10 Sunday Jun 2012
Posted in Social Media, Trademark
New reasons to protect trademarks through registration
Tech-Savvy Seniors: Half of U.S. Adults Over 65 Are Online
Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists
“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”
John F. Kennedy
Twitter’s first commercial:
27 Sunday May 2012
Posted in Privacy, Social Media
Stories from the Week that Was – 5/20/12-5/26/12
The Failures of the Facebook Generation in the Arab Spring
IP-Address Can’t Even Identify a State, BitTorrent Judge Rules
Drones Take Flight For Civilian Use
7 Ways To Get Yourself Detained Indefinitely
UK ‘cookie law’ takes effect: What you need to know
“A patent is property carried to the highest degree of abstraction—a right in rem to exclude, without a physical object or content.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
13 Sunday May 2012
Stories from the Week that Was – 5/6/12-5/12/12
A mid-week election saw Richard Mourdock topple long-standing Republican Senator Richard Lugar. Has anybody bothered to ask Mourdock or (Democrat rival) Joe Donnelly’s thoughts on legislation like CISPA and SNOPA? Not this week, when all the talk was about Zuckerberg’s hoodie and President Obama’s evolution on same-sex marriage.
Why the New gTLDs Don’t Matter
Clicking ‘Like’ on Facebook Is Not Protected Speech, Judge Rules
Property rights in the cloud: Your data or theirs?
Twitter Defends User In Court Over Occupy Tweets
Think That Email Isn’t a Contract? Think Again
Facebook bans Grooveshark over copyright complaint
How Should We Measure Damages for Defamation Over Social Media?
Mars Rover Opportunity Rolling Again After Winter Break
New NDAA Would Give the Military Clandestine Cyberwar Powers
“All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.” – Mark Zuckerberg
29 Sunday Apr 2012
Posted in Intellectual Property, Legislation, Patent, Privacy, Social Media, Trademark
Stories from the Week that Was – 4/22/12-4/28/12
US says intellectual property supports 40 million jobs
How CISPA will affect us [infographic]
Facebook Signs $550M Patent Deal
Judge Adds #Hashtags To Twitter Ruling
House passes CISPA with a vote of 248 to 168
Will ’emoticon defense’ disprove cyberbullying?
“If you value liberty, privacy and the Constitution, then you will vote no on CISPA.” – Congressman Hank Johnson (D-Ga)
Oregon Intellectual Property Blog 
