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The United States Patent and Trademark Office has released its annual Performance and Accountability Report for fiscal year 2011. Full text below.
02 Friday Dec 2011
Posted in Federal Initiatives, Intellectual Property, Legislation
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office has released its annual Performance and Accountability Report for fiscal year 2011. Full text below.
01 Thursday Dec 2011
Posted in Indianapolis, Legislation, Patent
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The Intellectual Property Law and Innovation Symposium at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis on Dec. 2 will focus on recent changes to patent law created by the America Invents Act (AIA).
The Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation has assembled a distinguished group to analyze the AIA from a variety of perspectives, focusing on the Act’s implications for the life sciences. Speakers include a legendary patent law jurist, patent reform leaders, chief corporate patent counsel, leading practitioners and scholars, as well as the PTO’s Patent Reform Coordinator.
The event carries 4.5 hours of CLE credit, pending approval. Registration is $125, which includes materials, refreshments and lunch. The event runs from noon to 6 p.m. at the law school, 530 W. New York St., Indianapolis. For more information, visit the law school’s website.
30 Wednesday Nov 2011
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Copyright Infringement, Denise K. LaRue, Gordon & Reese LLP, Richard P. Sybert, Softmaker Software, Third Scroll Products
No Complaint available at publication. Will update when available.
Court Case Number: 1:11-cv-01574-JMS-DKL
File Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Plaintiff: Softmaker Software GmbH
Softmaker Entwicklungs GmbH
Plaintiff Counsel: Richard P. Sybert, Yuo-Fong C. Amato of Gordon & Rees LLP
Defendant: Third Scroll Products LLC, Sonney Colfax, Does 1-10
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: Southern District of Indiana
Judge: Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson
Referred To: Magistrate Judge Denise K. LaRue
29 Tuesday Nov 2011
Posted in Indianapolis, Tech Developments
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Purdue University is home to one of the fastest supercomputers in the country and the 54th most powerful in the world, according to the international Top500.org list. The twist is that the system uses Intel chips that haven’t been released to market yet and aren’t expected until next March.
The new supercomputer, nicknamed “Carter,” for Purdue alumnus Dennis Carter, is an HP Cluster Platform 3000 SL6500. It features Intel Xeon E5 “Sandy Bridge” eight-core, 2.6 GHz processors, which haven’t yet been released to market, along with HP ProLiant servers and Mellanox FDR Infiniband cluster interconnects. The system has a total of 10,368 cores and runs the Linux operating system.
Read more at Campus Technology.
27 Sunday Nov 2011
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Stories from the Week that Was – 11/20-11/26/11
Fighting The Pseudonym Cyberwar
The Facebook Parents’ Dilemma: COPPA and my daughter turn 13
Google Now Censors The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More
Copyright and the First Amendment: The Unexplored, Unbroken Historical Practice
Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown
Rogues Falsely Claim Copyright on YouTube Videos to Hijack Ad Dollars
“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.” John F. Kennedy