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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 11:29 AM EST |
| The Salt Lake City office of CBRE announced that Utah developer, Warren "Pat"
King, has purchased a six-building office park that was formerly a part of
Novell’s corporate campus in Provo.
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| Authored by: red floyd on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 03:17 PM EST |
Punishment is to have Gilligan be your lab assistant at work.
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I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a *CITIZEN* of the United
States of America.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 06:08 PM EST |
3D Systems has announced it is bringing suit in Federal District Court against
Formlabs and Kickstarter, seeking injunctive relief and damages for alleged
infringement of a patent relating to how the startup’s light-based printer
operates.
Clicky
Wired
Roger
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 07:55 PM EST |
Interesting essay on the guy behind the AT&T iPad ID disclosure,
27-year-old hacker and internet troll Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer
from
gawker.com Language
Warning
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 04:47 AM EST |
| BBC Just wait for
the patent trolls, once the fist one goes on sale! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 04:53 AM EST |
| UK's Royal Society wants
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 04:57 AM EST |
| BBC reports [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: odysseus on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 06:07 AM EST |
Can anyone suggest a good source for info and analysis of Microsoft's Common Public License
(CPL)? On the KDE Licensing list we've been asked for a special exception
to our licensing policy to use the CPL to build Windows Installers using
Microsoft's Wix library which is licensed under the CPL. We're inclined to
grant the exception solely for Windows installers, but I'd like us to have more
info and analysis on the license before we do do. Anyone know of any special
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 06:51 AM EST |
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) announced today that they will hold a joint public
workshop on Dec. 10, 2012, to explore
the impact of patent assertion entity
(PAE) activities on
innovation and competition and the implications for
antitrust enforcement and policy.
This workshop will examine the economic
and legal
implications of PAE activity, as distinct from prototypical
“non-practicing entity” (NPE) activity, such as developing
and transferring
technology. By contrast, PAE activities
often include purchasing patents from
existing owners and
seeking to maximize revenues by licensing the intellectual
property to (or litigating against) manufacturers who are
already using the
patented technology.
Supporters of the PAE business model say that it
facilitates
the transfer of patent rights, rewards inventors and funds
ongoing
research and development efforts. Critics describe
adverse effects on
competition and innovation, including
increased costs and a lack of technology
transfer,
ultimately taxing consumers and industry.
The workshop will
provide a forum for industry participants,
academics, economists, lawyers and
other interested parties
to discuss the economic and legal analyses of PAE
activity.
It will consist of a series of panels examining, among other
topics, the legal treatment of PAE activity, economic
theories concerning PAE
activity and industry experiences.
Panelists for the workshop will include
academics, private
attorneys, economists and industry representatives.
The
Department of Justice and the FTC are interested in
receiving comments on PAE
activities and will accept written
submissions from the public before the
workshop and until
March 10, 2013. Interested parties may submit public
comments to: ATR.LPS-PAEPublicComments@usdoj.gov .
Submitted comments will be
made publicly available on the
Department of Justice and FTC websites.
The
all-day workshop is free and open to the public.
Individuals are encouraged to
register by Dec. 5, 2012, for
the workshop by sending an email to:
ATR.LPS-
PAEWorkshopRSVP@usdoj.gov . Please include “RSVP” in the
subject
line. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served
basis.
The workshop
will take place at the FTC’s satellite
conference center at 601 New Jersey
Ave., N.W., Washington,
D.C. from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST on Dec. 10, 2012.
Additional participants will be added to the agenda as they
are confirmed.
Updates to the agenda will be posted on the
Department of Justice and FTC
websites. The workshop will
include the following panels, presentations and
confirmed
participants:
U.S. Dept. of Justice.
According to the agenda, the third session's topic is" How
Does Antitrust
Apply to the Potential Efficiencies and Harms
Generated by PAE Activity".
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 11:08 AM EST |
| Swedish Authorities have been investigating coins with libelous
wording, defaming the King. They've determined that real coins were milled
out, and then a new face glued in place. This is really fine workmanship,
the
coins are, other than the wording, and a 0.47 gram weight difference,
indistinguishable from an unmodified coin.
Someone must be really mad
at the King. This would have cost a lot of
money, equipment to do this sort of
work isn't cheap. So somewhere, some
machinist, has been running a side project
on his boss's equipment.
link
here
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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| Authored by: artp on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 02:05 PM EST |
On November 23, the Des Moines Register had a front page
article entitled The Push for Patents, subtitled
"Royalties Cushion Budget Cuts". And we
here in Iowa know
that when you elect Terry Branstad, that budget cuts are
coming to EVERYONE!
So it is a timely and relevant article here in Iowa,
and I'm
sure the natives took notice, although I was incommunicado
for the
next 7 days. Here's a summary.
The University of Iowa took a $37 million
dollar cut in
royalties from patents from 2009 to 2011, from $43 to $6
million due to one expired drug patent based on the
cytomegalovirus promoter.
[Note: I have no idea what I just
typed.]
The U of Minnesota dropped
$75 million in royalties over the
same period. An expired anti-AIDS drug
accounted for $10
million of that loss last year. Northwestern leads the
nation with $191 million in royalties in 2011, mostly from
Lyrica, an
anti-seizure drug that is also being used for
fibromyalgia.
It also notes
that patent royalty income to universities
increased 4% each year from 2009, so
the losers lose big
when a popular patent expires.
Here's one quote from
the article:
The sharp 2009-11 drop comes as all universities
face a
“perfect storm” of destabilized state and federal funding,
said Richard
Bendis, CEO of Innovation America, a
Philadelphia-based nonprofit that has
helped universities
commercialize research.
University researchers often
spend more than a decade
developing a breakout technology that singlehandedly
generates millions of dollars, Bendis said. That makes it
hard to know when
the next big technological breakthrough
will come through, and in turn makes it
difficult to
maintain consistent earnings, he said.
...
Royalties and
private dollars remain a small slice of
overall research funding, but they
provide a cushion against
drops in state funding and uncertain federal
government
dollars.
Among the fears of research universities: As Congress
considers budget cuts to address ongoing deficits, money for
basic research is
categorized as discretionary spending. So
research money is more susceptible to
cuts than areas like
health care and the military, said Dan Reed, University of
Iowa vice president for research and economic development.
Reed represents
an emerging type of hire for universities
because of his private sector
experience. He spent nearly 25
years in higher education, but arrived in Iowa
City this
fall after a five-year stint at Microsoft.
I note
with alarm one more connection to Microsoft at Iowa.
I also note with interest
that there is a company that helps
universities "monetize" their
research.
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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 03:29 PM EST |
to eliminate the EXIF data on that picture.
Is your ID still visible in
your screenshot?
exiftool
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 05:54 PM EST |
Windows device sales (four weeks since W8 release) -21% yoy,
W8 tablet
sales <1% Windows devices.
npd group
Charlie
Demerjian has his usual jolly rant at
semiaccurate.com
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 06:30 PM EST |
"We don't have to make next week's payroll by jamming ads at users."
Bradley Horowitz, Google+
But The Register wonders
where does he get next week's payroll?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 09:50 PM EST |
register.co.uk
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