SWITCHED-ON SEARCH

I should, and will, be posting on Google’s mounting antitrust problems and on the status of its attempt to corner the book search market, but today I am utterly transfixed by the functional Moog Synthesizer that Google has placed on its home page, in honor of what would have been Robert Moog’s 78th birthday.  (What’s so special about…

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COURT: iPHONE DESIGN NOT REALLY BIG DEAL

No one sweated the small  details of consumer electronics design more than Steve Jobs.  Today’s ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in a patent dispute between Apple and Samsung, must have him throwing quite a fit, wherever he is. Apple accused Samsung’s smart phones of infringing patents (pictured) covering the…

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THE FACEBOOK IPO: RISK FACTORS AND OTHER LEGAL BLAH, BLAH, BLAH

The long-awaited initial public offering of Facebook is fast upon us, and the press is awash with fawning stories about its hoodie-wearing CEO and how he is re-writing the rules of corporate management.  (Suggestion:  Place these stories in a time capsule to be opened in, say, 2017, with hiliarity to ensue.)  With respect to the IPO at…

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BOOK REPORT: “HAVANA REQUIEM”

THIS POST CONTAINS NO SPOILERS!                                                                                                                                       A flawed, fallen hero seeking redemption, a sultry Cuban femme fatale, a corrupt cop, alternately suave and brutish, a mysterious disappearance, double-crosses, diplomatic intrigue, and the ultimate vindication of authors’ termination rights under Section 304(c)(4) of the Copyright Act—these are the things from which copyright lawyers’ dreams, and Paul Goldstein’s…

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