Top Intellectual Property Law Issues of 2005, by Wolf, Greenfield
(Patents)
It's usual at this time of year to try to figure out what the future holds.
I asked Henry Stimpson if he'd poll the folks at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks,
a Boston IP law firm (with a really lovely website), and give us the firm's
assessment of what to keep an eye on for the coming year, as far as IP law
is concerned. He graciously agreed. What I found most interesting is what
they say about more conflict expected between patents and antitrust law.In
connection with patents, the Washington Post's Jonathan Krim is reporting a
major scoop today (reg req'd): "Several of the world's largest high-tech
corporations plan to urge Congress today to force Internet service providers
to crack down more aggressively on their users who swap copyrighted
software, music or video files online. "The move is a significant escalation
in the campaign by the software and entertainment industries to squelch
widespread file sharing by millions of users through services such as Kazaa,
Grokster and Morpheus. If successful, it could reshape a long legal
tradition of shielding phone, cable and other communications companies from
liability for the actions of their customers." Yes, you heard right. The
BSA is asking Congress to change the DMCA to make it possible for the
entertainment industry to get subpoenas from a clerk process instead of a
judge and use them to force ISPs to turn over user information.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050106124812184
... BAM and CEP point to a simple truth a fact about anything (business process mistakes,opportunities) is often most valuable when it is fresh (www.slowpacefastchange.com)
In connection with patents, the Washington Post's Jonathan Krim is reporting a major scoop today (reg req'd):
"Several of the world's largest high-tech corporations plan to urge Congress today to force Internet service providers to crack down more aggressively on their users who swap copyrighted software, music or video files online. " ....
"If successful, it could reshape a long legal tradition of shielding phone, cable and other communications companies from liability for the actions of their customers." .....
The BSA is asking Congress to change the DMCA to make it possible for the entertainment industry to get subpoenas from a clerk process instead of a judge and use them to force ISPs to turn over user information.
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This selection should serve as both an introduction to the field and a rich index to"where the neat stuff is" for even those well versed in the current state of the art what is a rapidly expanding field.
Companies that deploy RFID systems will need to use 'complex event processing' to identify meaningful information from the stream of data RFID readers will provide."
Here is an great Real-Time Enterprise (RTE) strategic white paper by Vinod Khosla a highly respected industry veteran and VC.
Vinod's article (circa. 2002) covers the broad spectrum of business integration areas and issues that provided my architectural blueprint for Virtuoso 2.5 (circa. 1998; we are now at 3.5). Although Vinod doesn't explicitly describe a 'Universal Server' in his paper, there are common keywords and concept patterns (Virtualization, Information Base etc.) that demonstrate a common understanding of corporate integration pain points and suggested routes for pain alleviation.
There is a high probability that when you read this article you will have a clearer understanding of the reasoning behind the functionality and architecture of Virtuoso. Hopefully you will see why the shape and form of a new server format, is one that offers multi-protocol and multi-purpose server functionality.
I firmly believe that Enterprise Data & Information Integration, Application Logic Integration, and Business Process Integration can be implemented as part of a single product offering in the form of a server instance that speaks many protocols by coherently implementing a plethora of industry standards."
Carl Kaplan writes in the NY Times about an article by Daniel J. Solove, an assistant professor at Seton Hall Law School ("Privacy and Power: Computer Databases and Metaphors for Information Privacy") that claims that the battle of the metaphors is much more than a literary parlor game...... in fact, the way a problem is framed determines its solution.....
David Appell comments on potntial hazards when "special circumstances manage to drill their way into every reasonable policy.." his case in point .... Yahoo under attack by the parents of a Marine (killed in Iraq) who want to read his email.
