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Eurovision 2013 Song Contest Semifinals and Final Upcoming in May 2013: Subjective Impressions in April: Who Could Win?
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The Final of the Eurovision 2013 Song Contest is upcoming May 18, 2013 in Malmö, Sweden. Semi-Final 1 is on May 14 and the Semi-Final 2 is on May 16. Who will win the actual song voting? The juries and TV voters will decide. Right now, it appear...
Germany and Spain to Determine UEFA Champions League Finalists: Munich beats Barcelona 4:0 in 1st Leg of Semifinal as Madrid meets Dortumund in 1st Leg Match Upcoming Today
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Bayern Munich scored a sensationally decisive 4:0 win over FC Barcelona in the 1st leg of the Champions League semifinal, leaving Barcelona little chance via the 2nd leg of making it into the May 25 final at Wembley Stadium in London, though the 2...
Patents on Human Genes: U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument in Myriad Genetics Case Indicates Natural Genes Will be Found Unpatentable as a Matter of Composition but Genes Worked by Human Ingenuity May Be Patentable as to Use
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Oral argument on U.S. Supreme Court case 12-398, Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. (see the transcript) took place today, Monday, April 15, 2013. Essentially, it appears to us that the ultimate decision of the Supreme Court...
Networking Successfully: Spreading Awareness and Increasing Followers in Social Media
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Jeff Hamada has picked up a following that accounts for 3 million page views per month -- in the arts! Sam Milbrath has the story in #MyDash with Booooooom ~ Spreading Brand Awareness in Social Media - HootSuite Social Media Management. So what is hi...
Do You Punch a Time Clock? Timekeeping and the World of Watches (or) What's in a Chronometer?
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Do you punch a time clock in your work? Time is omnipresent in the modern world. Day-to-day time and longer term dates, dating and chronology are the clocks for all that we humans do, and time represents the monetary basis for billing in most areas o...
Weak Patents, the USPTO, European Patent Office, Japanese Patent Office and the Actavis Case at the U.S. Supreme Court
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Make sure you read the posting Actavis Case Shows Weak Patents Are System-Wide at Patent Progress, which writes inter alia as follows: "The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) grants 78% of all original patent applications as opposed to 61% granted...
EU History & Ancient Britain: Creswell Crags Ochre Horse Rib Bone Carving Decipherment Update 2.0
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This posting is Update 2.0 to my previously posted original decipherment on this topic as also to Update 1 of the Creswell Crags "Ochre Horse" rib bone carving decipherment. This update provides an image of the details of the rib bone, all except for...
Creswell Crags Robin Hood Cave Ochre Horse Rib Bone Carving Decipherment Update 1.0
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This posting is Update 1.0 to my previously posted decipherment of the Creswell Crags "Ochre Horse" rib bone carving, showing that the calendric astronomy of stars is continued on the rib bone if it is turned 180 degrees, thus covering all the heaven...
Creswell Crags Robin Hood Cave Ochre Rib Bone Carving Currently on Display at the British Museum Ice Age Exhibition Deciphered as Calendric Astronomy
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Happy Easter! In honor of the day of resurrection celebrated today by the Christian faith, a general theme of hope and renewal that is the backbone of religious life for many religions and denominations, I would like to share with you my recent resea...
Copyrighted Works Lawfully Made Abroad and Imported to the USA Found Subject to the First Sale Doctrine by the U.S. Supreme Court in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 568 U.S. ____ (2013), a U.S. Supreme Court case decided March 19, 2013, involves a fundamental international copyright law issue holding that in the United States, the "first sale" doctrine applies to copies...
EU Plan to Limit Bankers’ Bonuses Agreed Upon by Negotiators for the European Parliament and Council: British Adopt Inconsistent Position
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As reported at the New York Times by James Kanter and David Jolly, European Union negotiators for the European Parliament and Council have agreed on a plan to Limit Bankers’ Bonuses. The strict limits will be part of a banking regulation packag...
Patent Law and Genetically Modified Seeds and Plants: Oral Argument in Bowman v. Monsanto in the U.S. Supreme Court Suggests Reliance on a Legal Patent Doctrine of Unauthorized "Copying" as the Ratio Decidendi
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Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court held oral argument on Bowman v. Monsanto Co. Adam Liptak reported at the NYTimes.com in Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Bowman v. Monsanto. It is clear from the questioning during oral argument that Monsanto will p...
New German President Speaks: The European Union Needs the United Kingdom: "In Germany, more Europe doesn't mean a German Europe." English Has Become the Lingua Franca of the EU's Young People
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New German President Joachim Gauck in his first speech on the European Union addressed the other countries of Europe (and the world) in a positive, upbeat tone. Valentina Pop has the story for EUobserver.com at Germany does not want 'diktat' on Europ...
Where are Apple Profits Going? Into the Pockets of Corporate Executives?
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Where are the massive Apple profits NOW going? To "The Four Musketeers"? Consider that Steve Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011. ""The CD&A ... discloses that, in November 2011, four Apple executives were granted 150,000 RSUs each, totaling ap...
Rembrandt vs. Zuck in the Patent Wars: Saoi?
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Who initially "invented" social networking? What about things such as the Facebook "like" button, "shared news" or a "shared timeline"? Ever heard of "Jos" van der Meer and Surfbook.com? No one has. But that makes no difference in the world of patent...
US Federal Trade Commission a Paper Tiger? Jon Leibowitz Resigns as F.T.C. Chairman Effective February 15, 2013 and No Replacement in Place
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We have been quite disappointed in recent years at the limited effectiveness of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in protecting online privacy rights and we read at the FTC and in various news reports, also at the New York Times, that Jon Leibo...
Data Protection and Privacy Laws in the United States and Europe are Worlds Apart
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Natasha Singer has the story at The New York Times in Consumer Data Protection Laws, an Ocean Apart. Given the ever more confusing opt-ins and opt-outs at Facebook, such that even the Zuckerberg Family is confused about its privacy rights, as we rece...
Mandatory Facebook Deletion of All EU Facial Recognition Data Confirmed by Irish and German Data Protection Regulators
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The battle against Facebook privacy rights violations continues in Europe, as reported at PCWorld by Loek Essers in Regulators confirm Facebook deleted all EU facial recognition data. See also for background a preceding article from last year.
Privacy Settings at Facebook Privacy So Unclear That Even a Zuckerberg Family Private Photo is Shared and Reshared on the Web
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Rebecca Greenfield has the story at The Atlantic Wire in Facebook Privacy Is So Confusing Even the Zuckerberg Family Photo Isn't Private The article concludes: "So the lessons here is twofold: Facebook privacy settings are too confusing, and if you r...
Patents on Human Genes? U.S. Supreme Court Answer Likely to Be "No", but the Ultimate Issue Down the Road is the Patentability of cDNA (Complementary DNA) viz. Is a Split Hair viz. Split Gene an Invention?
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Is an orange, a lemon, a fig or a tomato split in half and "peeled", "a patentable invention"? How about a tree split by a logger into firewood? Patent-eligible? How about the patentability of a split hair? Or is the excerpt of a paragraph of text t...
