This is a demo of Rippy the Aggregator. Go see that page for more details. This is also the installation that Matthew Skala, author of Rippy, uses for his own news reading and testing, so it may sometimes show odd error messages due to experimental feeds being down and so forth.
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USB Combination Lock |
Here's a promotional security product designed by someone who knows nothing about security. The USB drive is "protected" by a combination lock. There are only two dials, so there are only 100 possible combinations. And when the drive is "locked" and the connector is retracted, the contact are still accessible. Maybe it should be given away by companies that sell...
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EFF Asks Illinois Appellate Court to Block Unmasking of Anonymous Online Critic |
Chicago - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum (MFIA) at Yale Law School filed a friend-of-the-court brief today urging the Illinois Court of Appeals to block the unmasking of an anonymous online critic of a local political candidate.
The critic, commenting on a story on the website of a suburban Chicago newspaper called the Daily Herald, engaged in a heated debate with other commenters. One turned out to be the son of the village trustee candidate in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, who was discussed in the article. The candidate, Lisa Stone, who eventually won her race, asked a state court to order the newspaper to release the critic's name and address without appropriately showing that the statements directed towards her son were defamatory or otherwise illegal. Stone indicated that she may choose to subsequently file a lawsuit once she determines the critic's identity through the pre-complaint procedure.
"Because of the enormous potential for abuse, the First Amendment requires litigants to demonstrate that they have a legitimate case before they can use the courts to unmask anonymous online critics," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Matt Zimmerman. "Insults are not enough, especially when the conversation takes place in the context of a political campaign."
In November, a lower court granted Stone's pre-lawsuit request for her critic's identity, incorrectly arguing that a narrow disclosure to Stone would adequately protect the speaker's First Amendment rights. The court stayed the disclosure requirement in light of the speaker's appeal. In its amicus brief filed today, EFF and MFIA argue that this low standard for unmasking an anonymous speaker has a chilling effect on all manner of anonymous speech, political or otherwise.
"Lisa Stone is now a person of political power in the community. She does not have a blank check to pry into someone's life just because he said something she didn't like," said Margot Kaminski, Yale Law student and co-founder of MFIA. "We hope the Court of Appeals will recognize the importance that anonymous speech plays in the free and robust political debate generated by newspapers online."
For the full amicus brief:
http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/stone_v_paddock/Scanned%20Brief.pdf
Contact:
Matt Zimmerman
Senior Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
mattz@eff.org
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The Problem with Liability Rules? |
I found the following story in Robin Lane Fox’s The Classical World. He’s quoting from Aulus Gellius’s Attic Nights, who in turn is quoting Favorinus:
Lucius Veratius was an extremely wicked man of immense brutality. He used to consider it very amusing to slap the face of a free man with the palm of his hand. A slave used to follow him, carrying a purse full of change, and whenever he had slapped someone, he would order twenty-five small coins (asses) to be counted out, as prescribed by the Twelve Tables. As a result, the praetors later decided that this law in the Tables was obsolete and defunct, and declared by edict that they would appoint assessors to estimate personal damages instead.
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EFF Asks Illinois Appellate Court to Block Unmasking of Anonymous Online Critic |
Chicago - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Media Freedom and Information Access Practicum (MFIA) at Yale Law School filed a friend-of-the-court brief today urging the Illinois Court of Appeals to block the unmasking of an anonymous online critic of a local political candidate.
The critic, commenting on a story on the website of a suburban Chicago newspaper called the Daily Herald, engaged in a heated debate with other commenters. One turned out to be the son of the village trustee candidate in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, who was discussed in the article. The candidate, Lisa Stone, who eventually won her race, asked a state court to order the newspaper to release the critic's name and address without appropriately showing that the statements directed towards her son were defamatory or otherwise illegal. Stone indicated that she may choose to subsequently file a lawsuit once she determines the critic's identity through the pre-complaint procedure.
"Because of the enormous potential for abuse, the First Amendment requires litigants to demonstrate that they have a legitimate case before they can use the courts to unmask anonymous online critics," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Matt Zimmerman. "Insults are not enough, especially when the conversation takes place in the context of a political campaign."
In November, a lower court granted Stone's pre-lawsuit request for her critic's identity, incorrectly arguing that a narrow disclosure to Stone would adequately protect the speaker's First Amendment rights. The court stayed the disclosure requirement in light of the speaker's appeal. In its amicus brief filed today, EFF and MFIA argue that this low standard for unmasking an anonymous speaker has a chilling effect on all manner of anonymous speech, political or otherwise.
"Lisa Stone is now a person of political power in the community. She does not have a blank check to pry into someone's life just because he said something she didn't like," said Margot Kaminski, Yale Law student and co-founder of MFIA. "We hope the Court of Appeals will recognize the importance that anonymous speech plays in the free and robust political debate generated by newspapers online."
For the full amicus brief:
http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/stone_v_paddock/Scanned%20Brief.pdf
Contact:
Matt Zimmerman
Senior Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
mattz@eff.org
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What Scares You As An Inventor? |
AllBusiness Champions of Small Business Mar 15 2010 6:44PM GMT
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MorphoSys Granted Further Patent on its Core Antibody Technology in Japan |
Therapeutics Daily Mar 15 2010 6:42PM GMT
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Japan, China to fight copyright piracy |
Japan Today Mar 15 2010 6:42PM GMT
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Foster + Freeman Enhances Authentication Capabilities with Graphic Security Systems' Patented Software |
Street Insider Mar 15 2010 6:38PM GMT
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Oracle loses XML co-inventor to Google |
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Caliper settles 14-month patent spat with Shimazdu |
MassDevice Mar 15 2010 6:40PM GMT
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Foster + Freeman Enhances Authentication Capabilities with Graphic Security Systems Patented Software |
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March 3rd, 2010 WiLAN posts smaller loss in fiscal 2009; predicts 'critical' year ahead for patent litigation |
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Mylan faces patent suit related to generic contraceptive pills |
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Brinks Attorney Explains New USPTO Pilot Program Aimed to Accelerate Patenting of Green Technologies |
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Nokia-Apple patent trial not expected until 2012 |
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Oracle Loses XML Co-inventor to Google |
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Brazil may break US patents on films, music, drugs |
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ZTE increases patents applications by 50 pc |
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Marinomed Granted European Patent for Anti-Viral Active Ingredient |
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Epigenomics AG Receives Allowance for Key Technology Patent in Japan |
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Microsoft Looses Patent case again |
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ZTE Corporation: ZTE Increases Patent Applications By 50% In 2009 Despite Global Economic Downturn |
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Impax challenges patent on Abbott's Trilipix |
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Impax Laboratories initiates challenge of patent over generic TRILIPIX |
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Impax Laboratories Confirms Patent Challenge Relating to TRILIPIX Delayed-Release Capsules, 135 mg and 45 mg |
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KCI wins patent case against Smith & Nephew |
Healthcare Purchasing News Mar 15 2010 4:30PM GMT
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Copyright holders drop bid to block Pirate Bay in Norway |
NetworkWorld Mar 15 2010 4:24PM GMT
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Brazil details retaliation on U.S. copyright, patents |
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I.D. Systems Awarded Patents for Access Control and Luggage Handling |
TMC Net Mar 15 2010 4:18PM GMT
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Impax Laboratories Confirms Patent Challenge Relating to TRILIPIX(R) Delayed-Release Capsules, 135 mg and 45 mg |
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EFF to Urge True Transparency in Congressional Hearing Thursday |
Washington, D.C. - On Thursday, March 18, at 2 p.m., members of the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a public hearing on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Obama administration compliance with transparency law. The hearing comes as transparency advocates celebrate Sunshine Week, the annual celebration of our nation's open government laws that features numerous events measuring the progress made in combating official secrecy.
Senior Counsel David Sobel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will testify at Thursday's hearing, urging the White House to fulfill its promises for open government. Despite President Obama's order to government agencies last year to renew their commitment to FOIA, EFF and other organizations still see delays in releasing relevant documents, excuses for not releasing other records, and excessive redactions, among other needless secrecy.
In one case, for example, EFF has compared heavily redacted documents from the FBI released to us under FOIA with documents leaked from a whistleblower containing no redactions. We found that much of the blacked-out content concerns the FBI's attempts to avoid court oversight of its inappropriate surveillance tactics through the use of generic and legally questionable "umbrella" authorizations. However, these umbrella authorizations had already been revealed to the public in a previous report by the Department of Justice's Inspector General. You can see a revealing side-by-side comparison at http://www.eff.org/pages/sunshine2010.
WHO:
David Sobel
Senior Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation
WHAT:
"Administration of the Freedom of Information Act: Current Trends"
U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives
WHEN:
2 p.m.
Thursday, March 18
WHERE:
Rayburn House Office Building
Room 2154
Washington, D.C. 20515
For more on the hearing:
http://oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=2&extmode...
For a side-by-side comparison of the FBI redactions:
http://www.eff.org/pages/sunshine2010
Contact:
Rebecca Jeschke
Media Relations Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation
press@eff.org
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Sunshine Week 2010: FOIA Could Still Shed More Light |
As the transparency community celebrates Sunshine Week, we here at EFF are reminded that most of the federal agencies we seek to monitor through our Freedom of Information Act work continue to cloak their activities in excessive secrecy. We have grown accustomed to receiving agency documents with large amounts of information blacked out — or "redacted" in the official parlance. While we often suspect that many of these deletions are made to conceal innocuous, or perhaps embarrassing, information, it is usually impossible to confirm those suspicions. But in some rare instances, we are able to learn precisely what a recalcitrant agency has improperly withheld from public view.
Such an opportunity recently arose when the Washington Post published a series of internal FBI e-mail messages concerning the Bureau's abuse of national security letter (NSL) authority. NSLs are used to obtain, among other things, telephone toll billing records and subscriber information, and electronic communication transactional records. In a report issued in March 2007, the Justice Department's Inspector General concluded that the FBI had systematically violated the law by improperly issuing hundreds of NSLs without proper authorization. Within days of the IG's report, EFF submitted a FOIA request to the FBI for documents detailing these abuses. Of the tens of thousands of pages of material that the Bureau eventually identified as responsive to our request, the vast majority of the relevant information was redacted.
The e-mail messages published by the Washington Post were obtained from an FBI whistleblower who had been directly involved in the Bureau's handling of NSLs. Through a careful comparison of the redacted material originally released to EFF with the unredacted messages recently published by the Washington Post, we were able to see precisely what the Bureau withheld. We were particularly struck by the fact that the FBI redacted all references to a proposal that had been floated within the Bureau to legitimize questionable demands for communications records — so-called "exigent letters" — a plan that the DOJ Inspector General clearly described in his report:
Our review of contemporaneous e-mail communications . . . found that for nearly 2 years, beginning in late 2004, [FBI National Security Law Branch] attorneys counseled CAU [Communications Analysis Unit] officials to take a variety of actions, including . . . opening "umbrella" investigations out of which national security letters could be issued in the absence of another pending investigation. . . .
The Assistant General Counsel at first proposed the establishment of six "generic" or "umbrella" investigations representing the recurring types of threats investigated by the Counterterrorism Division. The proposal contemplated that the FBI would issue national security letters from these files in exigent circumstances when there were no other pending investigations to which the request could be tied.
As the side-by-side comparison of the redacted and full-text e-mail messages shows, the FBI withheld all references to its proposal to use "generic" or "umbrella" investigations as a rationale to justify questionable demands for sensitive information relating to private communications. It is worth noting that the FBI continued to withhold this information even after President Obama and Attorney General Holder announced that a new "presumption of openness" should guide agency FOIA implementation. Despite the Attorney General's assertion that the Justice Department would only defend an agency's decision to withhold information if it could demonstrate a "foreseeable harm" from disclosure, in this instance DOJ attorneys defended the FBI's withholding of information that was revealed by the Department's own Inspector General three years ago.
FOIA is a powerful tool, and this example of over-redaction demonstrates the need to continue seeking a culture of transparency and trust from our government. President Obama took the first step by declaring that "[a]ll agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open Government," and organizations like EFF are making sure that the government remembers its promise. But Sunshine Week exists to remind citizens, journalists, members of Congress, and folks both inside and outside the transparency movement to continue seeking honest disclosure using all the tools that exist: rigorous investigations, hearings, and actual, public oversight.
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EFF Experts to Speak at Privacy Roundtable in Washington, D.C. |
Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday, March 17, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is hosting its final public roundtable on technology privacy challenges in Washington, D.C. Two experts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are taking part.
EFF Senior Staff Technologist Peter Eckersley and EFF Boardmember Edward W. Felten will discuss "Internet Architecture and Privacy" at the first panel of the day. Later panels will cover health information privacy and issues around other sensitive information, as well as lessons learned so far and future plans for privacy protection.
For more information on attending the roundtable including a full agenda, visit http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/privacyroundtables/index.shtml
WHAT:
FTC Roundtable "Internet Architecture and Privacy"
WHEN:
Wednesday, March 17
9:15 a.m.
WHERE:
FTC Conference Center
601 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
For more information on the roundtable:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/privacyroundtables/index.shtml
Contact:
Rebecca Jeschke
Media Relations Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation
press@eff.org
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Typosquatting |
"Measuring the Perpetrators and Funders of Typosquatting," by Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman: Abstract. We describe a method for identifying "typosquatting", the intentional registration of misspellings of popular website addresses. We estimate that at least 938 000 typosquatting domains target the top 3 264 .com sites, and we crawl more than 285 000 of these domains to analyze their revenue...
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EFF to Urge True Transparency in Congressional Hearing Thursday |
Washington, D.C. - On Thursday, March 18, at 2 p.m., members of the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a public hearing on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Obama administration compliance with transparency law. The hearing comes as transparency advocates celebrate Sunshine Week, the annual celebration of our nation's open government laws that features numerous events measuring the progress made in combating official secrecy.
Senior Counsel David Sobel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will testify at Thursday's hearing, urging the White House to fulfill its promises for open government. Despite President Obama's order to government agencies last year to renew their commitment to FOIA, EFF and other organizations still see delays in releasing relevant documents, excuses for not releasing other records, and excessive redactions, among other needless secrecy.
In one case, for example, EFF has compared heavily redacted documents from the FBI released to us under FOIA with documents leaked from a whistleblower containing no redactions. We found that much of the blacked-out content concerns the FBI's attempts to avoid court oversight of its inappropriate surveillance tactics through the use of generic and legally questionable "umbrella" authorizations. However, these umbrella authorizations had already been revealed to the public in a previous report by the Department of Justice's Inspector General. You can see a revealing side-by-side comparison at http://www.eff.org/pages/sunshine2010.
WHO:
David Sobel
Senior Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation
WHAT:
"Administration of the Freedom of Information Act: Current Trends"
U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives
WHEN:
2 p.m.
Thursday, March 18
WHERE:
Rayburn House Office Building
Room 2154
Washington, D.C. 20515
For more on the hearing:
http://oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=2&extmode...
For a side-by-side comparison of the FBI redactions:
http://www.eff.org/pages/sunshine2010
Contact:
Rebecca Jeschke
Media Relations Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation
press@eff.org
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Sunshine Week 2010: FOIA Could Still Shed More Light |
As the transparency community celebrates Sunshine Week, we here at EFF are reminded that most of the federal agencies we seek to monitor through our Freedom of Information Act work continue to cloak their activities in excessive secrecy. We have grown accustomed to receiving agency documents with large amounts of information blacked out — or "redacted" in the official parlance. While we often suspect that many of these deletions are made to conceal innocuous, or perhaps embarrassing, information, it is usually impossible to confirm those suspicions. But in some rare instances, we are able to learn precisely what a recalcitrant agency has improperly withheld from public view.
Such an opportunity recently arose when the Washington Post published a series of internal FBI e-mail messages concerning the Bureau's abuse of national security letter (NSL) authority. NSLs are used to obtain, among other things, telephone toll billing records and subscriber information, and electronic communication transactional records. In a report issued in March 2007, the Justice Department's Inspector General concluded that the FBI had systematically violated the law by improperly issuing hundreds of NSLs without proper authorization. Within days of the IG's report, EFF submitted a FOIA request to the FBI for documents detailing these abuses. Of the tens of thousands of pages of material that the Bureau eventually identified as responsive to our request, the vast majority of the relevant information was redacted.
The e-mail messages published by the Washington Post were obtained from an FBI whistleblower who had been directly involved in the Bureau's handling of NSLs. Through a careful comparison of the redacted material originally released to EFF with the unredacted messages recently published by the Washington Post, we were able to see precisely what the Bureau withheld. We were particularly struck by the fact that the FBI redacted all references to a proposal that had been floated within the Bureau to legitimize questionable demands for communications records — so-called "exigent letters" — a plan that the DOJ Inspector General clearly described in his report:
Our review of contemporaneous e-mail communications . . . found that for nearly 2 years, beginning in late 2004, [FBI National Security Law Branch] attorneys counseled CAU [Communications Analysis Unit] officials to take a variety of actions, including . . . opening "umbrella" investigations out of which national security letters could be issued in the absence of another pending investigation. . . .
The Assistant General Counsel at first proposed the establishment of six "generic" or "umbrella" investigations representing the recurring types of threats investigated by the Counterterrorism Division. The proposal contemplated that the FBI would issue national security letters from these files in exigent circumstances when there were no other pending investigations to which the request could be tied.
As the side-by-side comparison of the redacted and full-text e-mail messages shows, the FBI withheld all references to its proposal to use "generic" or "umbrella" investigations as a rationale to justify questionable demands for sensitive information relating to private communications. It is worth noting that the FBI continued to withhold this information even after President Obama and Attorney General Holder announced that a new "presumption of openness" should guide agency FOIA implementation. Despite the Attorney General's assertion that the Justice Department would only defend an agency's decision to withhold information if it could demonstrate a "foreseeable harm" from disclosure, in this instance DOJ attorneys defended the FBI's withholding of information that was revealed by the Department's own Inspector General three years ago.
FOIA is a powerful tool, and this example of over-redaction demonstrates the need to continue seeking a culture of transparency and trust from our government. President Obama took the first step by declaring that "[a]ll agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open Government," and organizations like EFF are making sure that the government remembers its promise. But Sunshine Week exists to remind citizens, journalists, members of Congress, and folks both inside and outside the transparency movement to continue seeking honest disclosure using all the tools that exist: rigorous investigations, hearings, and actual, public oversight.
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EFF Experts to Speak at Privacy Roundtable in Washington, D.C. |
Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday, March 17, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is hosting its final public roundtable on technology privacy challenges in Washington, D.C. Two experts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are taking part.
EFF Senior Staff Technologist Peter Eckersley and EFF Boardmember Edward W. Felten will discuss "Internet Architecture and Privacy" at the first panel of the day. Later panels will cover health information privacy and issues around other sensitive information, as well as lessons learned so far and future plans for privacy protection.
For more information on attending the roundtable including a full agenda, visit http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/privacyroundtables/index.shtml
WHAT:
FTC Roundtable "Internet Architecture and Privacy"
WHEN:
Wednesday, March 17
9:15 a.m.
WHERE:
FTC Conference Center
601 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
For more information on the roundtable:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/privacyroundtables/index.shtml
Contact:
Rebecca Jeschke
Media Relations Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation
press@eff.org
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Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. Ranked as A Top Patent Prosecution Firm |
Boston Business Journal Mar 15 2010 12:39PM GMT
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Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A. Ranked as A Top Quality Patent Prosecution Firm |
Nashville Business Journal Mar 15 2010 11:21AM GMT
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Ensphere Solutions Announced the Availability of a High Accuracy Temperature Sensor Intellectual Property |
Design and Reuse Mar 15 2010 12:39PM GMT
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Apple practices 'legal alchemy' to mask IP theft, claims Nokia |
NetworkWorld Mar 15 2010 12:02PM GMT
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Ranbaxy Announces Settlement of Actos(R) (Pioglitazone Hydrochloride) Patent Litigation |
PR Newswire Mar 15 2010 12:35PM GMT
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Advanced Voice Recognition Systems, Inc. Announces Declaration of Interference by the United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Street Insider Mar 15 2010 12:29PM GMT
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Caliper Life Sciences (CALP) Settles Patent Infringement Suit with Shimadzu; To Cease Sales of MultiNA System in U.S. |
Street Insider Mar 15 2010 12:21PM GMT
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Inventors swarm infomercial auditions |
Jewish World Review Mar 15 2010 12:13PM GMT
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Boston Scientific (BSX) Announce 1000 Patent Milestone Using LATITUDE Patent Management System |
Street Insider Mar 15 2010 12:06PM GMT
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Arrayit Corporation Completes Installation of Patented |
Market Wire via MSN Money Mar 15 2010 12:01PM GMT
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Arrayit Corporation Completes Installation of Patented Manufacturing Technology in Russia |
Earthtimes.org Mar 15 2010 11:07AM GMT
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Ranbaxy settles Actos patent litigation with Takeda |
Moneycontrol.com Mar 15 2010 11:20AM GMT
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Kistler Instrument Corporation Debuts Type 8688A IEPE Triaxial TEDS Accelerometer with Industry-Exclusive, Patented Low Mass Design |
Industrial Utility Vehicle and Mobile Equipment Mar 15 2010 11:16AM GMT
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Functional Technologies Develops Yeast Solution for Acrylamide in Processed Foods Patent Applications Filed, Partner Discussions Initiated .. |
PR inside Mar 15 2010 11:15AM GMT
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MorphoSys AG secures new Japanese patent for core antibody technology |
M2 Mar 15 2010 11:15AM GMT
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MorphoSys announces patent grant on HuCAL technology in Japan |
TradingMarkets Mar 15 2010 11:05AM GMT
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Ranbaxy, Takeda tie up to resolve patent litigation |
Bio Spectrum Asia Mar 15 2010 11:04AM GMT
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Ranbaxy settles patent dispute with Takeda |
Financial Chronicle Mar 15 2010 11:03AM GMT
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GIIP announces admissions open for PG Courses in Intellectual Property Rights and Patent Management |
PRLog Mar 15 2010 11:01AM GMT
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Toma's X Diary Slice-of-Life Manhwa to Get U.S. Film |
Post-breakup story produced by manhwa publisher Netcomics
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Creators Decry Tokyo's Proposed 'Virtual' Child Porn Ban (Update 2) |
Ashita no Joe's Chiba, Lady Ann's Satonaka, Doraemon's Fujiko, others sign statement
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Peach Girl's Miwa Ueda Launches Pure-Mari Manga |
Comedy about "pre-marriage" school; Nao Hinachi, Ririko Yoshioka launch manga
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Yasuhiro Imagawa Cancels Trip to Sakura-Con |
Trigun's Satoshi Nishimura & Takahiro Yoshimatsu, Haruhi's Noizi Ito, others still coming
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Spacing on longevity at city hall |
Spacing has an amusing piece today on longevity in Montreal municipal politics and finds that Marvin Rotrand and Sammy Forcillo both have claims to the longest stint at city hall.
Forcillo's also in the Gazette this morning, saying he thinks the Seville Theatre block should be razed. (It's beginning to feel like the 1980s again around here, with developers leaving areas to rot, or knocking stuff down then hesitating to invest in redeveloping the areas they've pre-emptively ruined.)
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Why so little thought for the Main? |
Nathalie Collard hits the nail on the head with questions about the city's conduct (or rather lack of conduct) of the redevelopment of the lower Main. There's also a bit of an exposé this morning in Le Devoir about the city auditor examining the process via which SDA was handed the keys to the whole area, but the article's locked.
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Cohen sketches on show |
Sketches and drawings by Leonard Cohen are on display at the TD Lounge Galerie, 305 Ste-Catherine West, till May.
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Taxis to get new livery |
Montreal taxis are to get a new livery which includes ads on their roofs, plus new rules making them more environmentally sound; some of the other details, like special taxi stands, seem to be answers to non-problems: are taxi stands difficult to identify? Look for spots near busy business locations where there are a lot of cabs. It isn't rocket surgery.
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Brother André to be sainted in October |
Brother André is to be canonized a saint in October, arguably four decades after this news would've rocked Quebec, but still something of a coup. The Globe and Mail announces Quebec's first saint, ignoring Marguerite d'Youville (born here) and Marguerite Bourgeoys (born in France, but achieved her fame here), not to mention all those Jesuit martyrs...
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NDG library hopes dashed |
Plans to bring the Fraser-Hickson library back to life in an eastern NDG church are spiked by a withdrawal of the church's support; the books will remain in storage.
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Cross to be blacked out for Earth Hour |
The city's going to shut off the cross and black out City Hall for Earth Hour next month.
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Lumière fest opens today |
The Montréal en lumière/High Lights fest starts today; the Plattsburgh paper is keen; preview from Le Devoir; La Presse looks at Portuguese restaurants in town, according with this year's theme of Portuguese cooking – they also have a dossier on the festival.
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More Rendez-vous picks |
More picks for the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois from the Mirror and Hour and for today only in Voir.
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Ile sans fil asks: why not us? |
Asked about creating a widely available free wi-fi system, Mayor Tremblay gives a wordy non-answer and is roundly challenged in the comments by a spokesman for Ile sans fil.
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STM czar is getting expensive |
STM czar Michel Labrecque is costing the transit corporation a lot more because they're having to make up the shortfall in his salary caused by his failure to get re-elected in the municipal election. On the other hand, now he works full-time for the STM.
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More on Copenhagization |
More on the Copenhagen approach to urbanization and what it could do for Montreal.
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City moves in on slum landlord |
The city is planning an investigation into a run-down apartment complex in Saint-Léonard; finally, they've also worked out that if a landlord owns one slummy building he may also own others that should be investigated.
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West Island sees gang arrests |
Police made nine arrests in the West Island yesterday of people said to be members of gangs accused of various violent crimes.
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Photo exhibit becomes hot potato |
A photo exhibit at the Cinema du Parc has become a hot potato as the owner of the building has ordered it removed and the organizers have refused. The subject is the aftermath of an attack on Gaza; the building owners are Israeli.
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Book art piece at the archives |
Another piece on the book-based art piece La grande vague at the Centre d'archives, and its creation. The Centre is at 535 Viger East.
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The demographics of the Plateau |
Spacing has an interesting piece on the demographics of the Plateau today, challenging a perception that the area is elitist or that its residents hold any particular political or social view en bloc. As Joel Thibert says, statistically, Plateau dwellers are ordinary Montrealers.
My only quibble with the analysis is his statement that people aged 40-54 are "boomers." Definitions of the baby boom vary, but most put it between 1946 and 1960 – kids born to families formed after World War II. Those people are now aged 50 and upwards. People now in their forties are not baby boomers.
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Nun's slayer free on conditions |
Martin Rondeau, who killed elderly nun Estelle Lauzon in 2007, has been freed after being declared not responsible for his actions, but he's under fairly onerous living conditions worked out between the judge and some doctors to try to ensure that his illness can't cause him to attack anyone else.
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Italian Montreal English today |
The Gazette's final piece on Montreal English looks at Italian-Montreal accents although with some emphasis on making school kids get rid of them.
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Seasonal blues: half of us suffer |
Almost half of us suffer from seasonal affective disorder this time of year, the poll having been taken in late January, and we tend to become less productive at work.
