patent quality – Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:39:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 February 14 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/02/february-14-roundup-3/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/02/february-14-roundup-3/#comments Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:05:24 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=68767 “One-Sided Loser Pays Is the Worst of Both Worlds” [Mark Pulliam at his new blog Misrule of Law, and thanks for mention] My first piece for Quillette debunks claims of jump in rate at which gay men are being murdered in U.S.; Welcome news: Department of Justice memo advises DoJ attorneys to seek dismissal of […]

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  • “One-Sided Loser Pays Is the Worst of Both Worlds” [Mark Pulliam at his new blog Misrule of Law, and thanks for mention]
  • My first piece for Quillette debunks claims of jump in rate at which gay men are being murdered in U.S.;
  • Welcome news: Department of Justice memo advises DoJ attorneys to seek dismissal of meritless False Claims Act suits [Reuters, Federalist Society teleforum with Brandon Moss, Greg Herbers/WLF, Michael Granston memo]
  • Empirical evidence on factors that lead to approval of low-quality patents [Timothy Lee, ArsTechnica, noting ideas for improving patent review process: (1) eliminate issuance fees, (2) limit re-applications, (3) give senior examiners more time per patent]
  • “Will we see tort reform in the midterms?” [Joseph Cotto interview with me for San Francisco Review of Books, YouTube audio, 33:51]
  • FSMA will drive many smaller farmers/foodmakers out of business, only question is how many [Baylen Linnekin, our earlier]
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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/02/february-14-roundup-3/feed/ 1     “Infamous ‘podcasting patent’ knocked out” https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/04/infamous-podcasting-patent-knocked-out/ Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:42:30 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=52557 “A year-and-a-half after the Electronic Frontier Foundation created a crowd-funded challenge to a patent being used to threaten podcasters, the patent has been invalidated. …Personal Audio gave up on getting royalties from podcasters in 2014 after a lawsuit against comedian Adam Carolla almost went to trial.” [Joe Mullin, ArsTechnica, earlier on Carolla’s efforts] Tags: patent […]

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    ]]>     “A year-and-a-half after the Electronic Frontier Foundation created a crowd-funded challenge to a patent being used to threaten podcasters, the patent has been invalidated. …Personal Audio gave up on getting royalties from podcasters in 2014 after a lawsuit against comedian Adam Carolla almost went to trial.” [Joe Mullin, ArsTechnica, earlier on Carolla’s efforts]

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    ]]>         Patent: “Method for Filming a Yoga Class” https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/11/patent-method-filming-yoga-class/ Fri, 07 Nov 2014 21:46:16 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=49304 Or should that be “method for using nastygrams to assert what isn’t really a valid patent?” [Lowering the Bar] Tags: nastygrams, patent quality, photography

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    ]]>         “1. Turn back lights on. 2. Turn front lights on. 3. Position thing on platform. 4. Take picture.” https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/05/1-turn-back-lights-2-turn-front-lights-3-position-thing-platform-4-take-picture/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/05/1-turn-back-lights-2-turn-front-lights-3-position-thing-platform-4-take-picture/#comments Mon, 12 May 2014 11:38:44 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=45821 “US Patent Office Grants ‘Photography Against A White Background’ Patent To Amazon” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt] Critics suspect there is prior art. Tags: patent quality, photography

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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/05/1-turn-back-lights-2-turn-front-lights-3-position-thing-platform-4-take-picture/feed/ 4     New legal post at EFF https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/01/new-legal-post-eff/ Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:27:35 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=35088 The Electronic Frontier Foundation announces, “Thanks to a generous donation, EFF attorney Julie P. Samuels is now ‘The Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents‘.” In a less jocular vein, Dan Burk on patent reform [Cato Regulation magazine, PDF] Tags: patent quality

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    ]]>     The Electronic Frontier Foundation announces, “Thanks to a generous donation, EFF attorney Julie P. Samuels is now ‘The Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents‘.”

    In a less jocular vein, Dan Burk on patent reform [Cato Regulation magazine, PDF]

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    ]]>         Intellectual property roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/07/intellectual-property-roundup/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/07/intellectual-property-roundup/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:12:37 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=31132 This is getting serious: “Patent troll targets Minecraft” [Rob Beschizza, BoingBoing] Are mainstream tech companies joining the patent-troll brigade? [WSJ Law Blog] Bessen-Meurer have another study of patent trolls out, this one suggests their direct costs to economy $29 billion a year [Joe Mullin, Ars Technica] London Olympics games: you may link to our site […]

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  • This is getting serious: “Patent troll targets Minecraft” [Rob Beschizza, BoingBoing] Are mainstream tech companies joining the patent-troll brigade? [WSJ Law Blog] Bessen-Meurer have another study of patent trolls out, this one suggests their direct costs to economy $29 billion a year [Joe Mullin, Ars Technica]
  • London Olympics games: you may link to our site only if not in a “derogatory or otherwise objectionable manner” [Popehat]
  • “Fan Fiction vs. Copyright – Q&A with Rebecca Tushnet” [Reason.tv]
  • Are the logos similar? Apparel maker Under Armour sues maker of “Body Armor” sports drink [Baltimore Sun]
  • “U.S. Patent System is Broken, Declares Judge in Android v. Apple Cases” [Posner; DailyTech] Posner “on Why he thinks There Are Too Many Patents in America” [Atlantic]
  • Startups: “Why do investors want founders to spend money and time on bogus patents?” [Cory Doctorow]
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    ]]>     https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/07/intellectual-property-roundup/feed/ 2     Intellectual property law roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/06/intellectual-property-law-roundup/ Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:11:19 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=30560 Deborah Gerhardt on the ruling in favor of an artist who paints Crimson Tide sports highlights without University of Alabama say-so [Deborah Gerhardt/Eric Goldman, earlier here, etc.] Posner throws out Apple/Motorola case [Tabarrok, more] Joinder of defendants allegedly violating same patent: “D.C. Court Ruling Makes Life Tougher For Patent Trolls” [Daniel Fisher, Forbes] “Google, AOL […]

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  • Deborah Gerhardt on the ruling in favor of an artist who paints Crimson Tide sports highlights without University of Alabama say-so [Deborah Gerhardt/Eric Goldman, earlier here, etc.]
  • Posner throws out Apple/Motorola case [Tabarrok, more]
  • Joinder of defendants allegedly violating same patent: “D.C. Court Ruling Makes Life Tougher For Patent Trolls” [Daniel Fisher, Forbes]
  • “Google, AOL Face Patent Suit Over ‘Snippet’ Search Results, Ads” [Justia]
  • “Absurd patent of the day, Apple re: wedge-shaped computers” [Tabarrok]
  • “Defensive Patent License: judo for patent-trolls” [Doctorow/BB]
  • Why are copyright terms so long? One theory [Julian Sanchez]
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    ]]>         May 3 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/05/may-3-roundup-2/ Thu, 03 May 2012 04:07:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=29372 Salute to Bill Childs, who blogged with distinction at TortsProf, on departing academia for private practice [Sheila Scheuerman and Chris Robinette] North Carolina voters who know that Amendment One would ban civil unions oppose the measure by 22 points; unfortunately, most don’t know that [Greg Sargent, WaPo; earlier] Patrick at Popehat proposes 5 things Tar […]

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  • Salute to Bill Childs, who blogged with distinction at TortsProf, on departing academia for private practice [Sheila Scheuerman and Chris Robinette]
  • North Carolina voters who know that Amendment One would ban civil unions oppose the measure by 22 points; unfortunately, most don’t know that [Greg Sargent, WaPo; earlier] Patrick at Popehat proposes 5 things Tar Heels can do to help defeat it;
  • Cellphone app to hail nearby taxi? DC government searches for a way to keep that illegal [Julian Sanchez, Cato at Liberty]
  • Can’t the left-wing Alliance for Justice be at least minimally consistent on Supreme Court ethics? [Freedman, Legal Ethics Forum]
  • On lawyer jokes [David Conway and commenters, Law and Liberty]
  • “2,000 patents have been granted for shaped pasta” [Doctorow; see also Martin Weiss (“It pays to noodle around in the lab”)]
  • Texas barratry law trips up state rep [Southeast Texas Record, ABA Journal]
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    ]]>         January 11 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/01/january-11-roundup-2/ Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:14:38 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25794 California’s Prop 65 and the numbness of overwarning [Tung Yin via Bainbridge] Time to kill off medical-method patents [Alex Tabarrok, Medical Progress Today] Spite decoration: “Gretna fence squabble continues in bitter fashion” [NOLA.com, Louisiana] “The Problem With Immigration Lawyers and How to Fix It” [Dzubow/Asylumist via Legal Ethics Forum] “Are NYC transit bus drivers prevented […]

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  • California’s Prop 65 and the numbness of overwarning [Tung Yin via Bainbridge]
  • Time to kill off medical-method patents [Alex Tabarrok, Medical Progress Today]
  • Spite decoration: “Gretna fence squabble continues in bitter fashion” [NOLA.com, Louisiana]
  • “The Problem With Immigration Lawyers and How to Fix It” [Dzubow/Asylumist via Legal Ethics Forum]
  • “Are NYC transit bus drivers prevented from calling police?” [Turkewitz]
  • “Circumvention tourism” is travel intended to sidestep medical regulation [Glenn Cohen, Prawfs]
  • Abolition of wasteful, arrogant California redevelopment agencies has Tim Cavanaugh ready to kiss a nurse in Times Square [Reason, similarly Gideon Kanner and Steven Greenhut]
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    ]]>         August 29 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/08/august-29-roundup-2/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/08/august-29-roundup-2/#comments Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:44:12 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=24306 Even before federal raid on Gibson, Lacey Act scared owners of vintage instruments: “I don’t go out of the country with a wooden guitar.” [Eric Felten/WSJ, AW, PoL, Trevor Burrus/Cato] Dear NYT contributor Bakan: getting your kids’ attention may not require overthrowing world corporate economy [Nancy French, NR “Home Front”] More: Sullum. “West Memphis Three” […]

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  • Even before federal raid on Gibson, Lacey Act scared owners of vintage instruments: “I don’t go out of the country with a wooden guitar.” [Eric Felten/WSJ, AW, PoL, Trevor Burrus/Cato]
  • Dear NYT contributor Bakan: getting your kids’ attention may not require overthrowing world corporate economy [Nancy French, NR “Home Front”] More: Sullum.
  • “West Memphis Three” freed [Damon Root, Greenfield]
  • Forest Labs case: after outcry, feds drop effort to force firing of drug company CEO not charged with wrongdoing [WSJ, WLF] Background: Charles Hooper & David Henderson, Hoover (“The FDA’s War on Drugs”), The Economist (“The government seeks to sack an innocent boss”, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Steve McConnell/Drug and Device Law, Josh Wright/Truth on the Market]
  • Google paid dearly in smartphone deal for our dysfunctional patent system [Gordon Crovitz] “Google Should Publicly Oppose Software Patents” [Timothy Lee, Forbes]
  • Lawyer’s suit: Kasowitz firm ignored his “superior legal mind” [Lowering the Bar, Above the Law]
  • “In Chicago, You Need a License To Help Others Get a License” [Mark Perry]
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