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Intellectual Property

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Megaupload Users Demand Data Recovery

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a local organization protecting civil liberties in the digital world, will ask a federal judge to allow lawful Megaupload users to have their files back. A hearing is scheduled for Friday at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia where EFF staff attorney ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Hacker Group Anonymous Takes Up Arms in SOPA Battle

    ​The "hacktivist" network known as Anonymous has stepped into the fray in the battle among legacy media companies, Internet firms, and politicians over the federal Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).The controversial proposed legislation would make it more difficult for websites to display pirated cont ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Media Companies Outspend Tech Giants in Fight Over SOPA

    Can content pirates be stopped?​The tech industry has been paying quite a bit of attention to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill wending its way through the U.S. Congress that would allow media companies to pursue legal remedies against online search engines and social networks that link to ... More >>

  • Music

    November 30, 2011

    Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

    Can content pirates be stopped?​The tech industry has been paying quite a bit of attention to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill wending its way through the U.S. Congress that would allow media companies to pursue legal remedies against online search engines and social networks that link to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Google, Facebook, Others Fight Legislation to Stop Online Content Piracy

    ​A veritable who's who of major tech firms in San Francisco and the Silicon Valley are fighting federal legislation aimed at putting a stop to theft of original content online.The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would allow content creators to seek court orders barring internet service providers, se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Apple Can't Stop Amazon from Using "App Store"

    Weren't apples famous before Apple?​In another case of the Silicon Valley giants butting heads, a federal judge denied Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction against Amazon and its use of the term "App Store."Lawyers for Apple argued that the "Amazon Appstore for Android" name infringes on it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2009

    San Francisco Pride: Who Applied For the Niftiest Sex Toy Patent? Someone From Our City Did. That's Right.

    San Franciscans have always been an innovative group. Both the slot machine and the Murphy Bed were created by denizens of our city. And a quick perusal of the the Google patent application shows that little has changed. Doing a word search for "San Francisco" turned up a number of inventions that r ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 6, 2009

    Paley's Palace

    San Franciscans have always been an innovative group. Both the slot machine and the Murphy Bed were created by denizens of our city. And a quick perusal of the the Google patent application shows that little has changed. Doing a word search for "San Francisco" turned up a number of inventions that r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2007

    Some Rights Reserved! Creative Commons Turns Five

    San Franciscans have always been an innovative group. Both the slot machine and the Murphy Bed were created by denizens of our city. And a quick perusal of the the Google patent application shows that little has changed. Doing a word search for "San Francisco" turned up a number of inventions that r ... More >>

  • News

    November 21, 2007

    Ticketmaster Chases Roboscalpers to SF

    San Franciscans have always been an innovative group. Both the slot machine and the Murphy Bed were created by denizens of our city. And a quick perusal of the the Google patent application shows that little has changed. Doing a word search for "San Francisco" turned up a number of inventions that r ... More >>

  • News

    November 5, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of November 5, 2003

  • News

    May 16, 2001

    Study Thrall

    Brilliance is hip and even -- ahem -- sexy at Intel's Science and Engineering Fair

  • News

    January 12, 2000

    Silicon Valley Shakedown

    A con man feeds on fear and paranoia in the software business

  • Music

    April 14, 1999

    God and Country, Remixed

    The Christal Methodists and Ralph Johnson turn the rhetoric of politics and religious radio against itself

  • News

    March 11, 1998

    Viral Combat

    Chiron Corp. and the nasty fight over the billion-dollar rights to the hepatitis C test

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