Josh Landau

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Patents and innovation, dogs, skiing, skiing dogs? Also Michigan - go blue!

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If you, like me, clicked on that viral video last week about the guy driving a car during a court hearing on a suspended license charge, don't miss this follow up. The court ordered his license reinstated 2 years ago, but never sent the paperwork: www.wxyz.com/news/why-was...

Why was the driver in a viral video's license still suspended 2 years after a judge ordered it lifted?www.wxyz.com The video of Corey Harris that went viral has garnered a lot of laughs but it is no joke for Harris who is trying to understand how he even ended up being charged with driving while license suspended.

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Just a reminder that we'll be talking about LKQ this Tuesday via Zoom. Hope you can join us!

Interested in design patents? We are reconvening our all-star panel to discuss the Federal Circuit's en banc decision in #LKQvGM. Please join us next Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at noon Eastern via Zoom. More details and the (free) registration link here: events.suffolk.edu/event/design...

Suffolk University in Boston - Suffolk Universityevents.suffolk.edu Suffolk University in Boston is a private higher education institution offering full- and part-time undergraduate, graduate, and law programs.

Good luck, residents of Springfield IL. Invest in earplugs.

Trillions of cicadas are about to emerge in the Midwest and the South. Two different broods of the ~extremely loud ~ insects are set to crawl out of the ground together for the first time since 1803. See where they’ll appear on this map:

Mapping 2024’s cicada double-whammywww.washingtonpost.com This spring, billions of bugs are expected to be flying around a portion of the middle of the United States, including the Midwest’s largest city.

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"Revenge porn who? We're here to make sure we secure the rights of the RIAA to stage Michael Jackson hologram concerts for the next 70 years"

Super great and healthy that the discussion about protecting Americans from being digitally impersonated is being driven and dominated entirely by entertainment industry lobbyists!

The NO FAKES Act: Protecting Americans from Unauthorized Digital Replicas | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciarywww.judiciary.senate.gov United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

It's that time again - donate for refugees, and for spite towards your college's hated opponent(s). This year? A dime for every day it's been since Ohio State beat the 2023 NATIONAL CHAMPION MICHIGAN WOLVERINES.

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Once a year a weird collection of college football fans on the Internet come together to raise an absolute ton of money for refugees in the ATL area. Donate for spite, and because your school is better than that other one, and oh yeah because it helps people who need it.

Not gonna flog this too much over here bc most of our audience is still in the bad place buuuuut the CharitibundiBowl is live click here to donate: http://igfn.us/form/4Y9QjQ or text charitybowl23 to 91999.

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I'm looking for a very specific type of scholar: A historian who uses computational text analysis methods - ideally word embeddings or later methods, who works in an actual history department, who publishes in history outlets, who resides in North America. #DH help?

If you're interested in IP and AI - especially ownership of outputs - can I recommend you tune in tomorrow morning to the Hous Judiciary IP Subcommittee hearing where I will be testifying on exactly that topic?

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: Part III – IP Protection for AI-Assisted Inventions and Creative Works | House Judiciary Committee Republicansjudiciary.house.gov

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It hasn't popped up on RECAP yet, but our newest filing at the 11th Circuit is up. It's pretty important! The government moved to dismiss our appeal, telling the 11th Circuit that it was now moot because the affidavit had been unsealed. One problem: it remains sealed! USCA11 Case: 23-13649 Doc 26

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TIL: someone tried to steal the color formula for Oreo’s cream filling “Beyond the color, the cream was protected by a patent for its composition, granted in 1987. Food scientist Sam Porcello invented the cream’s smooth texture with aeration and mixing it to a gravity between .70 and .82.”

USPTO on LinkedIn: #nationaloreoday #tradesecret #protectwhatyoulovewww.linkedin.com Ore-oh no you don’t! Stealing a trade secret is a federal crime. The color formula for Oreo’s white cream is protected by trade secret – and so coveted that…

I guess give DC credit for placing their (poorly functioning) surveillance devices more or less based on population density?

NEW: Leaked data analyzed by WIRED’s @dmehro.bsky.social reveals the secret locations of ShotSpotter sensors around the globe, and the communities most directly impacted by the surveillance. www.wired.com/story/shotsp...

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The freelance journalist Tim Burke has been arrested and indicted in connection with an investigation into leaks of unaired footage from Fox News. Mr. Burke’s prosecution shows the DOJ needs to do more to show that its charging policy prevents CFAA misuse.

Is the Justice Department Even Following Its Own Policy in Cybercrimewww.eff.org Following an FBI raid of his home last year, the freelance journalist Tim Burke has been arrested and indicted in connection with an investigation into leaks of unaired footage from Fox News. The

Ha of COURSE it's Fortress. (Also responsible for a significant chunk of patent trolling activity rn, not to mention a patent assertion campaign at the start of COVID targeting COVID diagnostics, among other things.)

I think it’d be good for more people to know that the exact same private equity executives responsible for destroying hundreds of jobs at Vice — Fortress Investment Group — are also responsible for destroying thousands of jobs at Gannett newspapers.

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Fucking ridiculous.

Journalist Tim Burke Indicted For Leaking Tucker Carlson Clips That Embarrassed Fox Newswww.rollingstone.com The clips, which included unaired, antisemitic remarks by Kanye West, were published by Vice and Media Matters.

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Not only arrested for "hacking" an open website but had his entire workplace seized so he's functionally been unable to work for nine months, with his office held hostage by the FBI and six figures in legal bills going up and up and up.

Tim Burke Legal Fundtimburkelegalfund.org Information about supporting Tim Burke.

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Free Tim Burke!

Fucking ridiculous.

What? A prosecutor selectively quoted statements with no context to present a negative image of the investigation target? That would NEVER happen.

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Fox just now, with the ineffable Jesse Watters: — So terrible that we have this senile Biden at the podium. — And "South Carolina governor Kristi Noem joins us right now." NO JOKE. He said that at 8:28pm ET. Check the tape. [For the record: South DAKOTA gov K Noem]

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god forbid women do anything

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The Judicial Conduct and Disability Committee denies Judge Newman's petition for review of the Federal Circuit Judicial Council's order finding "that Judge Newman committed misconduct by ... failing to undergo a medical examination." (h/t @chup.blakereid.org): www.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...

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I will admit I did not expect it to be a Republican member who deployed arguments from personhood and human flourishing.

Yes, of course the RIAA supports artists being allowed to sell their NIL rights. They're the ones who'd benefit! #AIhearing

Jen Rothman pointing out the huge flaws in the current AI NIL bills up right now at the HJCIP hearing. I hope Congress is listening.

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⚖️🧵 1/ This story about the folly of predicting jury timing was recounted to me by the District Court judge for whom I clerked, Judge Herbert N. Maletz. I can't vouch for its authenticity, but I can vouch that this is exactly the way I remember him telling it to me in 1995.

Kappos: if not for patents, we won't be able to get self-driving retrofit for existing cars. Open source devs - hold my steering wheel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openpilot

Oh, good, we're talking about Mossoff's paper again. It's full of completely misleading and false examples. (See again, Abby's work on this: static1.squarespace.com/static/57168... )

Though he's still trying to claim 102/103/112 might have killed Alice... except that patent issued over 102/103/112. So no, it wouldn't.

Oh hey Kappos finally admitting that PERA would restore Alice-type claims to patentability. Yeah, sure, that's good policy.

Director Kappos complaining that CAFC can't reverse a district court on 101 determinations. Man, too bad he worked so hard on the side of treating it as a mixed question of fact and law, instead of keeping it a question of law which would receive de novo review.

A la Dave Jones - if we think there's a narrow problem (like diagnostic methods), create a sui generis protection for it, don't screw up patent law for other users.