Computer Ethics, Summer 2020 online, Class 11

No more Miniwriting!

No exam either.

Class 11 Readings

Readings:

• Software patents: Chapter 4    
• Computer crime: Chapter 5

Paper 2

Paper 3

Patents

• Pharma
• Software patents intro
• Benson, Flook, Diehr
• Examples
• XOR:
• two perspectives on applying the mathematical XOR operator to video memory
• how things differ in the world of physical inventions
• Eolas
• A different path to obviousness
• Trolls
• Are they really as bad as some claim?
• Business methods
• A license to patent general algorithms?
• Apple
• Paul Graham
• Are software patents different?
• KSR
• How it's used to deal with software patents
• Bilski and abstract ideas
• Mayo
• Myriad Genetics: there was a big problem here
• Ultramercial and abstract ideas
• Rader/Moore dissent
• Alice
• Abstract ideas are not patentable, but applications may be, and we're not telling you which is what
• Just adding "do it on a computer" is easy for district-court judges to invalidate
• Heartland
• The death knell to East Texas barbeque

Crime

• Hacking
• CFAA
• Citrin
• Nosal
• Craigslist
• LinkedIn v hiQ
• TJX
• Identity theft is bogus
• Zero-day exploits
• people keep getting prosecuted for vulnerability announcements
• MBTA
• Jeep Cherokee
• Felony prosecutions
• Kutztown 13
• Randal Schwartz
• Terry Childs
• Julie Amero
• Weev