Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
It appears that Judge Spenser flinched from issuing a BlackBerry injunction. He continued to rattle his saber, but he stopped short of ordering the network shut down. And for good reason–you don’t piss off the majority of the nation’s lawyers and business execs without consequences.
Meanwhile, the patent office issued another rejection of an NTP patent. Things look pretty bleak for the nation’s leading patent troll.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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