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Is Arbitration Patentable?

By Victoria VanBuren - February 3, 2009

It depends… After yesterday’s post, full of legalese, I thought it might be fun to write something a little lighter today. On January 13, 2009, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided Stephen W. Comiskey’s appeal relating to his patent application with the USPTO. Comiskey claimed a method and system for arbitration involving documents like wills or contracts. The court rejected the claims describing the way of conducting arbitr

Apple and Psystar Agree to Private Mediation

By Karl Bayer - October 18, 2008

Apple and Psystar have agreed to a private ADR session to attempt a resolution to the ongoing lawsuit filed by Apple. It appears they opted out of the court-provided ADR options for a private mediation service. Psystar is a Florida corporation that has received some level of attention over a recent website that sold custom-built computers with Apple’s OS X operating system installed. Such setups, PCs running Macintosh operating systems, are

iPhones, Apple and Cisco

By Rob Hargrove - January 11, 2007

We are big Macintosh evangelists around here. I’ve used a Mac in my personal life since 1990, and Karl has used them here at the office as long as I can remember. For a small firm like ours they make total sense, since they do not break and allow technical amateurs like us to run our own servers, website, blog, email, etc. So, needless to say, Karl and I were both extremely excited when Steve Jobs and Apple announced the iPhone earlier this

Computer Blogger’s Perspective on The Law

By Rob Hargrove - August 18, 2006

Robert Scoble (self-decribed as a “Tech Geek Blogger”) is one of my absolute favorite bloggers on technical subjects. He’s a recently-former Microsoft employee who blogs about technical and business issues surrounding the internet and blogs and the phenomena folks call Web 2.0 and the like. He also writes well and, at times, beautifully and powerfully. At any rate, his blog is one we read all the time. At any rate, Mr. Scoble ma