EFF Opposes Government's Latest Attempt to Delay NSA Spying Cases
"It's time to end the delay, not extend it."
EFF yesterday filed an opposition to the government's request last week for an indefinite "abeyance" in Jewel v. NSA, our lawsuit filed in 2008 to try to stop the NSA spying that is currently pending in federal...
Landmark Patent Office Ruling Strikes Abstract Software Patent; EFF Joins Amicus Brief in Related Court Battle
The long-running patent battle between Versata and SAP saw a lot of action this week. Back in 2007, Versata filed a lawsuit claiming SAP infringed a patent on a method “for pricing products in multi-level product and organizational groups.” This dispute – which raises important issues about patents and...
Using Domestic Networks to Spy on the World
Spies Without Borders IThis is the first article of our Spies Without Borders series. The Spies Without Borders series are looking into how the information disclosed in the NSA leaks affect the international community...
What We Need to Know About PRISM
Congratulations to the Winners of the EFF Cyberlaw Pub Quiz
On Tuesday night, over 100 attorneys and friends participated in the Sixth Annual EFF Cyberlaw Pub Trivia Night, testing their knowledge of the trivial details that arise where the law meets technology. Teams included representatives from a host of major technology law firms and and Internet companies, representing the best...
Supreme Court: Patents Require 'An Act of Invention'
UPDATE: Just hours after the Supreme Court ruled today, at least one company announced it would be offering genetic testing on the BRCA genes for $995—barely one quarter of the approximately $4000 Myriad charges for the same tests.
For the second time in just over a year,...
Congress Gets Private Briefings About NSA Spying, But the Public Needs Answers Too
The world was provided confirmation last week of widespread, unconstitutional domestic surveillance of innocent Americans' call records and online activity. But, starting this week, congressional staffers will be briefed in private, newspapers will be forced to report second-hand on what occurred in those briefings, and the...
Chamber of Commerce Cries Uncle, Abandons Spurious Trademark Lawsuit Against the Yes Men
The United States Chamber of Commerce has come to its senses at last and withdrawn its lawsuit against political activists the Yes Men. In the lawsuit, the Chamber had claimed that a 2009 press conference—in which a Yes Man posing as a Chamber of Commerce spokesperson announced the...
What We Need to Know About PRISM
FISA Court Rejects Catch-22 Secrecy Argument in FOIA Case
In the first publicly known victory by a non-government party before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the secret court today granted a motion filed by EFF related to an ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
The FISC gave its OK to the public disclosure of an earlier...
