What to do About Competitors’ IP

January 2, 2005

Via William Heinze, a summary of a November 22, 2004 Mondaq (free reg req.) article by Keith Zullow and Erica Kuo that lists strategies for tracking and challenging a competitor’s IP as it is developed.

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US Newspapers With RSS Feeds

January 2, 2005

Via A Welsh View via The Media Drop, and the comments.  And some more.

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Wiping Your System and Starting From Scratch

January 1, 2005

A recent article in the New York Times about one woman’s experience trying to first, exterminate spyware and adware, and then after failing utterly in this noble effort, reformatting and reinstalling, got me thinking about how often I’ve had to do the same – not to kill pests and flush out the trojans (I have […]

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Boxer Sues Claiming Loss From Disclosure of MRI’s

December 31, 2004

Via the Globe and Mail, a Buffalo man has sued a clinic and the NY State Athletic Commission claiming that they improperly distributed his medical records which indicated that he had suffered multiple brain bleeds in his last boxing match.  He claims this has caused him "public scorn, humiliation, emotional suffering, financial loss in the […]

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Blogging Code of Ethics

December 31, 2004

On CyberJournalist via BeSpacific, aproposed Bloggers’ Code of Ethics, apparently modeled on the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics (who knew?).  The comments are particularly interesting – except the one demanding to know who died and made the author the boss of everyone.  That one (as they say), not so much.

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8 Copymyths on the Internet

December 31, 2004

Bloggers beware – via NevOn, Shel Holtz, Corporate Engagement and LLRX, an article from Kathy Biehl on 8 US copyright law myths spawned in part by the Internet.  There are strong similarities to the Canadian experience. [LLRX link removed because the content is gone – but see this post from HeerLaw.]

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Dave Tells Doc That Spectrum is so 20th Century

December 31, 2004

And that, in the age of podcasting, it is a $35 issue.

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FCC Schedules Auctions of 3G Bandwidth

December 31, 2004

Via Doc Searls, news in The Register that the FCC is scheduling auctions: The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will auction off the States’ 1710-1755MHz and 2110-2155MHz spectrum bands to prospective 3G telephony providers by June 2006 at the earliest. The FCC will also auction off the 1432-1435MHz band soon afterward, the organisation said, possibly […]

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A Lawyer’s Tales From the Takeover Decades

December 30, 2004

Via  Adam Smith, Esq., a post about Lawrence Lederman’s 1992 book Tombstone:  A Lawyer’s Tales from the Takeover Decades, Lederman’s account of his career at Wachtell. Money quote from the post deals with comments Lederman made about the differences between investment banking firms and law firms: [Investment] banking firms were oriented to doing transactions that […]

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Amazing Ourselves to Death

December 30, 2004

Oddly enough, via Slashdot another story today on multitasking – this one on the cognitive dissonance that some scientists are starting to believe it causes.  One of many money quotes: Yet, some who study this modern phenomenon say the speed and ubiquity cause problems for those who are either psychologically ill-equipped or ill-trained to face […]

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Technology Research Advances of 2004

December 30, 2004

Via TRN: The top 10 technology research advances of 2004.

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Netherlands Issues First Fines to Spammers

December 30, 2004

Maybe this will put an end to all those emails about Hot Dutch Teens in Clogs. In any event, news of dubious significance given recent reports suggesting CAN-SPAM has had little effect.

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