Patent Law

Sieg Hiel!
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propagandist, must be smiling up from Hell at academics Bessen and Meurer, who concocted rubbish figures about the value of U.S. patents. Mainstream media hack Gordon Crovtiz has taken the numbers as gospel...

Olympic name hotly protected Property of USOC
The US Olympic Committee tracks down and suppresses the use of the name 'Olympic' in dozens venues across the country. The Wall Street Journal details some recent cease-and-desist efforts and their sometimes humorous outcomes...

Counter to Slashdot, WSJ has been pushing patent reform for years
On 15 July 2008, Slashdot (one kdawson) had a post titled: MSM Noticing That Patent Gridlock Stunts Innovation, which includes text--> that most traditional of mainstream media, the Wall Street Journal, arguing the point (obvious to this community for a decade) that the US patent system costs more than the value it delivers...

"Can States Have Their (Patent) Cake and Eat It, Too"
So asks the Patent Baristas blog in discussing the sovereign-immunity issues of Biomedical Patent Management v. State Of California and the related cert petition. The Wall Street Journal discussed the issue November 13...

Defensive
Earlier this week, a thick-waisted but thin-skinned Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures CEO, ventured into incoherence, jockeying defensively when questioned by grizzled technology reviewer for the Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg: "Don't call me a patent troll," and "I'm not abusing the patent system...

Patents and Wall Street
We typically think of innovation as a good thing: Needs inspire ideas, ideas develop into inventions, inventions become patents, and patents make possible new products and services that enhance the quality of human life...

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Zantac Patent
GlaxoSmithKline and Cypress Pharmaceutical settle patent infringement dispute.

Inmate Possessions
Washington Department of Corrections agrees to pay current and former inmates $75 each for donating or destroying personal property.

Milestone LCD TV Wall Mounts
Recalled

Soliris Patent
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to pay the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $10 million patent infringement settlement.

State Street Corporation 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
State Street Corporation 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

State Street Corporation 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud
State Street Corporation 401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud