Archive for November 2006
| Nov 29th 2006 |
Obviously perturbedOral argument in KSR v. Teleflex occurred yesterday. The Supremes are obviously perturbed about the current state of patent law. Patents are to be granted only on inventions that aren’t obvious, and a key question in this case is what test should be used to determine whether an invention meets this standard. In a world where patents sometimes are issued for […] |
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| Nov 28th 2006 |
New DMCA anti-circumvention exemptionsSection 1201 of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it illegal to circumvent copy protection systems or to offer products or services primarily intended to help people do so. This is the law that content providers and some tech companies have asserted - with varying degrees of success, and often in the face of strong […] |
| Nov 26th 2006 |
Welcome to my (techlaw)lifeLately I’ve been fortunate to have time to reflect on where I am in life and where I want to be going. When we sold Groove Networks, a software company founded by Ray Ozzie, to Microsoft last year, I decided to take a mid-career breather to enjoy time with Ellis, who had just arrived, and […] |