Cory Doctorow has been teaching an undergraduate course at the University of Southern California called ‘PWNED: Everyone on Campus is a Copyright Criminal’. The class was open to anyone on or off campus, and lectures were podcasted. The students edited a class blog and were expected to improve Wikipedia posts relevant to the class. For [...]
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How to teach about IP
Posted in IP, Learning, Teaching on May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
More patent trolling
Posted in IP on March 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Online auction house eBay goes to the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to prevent one of its core services being shutdown over a patent dispute. It is up against small US technology firm MercExchange, which successfully argued in a lower court in 2003 that eBay had infringed two of its patents.
The dispute relates to eBay’s [...]
Patent trolling
Posted in IP on March 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Lovely example — from Tech Review…
Have Patent, Will Sue
A company makes its money by enforcing long-uncontested patents.
By Associated PressAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — While most technology companies make money by developing software, building hardware or providing services, Forgent Networks Inc. has taken a different route: It produces threats and lawsuits that try to cash in on [...]
BlackBerry blackmail
Posted in IP on March 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
March 06, 2006
RSI treatment industry hails BlackBerry settlement
The BlackBerry saga, which discomfited CTOs and confounded legions of compulsive thumb typists, is finally over — now little more than a memorial to the contemptible state of intellectual property law in the U.S. With a court-ordered shutdown of Research in Motion’s U.S. business a very real possibility, [...]
