Facebook awarded patent with “News Feed” and “Social Network” in title. EVERYBODY PANIC!

The blogosphere is buzzing with reports about a patent issued to Facebook this week, entitled “Dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network.”  As usual, everybody promptly went off the deep end. Here’s an illustrative example: While we’re going to take some time to really dig into this patent, is basics [...]

Findings of PwC Study on Patent Damages Should Not Be Unduly Emphasized

The Against Monopoly blog cited to a PriceWaterhouseCoopers study about the success rate of nonpracticing entities at trial.  The blog uses the study’s finding that NPEs win higher patent damage awards at trial than practicing entities (which I’ll call “manufacturers”) to conclude that the patent system awards NPEs more for suing than it awards manufacturers [...]

Meta: Retargeting

Haven’t posted for a while, but I think I’m ready to start getting back into it.  What I have been doing is sharing items on my Google Reader feed, and trying to sync them and post them to my new Twitter feed.  It’s been working OK, but I still need to figure out a better [...]