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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Supreme Court weakens U.S. patents?
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The United States Supreme Court in eBay v. MercExchange has held that, instead of applying a general rule that patent infringement leads to...
USPTO to re-examine Amazon "one-click" patent
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The USPTO has agreed , per Peter Calveley's request. to re-examine claim #11, the most notorious portion of Amazon's "one-clic...
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Medical bureaucrats must respect life and liberty, says court
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Alex Taberrok writes about a wonderful decision out of the D.C. Circuit. The court basically held that the FDA is violating the Fifth Amendm...
Monday, May 01, 2006
Security and the burden of lawsuit
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The need to sue can be an expensive burden. A plaintiff often needs to go through a very long and expensive legal process, the results of wh...
Sunday, April 16, 2006
The Bellamies, nationalism, and socialism
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The American cousins Edward and Francis Bellamy had a rather baleful influence here in the States and elsewhere. The first is more infamous ...
Friday, April 14, 2006
Smart contracts reduce mental transaction costs
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In my old essay on micropayments and mental transaction costs , besides pointing out that mental transaction costs were a far more important...
Friday, April 07, 2006
Water from a comet
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When my old employer the Jet Propulsion Laboratory slammed a 370 kilogram projectile into comet Tempel 1, it caused the release of at least...
Friday, March 31, 2006
Off-the-record conversations for the Internet
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There are many great ideas that have been worked on in the cryptographic theory community that I've long wanted to see implemented in pr...
Shared key generation using quasars
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This article at The Register is the best layman's description I've seen. The basic idea is that Alice and Bob start by sharing a ...
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Corporate origins of the United States
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When looking at the legal and political history that led up to the formation of the United States of America, judges and historians typicall...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Metabolite
prediction
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Based on yesterday's oral arguments in LabCorp v. Metabolite , Harold Wegner predicts the likelihood that Justice Stevens will write th...
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