Tag Archives: lawsuit

FARK.com – Patent-infringement lawsuit against Fark settled for zero dollars. Also, patent trolls suck hairy donkey balls

Whee the patent sys­tem is work­ing so well.

August 10, 2011 – 8:05 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

This American Life – When Patents Attack!

Not upset enough about patents, spend an hour and you’ll get even more upset.

August 2, 2011 – 2:09 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Groklaw – The Google Microsoft Fight About FISMA Certification

This is a fun story.

April 14, 2011 – 7:13 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

CrunchGear – Record Industry: Limewire Could Owe $75 Trillion – Judge: “Absurd”

The judge has exactly the right idea, absurd indeed.

March 24, 2011 – 9:44 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Bloomberg – Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of ‘App Store’ Trademark

Ughh when does it ever end.

March 21, 2011 – 8:04 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Electronic Frontier Foundation – Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law That Removes Works from the Public Domain

This should be declared uncon­sti­tu­tional, once work goes in the pub­lic domain, the work should stay there, per­pet­ual copy­right is a bad deal.

March 8, 2011 – 1:14 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Culture, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

BBC News – EU launches antitrust probe into alleged Google abuses

Not too shocked that Google is accused of abus­ing it’s power, that being said I actu­ally would be shocked to see Google found guilty.

November 30, 2010 – 9:42 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off