Showing posts with label intellectual property. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intellectual property. Show all posts
Thursday, October 1, 2015

The Daraprim story

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This is Joseph. The drug Daraprim jumped in it's cost from $13.55 a pill to $750 per pill after it was purchased by a new company: ...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Did you know Happy Birthday was copyrighted?

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This is Joseph I did not.  Nor was I aware of a lawsuit trying to change this until quite recently.  But the actual arguments have become ...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

An under-appreciated consequence of extremely long copyrights

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This is one of the unforeseen consequences of extremely long copyright terms : Not only have many copyright holders failed to keep their o...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Intellectual Property

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We have not talked about copyright for a while, but this is an evergreen point: More recent characters never enter the public domain beca...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Intellectual property and genes

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More on intellectual property : Advocates of tough intellectual property rights say that this is simply the price we have to pay to get t...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Intellectual Property

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Mark Thoma points us towards a potentially really important finding : By linking a number of different datasets that had not previously ...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

When Patents attack

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Kevin Drum has an interesting story about a software patent case : This hits home for me in two ways. First, the alleged patents date fro...
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Friday, June 8, 2012

Has anyone patented rounded corners yet? If not, I see an opportunity

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From   Matt Yglesias  via Alex Tabarrok : …Apple has been  awarded a patent on wedge-shaped computers . Once again it is difficult to ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Works moved out of the public domain?

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Seriously? The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a federal law that restored copyright protection to works that had entered the public ...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

I think we also need to page Mark Palko

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Today's new patent  is from Apple, US patent #8,082,523.  It is best described as: In other words, anything you’d recognize as a smart...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Intellectual property: the story that never ends

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More on intellectual property rights from Matt Yglesias , who is worried about Google patenting basic features of driverless cars: If you ...
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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Intellectual Property

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Apple appears to be suing as part of its business plan : Apple makes great products, but you wouldn’t know it from the way it’s attacking Sa...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Still more intellectual property silliness

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I've got an actual post on this in the works but in the meantime check out these stories. From the New York Times : When copyright...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

More intellectual property silliness

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From TPM : The New York Stock Exchange now claims that you have to get their permission (express or implicit) before you use images connect...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

The middle of January and already in reruns -- Alice in Lawyerland

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This post from Matt Yglesias on intellectual property (with additional comments by Joseph here ), got me thinking about this post from a fe...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Other degrees of patent protection

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Mark has a very interesting post on the length of copyright of intellectual property. I thought that I would compare these laws (which app...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Alice in Lawyerland: would the laws Disney lobbied for have prevented Disney from existing in the first place?

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(disclaimer: I have cashed a number of royalties checks over the years so the following is obviously not an attack on the concept of intell...
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The ultimate superpower is litigation

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As part of our ongoing series on the surreal world of intellectual property (see the last post), here's a fun fact from comic book writ...