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etc: Facebook has been granted a patent for social networking news feeds.
Facebook has been granted a patent for social networking news feeds. Read More: US Patent and Trademark Office , AllFacebook
Continue reading »Pirate Bay Ship Hijackers Let Logo Hostage Go
On Monday, we reported that after noticing the iconic Pirate Bay logo had no commercial protection, a Swedish company took the first steps towards hijacking it for their own. “The idea is to sell USB drives using this brand,” said Sandryds Handel spokesman Bengt Wessborg. “We saw that it was not already allocated to someone else.
Continue reading »Mac cloner guilty, but "hackintosh" tools will persist
Apple has won a landmark victory against Mac clone maker Psystar, though it doesn’t spell doom for the rest of the hackintosh industry just yet. US District Judge William Alsup ruled late last Friday that Psystar had violated Apple’s copyrights when distributing Mac OS X with its machines, and that the company was also in violation of the anti-circumvention provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. As a result, Judge Alsup dismissed Psystar’s counterclaims and ruled in favor of Apple, but Apple still has a long road ahead if wants to shut down other hackintoshers.
Continue reading »Baker in trouble over Poppy Day Poppyrights
“You would not believe the misuses of the poppy we have to investigate,” Butt says. ‘Butt’ is Royal Canadian Legion spokesman Bob Butt, and he’s quoted in a Toronto Sun story on how the Dutch Oven Bakery in Coburg, Ontario, crossed bayonets with the legion over, Yes, alleged copyright infringement. It’d been “fulfilling the order of some poppy cookies for the family of a fallen Canadian soldier from the Afghanistan conflict,” says the story.
Continue reading »Judges refuses to block lawsuit over patenting genetic tests
In May, the ACLU announced that it was suing to invalidate a patent that covers testing for genetic variants associated with breast cancer. The suit targeted Myriad Genetics, which licenses the patent, and the University of Utah officials that licensed it to them, but also targets the US Patent and Trademark Office, which allowed this form of gene patent in the first place. In a move that surprised no one, each of the three defendants filed motions to have the case against them thrown out.
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