Thursday Show 3/27/14
Podcast Survivor: Carolla Campaigns To Fight
Podcast Patent Troll in Court
The fight against the Podcast Patent Troll
continues on. Last week there was a small victory for the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, while podcaster Adam Carolla starts a legal
defense fund to fight the troll in
court.
First to file patent system arrrives March 2013
In brief: For patent applications having any claim
with an effective filing date after March 15 2013, it will no longer
be possible to overcome prior art by showing an earlier date of
invention. Thus, the prior art for purposes of patentability will
include:
Twenty three Texas teachers face deportation
because of school district blunder
A few years ago, a school district in Texas found
itself with a booming immigrant population and few teachers who spoke
Spanish. So they started an ambitious recruitment program that
brought in 260 teachers – from Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela –
to meet their growing
demand.
Obama secretly negotiating away US sovereignty
Consumer protections and the use of domestic law
in the U.S. may drastically change as President Obama forges ahead
with two secretive international deals that impact major aspects of
the economy, privacy and
beyond.
