Last night at the Yazoo Brewery, BarCamp 2012 held its annual Speaker Up! event to encourage members of the technology community to come and present on their latest project or passion at BarCamp, which will be held in Nashville on October 20th at the Tequila Cowboy...
Heh, He Said “Dicta” Last time, I tried to explain the main holdings from the important but maddening Flava Works v. Gunther (a/k/a myVidster) opinion by Judge Posner. Because so much of the decision is dicta (material that is unnecessary to the holding),...
Richard Posner LOLs a Bad Preliminary Injunction. But Does Anyone Get the Joke? Is Richard Posner’s opinion in Flava Works v. Gunter (better known as the “myVidster” case) already a month old? For such an anticipated decision, it sure flew under the radar after a...
Not long after we opened the firm, Tara got an invitation to co-author a book entitled “Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights,” to be published by Oxford University Press. Two dozen intellectual property practitioners and professors from around the...
Dr. Evil Returns! Almost immediately after the jury in the Apple v. Samsung patent/trade-dress case returned its verdict, the twitterverse was buzzing with Dr. Evil jokes. Try as you might, but you couldn’t say, “$1 billion” without either cracking...
Part VI: Everything That’s Old Is New Again (but it’s Still Overruled) Last time, we examined Oracle’s strategy to overcome certain doom under the abstract-filter-compare test: pull back and look at the big picture. In other words, don’t focus on the...
