This WEEK in LAW 182

This WEEK in LAW Episode 182

This Week In Law 182: Watching Patented Pants

Patenting chairs and pants, tracking infringement, IP reform, and more.

Panel

• Denise Howell
• Evan Brown
• Sarah Burstein (@design_law)
  • http://www.law.ou.edu/content/burstein-sarah
  • http://works.bepress.com/sarah_burstein
  • "Professor Burstein joined the University of Oklahoma College of Law faculty in 2012. She teaches Civil Procedure I, Civil Procedure II and Copyright. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Burstein served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert W. Pratt in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa. She also worked as an intellectual property litigation associate in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Professor Burstein received a law degree from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Art & Design from Iowa State University. Professor Burstein’s scholarship focuses on the legal protection of product design, with a particular emphasis on design patent law. Her most recent article, published in the Lewis & Clark Law Review, proposes several changes to the Federal Circuit’s test for nonobviousness in the context of design patents. She has also blogged about design patent law on the leading U.S. patent law blog, Patently-O, and has been invited to speak at a November 2012 design law conference at the University of Oxford."
• Tim Smith (@mywerx)
  • http://mywerx.com/
  • "Tim Smith is a serial entrepreneur with IT and Music Publishing / Intellectual Property Rights Management expertise. He is an executive leader and strategic thinker, and a digital media pioneer and IT consultant in operations, marketing and sales processes. He has had a career long emphasis in IT-related solution envisioning, design, process engineering and systems implementation. Entertainment and copyright attorneys will learn about e-signatures and the electronic IP chain of title, and notarizing signatures as a best practice. When is it really necessary and are current costs really necessary. Currently, Mr. Smith has pilot projects underway with Big Machine Label Group. EMI/CMG and Pat Higdon Music with respect to e-signatures for copyright assignments and recently secured the U.S. Copyright Office’s acceptance of e-signed assignments. Nashville will lead the music industry this cost-cutting innovation in the new reality of billions of micro-pennies transactions."

Topics

• The Copyright Economy: Monitoring and Policing, Reform
  • Stuart Rosove - Irdeto - being interviewed live @ IBC2012 via The Next Web
  • TNW at IBC: Irdeto on tracking global piracy habits across the Web via The Next Web
  • Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders via New Scientist
  • DOJ: 2.4 million in grants to combat IP theft via Fashion Cloture
• MyWerx
  • MyWerx
• Posner on Copyright Reform
  • Do patent and copyright law restrict competition and creativity excessively? Posner via The Becker-Posner Blog
• Automated take-down requests
  • Warner Bros, Hotfile and EFF Fight Over Bogus Automated Takedown Requests via Torrent Freak
• YouTube rejiggers takedown algorithms
  • YouTube Alters Copyright Algorithms, Will ‘Manually’ Review Some Claims via Wired.com
• TVs overtake PCs as streaming devices
  • TVs overtake computers as the primary screen for home viewing of online video via NPD
• Graduated Response
  • http://torrentfreak.com/six-strikes-anti-piracy-scheme-overly-secret-and-unfair-says-professor-120917/[ “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Overly Secret and Unfair, Says Professor] via Torrent Freak
• Apple v. Samsung
  • Apple v. Samsung: Federal judge dissolves injunction against Galaxy 10.1 tablet via Mercury News
  • Samsung claims foreman lied about his past to get on Apple v. Samsung jury via ArsTechnica
• Patenting Pants and Chairs
  • Can Emeco prevent Restoration Hardware from knocking off the “Navy Chair”? via The Knock Off Economy
  • Hot off the presses—another #designpatent for pants. Not sure who/how they are supposed to fit, though... via Sarah Bernstein
  • In ‘The Knockoff Economy,’ The Upside to Ripping Off Others’ Ideas via The Knock Off Economy
• Becker on Reform
  • Reforming the Patent System Toward a Minimalist System-Becker via The Becker-Posner Blog
• Federal Circuit Turns 30
  • How a rogue appeals court wrecked the patent system via ArsTechnica
• Internet-Freedom Lobby
  • Tech Giants Form Internet-Freedom Lobby to Counter MPAA, RIAA Clout via Wired
• Chris Dodd played to both sides of the aisle re party platforms
  • MPAA's Dodd backs Internet freedom text in GOP platform via The Hill
  • MPAA's Chris Dodd praises Dems' platform on piracy via WKZO.com
  • MPAA Tells Candidates That Anti-Piracy Measures Remain A “Critical” Priority via Deadline.com
• Performance Royalty Reform Bill
  • Pandora rallies fans for performance royalty reform via Radio Survivor
  • Pandora FAQ
  • Tim Westergren letter via Official Pandora Blog
  • Bob Lefsetz calls self-interest via Lefsetz

Tip of the Week

• Photographing Trees
  • If You Were A Tree... What Kind Of IP Protection Could You Get? via TechDirt

Resource of the Week

• "The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law is a complete law school course that keeps the “laughter” in “manslaughter.”"
  • The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
• "A complete first-year Criminal Law course in comic form, in 17 parts on a Tumblr"
  • http://thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com/post/13656784545/1-introduction-crime via BoingBoing

Sponsor

• ShareFile.com

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