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Food IP: Hummous v. Hummus
New York Times has a story today about the battle between Lebanon and Israel over "Hummus." Here's the story from Ha'Aretz
A note on the Delhi blasts
I read the news of the blasts today, and it brought back bad memories. I was in Delhi the last time the city was victim to an act of terrorism of an even greater scale. This is what I had to say about it then. I just wanted to post a note on this ...
Open, Accountable and Ethical Government and the Democratic Platform
Michael Kinsley's Learning to Read Democrat in the New York Times today poked fun at the vagueness and redundancies in many parts of the democratic party platform. One section we can be proud of, however, is the strong, specific, and...
McCain Tech Plan
Dow Jones reports that McCain will release his Tech Plan in the coming week. The Obama Tech Plan came out in November 2007. The failure of the McCain camp to address technology until nine months later and only at this...
My Life. My Card. No, Wait, Not Your Life, Says Amex.
American Express is getting in on the crowdsourcing philanthropy act by hosting a new initiative, Members Project. Propose good-for-the-world projects, vote on the projects of others, and Amex will dole out $2.5 million in funding to support the w...
David Johnson Spearheads Virtual Company Legislation
Vermont is now on the path to becoming "the Delaware of the Net." Professor David Johnson and a team of New York Law School students helped to draft the nation’s first legislation that will make it easier to form and...
iPhone to Enable Citizen Journalism
As James Grimmelmann timely reports on The Laboratorium: Steve Jobs says:10:41 am [The Associated Press] call it the Mobile News Network, and it gathers content from many trusted sources. It makes use of the location API by automatically showing n...
Another Cool Patent Thing
It seems there's another free patent pdf downloader out there. Patent Retriever. Any idea as to the difference?
Cool Patent Thing
Patent attorney Rolf Claessen has a free new tool to download patent documents in PDF format on the web. It can be found here.
P2P: The Movie
Produced by IBM, this short movie with interviews with Chief Intellectual Property and Patent Counsel from IBM, GE, HP and others explains the Peer-to-Patent process, how it works and why an inventor will want to participate. Check it out on...
Japan Announces Launch of Peer to Patent
IBM Japan, Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd., and other major IT companies plan to utilize outside specialists’ expertise for patent registration. These companies will use a new patent examination system initiated by the Japan Patent Office (JPO) in June on a tr...
The Future of JZ: Unstoppable
Stanford Law School, EFF and Creative Commons hosted grand and glam book (slash recruit JZ for Stanford Law School) party at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco. The book was for sale but the edible cookie replicas were free! As usual,...
RunTime Revolution Donates Software to New York Law School
by Bill Marriott Famous lawyers from both fiction and reality have always relied on a variety of tools to persuade judge and jury: surprise witnesses; dramatic closing arguments; reenactments of the crime scene. But first and foremost, a good lawy...
Carrot Mobbing
Brent Schulkin in San Francisco has launched the first "Carrot Mob." What's a Carrot Mob? Well, it's a way to use the "carrot" of consumer buying power to encourage small businesses to help the environment. The idea is to use...
Yet Another DRM Disaster
Microsoft announces that it will no longer issue DRM keys for music purchased on its now defunct music service. As CNET explains: "This means that, while former customers can listen to their music on authorized computers for as long as...
Can the FCC fix the internet?
The Federal Communications Commission comes to Stanford this Thursday to hear from two panels of experts and members of the public on issues related to broadband network management practices. Background The hearing is being held in response to thr...
Magic and Intellectual Property
Jacob Loshin's talk in the IP Surprise Lecture Series is now up online for viewing here. His article: Secrets Revealed, How Magicians Protect Intellectual Property Without Law is available for download here.
If Code is Law, Why Lawyers Must Learn to Code
The Ninth Circuit handed down its decision in Fair Housing Council v. Roommate.com last week. Chief Judge Alex Kozinski authored the 8-3 en banc opinion upholding the three-judge panel’s finding that Roomate.com is not shielded from liability unde...
Rebooting America Essay Contest Deadline May 1
All the details are here:http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/23763/announcing_rebooting_democracy Contributors include: Clay Shirky, Yochai Benkler, Susan Crawford, Craig Newmark, danah boyd, Scott Heiferman, Tara Hunt, Josh Marshall, Howard R...
Larry and Eben
Today Larry Lessig gave his inaugural Change Congress speech at the National Press Club in Washington. I was struck when listening to it by the parallels (superb delivery) and the profound differences to Eben Moglen's talk last year to the...
Really Secret
Craig Newmark sent around the link for Lessig's Sunshine Week lecture today on corruption and transparency.Today, at a lecture here in Washington, sponsored by Sunlight and Omidyar Network, he's launching the ChangeCongress project where he'll foc...
Secrecy
Historian of science, Arnold Pacey has written that the history of science and technology is the story of an evolution toward visual thinking and representations that render human understanding more visible. It is perhaps, therefore, not surprisin...
Photosynth, Infosynth, CivicSynth
The East Village Idiot is a popular blog for “bitching and whining, comically” about New York. It frequently features postings complaining about such things as the condition of New York City’s streets. While the Urban Institute's National Neighbor...
PreCYdent's Web of Law Free Legal Search Engine
Right Coast blogger and author of the article, Web of Law on legal citation networks, Thomas Smith, launches Precydent.Here's an interview by Law Librarian Blog with Thomas Smith about the project. And here's his email, inviting participation:PreC...
See #3 Info Viz Conference
Wiesbaden, Germany, April 19th, 2008www.see-conference.com
Golf and IP: March 10
IP SURPRISE!: IP in Unconventional IndustriesMarch 10, 2008 | 4:30–6:00 p.m. | New York Law School, Room A900 GOLF “Intellectual Property from Tee to Green – Applying the Art of Law to the Business of Golf” Lecture by James H....
ObamaWorks: Ordinary People Start Doing Extraordinary Things
A few days ago, I posted an excerpt from an editorial by two Yale students (David Manners-Weber and Justin Kosslyn) who, inspired by the Obama campaign rhetoric, put out a challenge to their peers to take action in their own...
Ordinary People Doing Extraordindary Things
""Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us but by us....by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have...
Powerpoint Does Not Go to Washington
Lessig is not running. http://lessig.org/blog/2008/02/on_why_i_am_not_running.html
IP Surprise: IP in Unconventional Industries
Music, movies, book publishing, computer software, pharmaceuticals. Everyone knows what the “intellectual property industries” are—or do they? Intellectual property today plays a leading role in some unexpected areas. Today’s hoteliers and sommeli...
Read-Write Culture, Lawrence Lessig, and why he should be in the Congress.
A few days back, I stumbled onto this TEDTalk by Lawrence Lessig. It’s by far the most convincing description that I’ve come across of the state that our culture and law finds itself in today. Watch it and decide if you’d like to...
Experiments with publishing application activity
For a couple of weeks now I’ve been monitoring what I do on my Mac using two tracker tools: Wakoopa and RescueTime. Both have unique approaches to the theme of tracking. Wakoopa builds a social network around the applications that you use. I...
Information visualization on the web
I got the link to this excellent post during my first InfoVis class at VT, it’s a great collection of Information Visualization projects on the web. A must-bookmark for anyone interested in visualizations. The web is like the melting pot for...
Some updates
Following up on the last post regarding better conversational experiences on blogs, I thought why not improve the experience on the blog, as long as it has to be there. So I’ve put in a mix of conversation-specific plugins and hacks for ease...
Dear Wordpress: Why not an XML-RPC for commenting?
We’re very much in the middle of the Syndication revolution - Everything out there on the web can be syndicated - Be it the latest news, your friends’ photos and videos, your favorite TV Show episodes, and so on. Even sites lacki...
Google web history - and how to turn it off
Ever asked yourself the question - “What was that awesome hit-the-boss game I played yesterday lunch break?” Well, Google just stepped forward to help you answer that very question. Google just upgraded their Search History featur...
Welcome the hybrids
Adobe’s recent announcement of the Apollo framework has had me excited for a while. This weekend, I plan to get my hands dirty with the SDK and see if I can build something. The really exciting thing about Apollo is that it’s goin...
CakePHP and AJAX: First pitstop
I started out with the Cake framework for PHP some time back, and it’s been a mixed ride so far. Cake is a very powerful, but still somewhat incipient framework built on the MVC pattern of Ruby on Rails. Among it’s several cool feature...
Hello world!
If you came here looking for the icedlabs blog, well, the sad news is that it is dead. The reason behind that is obvious and rather bland - too much generalization killed the cat. So what’s this one about? My thoughts and observations on wha...