You might remember that in 2011, Congress passed the America Invents Act (AIA), which at the time, was heralded as it was heralded as "the first meaningful, comprehensive reforms to the nation’s patent system in nearly 60 years." You might also have noticed that we haven't talked much...

De un tiempo ahora se ha vuelto necesario actualizar la forma en que entendemos al derecho internacional de los derechos humanos para dar cuenta de las nuevas tecnologías y técnicas de la vigilancia. La urgencia de esta tarea se ve demostrada por las recientes revelaciones que confirman la vigilancia...

Minnesota is the latest state to join the fight against patent trolls. It announced yesterday that it reached a settlement with the "scanner troll," who claims to own the technology for scanning documents to email and has been demanding that companies large and small who use this widely...

In response to EFF's Freedom of Information Act request, the government released today the 2011 FISA Court opinion (redacted) that found part of the National Security Agency's "upstream collection" to be illegal and unconstitutional. Upstream collection is when the NSA gets a copy of Internet traffic as it...

Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald’s partner David Miranda was detained for almost nine hours by UK border authorities on Sunday under the pernicious Terrorism Act of 2000. He was on his way home from visiting Greenwald’s colleague and journalist Laura Poitras in Berlin. According to news accounts, Miranda was never...

A Federal Judge in Illinois recently ruled (PDF) that the infringement claims asserted by Helferich Patent Licensing, LLC—the notorious troll who owns patents on sending links to cell phones—did not hold up, all thanks to a doctrine known as "patent exhaustion."
This is important for two reasons: One,...