Cairns Blog
This blawg covers "the first amendment, democratic design and civic innovation for the digital age."
Author: This blawg is published by law professor Beth Simone Noveck and members of the First Amendment in the Digital Age Course at Stanford University. Noveck is the McClatchy visiting associate professor at in Stanford's department of communication and director of the Institute for Information Law & Policy at New York Law School in New York City.
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Recent Posts from Cairns Blog
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Food IP: Hummous v. Hummus
New York Times has a story today about the battle between Lebanon and Israel over "Hummus." Here's the story from Ha'Aretz
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Open, Accountable and Ethical Government and the Democratic Platform
Michael Kinsley's Learning to Read Democrat in the New York Times today poked fun at the vagueness and redundancies in many parts of the democratic party platform. One section we can be proud of, however,…
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McCain Tech Plan
Dow Jones reports that McCain will release his Tech Plan in the coming week. The Obama Tech Plan came out in November 2007. The failure of the McCain camp to address technology until nine months…
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My Life. My Card. No, Wait, Not Your Life, Says Amex.
American Express is getting in on the crowdsourcing philanthropy act by hosting a new initiative, Members Project. Propose good-for-the-world projects, vote on the projects of others, and Amex will dole out $2.5 million in funding…
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David Johnson Spearheads Virtual Company Legislation
Vermont is now on the path to becoming "the Delaware of the Net." Professor David Johnson and a team of New York Law School students helped to draft the nation’s first legislation that will make…
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iPhone to Enable Citizen Journalism
As James Grimmelmann timely reports on The Laboratorium: Steve Jobs says:10:41 am [The Associated Press] call it the Mobile News Network, and it gathers content from many trusted sources. It makes use of the location…
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Another Cool Patent Thing
It seems there's another free patent pdf downloader out there. Patent Retriever. Any idea as to the difference?
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Cool Patent Thing
Patent attorney Rolf Claessen has a free new tool to download patent documents in PDF format on the web. It can be found here.
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P2P: The Movie
Produced by IBM, this short movie with interviews with Chief Intellectual Property and Patent Counsel from IBM, GE, HP and others explains the Peer-to-Patent process, how it works and why an inventor will want to…
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Japan Announces Launch of Peer to Patent
IBM Japan, Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd., and other major IT companies plan to utilize outside specialists’ expertise for patent registration. These companies will use a new patent examination system initiated by the Japan Patent Office (JPO)…