http://www.addovere.com Patent, Copyright, Internet, Et Alia Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:09:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Forget your worries about using JBoss Hibernate. Users worldwide now have a royalty-free, irrevocable license to use the technology. Apparently, some portions of the technology were covered by U.S. Patent No. 6,101,502. From InternetNews: Legal eagles on staff with Red Hat are a busy group these days. The ... http://www.addovere.com/2008/06/13/red-hat-settles-jboss-hibernate-patent-suit/ Patent exhaustion is alive and well, even for method patents. The key from the Supreme Court's slip opinion: Nothing in this Court’s approach to patent exhaustion supports LGE’s argument that method claims, as a category, are never exhaustible. A patented method may not be sold in the same way as ... http://www.addovere.com/2008/06/11/quanta-v-lg/ (Apologies for writing so little lately. The final finals season is heating up even though the weather is not - very much.) Anyway, Google recently announced they will be employing software tools originally intended to filter out copyrighted material to track down missing and exploited children used in the pornography ... http://www.addovere.com/2008/04/15/google-never-ceases-to-amaze/ Stemcellpatents.com announced the launch of its updated stem cell patent database.  The site includes summaries and analysis of over 1275 expert-selected patents identified as relevant to stem cell commercialization. According to the website, this database is an effort to exploit the infinite potential of stem cell therapeutics.  "Unfortunately, due to the ... http://www.addovere.com/2008/04/08/free-stem-cell-patent-database/ Several commentators present some interesting conclusions about the language of H.R. 1908 and its potential effect on the Tafas v. Dudas litigation. From Patently-O: "The pending Patent Reform Act includes language that would provide substantive rulemaking authority to the PTO. That provision would directly overrule yesterday's decision." From IPBiz: "The current version of ... http://www.addovere.com/2008/04/07/rulemaking-authority-in-hr-1908/ That's all. http://www.addovere.com/2008/04/07/please-note/ A textbook publisher, Faulkner Press, sued Class Notes (dba Einstein's Notes), a student note-taking service at the University of Florida, for copyright infringement. Faulkner sells textbooks and CDs used to submit assignments and quizzes.  These materials are required for the courses in which they are available.  Class Notes hires students to ... http://www.addovere.com/2008/04/07/do-professors-have-copyright-in-their-lectures/ Big loss for Roommates.com, internet forums, and ISPs yesterday.    [Background: The touchstone of § 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) is that providers of internet computer services are immune from liability for content created by third parties. The immunity applies to a defendant who is the "provider... of an internet computer ... http://www.addovere.com/2008/04/04/9th-circuit-says-cda-does-not-shelter-roommatescom/ Rick Merritt, from EE Times, writes, A spokeswoman for Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the majority leader is committed to bring the Patent Reform Act (S-1145) to the Senate floor in the current working session which ends in late May. "It could come up as early as next week," she said. The ... http://www.addovere.com/2008/04/04/reid-commited-to-get-patent-reform-to-floor/ Back in 1993, Acacia began business as a venture capital firm. After the dot-com bust, it changed business models and began managing intellectual property for small entities without the resources to effectively capitalize IP assets. According to Forbes's Maurna Desmond most of Acacia's deals with patent owners involve ... http://www.addovere.com/2008/04/02/the-new-acacia-business-model/