Nov 18, 2021
Read Chapter 3 on free speech
Not, however, the US Supreme Court.
The UK Supreme Court issued a ruling making it much harder to file class-action lawsuits against Google. An existing lawsuit claiming that Google collected too much information failed because the plaintiffs had not proved that any user was harmed, either financially or emotionally. Proving harm in privacy cases is often a hurdle.
www.cityam.com/supreme-court-shock-google-ruling-sends-shockwaves-through-london-legal-community.
Judge Griesbach accepts the limitations on §230 suggested by the Seventh Circuit. (Though those limitations were not actually part of a decision.)
But Armslist still wins its case, on a Wisconsin theory of lack of liability when the negligent act is only remotely connected to the subsequent harm.
Just got to why pharmaceutical patents are useful for society
What is the deal with software patents?
Obvious in context
Software-patent issues
Broad patents and the Wright brothers
Benson, Flook and Diehr
Federal Circuit
Examples of software patents
Heckel examples
Eolas
E-data
i4i
NTP
Patent trolls
Business methods
Apple patents
Stallman
Graham
Europe
KSR v Teleflex
Bilski
Mayo Labs, Myriad Genetics
Abstract patents; Ultramercial and Alice