All aboard! “Louisiana AG hires nine private law firms, 17 attorneys for federal antitrust pharmaceutical lawsuit” [Legal NewsLine]
National Association of Insurance Commissioners has, and exploits, legally privileged status as collector of insurance data. Time for open access [Ray Lehmann]
Europe’s antitrust charges against Google remind us of “the poverty of the standard antitrust doctrine” [Pierre Lemieux]
Court blasts Morrison Foerster for ‘nonsensical’ legal theories and ‘carnival fun house’ arguments [ABA Journal]
“Trolls aren’t the primary problem with the patent system. They’re just the problem Congress is willing to fix.” [Timothy Lee, Vox] What makes you think lawyers and rent-seekers aren’t going to turn “patent reform” to their own purposes? [Mark Mills]
“It only goes that one direction, too.” Rachel Maddow recognizes the fairness problem with one-way fee shifting, this one time [Huffington Post on pro-defendant Colorado firearms law]
CPSC still going after Zen Magnets, which isn’t backing down [Nancy Nord, earlier]

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Software patent reform–

Timothy Lee raises a good point (major software players deter each other from abusive lawsuits, but can extort unjustified windfalls from new innovators). The piece by Mark Mills, however, is populist boob-bait written by or at the behest of a patent troll.
- June 01, 2015 3:12 PM
- By Hugo S. Cunningham