Big Tech
Report: Content Providers Sending Nastygrams to Time Warner Cable To Stop iPad Streaming
Time Warner Cable is receiving cease-and-desist letters for allowing its customers to access television programming through their iPads.
Broadband Breakfast
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Intellectual Property
Apple Goes After Amazon.com For Its Use of “Appstore.”
Apple Inc. on Friday sued Amazon.com for trademark infringement when Amazon launched its online ‘app store’ to sell software applications for mobile devices.
Broadband Mapping and Data
Broadband.com Unveils Broadband Map With Business Pricing Information; Residential Information To Follow
WASHINGTON March 23, 2011- Broadband voice company, Bandwidth.com, unveiled Monday a nationwide map that displays availability and pricing data for business broadband connections, building on information from the National Telecommunications Information Administration’s national broadband map.
Intellectual Property
Obama Administration to the Supremes: Judges Should Defer to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Expertise
WASHINGTON, March 21, 2011 — The Obama Administration told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday that federal judges should trust the procedures undertaken at the United States Patent and Trademark Office to ensure that any patents that they approve are valid, and thus uphold a strict legal standard that
Breakfast Club
BroadbandBreakfast.com Again on Leading Edge of Debate About National Broadband Plan
WASHINGTON, March 11, 2011 – The internet and intellectual property policy news and events service BroadbandBreakfast.com will hold its March 2011 Broadband Breakfast Club event, “The National Broadband Plan: A One-Year Update” on Tuesday, March 15th, 2011. In hosting the event, BroadbandBreakfast.
Broadband Live
IP Breakfast Club Video on Patent Reform as Senate Debates and Passes Measure
WASHINGTON, March 10, 2011 – One day after the Senate voted to cut off debate and move toward a vote on changes to patent law, BroadbandBreakfast.com’s Intellectual Property Breakfast Club featured an informed and educated debate about the pros and cons of changing patent law.
FCC
Federal Communications Commission To Update Media Marketplace Rules
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2011 — The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday moved to tweak the rules governing the terms on which cable companies and satellite operators can re-transmit the signals of broadcasters in the wake of several high-profile disputes that often left consumers in the dark a
Copyright
Feds Arrest Operator of Web Site Accused of Pirating Live Streams of Copyrighted Sporting Events
Federal authorities on Thursday followed up their previous technical attempt to curtail online piracy with the confiscation of domain names by arresting a man accused of operating the web site at one of those domains.
Trademarks
Apple Defends “App Store” Trademark
Apple defended its attempt to trademark the term “App Store,” in a filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office Monday.
Copyright
Motion Picture Association Casts Chris Dodd As Chairman, CEO
WASHINGTON, March 1, 2011 — And the 2011 Award of Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America goes to … former Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd!
Broadband Live
Broadband Breakfast Club Discusses How To Bring More Handsets to More Wireless Carriers
WASHINGTON, February 22, 2011 – After Apple recently broke its exclusivity agreement with AT&T and brought the iPhone to Verizon, our panel discusses whether consumers suffer from a lack of choice in handsets between carriers what effects that may have on the wireless marketplace. Additionally, the
Ninth Circuit
Motion Picture Association Tries To “Unfriend” Google In Court Fight Over Digital Copyright Law
SAN FRANCISCO, February 21, 2011 — Movie industry lawyers told an appeals court late last week that it should ignore an attempt by Google to get involved in an appeal of a case that they won — even if Google is ostensibly on their side.
House Judiciary
House IP Chairman on COICA: “We Don’t Want To Be Egypt.”
WASHINGTON, February 20, 2011 — The lead lawmaker in the U.S. House of Representatives regarding intellectual property issues says that he and his colleagues need to be extremely wary of giving the federal government too much unfettered power when it comes to seizing the domain names of web sites th
Intellectual Property
USPTO Names Teresa Stanek Rea As Deputy Director
WASHINGTON, February 18, 2010 — U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Thursday appointed biotech and pharma lawyer Teresa Stanek Rea as deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Innovation
Obama Follows Up State Of The Union Speech with Silicon Valley Powwow
[https://broadbandbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DinneratDoerrs.jpg]https://broadbandbreakfast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/DinneratDoerrs.jpg SAN FRANCISCO, February 17, 2011 — President Obama checked in with the U.S.’ titans of tech on Thursday in a brief swing through Silicon Valley b
Intellectual Property
Music Industry: Apple’s New App Subscription Terms Won’t Work
SAN FRANCISCO, February 16, 2011 — Jon Irwin, music subscription service Rhapsody’s president, said Tuesday that Apple’s new plan to partake of almost a third of app companies’ subscription revenues is “economically untenable.”
