Patents: 250000 Patents for Smartphone Technology
John Bennett says this needs to be shouted from the rooftop. %26lt;big%26gt;%26lt;a...
View ArticleAgainst Monopoly: Catching Up
Been very busy with other things, so this is a "catching up" post. 1. I was offered the opportunity to syndicate an article. Usually these things are scams, but in this case it seems to be legitimate....
View ArticlePatents: The golden age of beer innovation
The NEP-HIS blog has a nice %26lt;A HREF="http://nephist.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/to-patent-or-not-to-patent/"%26gt;discussion%26lt;/A%26gt; of a nice paper by Alessandro Nuvolari and James Sumner on...
View ArticleIP Bullying: The mainstream media wises up
%26lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/the-case-for-abolishing-patents-yes-all-of-them/262913/"%26gt;Fifteen minutes of fame.%26lt;/a%26gt; I think the Apple-Samsung...
View ArticleCopyright: Canada - A Copyright Year in Review
2012 was surprisingly good for Canada. The decade long revision of the Copyright Act was completed; most parties agree that it was a good compromise. Amendments included: expanding fair dealing to...
View ArticlePatents: From the Trenches
%26lt;a href="http://www.researchoninnovation.org/quillen/JIPL08.pdf"%26gt;Some very thoughtful - dare I say innovative? - remarks %26lt;/a%26gt; about patents from Cecil D. Quillen, Jr., former...
View ArticlePatents: Almost Famous
%26lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/patent-wars-among-tech-giants-can-stifle-competition.html"%26gt;The New York Times on patents%26lt;/a%26gt;. Original reporting and a strong...
View ArticlePatents: What the New York Times Should Have Asked
%26lt;img height="200" src="http://www.artfactory.com/images/Iron-Slide-Latch-HH400.jpg"%26gt; This is what Apple "invented" the idea of sliding a latch to open something. But because they were doing...
View ArticlePharmaceutical Patents: Patents and Secrecy
It is commonly thought that patents are good because people reveal secrets rather than keeping them. But they keep secrets about intermediate results so that they can be first to patent. Via Pedro Dal...
View ArticleCopyright: Open Book Publisher
There is a lot of talk in academic circles about open publishing models - but mostly for journals. However efforts are underway for books as well: Openbook publishers has been taking the lead in this -...
View ArticleAgainst IM: The Libertarian
I wanted to draw attention to a %26lt;a href="http://the-libertarian.co.uk/ "%26gt;Libertarian Blog%26lt;/a%26gt;. It covers a lot of ground, but also IP issues from a libertarian perspective,...
View ArticlePlagiarism: Do we need a law?
In the dimension of copyright, the issue of plagiarism often comes up. There is a common misunderstanding that there is a connection between copyright or plagiarism. Plagiarism is not generally a...
View ArticlePatents: 3D Printing
If you read this blog you must have an internet connection, so presumably have heard of 3D printing. It is a very disruptive technology with potential to change manufacturing in a variety of ways - and...
View ArticlePatents: Mark Cuban and small business
Do we want to innovate our way out of crisis? How about government getting out of the way of innovators? Real innovators and small businesses are obstructed not helped by patents. Don't listen to me....
View ArticleAgainst Monopoly: A monopoly over numbers?
Are you familiar with the ISBN? A unique identifier issued by the U.S. Government to identify books? Did you know that the U.S. Government has granted a private company %26lt;a...
View ArticleCopyright: Canada - A Copyright Year in Review
2012 was surprisingly good for Canada. The decade long revision of the Copyright Act was completed; most parties agree that it was a good compromise. Amendments included: expanding fair dealing to...
View ArticleDrug patents: Generic drug makers can't be sued if they have FDA approval
The Supreme Court ruled last Monday that Generic drug makers can't be sued for defective designs when their previously FDA-approved products cause injuries %26lt;a...
View ArticleInnovation: Welcome to another blogger questioning intellectual property law
Felix Salmon has an engaging blog on how the world benefits from Chinese piracy %26lt;a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/06/25/how-the-world-benefits-from-chinese-piracy/"%26gt;link...
View ArticleIntellectual Property: Are patents and copyrights still constitutional?
Challenges to the effectiveness of patents and copyrights as a reward to their creator are being raised with growing frequency. Alex Tabarrok does so today %26lt;a...
View ArticlePatent Trolls: Press coverage of patent trolls has been rare.
The New York Times went some way last week to remedy that link here. First, it notes that the chairwoman of the FTC is expected to recommend an investigation of patent trolls (or "frivolous patent...
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