via wired.com “Federal prosectors added nine new felony counts against well-known coder and activist Aaron Swartz, who was charged last year for allegedly breaching hacking laws by downloading millions of academic articles from a subscription data…
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via bits.blogs.nytimes.com “It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies.”
“Groklaw nails it: “In other words, [Apple and Microsoft] want to disarm the companies that got there first, built the standards, and created the field, while the come-later types clean up on patents on things like slide to unlock or a tablet shap…
via groklaw.net “Bessen/Meurer paper. Here are some of the highlights: The number of defendants in NPE patent suits doubled from 2009 (approximately 2,700) to 2011 (more than 5,800). Direct costs of patent assertions by NPEs are costing our nation…
via dawn.com “Hamied, chairman of generic drugs giant Cipla, last month slashed the cost of three medicines to fight brain, kidney and lung cancer in India, making the drugs up to more than four times cheaper. [..] Hamied, 76, was pilloried by Wes…