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Sun May 20
Sdbj [PATENT]
Patriot Scientific, a Rancho Bernardo high-tech firm that has been litigating ownership rights of a series of patents on microprocessors for the past three years, said it has settled a dispute with The TPL Group, representing the defendants who also claimed ownership of the patents. [...]
Sun May 20
Law [CIRCUIT]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed on Friday a $159.6 million damages award to nuclear utilities Yankee Atomic Electric Co., Maine Yankee Atomic Power Co. and Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co. in the long-running spent nuclear fuel battle with the federal government. [...]
Sun May 20
Siliconvalleywatcher [INVENTORS]
Mr Engelbart and his teams of researchers at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) shaped the look and feel of the PC, as John Markoff chronicles in his latest book What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry. Mr Markoffs book raises the profile of Mr Engelbart, well known as the inventor of the computer mouse, and less well known for his seminal work in creating many of the concepts later found in the personal computer. [...]
Sun May 20
Law [LAWYERS]
Facebook may rake in more than $18 billion in its initial public offering. And plaintiffs lawyers are already vying for a big chunk of the proceeds: Plaintiffs in a proposed privacy class action have filed an amended complaint demanding $15 billion in damages and injunctive relief. [...]
Sat May 19
News.google.com [FILES]
Apple Files for Preliminary Injunction Against Galaxy Tab 10.1 - PCWorld (blog)
Sun May 20
Law [MARIJUANA]
New York lawmakers battling to legalize the medicinal use of cannabis are lauding an op-ed column by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach in which he admitted smoking marijuana to cope with the effects of cancer. But Reichbachs civil disobedience could be construed as disrespect for the law he is pledged to support. [...]
Sun May 20
Letter from AmeriKat: Brought to you by the Letters A, W and R and the numbers 50 million and $100 million IPKitten [MILLION]
The AmeriKat and her niece kittenwatching hours of the wonderfulSesame Street Over the past 18 months or so, the AmeriKat has delved back into the once familiar world of Sesame Street, hardback books with impossibly cuddly kittens in them and little jars of applesauce. As she is shaping herself into the fashionable and fun aunt, the majority of her skills have been honed in teaching her kitten niece key life skills, such as 100 cotton - good, polyester-blend - bad, silver - go [...]
Sat May 19
Law [REFORM]
Civil rights and conservative groups have banded together to form an unlikely coalition to ask the FCC to end "exorbitant" fees that many prisons charge inmates to make phone calls. A 15-minute collect call from prison typically costs $10 to $17 -- rates that garnered $152 million in revenue for prisons in 2011. [...]
Sat May 19
Law [BUSINESS]
The financial services industry and more than a dozen top law firms that represent the industry are expressing concern that reaction to JPMorgans recent $2 billion loss could sour months of expensive lobbying work on Capitol Hill and before key regulatory agencies. Nowhere is this tension more apparent than in the push and pull over the pending multiagency Volcker Rule, which proponents say could rein in the activity that led to the companys massive trading loss. [...]
Sun May 20
"60 Minutes" on May 20, 2012: questioning the value of higher education Ipbiz [MINUTES]
The first story was by Morley Safer on Peter Thiel who talks about the questionable value of higher education. Each year, Thiel pays 20 students $100,000 to drop out of school. If you have plans to do something very different, Thiel urged students to think a lot about it. Thiel described certain college administrators as the subprime lenders of the current educational bubble. College tuition has quadrupled since 1980. Thiel says a degree has little more than snob value. The average plumber [...]
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