Bureau of National Affairs, March 12, by Joyce E. Cutler
http://pubs.bna.com/ip/bna/ptd.nsf/pda/A0B6E3V7J7
Stuart Graham, a BCLT fellow, is in the middle of a study on what role patents play in entrepreneurship with plans to survey 8,000 to 10,00 companies in key sectors that have existed less than 10 years. “There is much that we still don’t know about how patents work or don’t work for entrepreneurs. Our effort is aimed at helping us fill in some of those gaps or potholes,” Graham said.
NPR, All Things Considered, March 12, by Michele Norris
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88154039
Echaveste: She diminished herself. Basically she says that I was selected as a vice presidential nominee because I was a woman. It had nothing to do with qualification. And I found that just appalling. And so she crossed a line because in some way she left the impression that somehow Senator Obama has reached this particular point solely because he’s black and that’s just unacceptable.
Edley: It’s also incorrect…. Barack did not call her a racist. I don’t think anyone in the campaign that I know of has called her a racist. I think that it’s undoubtedly the case that his race, like Hillary’s gender, has been a political plus and a political minus. I think that if this year has taught us anything it’s that we need to revisit a lot of the conventional wisdom about the way that race can play into politics.
Time Magazine, March 12, by Kristin Kloberdanz
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1721703,00.html
“Local school districts have their own autonomy and could sue people,” Sugarman said. “Somebody could start bureaucratically making it more difficult for home-schoolers.” However, Sugarman said the fact that both Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state superintendent have spoken out against this ruling means that, chances are, even if the case is held up in the California Supreme Court, uncredentialed parents will still be allowed to educate their children.
The News Journal, March 2, by Maureen Milford
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080302/NEWS/803020319/-1/imagine
“It’s not what Delaware does, it’s what it doesn’t do. The federal government comes in when there’s a vacuum,” Eisenberg said.
San Francisco Daily Journal, Feb. 1, by Jeanette Borzo
http://www.dailyjournal.com
“Most lawyers in the past haven’t been aware of us,” says Jason Schultz, a former staff attorney who left EFF [Electronic Frontier Foundation] in November to take a post at UC Berkeley. “EFF, by definition, is a group that deals with cutting-edge technology issues, and most attorneys haven’t cared about those issues.”
American Bar Association Journal, Feb. 2008, by James Podgers
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/stuck_in_port/
The convention provides a framework for discussing access to resources in the Arctic, says David Caron…. But, he notes, “it becomes more complicated if we don’t participate. Our voice is diminished by not being part of the treaty, even though we’ll still be heard if we yell louder.”
San Francisco Daily Journal, Feb. 1, by Jeanette Borzo
http://www.dailyjournal.com
Hepting [Hepting v. AT&T] “is the big enchilada,” observes EFF board member Pam Samuelson, a professor at both UC Berkeley’s law school and the School of Information Management.
TheStreet.com, Feb. 1, by Alexei Oreskovic
http://www.thestreet.com/s/microsoft-yahoo-await-antitrust-scrutiny/newsanalysis/technet/10401720.html?puc=_tscs
Howard Shelanski says that regardless of whether the Microsoft-Yahoo deal is ultimately approved, the deal’s size and complexity means it will likely prompt regulators to extend the initial 30-day review period for an additional six months…. “These firms are both major players, and there’s certainly some horizontal overlap,” says Shelanski. “There are many other markets involved here” … and each market needs to be evaluated on its own merits.
Advocate.com, Feb. 1, by Kerry Eleveld
http://advocate.com/print_article_ektid52017.asp
“We believe that Obama can pick up more delegates if the 12%-15% of Edwards supporters nationwide—and even more in some states—will turn out for Obama,” he said. “We believe we can make a difference.”
New York Times, Feb. 2, by Mark Leibovich
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/us/politics/02race.html?_r=1&sq=edley&st=nyt&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&scp=2&adxnnlx=1203107452-2LvWFLDcr/nUk+6l9dUctQ
“The policy record of the Clinton administration on civil rights is more mixed than people generally acknowledge,” said Christopher Edley Jr., the law school dean … who served in the Clinton administration. He cited Mr. Clinton’s unwillingness to intervene in Rwanda, where hundreds of thousands died in tribal war, and his signing of what Mr. Edley called “a horribly punitive crime bill.”