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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19 2013 @ 07:08 PM EST |
Tim Poultney, Veber's chief executive, told us: “We’ve had French,
German... people giving us silent calls, people screaming ‘you are going to
die’, emails coming in to staff calling them corporate whores.
“We are five
men and a dog - not a multinational with lawyers. One of the guys is off with
stress."
[...]
Veber's Poultney told a slightly different story. He
accused the PSF of going incommunicado following an initial flurry of emails –
and claimed his lawyers tried to contact the PSF nine times since September
without response. He alleged that his lawyers tried again on Tuesday last week -
Van Lindberg’s blog followed on the Thursday.
Under the European trademark
process, an applicant is informed of those already holding a conflicting
trademark and the application is either scrapped or amended. It would be up to
the PSF to contact European trademark officials with its
objections.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19 2013 @ 07:46 PM EST |
APChief Justice John
Roberts wondered "why in the world would anybody" invest time and money on seeds
if it was so easy to
evade patent protection.
I'm wondering why
Bowman is pursuing the patent exhaustion line, and not asking SCOTUS how come
Monsanto gets patent protection on a law of
nature, a natural phenomenon.
Monsanto don't even make their own seeds, they are made by sunshine, soil and
rain. The answer possibly is that
SCOTUS has descended to picking nits. Mayo,
and Myriad, consider the patentability of human genes. Today we're
talking soybeans that
are not supposed to get up and walk around hiring lawyers
to go to Washington. I don't think they're just covering all the bases before
they answer
usatodayThe biggest mystery
arising from the justices' 70-minute consideration Tuesday of an Indiana
farmer's challenge to
Monsanto, in fact, was why they had agreed to hear the
case at all, since two lower courts already had ruled for
Monsanto.
because"You cannot make copies of a patented
invention," said Justice Stephen Breyer.
Justice Breyer is certain
Monsanto's seeds deserve a patent. I disagree.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19 2013 @ 08:24 PM EST |
I received 21 pages out of a 23 page file the FBI had put together
on one Aaron H. Swartz.
Two of the 23 pages were not released, according to
the FBI, due to; privacy (U.S.C Section 552 (b)(7)(C)), sources and methods
(U.S.C Section 552 (b)(7)(E)) and, curiously, putting someone’s life in danger
(U.S.C Section 552 (b)(7)(F)).
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19 2013 @ 09:11 PM EST |
At the time I was looking for a tablet as an ebook reader,
Apple was busy making backroom deals with publishers that
seemed to me illegal.
So now I own a Galaxy 7.0 Plus as my tablet and Galaxy S3 as
my smartphone. To be honest, I haven't even asked coworkers'
if I could look at their iPhones over these past few years.
So what they could play 'cut the rope' or 'word with
friends' and I couldn't? I wanted an ereader that could
browse the web, as well as let me do what I want with it.
Apple, it was your backroom deals and closed app model that
kept me from even browsing your products. Your marvels like
the 'rubber band' patent(whatever that was) had nothing to
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19 2013 @ 10:42 PM EST |
WSJ follows on the Newspicks two days ago from
Reuters (followup), and
arstechnica
(more), about the Facebook attack.
Key point "The attack occurred when a handful of
employees visited
a mobile developer website that was compromised." caused this
question
what malware on what type of laptop?
Why? Because Macs
are the type of laptop we almost aways see in Facebook's employee
photos.
from f-secure one, two and three. That
looks like a cunning trick, get your
malware into a "developer's" machine so it
is compiled into some popular app for iOS, and possibly also Android and
Windows if the dev is a generous guy. Apple meanwhile have been unusually
prompt in tweaking their
java killer.
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| Authored by: DieterWasDriving on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 12:50 AM EST |
http://www.thestar.com/life/technology/2013/02/19/htc_launches_new_one_smartphon
e.html
Instead of icons, everything is an active feed.
Uhhggg, this sounds horrible.
It reminds me of a news channel spoof, I think from Saturday Night Live. They
repeated added tickers and news crawls until the whole screen was flashing and
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