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Feds Charge Activist with 13 Felonies for Rogue Downloading of Academic Articles | Threat Level
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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Amazon.com Help: Kindle License Agreement and Terms of Use
Amazon.com Kindle License Agreement and Terms of Use Last updated: September 28, 2011 This is an agreement between you and Amazon Digital Services, Inc. (with its affiliates, “Amazon” or “we”). Please read this Amazon.com Kindle License Agreement …
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Apple Beats Samsung: First Reactions
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.”
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How Apple and Microsoft intend to destroy Android
“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…
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Groklaw – Patent Trolls – A New Study and a Survey ~ mw
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…
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![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...](http://gle.ovo.kom.uni.st/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/836a9-media_httpdawncompkfi_gjhta-scaled1000.jpg "India firm shakes up cancer drug market with price cuts")
India firm shakes up cancer drug market with price cuts
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…