Stories from the Week that Was – 7/1/12-7/7/12

08 Sunday Jul 2012

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Copyright, Litigation, Patent, Stories from the Week that Was, Supreme Court, Tech Developments, Trademark

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Drones, Facebook, Nike, Righthaven, Yahoo

Here are the top stories I followed this week:

Supreme Court to Decide Whether Patent Bullies Can Hit and Run

Defunct copyright troll Righthaven seeks resurrection

Hold Your Flow! Yoga Sequences Not Copyrightable

Drones decimating Taliban in Pakistan

U.S. drone ‘hijackings’ raise security concerns

Charles Carreon drops lawsuit against @TheOatmeal’s Matthew Inman

Facebook Users Hijack Walmart Campaign to Exile Pitbull to Remote Island

Yahoo and Facebook settle patent lawsuit with strategic deal

“Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.” ~William M. Kelly

Stories from the Week that Was – 6/24/12-6/30/12

01 Sunday Jul 2012

Posted by Kenan Farrell in Indiana, Litigation, Stories from the Week that Was, Supreme Court, Tech Developments, Trademark

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FTC, MySpace, Nike

Here are the top stories I followed this week:

Indiana Court Upholds Social Media Ban for Sex Offenders

USPTO seeks to intervene in publisher’s copyright infringement suit against law firm

FTC v. Myspace Part II – The Takeaways

U.S. Supreme Court to hear Nike trademark case

“As far as I’m concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.” -Die Hard 2, spoken by the character John McClane