Patents
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Government
Phyllis Schlafly, Champion OF Investors, Defender of Vigorous U.S. Patent System
by Nancy Thorner February 12, 2018Phyllis Schlafly is perhaps best remembered for leading grassroot campaigns against Communism, abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Internet/Telecom
We Need To Fully Populate FTC Leadership – To Stop Residual Obama Awfulness
by Seton Motley January 18, 2018Now as anyone who knows me knows – I am not one to lightly call for more government in any way, shape matter or form.
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Apple Sues Qualcomm Over Patent Royalties: “Apple also wants back some of the billions of dollars it claims it was overcharged in ‘Qualcomm’s illegal scheme’ to control the market for mobile phone chips.”
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After years of investigations, lawsuits, and fines, a checkered past of patent abuse and exploitation appears to have caught up with a major U.S. chip developer.
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Google proves the adage that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely
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Internet/Telecom
Apple Sues To Get Paid For Their Intellectual Property – And To Not Pay For Everyone Else’s
by Seton Motley March 11, 2017Hypocrisy, thy name is Apple.
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Legal Affairs
Let’s Not Pass The ‘CREATES Lawsuits-Undermines Patents’ Act
by Seton Motley August 5, 2016We’ve written extensively about the bipartisan, awful, awfully mis-named Innovation and PATENT Acts. Bills which would undermine the ability of patent holders to protect their property from thieves. By making it exponentially more difficult for them to do the one thing they can to stop the thieves – sue them.
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Legal AffairsPolitics
Thanks, FBI: We Real Worlders Find Elite World Inordinately Annoying. Again
by Seton Motley July 8, 2016How about that FBI no-indictment announcement yesterday? Makes perfect sense to you, I bet. Ok – I don’t bet that. At all. What does make sense to us Real Worlders – is seeing yet another Elite get yet another Get-Out-of-Reality-Free card. It is all growing quite tiresome. We Real Worlders are tired of the Elites’ limitless condescension – combined with incessant wrong-ness. We’re tired of Elites who are clearly in possession of far less common sense (but many, many more degrees) – mandating ever more portions of our lives.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Let’s Not Emulate How Much of the World Treats Intellectual Property
by Seton Motley April 29, 2016April 26 is World Intellectual Property (IP) Day: “We celebrate World Intellectual Property Day to learn about the role that intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, industrial designs, copyright) play in encouraging innovation and creativity.”
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Google, the Barack Obama Administration – and Even More Questionable Policy
by Seton Motley March 28, 2016Almost inarguably, no private entity is more enmeshed with the Barack Obama Administration – than is Google. This has been – in way too many ways for an allegedly free market economy – the Google Administration.