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New Life for WordPerfect?
By John Simek
Some things just never go away. Corel has quietly been in the tech background for many years and it looks like it will be around for a while longer. TechCrunch…
PrawfsBlawg
Patentable Subject Matter
Main Thursday, June 06, 2019Patentable Subject MatterCongress is considering legislation to amend 35 U.S.C. Section 101. This section defines eligible subject matter for patents. In recent years, the Supreme Court…
Law of The Ledger
Popular Open Source Software under Patent Attack
By James Gatto
Sound View Innovations is launching patent attacks against commonly used open source software including jQuery and Apache Hadoop. Sound View is targeting end users of these software components. This is a typical tactic of…
LawSites
End of an Era: Tom Bruce, Trailblazing Director of LII, to Retire after 27 Years
By Bob Ambrogi
It is possible that no one was more influential in shaping the universe of online access to legal information than Tom Bruce. Way back in 1992 -- a year before…
LawLytics Blog
The Benefits of Adding Users to Your LawLytics Account
With LawLytics, you can add as many users as you like and assign the degree of control and access they have to your website. Here are a number of ways…
Juro
Case study: how Unbabel close contracts 30% faster with Juro and Salesforce
By Alex McPhie
To scale legal processes fast, Unbabel needed a contracts solution that meant reps could close deals without ever having to leave Salesforce. Here's how they did it. Unbabel provides translation…
The Right Coast
Tech Community Outraged after SQLite Founder Adopts Benedictine Code of Conduct | Trending
The founder of the world's most widely used database engine ignited a firestorm in the tech community after it was revealed that he had posted a code of conduct for…
Law of The Ledger
Patent Issues with Open Source Software (OSS)
By James Gatto
James Gatto and Hean Koo published an article titled, "Patent Issues with Open Source Software (OSS)," on June 5, 2018 in Thomson Reuters Westlaw.
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Federal Circuit Again Reverses California Court in Oracle-Google Copyright Dispute over Java APIs – Releases a Major Ruling on Fair Use in the Software Context
In this long-running dispute that has been previously dubbed “The World Series of IP cases” by the presiding judge, Oracle America Inc. (“Oracle”) accuses Google Inc. (“Google”) of unauthorized use…
Minding Your Business
Copyright in the Digital Age: Cisco v. Arista and the Scènes à Faire Doctrine
Imagine producing a classic Western without cowboys, saloons, or standoffs. This seems almost inconceivable because these elements are deeply integral to the genre – so much so, in fact, that…