deCODE Genetics Inc., an Icelandic company that pioneered personal genetic testing, has filed for Chapter
Who Had my Genetic Information Yesterday, Who Has it Today, and Who Might Have it Tomorrow?
Google to Say What the Law Is
For a number of years, Google's Scholar has searched scholarly journals. It's wasn't too long back that they took the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's entire database of patents, scanned them, and made them searchable through Google Patents.
Get Your Hands Off My Facts!
Rupert Murdoch recently announced that, in the future, he might start charging for access to content from his News Corp properties. In addition, Mr. Murdoch also announced that he was considering blocking New Corp stories from being indexed by search engines, such as Google.
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Net Neutrality: Enabling Internet Openess or a Government Power Grab?
Network Neutrality has long been a hot topic for policy wonks and for immediately affected parties such as service providers. Now, the debate over network neutrality has come to the United States Congress. Bills have been introduced in both houses that would effectively deregulate the Internet—the antithesis of network neutrality.
A Little Privacy, Please?
Have a Google account? Google, through its effort to collect data, knows a lot about you. Google saves everything from chat conversations, emails, pictures, and blog entries to web searches, the advertisements on which you click, and even what you watch on YouTube. Google can use this information to target you with specific advertisements and search results.
Facebook Spammer: $711 Million Judgment Should be the Least of His Worries
A California district judge recently ordered infamous spammer Sanford Wallace to pay $711 million in damages to Facebook for his extensive spamming activity on the site. Wallace is bankrupt, so the price tag may not be very tangible to him, but that doesn’t mean he’s in the clear; the district judge has also requested that Wallace be prosecuted for criminal contempt, which could result in jail time from which no degree of poverty can save him.
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Umpire State of Mind: What is the Instant Replay’s Place in Baseball?
Bud Selig admits the 2009 World Series Playoffs had a number of flat out wrong calls, yet he still has faith in baseball’s umpires and does not believe the game should broaden the use of the instant replay.
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Judge Dismisses Suit Alleging Craigslist is a "Public Nuisance"
U.S. District Court Judge John Grady threw out a lawsuit against Craigslist accusing it of being a “public nuisance” and of violating federal and state prostitution laws. At issue in the civil lawsuit filed in March by the sheriff of Cook County in Illinois was Craigslist’s then-“Erotic Services” section (now renamed “Adult Services”).
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Information Dissemination and Cooperation: Could Europeana provide a useful framework for Google Books?
For those who enjoy the musty smell of a library, be prepared to get your fix elsewhere, because the latest craze is digital libraries, which offer books available free on the Internet.
What exactly does 35 U.S.C. §112 require?
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated its decision in Ariad v. Lilly, granting en banc rehearing of the case. In its petition, Ariad Pharmaceuticals asked the court to answer two questions: first, whether the court erred by engrafting a separate written description requirement onto §112 ¶1; and second, what is the proper test to satisfy the requirement in Section § 112?
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