By Greg Tang TSA Offends Travelers with Body Scanners, Fails to be Accountable The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) commented on the TSA’s use of body scanners in airports across the country, which has raised serious public concerns over the indignity and invasiveness of the body scanners and pat-down searches. The EFF expressed skepticism over the effectiveness of the body scanners in detecting terrorist attacks like the Christmas Day Bomb of 2009, citing various sources, including a TSA document, that have ... Read More...
Archive for November, 2010
New York Appellate Court Rejects Demand for Facebook Records By Irina Oberman – Edited by Ian C. Wildgoose Brown McCann v. Harleysville Ins. Co. of N.Y., No. 10-00612, 1179 (N.Y.A.D. 4 Dept. Nov. 12, 2010) Slip Opinion The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York affirmed the Supreme Court’s denial of defendant’s motion to compel disclosure of photographs on Facebook and defendant’s motion for authorizedaccess to plaintiff’s Facebook account. The Supreme Court had ruled that defendant’s first request was “overly broad,” ... Read More...
USPTO Patent Denial Lawsuits Subject to FRE and FRCP By Harry Zhou – Edited by Ian C. Wildgoose Brown Hyatt v. Kappos, No. 07-1066 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 8, 2010) (en banc) Slip Opinion The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, vacated and remanded the decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, which had ruled that a patent applicant is barred from introducing new facts into evidence in a civil action against the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) brought ... Read More...
By Lauren Henry Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Anti-Piracy Bill Ars Technica and CNET report that the Senate Judiciary Committee has unanimously approved a bill that would blacklist websites deemed to be “pirate websites” from the Domain Name System, ban credit card companies from processing US payments to such sites, and forbid online ad networks from working with the sites. The bill — known as the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, or COICA — received the strong support of content ... Read More...
Federal Circuit rules that prosecution laches requires evidence of prejudice By Jonathan Allred – Edited by Elizabeth Akerman Cancer Research Technology Ltd. v. Barr Laboratories, Inc., No. 2010-1204 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 9, 2010) Slip Opinion The Federal Circuit overturned the District Court of Delaware, which had ruled that the plaintiff’s patent was unenforceable for prosecution laches, and, in the alternative, invalid for inequitable conduct. Prosecution laches is an equitable defense to infringement when the plaintiff has delayed the prosecution of ... Read More...
