Posts Tagged: Mark Zuckerberg
Other Barks & Bites, Friday, September 20: CAFC Issues Precedential Decisions on Patent Term Adjustment, DOJ Announces Trade Secret Charges, USPTO Urges CAFC Deference to POP
This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit issued a pair of precedential opinions affirming the USPTO’s determinations on patent term adjustment; Chuck Yeager filed …
Content Creators Coalition Calls on Congress to Grill Google Over Privacy and Drug Sales Concerns
In early May, the online creator advocacy group Content Creators Coalition (c3) published a digital ad calling on Congress to hold hearings to look into various illegal …
A Look At Facebook Patents Covering ‘Big Brother’ Data Collection Technologies
Facebook users continue to be shocked at the amount and kind of data being collected by the social media platform, including recent reports about call and SMS …
Are Today’s Social Media Tech Giants the Big Brother that Orwell Warned Us About?
Dystopian novels and science fiction often return to the subject of the loss of personal privacy which is often encouraged by the use of technology enabling constant, …
When Will Wall Street Wake Up to Elon Musk’s Broken Promises?
Reports about Musk’s talks with Cortica comes one day after Goldman Sachs analyst David Tamberrino affirmed his sell rating for Tesla stock on his expectation that …
Zuckerberg Announces Facebook Users will Determine Trustworthiness of News
On January 19th, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company would increase its efforts against “fake news” by asking its users to rate the …
Theftovation: Facebook ‘Likes’ Copying Ideas
The Wall Street Journal explains ithat the Silicon Valley culture has long regarded copying as a good thing and necessary for rapid growth, first to market, first …
‘Move Fast and Break Things’ decries IP behavior of Internet giants
Move Fast and Break Things, subtitled How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, dissects the inordinate power of a handful of the popular, primarily …
Could Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg join the Trump Administration?
Text messages sent between Andreesen and Erskine Bowles speak to Zuckerberg’s desire to be able to maintain control of Facebook while possibly serving two years in …
Sony invents journalist reputation system, could help with fake news phenomenon
In the days since the U.S. presidential election the scourge of fake news has been tearing at the soul of Internet media. An interview with a …
Pittsburgh startup files patent suit over educational toys against UK firm with Zuckerberg ties
Primo’s response of the ‘427 patent is evidence of a dismissive attitude towards someone else’s intellectual property right. Again not shocking, but what is interesting is …
Social media giants will have issues banning hate speech
Recently, some major American tech companies operating across the globe have publicly announced their agreement to a code of conduct developed by the European Commission and designed …
Zuckerberg unveils 10-year plan for video, VR and global Internet connectivity at F8 conference
A keynote speech delivered on the first day of F8 by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg along with other company executives laid out a 10 year road map for …
Will a Patent Question Come Up At The Presidential Debates?
At this point in the presidential cycle it is too early to expect a great deal of substance on issues like patents? The point where patents may …
Facebook Founder Receives Patent on His First Application
One week ago Mark Zuckerberg, the famed founder of Facebook.com, received U.S. Patent No. 8,225,376 titled "Dynamically generating a privacy summary." Although this is not the …
