L' 271 Blog des brevets: Communiqués de PwC 2009 Contentieux des brevets d'études

Each year PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC)conducts studies on patents and patent litigation, where the organization analyzes statistics relating to “chauds” topics of patent law.  This year PwC looked at nonpracticing entities (NPEscompanies that do not design, manufacture, or distribute products) and their effect on litigation.

The study found that, adjusting for inflation using the Consumer Price Index, the annual median damage award has ranged from $2.2 millions de dollars pour $10.6 millions, with a median award of $4.4 million over the last 14 années. Globalement, this statistic has been more-or-less consistent during this time.

Cependant, damage awards for NPEs have risen considerably in recent years.  In fact, the median damages award for NPEs was more than triple the award for practicing entities over the last seven years ($12 million for NPEs, et $3.4 million for practicing entities). Contrasted with 1995-2001, the median damages award for NPEs was about the same when compared with practicing entities (environ $5 millions).

One obvious explanation could be that NPEs have become more sophisticated in selecting patents to litigate, and understanding the markets to sue against.  However, another explanation may have something to do with the use of jury trialsjuries decided only 14 percent of the cases with damages awards during the 1980s and 24 percent during the 1990s. In this decade, juries have decided 51 percent of the cases with damages awards.

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The Criminal Justice System as a Counterterrorism Tool: A Fact Sheet « USDOJ: Justice Blog

The Obama administration is committed to using every instrument of national power to fight terrorism – including intelligence and military operations as well as the criminal justice system.  As a counter-terrorism tool, the criminal justice system has proven incredibly effective in both incapacitating terrorists and gathering valuable intelligence from and about terrorists.  In every instance, the administration will use the tool that is most effective for fighting terrorism, and will make those decisions based on pragmatism, not ideology.

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Comment travailler avec E-médiation et de maîtres spéciaux de E-Discovery Cas||ESIBytes

Listen to Allison Skinner from the Birmingham, Alabama based law firm Sirote & Permutt, Peter Vogel, head of E-Discovery with the Dallas office of Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP and Karl Schieneman, Director of Legal Analytics and Review with JurInnov, discuss e-Mediation and Special Masters in electronic discovery cases.

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Robust Legal Research on Your iPhone

May you live in interesting times,” says an ancient Chinese curse. In the world of legal research, these are interesting times indeed. Westlaw and LexisNexis are both preparing to launch major reconfigurations of their research platforms. Bloomberg Law is jockeying to take them on. Efforts to put all legal research materials in the public domain continue to gain momentum. And even 800-pound gorilla Google is getting into the game.

While those various efforts involve bigger, better and more research on the Web, one legal research service, Fastcase, is about to launch a robust legal research tool you can carry wherever you go. Fastcase has developed an app that allows full case law and statutory research on an iPhone. Even better, not only is the app free, but so is the research.

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Google lance de nouvelles Google Voice pour iPhone | Reuters

Google Inc unveiled a new version of its Internet phone service on Tuesday in its latest effort to bypass Apple Inc’s gatekeepers and make Google Voice a popular service on the iPhone.

The new version of Google Voice can only be accessed through a smartphone’s Web browser, unlike the so-called native apps that can be downloaded directly onto an iPhone.

En Juillet, Google said that Apple had turned down its application to offer Google Voice as a native iPhone app. The rare public spat underscored the growing competition between the two tech giants and prompted the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to request more information from the companies on the matter.

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A Primer on Foreign Language E-Discovery | LES RECETTES HERALD

Alors que l'e-discovery peut être grec pour de nombreux, ce sont ces documents écrits en chinois, Japonaise, Coréen et le russe qui causent beaucoup de la peine. Ces «multi-octets" langues ont des caractères exponentiellement plus que le 26 lettres et quelques autres signes de ponctuation que les langues latines comme l'anglais, Espagnole, Besoin du français et allemand. En fait,, le nombre de caractères chinois inclus dans le Dictionnaire Kangxi est terminée 47,000 (si seulement 3-4,000 seraient nécessaires pour la pleine alphabétisation). L'impact sur l'e-discovery est significatif compte tenu de la sophistication accrue nécessaire pour évaluation au cas.

Au niveau le plus élémentaire, ordinateurs penser uns et de zéros, avec un être un ou zéro un peu. Huit bits est un octet. Il ya 256 différentes combinaisons de numéros que vous pouvez créer en utilisant un octet (2 (de bits) à la puissance 8). Pour les langues qui ne sont pas basées uniquement sur les lettres, i, ceux où les symboles représentent un concept ou une syllabe, vous devez ajouter des octets (256 x 256, ce qui équivaut à 66,536). C'est l'essence même du multi-octets vs. un seul octet langues - un seul octet langues ont 256 combinaisons possibles, tout multi-octets langues ont 66,536.

Confused? Then let’s address codings. An encoding is a programmatical translation of what you input to what you get on the screen. The problem is when you have multiple encodings. Par exemple, when analyzing an Outlook 2000 e-mail file (PST format) under a Japanese operating system, which you then convert to an English-language machine for review, there will be problems because the native data in Japanese is corrupted due to linguistic differences.

Unicode was created to solve some of these problems and offer a universal solution; cependant, it is only available for files created on newer systems, making legacy data a continuing area of concern. “Each language family has its own unique set of problems and solutions,” says Thomas Barnett, Special Counsel for Sullivan & Cromwell, SENCRL, srl.

En fait,, “in some parts of the world, you are not allowed to take the data out of the country due to local data protection laws,” adds Brian Kim of PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP. He highlights that certain countries also have native applications that are more popular than those commonly used in the United States, requiring additional evaluation of your program inventory.

Whether your data is in Unicode or not, proper preservation is the key. While Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP and subsequent versions support Unicode, many archiving or compression tools do not support it. This could result in missing files that may or may not be reported in the error logs. Pour cette raison,, you must test carefully, notes Kim. Aussi, to ensure correct extraction, properly align the regional settings.

par le biais A Primer on Foreign Language E-Discovery | LES RECETTES HERALD.

Violations de données coûtent plus cher quand les entreprises se déplacent trop rapidement – Sécurité d'eWeek

Agir trop rapidement après une violation de données peut coûter des sociétés encore plus d'argent, les rapports Ponemon Institute.

Violations de données ne reçoivent pas toute moins cher de faire face à, et les entreprises qui sautent le pistolet sur les notifications peuvent finir par payer plus.

Dans son étude annuelle cinquième violations de données, le Ponemon Institute a découvert qu'environ 36 pour cent des participants ont notifié leurs victimes rupture dans un mois, mais a fini par payer $219 par dossier compromis par opposition à la $196 payés par d'autres. Selon l'étude, une raison à cela peut être déplacé que les entreprises trop rapidement à travers le processus de détection, notification et les activités connexes, et a fait des erreurs coûteuses sur le chemin.

“Paniquer et de prendre des décisions avant que tous les faits sont déterminés avec précision peut entraîner l'extension des services de crédit à des personnes qui peuvent ne pas avoir été affectées d'une façon qui mettrait leur crédit à risque, par exemple,” noté Mike Spinney, analyste principal à la vie privée Ponemon. “Les évaluations initiales peuvent avoir indiqué 100,000 gens, mais en réalité ne 50,000 étaient sur le disque manquant … ce genre de chose peut se traduire par l'argent gaspillé et des efforts dans la prise de préavis.”

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L'industrie pétrolière des États-Unis frappé par des cyberattaques: A été la Chine participe? / Le Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com

At least three US oil companies were the target of a series of previously undisclosed cyberattacks that may have originated in China and that experts say highlight a new level of sophistication in the growing global war of Internet espionage.

The oil and gas industry breaches, the mere existence of which has been a closely guarded secret of oil companies and federal authorities, were focused on one of the crown jewels of the industry: valuable “bid data” detailing the quantity, valeur, and location of oil discoveries worldwide, sources familiar with the attacks say and documents obtained by the Monitor show.

The companies – Marathon Oil, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips – didn’t realize the full extent of the attacks, which occurred in 2008, until the FBI alerted them that year and in early 2009. Federal officials told the companies proprietary information had been flowing out, including to computers overseas, a source familiar with the attacks says and documents show.

The data included e-mail passwords, messages, and other information tied to executives with access to proprietary exploration and discovery information, the source says.

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Apple peut à la sortie de l'iPhone Tous U.S. Transporteurs, Oppenheimer Says – BusinessWeek

Apple Inc. may release the iPhone to all U.S. wireless carriers in the next 18 mois, doubling or tripling the number of devices sold, said Tim Horan, a telecommunications analyst at Oppenheimer & Qu'est-ce.

T-Mobile USA Inc. will get the phone this summer, followed by Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. in the fall, and Clearwire Corp. dans 2011, Horan wrote in a note yesterday. AT&T Inc. has been the exclusive carrier since the iPhone debuted in June 2007.

“We believe AT&T’s iPhone exclusivity arrangement with Apple will be expiring by mid-2010,” Horan wrote. “For wireless carriers, customers are demanding the device and they need to remain competitive.”

Pomme, based in Cupertino, Californie, rose $3.80, ou 1.9 pour cent, à $201.55 au 12:36 h. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. The stock more than doubled last year.

Representatives of Basking Ridge, New Jersey-based Verizon Wireless, Dallas-based AT&T, Overland Park, Kansas-based Sprint and Bellevue, Washington-based T-Mobile declined to comment. A call to Clearwire in Kirkland, Washington, wasn’t immediately returned.

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How to Authenticate Web Pages and Screenshots as Evidence | Watch Blog Juridique

Last week in ALM’s Internet Law & Strategy newsletter, via Law.com, M. Anderson Berry and David Kiernan provided an excellent analysis of an issue that is of rapidly-growing importance: How can lawyers authenticate Web pages as evidence in court?

The authors pose an interesting and very realistic hypothetical under which a plaintiff sues your client, claiming that his injuries have made him unable to work, travel or bowl. On the eve of trial, “you discover pictures and other details on a social networking website about plaintiff’s recent trip to the International Bowling Museum & Hall of Fame, including a picture of plaintiff proudly holding a fluorescent orange bowling ball and a four-foot tall gilded trophy dated four days earlier.As you approach the witness with the smoking-gun printouts of the Web pages, you are met with an objection from opposing counsel: “Lack of foundation.

Now what? Berry and Kiernan explain that the common tactic of taking a screenshot of a key Web page is like taking a photograph of the image as it appears on the monitor. If proper steps are not taken to admit the evidence, cependant, the value of this information may be lost, as courts are highly suspicious of evidence taken from the Internet. One federal judge even labeled itvoodoo information,” and warned that the Internet isone large catalyst for rumor, innuendo, and misinformation.St. Clair v. Johnny’s Oyster & Shrimp, Inc, 76 F. Suppl. 2d 773, 774-75 (S.D. Tex. 1999).

The article states that the majority of courts now appear to require the proponent to authenticate a Web site under Rule 901(b)(1) of the Federal Rules of Evidence, which permits authentication by “[t]estimony that a matter is what it is claimed to be.This testimony typically must answer the following questions:

  • What was actually on the Web site?
  • Does the exhibit or testimony accurately reflect it?
  • Si c'est le cas, is it attributable to the owner of the site?

The scope of the testimony required varies among federal courts, the article notes. For much more on this subject, including information on how to use screenshots from the amazing Internet Archive, a.k.a. l' “Wayback Machine,” check out Berry and Kiernan’s article ici.

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