HD DVD May Finally Be Dead… Only Three Years Too Late
A few weeks ago, when we noted that it really looked like HD DVD might finally be done for, we were surprised to see the number of folks in the comments insisting that we were crazy, and HD DVD had a...
View ArticleColumbia Professor Latest To Go On The Patent Offensive
Over the last year or so, we’ve seen two disturbing trends in enforcing patents. The first, is seeing patent holders suing a bunch of companies at once rather than just one or two, as used to be...
View ArticleCan't Innovate? Litigate! 3Com Goes Patent Lawsuit Ballistic
Remember back when 3Com was a big innovative company coming up with interesting new products? What happened since then? Well, as we’ve seen over and over again, once a company runs into trouble...
View ArticleCyberSitter Sues The Chinese Government (In Los Angeles) Over Green Dam Filters
Last summer, of course, there was a lot of attention paid to China’s announced plans that every PC sold in China needed to include the new “Green Dam Youth Escort” software, which was a client-side...
View ArticleHard Drive For Border Crossings: Will Self-Destruct If Connected To An...
We’ve discussed a few times how Homeland Security has aggressively (and successfully) claimed the right to search laptop harddrives at the border without probable cause (sometimes without any known...
View ArticleSGI Back From The Dead (Again) And Suing Tons Of Companies For Patent...
Back when I moved to Silicon Valley, Silicon Graphics Inc., (SGI) was still a hot place to work. They were still pumping out cool machines and had a reputation for a fun corporate culture. Of course,...
View ArticleToshiba: You Can't Have Repair Manuals Because They're Copyrighted And You're...
Many years ago, one of the absolute worst customer experiences I ever had concerned a Toshiba laptop that never worked properly — which was followed by ridiculous and rude service. Eventually, using...
View ArticleLatest CAFC Ruling Suggests A Whole Lot Of Software Patents Are Likely Invalid
Some more good news on the patent front. Following the Supreme Court’s ruling last month in the Alice v. CLS Bank case, there has been some question about how the lower courts would now look at...
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This Week In 'The NSA Knows F**king Everything': How It Hacked Most Hard...
Thought that the revelations of NSA/GCHQ spying were dying out? Having some “surveillance fatigue” from all the stories that have been coming out? Have no fear — or, rather, be very very very fearful —...
View ArticleSmart Meter Company Landis+Gyr Now Using Copyright To Try To Hide Public Records
Back in 2016 we wrote about how Landis+Gyr, a large multinational company owned by Toshiba, completely freaked out when it discovered that documents about its smart energy meters, which the city of...
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