Second court recommends awarding legal fees to defendant hit with patent troll’s lawsuit
Update: On August 9, 2017, District Court Judge Rosenberg rejected Shipping & Transit's objections to the Magistrate Judge's report and recommendation awarding fees. The court ordered Shipping & Transit to pay $36,317.50 plus interest in...

This week is an important one in the ongoing negotiations over new copyright rules in Europe—which will have reverberations all over the world. As you may recall, the negotiations centre around two worrisome proposals being pushed by publisher and music industry lobby groups for inclusion in a new Digital...

Note: We’ve been in touch with a group of economists at the University of Glasgow who are investigating the market value on interoperability. Just in time for “Day Against DRM,” here are some of their initial conclusions.
My co-authors and I at the University of Glasgow are investigating how...

Shipping & Transit LLC, formerly known as Arrivalstar, is one of the most prolific patent trolls ever. It has filed more than 500 lawsuits alleging patent infringement. Despite having filed so many cases, it has never had a court rule on the validity of its patents. In recent years,...

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, Christopher Wray, will begin his confirmation process next week, giving lawmakers an opportunity to press him on his previous statements about expansive surveillance authorities and aggressive copyright prosecution.
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During his tenure as Assistant...

Turkish police officers in plainclothes yesterday raided a digital security training meeting on the island of Buyukuda in Istanbul, seizing equipment and detaining ten attendees­, including Idil Eser, the director of Amnesty International Turkey. The human rights defenders are still being held in separate detention centers, and were...

UPDATE (August 10, 2017): The court hearing the case ordered [.pdf] the unsealing of EFF's letter brief, which you can read here [.pdf]. Because the case is entirely under seal, EFF had to file its brief under seal and could not immediately publish the letter.
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