So I’m sitting here in the Massey Library at the Mises Institute watching on the closed circuit TV the lectures by Joe Salerno and others in the Schlarbaum Seminar Room. Salerno mentioned that a $100 bill cost about 2 cents to print. Gil Guillory and I got curious about this and so I googled it. It seems Joe was in the ballpark, but during the
I posted previously about patent attorney Ray Niro threatening to sue the anonymous Troll Tracker (who repeatedly highlighted various patent lawsuits Niro was filing) for violating a patent by putting JPG images on his site (yep), and creepily offering a bounty to reveal Troll Tracker’s identity ( Troll Tracker [Why People Hate Lawyers] ). Looks
From How Judges, Bureaucrats and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk In “ Patent Failure; How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk ,” ( Princeton University Press , March 2008), James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer consider many reforms, most of which have also been advanced by other people. Of course, the devil is in the details. The
Granted, I’m someone who has always loved the navel-gazing of legal academia--Fred Rodell’s classic 1937 article Goodbye to Law Reviews is a case in point (more Great American Law Review articles here )--but I found absolutely fascinating Dan Hunter’s recent article on the future of law reviews and open source--which I stumbled across in this
If the political prediction markets are right, we are going to end up with a presidential contest between two people who agree on the pressing need to expand the entire welfare-warfare state. They can argue about priorities, but they agree on the overall goal. With the campaign lacking serious issues, something tells me that the great American
We libertarian opponents of IP sometimes perplex IP advocates and leftists. There’s an analogy here to the way libertarians, and especially anarcho-libertarians, are treated by mainstreamers. The press does not know what to do with libertarians, for example. They typically use “libertarian” to denote civil-libertarian ACLU types; while libertarian
Insightful and interesting comments by Cory Doctorow (and surprisingly sound, given that Doctorow unfortunately favors socialized medicine (see this Free Talk Live interview ): Why do you give away your books? Giving away ebooks gives me artistic, moral and commercial satisfaction. The commercial question is the one that comes up most often: how
As reported on The Patent Prospector blog, Inventor Gary Odom, founder of Patent Hawk , has asserted 7,363,592 against Microsoft . ‘592 claims a feature of the tool groups used in the Office 2007 tool ribbon . Now, as noted on the Patent Prospector blog, “ Microsoft was a Patent Hawk client for years . They had every opportunity for friendly
See the Patently-O post Shaping Nuanced Patent Injunctions: Broadcom v. Qualcomm , discussing a case in which the Federal Circuit “affirmed a permanent injunction against Qualcomm - finding that the district court acted within its equitable discretion and properly followed the injunctive relief guidelines set forth by the Supreme Court in eBay v.
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