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Copy of the DOJ v. Google Complaint and some thoughts
I'm posting the DOJ/Google complaint because it took me a while to find it and it makes pretty interesting reading. Particularly Google's Oct 10 letter…
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How Understanding Plays in the Blogosphere
On an extremely partisan left-wing blog called crooksandliars.com, a post today from a loyal reader fed up by it all: "For over a year now I’ve been bomba…
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CIS Fellow Julian Dibbell asks why Feds don't tax online game winnings
Journalist and "Ultima Online" junkie Julian Dibbell asks why fans of online games that involve selling imaginary assets don't have to pay taxes o…
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Ashcroft "demeaning" office of Attorney General
According to National Journal Technology Daily: Former Attorney General John Ashcroft is making big money as a lobbyist for companies that offer the kind of ho…
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Google Conquers Radio
In its ongoing quest to conquer the world, Google announced yesterday that it would spend up to $1.2 bn to buy a radio advertising sales unit (the final price w…
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Towards an Economic Framework for Network Neutrality
CIS Fellow Barbara van Schewick's paper "Towards an Economic Framework for Network Neutrality" is available on ssrn. The Abstract: Over the past…
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News from the German CIS Fellows
German CIS Fellows Stefan Bechtold, Christoph Engemann, Dan Wielsch and Barbara van Schewick will be presenting a panel on "Democratization of IT Infrastru…
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Using the Courts as Your Sales Team for Your Business Method Patents
So as I was working on my article on business method patents (spoiler: they're bad), I was inserting a brief discussion of the recent Ex rel Lundgren decisi…
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Martin Luther King Day
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. Where are the American heroes of today? From his speech "The…
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Peer to Patent Project
CIS will host The Peer to Patent Project this semester for a meeting on HCI and the Design of Community Patent.…
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Problems with Cell Phone Locking?
Submit your story. We are looking for stories about how cell phone locking is affecting consumers and the public interest. Do you have a story about how lockin…
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Gold Plated Patents
Mark Lemely, Doug Lichtman, and Bhaven Sampat have a sensible proposal in the winter issue of Regulation. They start with the well-known fact that most patents…