• Trademark infringement claims as way to silence critics: Jenzabar gets comeuppance in form of court award of more than $500,000 in attorney costs [Paul Alan Levy, earlier and more]
• Court holds Google Books project to be fair use [Matthew Sag]
• Questioning the ITC’s patent jurisdiction: “Why should we have a trade agency litigating patent disputes?” [K. William Watson, Cato, more, yet more, related]
• Courts come down hard on copyright troll Prenda Law [Popehat]
• Annals of patent trollery: New York Times et al rout Helferich [EFF, Liquid Litigation BLLawg] Monolithic Power Systems v. 02 Micros [IP for the Little Guy] Resistance by Newegg, RackSpace, Hyundai, etc. [WLF]
• Re: copyright terms, US government shouldn’t endorse view that longer always means better [Simon Lester, Cato]
• Legal tiff over use of hotel carpet patterns in costumes [Io9]

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