Appeals Court Holds Corporations Can Patent Genes
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a specialized court that deals mostly with patent law, held on Friday that biotechnology companies can patent DNA sequences: The Court of...
View ArticleApple Has A Patent On ‘Slide To Unlock’
Apparently Apple has a patent on this: Slide to unlock is an excellent idea. Indeed, it’s difficult to see how you could implement a multi-touch smartphone without doing something along these lines....
View ArticlePiracy Is A Service Issue
Very smart talk from Gabe Newell of Valve Corporation: In general, we think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. For...
View ArticleIs Mitt Romney Profiting Off Chinese Surveillance?
In a Wall Street Journal oped last month, Mitt Romney laid out “how I’ll respond to a China’s rising power” and criticized the Obama administration’s handling of relations with Beijing. Romney warns of...
View ArticleFBI Warns Of Foreign Spying On U.S. Tech Companies
United Technologies settled a lawsuit with the U.S. government yesterday, acknowledging making false statements about its illegal export to China of U.S. software. That technology was used in China’s...
View ArticleDaredevil Comes Back to Marvel
Via Deadline, it looks like the rights to Daredevil are going to revert back to Marvel and to Disney after Fox killed an effort to reboot the franchise. The fact that the rights to certain key...
View ArticleRepublican Study Committee Flip-Flops On Copyright Reform In 24 Hours
For a brief moment last week, a House Republican group that serves as an idea shop for the party was on record proposing a remarkably far-reaching reform of American copyright law. The memo (PDF),...
View ArticleMeet The Corporation That Trademarked ‘Jesus’
Some words and symbols are so commonplace it seems impossible a company could claim exclusive rights to them. Christianity’s central figure might be one of them. But according to the U.S. Patent And...
View ArticleLeaked Trans-Pacific Partnership Document Raises New Concerns For Progressives
WikiLeaks on Friday published the alleged final draft of one key chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, a massive, largely secret deal between 12 countries that represent 40 percent...
View ArticleThe Little-Known Reason Renewable Prices Are Dropping
Plummeting costs for renewable energy have finally made solar and wind a viable alternative to fossil fuels. But what’s responsible for the drop in price? Technological innovation and expanded...
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