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Via Slashdot, this WTOP Radio Network (Washington, D.C.) report indicates that the USPTO has at a minimum a two year backlog for approval of a new patent. Patent Office Director James E. Rogan went on record to Congress warning that this backlog could rise to over one million requests by 2008. Kevin W. Grierson comments: …
New legislation introduced on April 10 by Senators Wyden, Clinton and Collins: To require public disclosure of noncompetitive contracting for the reconstruction of the infrastructure of Iraq, and for other purposes (S. 876).
Via FOIA requests, EPIC has obtained documentation on the federal government’s contracts and pricing for access to database records of personal information on citizens from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Columbia, and Costa Rica, from public records group ChoicePoint.
According to social policy researcher and author Daniel Forbes, “the Russian military analysis Web site, Iraqwar.ru,….offered detailed predictions about coalition troop movements many hours or even days in advance,” but was yanked off-line last week.
From Consumer WebWatch: Meta-search Sites Compile Results But Don’t Always Tell You Who’s Paying for Placement.
Professor Edward Felton, whose blog Freedom to Tinker focuses on information technology and law issues, was interviewed by Slashdot yesterday. Issues addressed include the DMCA, compulsory copyright liscensing and network identity.
The South Carolina Senate approved The Consumer Identity Theft Protection Act (S. 222) on April 16. The bill provides for the creation of an identity theft database by the Attorney General, expedited court proceedings for victims of ID theft, stricter verification of card holder identification by credit card companies, and blocks the distribution of inaccurate …
Two recent articles focusing on the digital rights controversy merit noting: The Pirates Among Us: “The entertainment industry is battling the illegal distribution of copyrighted music and movie files-and will stop at nothing to enlist your help.” Pirates and Posses: The Battle over Digital Copyright by James L. Gattuso, Bruce Mehlman, Alec French, Gary Shapiro, …
Columbia University has published a searchable database of over 10,000 documents, from which scanned images were made, that comprise The Papers of John Jay, 1745-1829, Governor of New York and Supreme Court Justice.
See this link from LexisNexis for training materials and topical tutorials, links to research materials and a bibliography of articles on summer associate training programs.
As a follow-up to my previous posting on Massachusetts House Bill 2743, see these related articles: Activists assail antipiracy proposal – Argue civil rights would be violated under Mass. law and MPAA’s Drive for Tougher Fraud Laws Hits Bump.
The innovative Yale Journal of Law & Technology (YJoLT) is now using a blog publishing application, provides links to other Yale sponsored blogs and legal-tech content, and offers readers the choice between viewing the journal articles in Word of PDF. See this article from the current issue, Copyright’s Digital Reformulation, by Brodi Kemp (YLS 2004). …
