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U. of Wisconsin Seeks to Shield Research by Limiting Open-Records Law

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education

The University of Wisconsin at Madison is seeking to keep information about research from the public until it is published or patented, arguing that a research exemption to the state’s open-records law would allow the university ...
Full article at: Chronicle of Higher Education  More like this  1 day ago, 5:12pm CDT

UW-Madison seeks limits on open records to protect research

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking to limit the state's open records law — potentially through language slipped into the state budget — to keep from the public information about research until it is published o ...
Full article at: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  More like this  2 days ago, 1:55pm CDT

Hey, Patent Trolls. Pick on Someone Your Own Size.

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation

The patent troll problem is not new. Trolls have been targeting companies large and small for some time, dragging productive businesses into court and extorting licensing fees that have become a nearly unavoidable tax on innovat ...
Full article at: Electronic Frontier Foundation  More like this  2 days ago, 12:20pm CDT

Compulsory licences: necessity or threat?

Source: Chemistry World

Are compulsory licences for patent-protected drugs a necessary measure, or a threat to innovation? Six international experts give their opinions. The use of compulsory licences in India and some other cou ...
Full article at: Chemistry World  More like this  2 days ago, 12:11pm CDT

Patent Infringement That Happens in Taiwan, Stays in Taiwan

Source: FindLaw: Local Professional

Wheelabrator designs, sells, and licenses some process (phosphate-based treatment systems) that keep heavy metals from industrial waste (such as incinerator ash) from leaching into drinking water. Forres ...
Full article at: FindLaw: Local Professional  More like this  2 days ago, 11:46am CDT

Kim Dotcom claims he invented two-factor authentication—but he wasn’t first

Source: Ars Technica

Out of nowhere, Kim Dotcom last night claimed to have invented a widely used and very important security technology known as two-factor authentication. Just after Twitter launched a two-factor system , Dotcom tweeted that Twitter is " Using my invention ...
Full article at: Ars Technica  More like this  2 days ago, 10:52am CDT

Nissan to Recall 841,000 Cars Over Steering Glitch

Source: Industry Week

The recall will cover the Micra, known as the March in some markets, and Cube models produced in Japan and Britain between 2002 and 2006. "A bolt in the steering wheel system may not be fastened appropriately, and in the worst-case scenario, the cars c ...
Full article at: Industry Week  More like this  2 days ago, 10:41am CDT

Ford to Halt Car Production in Australia in 2016

Source: Industry Week

Decision to close and cut 1,200 jobs was 'driven by increasingly challenging market conditions -- including market fragmentation and the high cost of manufacturing.' MELBOURNE -- Ford (IW 500/6) announced Thursd ...
Full article at: Industry Week  More like this  2 days ago, 8:39am CDT

A.M. Links: U.S. Killed Four Americans With Drones, Lois Lerner May Have Waived Her Rights, Sen. Cruz Trusts Neither Party on Spending

Source: Reason

Weep not for the unwiped bottoms of Venezuela. The country's government has allocated money to import 39 million rolls of toilet paper to alleviate the shortage. reply to this And it's Joe M by a nose hair! reply to this reply to this Methinks the b ...
Full article at: Reason  More like this  2 days ago, 8:24am CDT

Abstraction, Patents, and the Latest Alice Ruling: A Scorecard

Source: All About Alpha

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, in a badly split decision issued May 10th, has affirmed a holding of the district court below in a controversial patent-law case, one involving four patent claims by Alice Corp ...
Full article at: All About Alpha  More like this  May 16 2013, 7:05pm CDT


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