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This blog is written by Des Moines based attorney Brett Trout. He provides information and opinion on development in information technology, internet patent, trademark and copyright law.
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School Uses Laptop Cameras to Spy on Students at Home
Class Action Lawsuit In a case that just gets weirder every day, high school students have now sued the Lower Merion School District in Philadelphia in a class action lawsuit for using webcams to spy on students at home. The District stands accused of remotely activating the iSight cameras on the...
Google Buzz Kill
Google Buzz Google just released its new social media platform. Google Buzz allows you to share pictures, thoughts and even your location with your friends. If you already have a Gmail, all you have to do is click the Google Buzz button to get started. But wait! Security Concerns Industry insiders...
The Latest Online Scams
Not Your Father’s Online Scam By now, everyone is familiar with the Nigerian scam. You receive an e-mail for an offer you cannot refuse. The sender alleges he or she is trustee of a large sum of unclaimed money. If you will agree to take the money into the United States, you will receive half...
Top Ten African American Inventors
Black history month is just around the corner. Once again I have compiled a list of my top ten African-American inventors of all time. While no blog post could do these ten great inventors justice, I have included a brief synopsis of each inventor’s accomplishments along with a representative...
Monsanto wins first round in “nasty” patent fight with Pioneer
The Lawsuit Last year, Monsanto sued Iowa-based Pioneer and its parent company DuPont in federal court alleging, among other things, for patent infringement and breach of contract. In the lawsuit, Monsanto alleges Pioneer developed glyphosate (Roundup)-tolerant genetics called Optimum GAT....
How Do I Patent My Idea?
What is a Patent? Patents are documents that protect inventions. Good patents describe the invention in broad terms, making it more difficult to design around the patent or challenge a claim of infringement. Good patents are hard to draft. If they are drafted too broadly, broadly enough to cover...
SWAT: Sieze the Accomplishment
As the legal futurist Richard Susskind notes in The End of Lawyers?, “I cannot imagine according to what scale it is cooler to be, say, a project manager than a lawyer (with all due respect to project managers).” But when you get right down to it, the practice of law, like many other...
Virtual Parenting
What the Fork? Video games harbor potential dangers to children. So do forks. The reason forks do not grab as many headlines is two-fold. First, all adults understand forks and ridicule those who use them to self-inflict injury. Second, parents, at least responsible parents, do not allow their...
Write Reviews on Your Blog? Better Read Up.
Fines for Blog Reviews? The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued new guidelines (16 CFR Part 255) which have put advertisers, bloggers and other online publishers into a panic. The new guidelines, take effect December 1, 2009 and prohibit blog reviews which fail to disclose material...
Luddite Patent Attorneys Are More Expensive Than You Think
Is Your Attorney as Tech Savvy as You Are? You go to great lengths to protect your computer from hackers. But does your attorney? Hackers know all of your most important documents reside on your attorney’s computer. If your attorney is not as tech savvy as your company, who is a seasoned...
