Tag Archives: lawsuit

Ars Technica – Verizon sues to halt FCC’s net neutrality rules

How about the uncer­tainty for busi­nesses to know if next month they’ll have to pay fees to not have their sites arbi­trar­ily slowed down?

October 2, 2011 – 6:19 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Sanctioned: P2P lawyer fined $10,000 for “staggering chutzpah”

Seri­ously stu­pid and uneth­i­cal moves by this lawyer.

September 10, 2011 – 3:07 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

paidContent – More Bad News For Groupon: Sales Team Files Class-Action Suit

Obvi­ously can’t speak to valid­ity of this law­suit but it wouldn’t shock me.

September 10, 2011 – 10:57 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Does not compute: court says only hard math is patentable

The court seems to be try­ing to not rule against all soft­ware patents while acknowl­edg­ing they are bro­ken and need to be reformed.

August 19, 2011 – 1:37 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Patent, Programming, Quick Posts, Software Code | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Electronic Frontier Foundation – Open WiFi and Liability for Copyright Infringement: Setting the Record Straight

The line about “online debates” had me giggling.

August 19, 2011 – 1:13 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Groklaw – Google Reexam Requests Devastating to Lodsys

What’s inter­est­ing about this story is the sus­pi­cion that Google and Apple had not pre­vi­ously filed re-examination requests because their agree­ments with Lodsys pre­vented such an action, appar­ently not so at least for Google.

August 18, 2011 – 9:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Patent, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Freedom to Tinker – Google+Motorola = Software Patent Indictment

That point is the rea­son patents are a blight on the soft­ware indus­try, you can’t just stop being a part of the sys­tem. Patents are a field of hid­den land­mines for any person/company that does soft­ware of any sort.

August 18, 2011 – 12:15 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Patent, Programming, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off