plaintiff Michael Price, the head coach of the University of Alabama's football team, sued Time Inc., the publisher of Sports Illustrated, and a writer name…
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Patent Claim Covering Both an Apparatus and a Method for Using that Apparatus is Invalid for Indefiniteness
Plaintiff-appellant IPXL Holdings, L.L.C. (“IPXL”) holds a patent for an “electronic fund transfer or transaction system” that stores user information, displays…
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Federal Circuit Rules Alternatives Must be Specifically Identified to be Dedicated to the Public
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction granted by the United States District Court for the District of New J…
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Court denies summary judgment motions focused on the meaning of “interactive” under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
In a case before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, plaintiffs, major recording industry members including BMG Music, Virgi…
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Wikipedia raises its bar
Wikipedia, the world's free, user-made encyclopedia, just announced that it will require people who make new entries to register before doing so. The gener…
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Christoph Engemann (2005)
The Citoyen of Electronic Government with Christoph Engemann CIS Fellow Monday December 5, 2005 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch…
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Don't take away my CrackBerry!
On an ongoing patent infringement battle between Research In Motion and NTP might lead to a BlackBerry service shutdown sometime within the month. A recent NY…