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Biggest IP cases of 2002
scubacuda writes "Law.com's article, The Biggest IP Cases of 2002, has a nice summary of some of the intellectual property cases that have caught our attention this last year. Of particular interest to slashdotters: Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp. (regarding Arriba's visual search engine), Enzo Biochem Inc. v. Gen-Probe Inc. (regarding
a gene patent being invalid because it did not meet the written description requirement), an Illinois federal court injunction against Aimster, United States v. Elcom Ltd a/k/a Elcomsoft Co. Ltd. , and Playboy Enterprises Inc. v. Welles (regarding Playmate of the Year, Terri Welles, using Playboy's marks and metatags on her website)."
Tsk! I'm insulted that you think all slashdotters are porn-obsessed losers. Can't we get away from this sort of stereotype?
[5 seconds later]
Of course, it would be unfair not to be fully aware of both sides of the argument, so I'll have to thoroughly inspect her website. Purely for research purposes, you understand ...
Put a catchy IP trial header.
Put it as a Top 10 list of the year
Mix in Playboy in the summary
Now that you've got everyone's attention, put one of the top playmates's personnal webpage address, and witness the explosive results
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.
156.102.116.238
*Crosses fingers*
New plan: link to naked women, get karma. Is it working?
you've slashdotted Playboy!!!
Umm... so if I go take a dump in a public toilet, I own a patent on what I 'deposited'...? U.S. Patent law is insane!
Mo "Telephone call for IP Freely, IP Freely? IP Freely anyone? Oh dang kids! when I catch them!"
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Nudes for nerds. Pr0n that matters.
You are 100% Correct.
I am a widely acknowledged expert in the field of marketing, and my job takes me to some of the most under-lawyered areas of Europe. It is anarchy over there. The Netherlands is particularly hard hit. Taxation is rampant, open drug taking in the street is commonplace, and anarchy prevails.
It is the policy of my corporation that whenever we travel outside the US, if the group travelling is larger than four people, then we take our travelling attorney with us.
The reason is simple. Lawsuits are freedom. And extra-territorial Lawsuits imply extra-territorial freedom.
Our European cousins quake in their boots when we turn up for a meeting with our heavy hitting international corporate law guy.
Thus we are able to ensure no socialistic un-american BS gets through into any contracts we sign.
Rest assured that our new Linux distributions, Linuxmon and Linuxtrious will not run into any problems with limp-wristed left-wing whinging Europeans.
Slap-em with a lawsuit. Pre-emptivly if possible.
Lawyers are more than our Freedom, they are our inalienable constitutional right as Americans.
Finally, I always remember the words of wisdom I recieved when working on a project closely tied to a large Redmond based software development company.
Sue early, sue often.
Truly savvy International Marketeers will employ the services of Kroll Associates and Control Risks Group, when dealing with Socialistic unstable regimes such as the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, France(especially) and Germany.
Thank you Streetlawyer Man for your helpful and (in these Socialistic times in which we live in) potentially life-saving advice.
Finally, I'm sick and tired of being held up to ridicule by snot-nosed 15 year old Linux zealots on this forum, when all I'm trying to do is give them a decent marketing perspective. Do you think I can sue VA, and Slashdot, and the so-called anonymous posters. ? Some of the comments really hurt my feelings. Money is not an object, since my marketing agency makes more $$$$$s than it can spend...