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Details Are Trickling In

Posted on February 23, 2008 by Michael Feldstein

The Waterloo Record has some more details (although there’s still a lot we don’t know): Of the $3.1 million awarded to Bb, there were $2.5 million in lost profits and $630,000 in royalties. I don’t understand this yet, but it … Continue reading →

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Common Cartridge: e-Learning Made Easy

Posted on October 8, 2007 by Jim Farmer

This is a guest blog post by Jim Farmer, Coordinator, Scholarly Systems Group at Georgetown University and editor at the eReSS project, University of Hull. On September 4, 2007, a summer morning in Adelphi, Maryland, the workgroup, breakfast in hand, … Continue reading →

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More on the Supreme Court Ruling

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Michael Feldstein

Patently-O has up a PDF of the KSR v Teleflex ruling (which, by the way, was unanimous). Basically, the court says that, while the original precedents provide adequate guidance for obviousness, the Federal Circuit has interpreted that guidance too narrowly, … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court Strikes a Major Blow for Patent Reform

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Michael Feldstein

This is huge. Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of KSR v. Teleflex, where the central issue was the meaning of “obviousness.” The reason that the word is important in patent law is because an innovation that … Continue reading →

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