𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Sunday, January 09, 2022
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Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/01/09/
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╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕
⦿ EPO Breaking the Law in Collusion With - and to the Benefit of - Microsoft | Techrights
⦿ New EPO Page Provides Cover-Up for Clear and Severe Privacy Violations With Microsoft | Techrights
⦿ Privacy Crimes at Europe’s Second-Largest Institution, in Partnership With Microsoft | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 08, 2022 | Techrights
⦿ Why Kristall (the Gemini Client) Has Become My Default Browser (It Does Web Sites, Too) | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/breaking-the-law-with-microsoft/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/epo-coverup-with-microsoft/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/epo-privacy-crimes/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/irc-log-080122/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/kristall-gemini/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/5-16-linux-kernel/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/antix-17-5/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/ppp-traitors/#comments
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/breaking-the-law-with-microsoft/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/01/09/breaking-the-law-with-microsoft/
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Gemini_version_available_♊︎
✐ EPO_Breaking_the_Law_in_Collusion_With_—and_to_the_Benefit_of—_Microsoft⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Microsoft, Patents at 7:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum d68e00b9798f56ae4ec994fe2296408f
Microsoft’s and EPO’s Cover-up
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/microsoft-epo-coverup.webm
Summary: The EPO’s disregard for the rule of law is helping another entity that
has disregarded_the_law and routinely broke the law for over 4 decades
(Microsoft)
AS we’ve just_noted, the EPO’s privacy_abuses and subsequent_cover-up aren’t
ending. As far as we can tell, quietly just before Christmas the EPO took it up
another notch, knowing that there are ongoing complaints and legal challenges —
ones that EPO management does not want stakeholders to even know about. To
Microsoft the stakes are high too; it has been violating the GDPR for quite
some time now, so an above-the-law EPO is somewhat of a loophole — a legal
trick by which Microsoft can pretend that it’s totally acceptable for EU
agencies to outsource their operations to notorious Pentagon_contractors. █
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/epo-coverup-with-microsoft/#comments
Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/01/09/epo-coverup-with-microsoft/
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✐ New_EPO_Page_Provides_Cover-Up_for_Clear_and_Severe_Privacy_Violations_With
Microsoft⠀✐
Posted in Europe, Microsoft, Patents at 6:21 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Added/edited December 21st 2021
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇EPO_coverup_with_Microsoft⦈_
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇EPO_coverup⦈_
Summary: The EPO is breaking_the_law (but it is immune), so it_has_been_busy
constructing_fake_narratives_and_crafting_a_bunch_of_well-funded_lies_to
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✐ Privacy_Crimes_at_Europe’s_Second-Largest_Institution,_in_Partnership_With
Microsoft⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Europe, Patents at 1:48 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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EPO Data Protection Rules a Fake GDPR
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/epo-dpr-microsoft.webm
Summary: The EPO is crushing patent law as well as labour rights and very_basic
rights such as privacy rights; the situation is worse than absurd and Microsoft
is the main beneficiary
THE European authorities are ignoring EPO corruption and EPO crimes at their
own peril. This discredits or delegitimises the EU, even if the EPO isn’t an EU
institution (unlike the UPC which they’ve envisioned in vain for well over a
decade).
It should be noted, at least in passing, that the scandals of Team UPC are
contributing a great deal to this delegitimisation. They break laws, they bribe
the media, they spread lies (fabricated fake news), and they pretend that
constitutions simply do not exist or can be conveniently disregarded for some
alleged “greater good”. But this post isn’t about UPC scandals. These merit
some other post one day…
“This discredits or delegitimises the EU, even if the EPO isn’t an EU
institution (unlike the UPC which they’re envisioned in vain for well over a
decade).”Following two posts this morning [1, 2] I’ve decided to do another
video regarding buzzwords_like_DPA, namely Data Protection Board (DPB), Data
Protection Rules (DPR), and Data Protection Officer (DPO). The announcement
below says “EPO Data Protection Rules (DPR)”: (warning: epo.org link)
Following the adoption of an updated data protection framework by the
Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation on 30 June
2021, the new EPO Data Protection Rules (DPR) enter into force today.
The new DPR lay the foundations for modern, integrated data
protection legislation at the EPO. Bringing the EPO into line with
the principles and key requirements of international best practices
in the area of data protection, they are an essential step in
strengthening individuals’ fundamental rights in the digital age and
guarantee all EPO staff, users and the general public that the same
standard of protection of personal data will apply to all data
processing activities carried out by the EPO.
Those “data processing activities” have been outsourced to Microsoft, a
longtime criminal firm which presents itself as a legitimate business and has
an obvious_conflict_of_interest.
Myself, a strong EU proponent, can’t help but feel like we’ve all been betrayed
by corrupt officials — including_German_officials — who look the other way
because they’re bought and paid for. Crime does not bother these people; they
either ignore it or contribute to it (or even participate in it for personal
gain). █
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✐ Why_Kristall_(the_Gemini_Client)Has_Become_My_Default_Browser(It_Does_Web
Sites,_Too)⠀✐
Posted in BSD, Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux at 11:39 am by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
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Kristall on Debian GNU/Linux With KDE
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/kristall-on-kde.webm
Summary: Kristall is a very impressive piece of software, developed very
actively (last commit 1.5 months ago) by Felix “xq” Queißner
LAST night I installed_the_Qt-based_Kristall, which had become trivial to
install on GNU/Linux and other platforms. No need to compile anything, just to
download a single file and then run it.
“Some distros even added it to their software repositories.”In the video above
I show some of the features that in my humble opinion make Kristall better than
Lagrange, at least for KDE users. Kristall integrates better into the desktop,
it can handle Web pages in a rudimentary (and relatively privacy-safe) fashion,
it can handle multimedia such as images, and it uses the term “free software”.
It uses a copyleft (GPL 3.0) licence and we hope it’ll decide to delete GitHub,
then use Free software for Git hosting. Felix “xq” Queißner did some impressive
job with this software, which we warmly recommend. It’s available for Windows,
GNU/Linux, MacOS X and various BSDs. Some distros even added it to their
software repositories. ArchLinux (via AUR) and Void Linux are among those in
the GNU/Linux camp; OpenBSD has that as well. █
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§ Contents⠀➾
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* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ What_Are_Linux_Metacharacters?_Everything_You_Need_to_Know⠀⇛
The most powerful feature of the Linux Bash shell is its
capability to work around files and redirect their input
and output efficiently. Linux uses special characters or
symbols known as metacharacters that add special meaning
to a shell command with respect to file search and
commands connection.
The metacharacters are helpful in listing, removing, and
copying files on Linux. However, the function of each
metacharacter differs depending on the command you are
using it with.
This article provides an in-depth guide on different
types of metacharacters in Linux. Lastly, we explain how
these special characters help in connecting and expanding
commands.
o ⚓ Linux_Weekly_Roundup_#164⠀⇛
Welcome to this week’s Linux Roundup, the second of 2022!
May it be a great hear for you.
We had a full week in the world of Linux releases with
KaOS 2022.01, Bodhi Linux 6.1.0 Beta, Manjaro 21.2.1, and
Linux Mint 20.3.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux_Mint_Still_The_Best_Distro_To_Convert_Windows_Users_–
Invidious⠀⇛
Linux Mint is one of the most popular desktop Linux
distributions, and they just had a big new release
(version 20.3 codenamed “Una”). Today, I’m going to
take a quick first look at Mint 20.3 Cinnamon and
see what’s new and what’s the same.
# ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.3_Cinnamon_Run_Through_–_Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, we are looking at Linux Mint 20.3,
the Cinnamon edition.
# ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.3_Cinnamon⠀⇛
Today we are looking at Linux Mint 20.3, Cinnamon
edition. It is based on Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Kernel
5.4 (but you can easily upgrade it to 5.13),
Cinnamon 5.2, and uses about 1GB of ram when
idling. Enjoy!
# ⚓ Every_Chat_Application_Should_Be_Bridged_–_Invidious⠀⇛
Every so often someone asks me to look at a new
chat application, the problem is none of them have
any users so here’s the solution I don’t care if it
exists until there is a bridge available.
# ⚓ LHS_Episode_#446:_The_Weekender_LXXXIV⠀⇛
It’s time once again for The Weekender. This is our
bi-weekly departure into the world of amateur radio
contests, open source conventions, special events,
listener challenges, hedonism and just plain fun.
Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a
chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us
some feedback. Tell us how we’re doing. We’d love
to hear from you.
# ⚓ Full_Circle_Weekly_News_#243⠀⇛
# ⚓ Features_VS_Stability:_KDE!_–_Kockatoo_Tube⠀⇛
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux_5.16⠀⇛
Not a lot here since -rc8, which is not unexpected.
We had that extra
week due to the holidays, and it's not like we had
lots of last-minute
things that needed to be sorted out.
So this mainly contains some driver fixes (mainly
networking and
rdma), a cgroup credential use fix, a few core
networking fixes, a
couple of last-minute reverts, and some other
random noise. The
appended shortlog is so small that you might as
well scroll through
it.
This obviously means that the merge window for 5.17
opens tomorrow,
and I'm happy to say I already have several pending
early pull
requests. I wish I had even more, because this
merge window is going
to be somewhat painful due to unfortunate travel
for family reasons.
So I'll be doing most of it on the road on a laptop
- something I
generally try to avoid.
That said, the merging part of the merge window
works perfectly well
on a laptop, it's just that I normally really want
to do more local
build testing between merges than a laptop really
allows me to do. So
the main downside during travel is that I end up
relying much more on
the automated build testing in the cloud. And so
really hope that
everything has been properly cooking in linux-next
so that there are
no unnecessary issues that pop up when things hit
my tree.
Of course, realistically our automated build
testing is so good
anyway, and people have been pretty good about
linux-next, that maybe
my local builds aren't _that_ important. I do end
up occasionally
hitting issues that should never have made it as
far as my tree, but
it's not like it's a common - or generally serious
- issue.
Knock wood.
Anyway, I don't expect any real issue, but I'll
probably be jetlagged
and in odd timezones, so my response time might be
"variable".
But hey, before that merge window even opens, you
still have some time
to give a shiny new kernel release some TLC and
testing.
Linus
# ⚓ Linux_Kernel_5.16_Officially_Released,_This_Is_What’s_New⠀⇛
After two months of development, Linux kernel 5.16
is here to introduce the futex_waitv() kernel
system call from Collabora, which promises to make
your gaming experience faster when playing both
native Linux games and Windows games via Wine.
Linux kernel 5.16 also adds support for Intel’s
Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) 64-bit programming
paradigm for servers, cluster scheduler support to
the task scheduler, a new fanotify event type for
file system health reporting, a new page folios
mechanism for faster memory management, and
improved write congestion.
# ⚓ Linux_5.16_Released_With_Many_Intel_&_AMD_Additions,_Memory
Folios,_AMX,_FUTEX2⠀⇛
As expected the Linux 5.16 kernel has been promoted
to stable.
Linux 5.16 has many new features including the
FUTEX2 futex_waitv system call for helping Steam
Play (and Wine), memory folios have been mainlined,
AMD Ryzen 6000 mobile series support is getting
into better shape, Intel Alder Lake S graphics are
now considered stable, Intel AMX support for
Sapphire Rapids has landed, big AMD Ryzen with
Radeon graphics performance improvements, and a
wealth of other hardware improvements.
# ⚓ The_5.16_kernel_has_been_released⠀⇛
Linus Torvalds has released the 5.16 kernel, as
expected. Significant changes in 5.16 include the
futex_waitv() system call, cluster-aware CPU
scheduling, some internal memcpy() hardening,
memory folios, the DAMON operating schemes user-
space memory-management mechanism, and much more.
See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2)
and the KernelNewbies 5.16 page for details.
# § Graphics Stack⠀➾
# ⚓ Sway_1.7_Nears_Release_With_Less_Abrasive_NVIDIA
Option,_Zero-Copy_Direct_Scanout_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
Sway 1.7 is up to its second release
candidate for this popular i3-inspired
Wayland lightweight compositor.
Sway 1.7 kicked off its release candidate
phase in late December. Notable with Sway 1.7
is adding support for zero-copy direct
scanout for better performance when rendering
full-screen windows.
Sway 1.7 also has better support for virtual
reality (VR) headsets via DRM leasing support
on Wayland, xdg-activation-v1 support as some
additional Wayland protocol work, and various
other compositor enhancements.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ qBitTorrent_4.4.0_Adds_Torrent_v2,_Libtorrent_2.0_&_Qt6
Support⠀⇛
After more than half a year of development, the
qBitTorrent app released version 4.4.0 with many
new features and various bug-fixes.
qBitTorrent 4.4.0 added Qt6 support. It offers
better HiDPI compatibility for Windows 10+ and
Linux using AppImage package. Though, it has known
issue about text display on the progress bar. The
Qt5 build is still the primary packages, though the
next major release will probably drop Qt5 support.
The new release also supports BitTorrent v2
protocol and libtorrent 2.0.x, that use SHA-256 to
provide a safer cryptographic hash function.
# ⚓ KeePass_Password_Safe_2.50⠀⇛
KeePass is a free open source password manager,
which helps you to manage your passwords in a
secure way. You can put all your passwords in one
database, which is locked with one master key or a
key file. So you only have to remember one single
master password or select the key file to unlock
the whole database. The databases are encrypted
using the best and most secure encryption
algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).
KeePass is really free, and more than that: it is
open source (OSI certified). You can have a look at
its full source and check whether the encryption
algorithms are implemented correctly.
# ⚓ The_6_Best_Spotify_Alternatives_for_Linux_You_Should_Try⠀⇛
Spotify is not the only music streaming app for
Linux users. Here are some free-to-use Spotify
alternatives you can install on your system.
Using an open-source operating system such as Linux
calls for using open-source entertainment apps.
Even though Spotify has plenty of native versions
available for desktop and mobile platforms, many
users prefer using alternatives packed with
exciting features.
If that sounds like you, you’re in for a surprise,
as Linux has a ton of fine-tuned Spotify
alternatives, which allow you to listen to music
right from your desktop.
# ⚓ HandBrake_1.5.0⠀⇛
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed,
multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder,
available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Handbrake
can process most common multimedia files and any
DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind
of copy protection.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ How_to_install_Octave_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|_20.04_LTS_–_Linux
Shout⠀⇛
Matlab alternative Octave is an open-source
special-purpose high-level level programming
language. let’s see the commands to install Octave
on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy or 20.04 Focal LTS Linux.
Under GPL license Octave is available to use by
anyone free of cost; it uses its own script
language, which is very similar to Matlab and
therefore makes switching particularly easy. This
is a program package for the numerical solution of
mathematical and scientific tasks as well as for
general data analysis and visualization. Using it
developers can also create a math program
completely compatible with Matlab with free
additional packages and add-ons. In this way, the
data you have already created will not be lost. In
particular, an Octave program can usually also be
executed by MATLAB without changes.
Well, it is a command-line tool natively but also
comes with a graphical user interface in the
standard installation. It is available for Linux,
Windows, and Mac OS.
# ⚓ How_to_Perform_Security_Audits_on_Linux_With_Lynis⠀⇛
Whether you’re a Linux administrator or user,
having a secure server or PC should be a top
priority. Although Linux is a secure operating
system, it is also susceptible to attacks or
security breaches just like other OSes.
In this guide, you’ll learn how to audit and scan
for security vulnerabilities and loopholes on your
Linux machine using Lynis. Lynis is an open-source
tool and is available on most Unix-based operating
systems such as Linux, macOS, Solaris, FreeBSD,
etc.
# ⚓ Date_command_usage_in_Linux_–_TREND_OCEANS⠀⇛
The date command is part of the Coreutils package,
and it is mainly used to get the date in a
different type of format with various available
options.
At first, the date command may seem like a simple
utility to you, but once you try to execute the
date command with different utilities, you will
realize the real power.
A date command can be handy in bash scripting,
backup, and the limation is your imagination.
In this article, you will see the basic to advanced
usage of the date command in Linux.
# ⚓ Analyze_Network_Traffic_using_Zeek_–_kifarunix.com⠀⇛
In this tutorial, you will learn how to analyze
network traffic using Zeek. Zeek is a world’s
leading passive network security monitoring tool
that sits on the network and read all the traffic
passing through the network, parses them into a
high-level events that can then be passed through
Zeek policy script intepreter which then generates
comprehensive record/logs of every connection seen
on the wire including all HTTP sessions with their
requested URIs, key headers, MIME types, and server
responses; DNS requests with replies; SSL
certificates; key content of SMTP sessions e.tc.
# ⚓ KVM_–_easy_Network_card_NIC_PCI_pass_through_with_virt-
manager⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_To_Customize_Cinnamon_Desktop_in_Linux_System⠀⇛
Cinnamon desktop is one of the most trendy and
easy-to-use desktops for Linux. Most Windows users
or newbies switch to Cinnamon desktop from Windows
to taste Linux for the very first time. The way
Cinnamon adopts the system UI of GNOME but still
keeps it traditional, which is eye-catching. Once
you get the Cinnamon desktop installed on your
computer, there are many steps and methods to
customize the Cinnamon desktop in Linux. With open-
source, you can customize the desktop exactly as
you want it. There can be options to make it look
like Mac, Windows, or a completely new look.
# ⚓ How_To_Upgrade_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_To_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_|
Itsubuntu.com⠀⇛
Here in this tutorial, we will learn the two easy
ways to upgrade Ubuntu 20.04 LTS To 22.04 LTS. One
of the most important things that you should
remember while upgrading your system to the latest
version is to take the proper backup for your
important files and the system configuration. We
hope that you will have a backup before going
through the upgrading process to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
# ⚓ Install_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Container_On_Docker_|
Itsubuntu.com⠀⇛
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the latest long-term version
from Ubuntu. Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish LTS will
be supported till April 2027. In this tutorial
post, we are going to show you the easy way to
install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS container on Docker.
# ⚓ How_To_Install_Htop_on_Fedora_35_–_idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Htop on Fedora 35. For those of you who didn’t
know, Htop is an interactive real-time process
monitoring utility or command for Linux and also a
handy alternative to top command, which is a
default process monitoring tool that comes pre-
installed on all Linux operating systems. Htop
allows scrolling the list of processes vertically
and horizontally to see their full command lines
and related information like memory and CPU
consumption. Also, system-wide information, like
load average or swap usage, is shown.
This article assumes you have at least basic
knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and
most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes
you are running in the root account, if not you may
need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of the Htop real-time system monitor
process on a Fedora 35.
# ⚓ How_to_stream_on_Discord_|_FOSS_Linux⠀⇛
Discord was initially released in 2015, and it has
been revolutionary up to date. This term is not new
for gamers as it is one of the most used ways to
interact with other gamers regardless of their
locality. The discord platform has continued
offering tremendous value to the community as it is
an open-source app. Since its inception, Discord
has helped develop new methods of connecting its
users through video, voice, and messaging.
With so many streaming choices available now, it is
hard for users to select the best streaming option.
Therefore, with this challenge in place, it is
vital to ensure you choose an app that suits your
need to attain maximum productivity. Like Discord,
you can opt to use alternate applications that
offer online streaming services such as Twitch and
YouTube.
Due to its lightweight nature and easy-to-use GUI
(Graphical User Interface), Discord has arguably
become one of the best streaming services. This has
mainly been aided by its unparalleled compression
quality that guarantees users a stable streaming
connection. Besides, the fact that Discord’s voice
chat is reliable and of high quality poses a
challenge to its competitors, and users love it as
it is easy to set up and use.
# ⚓ Removing_an_alias/domain_from_a_Let’s_Encrypt_certificate
managed_by_certbot⠀⇛
I tried to find a way to remove that name from the
certificate before renewing it, but it seems like
the only way to do it is to create a new
certificate without that alternative name.
# ⚓ How_To_Find_CPU_Information_In_Linux_Using_Command_Line⠀⇛
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a
central processor, main processor or just
processor, is the electronic circuitry that
executes instructions comprising a computer
program.
The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic,
controlling, and input/output (I/O) operations
specified by the instructions in the program.
This contrasts with external components such as
main memory and I/O circuitry, and specialized
processors such as graphics processing units
(GPUs).
CPU is considered as the brain of a Computer. You
may want to know the basic details of your
processor, processor speed, architecture, number of
cores and cache size.
# ⚓ 9_ways_to_learn_Ansible_this_year_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛
Ansible is an open source automation tool that can
be used in a variety of ways. Here are a few
examples of last year’s most popular Ansible
tutorials and stories.
Automation just keeps improving the lives of
everyone on the IT team. Ansible helps anyone who
uses IT automation, whether for keeping files
organized or configuring printers, or for anything
else someone can imagine and build. These are some
of the most notable use cases and experiences
shared on Opensource.com in 2021.
# ⚓ Reading_a_log_out_of_a_docker_file_|_Adam_Young’s_Web_Log⠀⇛
I have to pull the log out of a docker process to
figure out why it is crashing. The Docker container
name is ironic_ipxe.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Easy_Anti-Cheat_not_as_simple_as_expected_for_Proton_and
Steam_Deck⠀⇛
Even though Epic Games announced recently how they
expanded support for Easy Anti-Cheat to have full
support of native Linux, plus Wine / Proton (and so
the Steam Deck), it seems it’s not as easy as we
hoped.
In the original announcement, Epic mentioned how it
can be enabled with “a few clicks in the Epic
Online Services Developer Portal” but the situation
is never that simple. A developer of Warhammer:
Vermintide 2 has written a post on Steam to
explain, noting that there are two versions of EAC.
There’s the original and the newer version used via
Epic Online Services. The majority of games are
likely still with the old version, since the newer
one needs SDK upgrades and newer integrations.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# ⚓ Productivity_And_Using_Modern_Linux_Desktop_Environments_–
Random_[Tech]_Stuff⠀⇛
I was first introduced to Linux in 2001. A
colleague of mine in college handed a set of CD-
R discs containing Red Hat Linux 7.2. This was
before Red Hat split the distribution into Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (for enterprise customers) and
Fedora Linux (maintained by the open source
community). The install came with with a version of
GNOME 1.x and doing a bit of Google searching, it
leads me to believe it was 1.4. From that point I
became extremely familiar with the GNOME desktop
environment, enough so where if I was not using
GNOME, I was not being very productive. This was
not the result of laziness. Far from it. It was
solely because of my comfort level.
I am not doing a Desktop Environment review here.
This is merely an opinion piece based on my
personal experience and computing style.
Fast forward to the present and the graphical user
interface of a modern desktop distribution has
changed drastically. There are many reasons for
these changes, one of which is adapting to modern
technology. Mobile computing, touch input, etc. I
look at GNOME today which is at version 40 and I am
really struggling to get comfortable.
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ qml-doxygen:_qml-lsp’s_qml_–>_doxygen_cousin⠀⇛
With the infrastructure I built in qml-lsp
for parsing and analysing QML files, I
thought “hm, since doxyqml is just a
glorified qml parser –> c++ header file
converter, wouldn’t it be trivial to write
the same thing in go reusing qml-lsp’s
infrastructure?” And that’s exactly what I
did. I wrote a 130-line program that
faithfully replicated doxyqml’s functionality
in Go.
By virtue of being a Go program that calls on
a pretty optimised parser in C, it ended up
being a little over 10 times faster than
doxyqml on my system.
I wasn’t done there.
[...]
The next thing I’m planning to do is to
resolve the concrete type of an alias
property, so that documentation generation
for aliases can be improved without
developers needing to explicitly tell the
computer what type the alias points to.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ Sebastian_Pölsterl:_scikit-survival_0.17_released⠀⇛
This release adds support for scikit-learn
1.0, which includes support for feature
names. If you pass a pandas dataframe to fit,
the estimator will set a feature_names_in_
attribute containing the feature names. When
a dataframe is passed to predict, it is
checked that the column names are consistent
with those passed to fit. The example below
illustrates this feature.
For a full list of changes in scikit-survival
0.17.0, please see the release notes.
o § Distributions⠀➾
# ⚓ Using_Distrobox_To_Augment_The_Package_Selection_On_Clear
Linux,_Other_Distributions⠀⇛
While our testing has consistently shown how Clear
Linux can deliver leading performance on Intel/AMD
x86_64 platforms, one of the user criticisms to
that distribution has been around the limited
selection of packaged software especially on the
desktop side. But the rather interesting Distrobox
can help address that by leveraging Podman or
Docker to run other Linux distribution user-space
software packages atop.
Distrobox is an open-source project that builds off
Podman or Docker to create containers of different
Linux distributions. These Distrobox’ed containers
are tightly integrated with the host for sharing
the user’s home directory, X11 / Wayland GUI app
support, audio, and other connectivity.
# § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ This_small_fanless_PC_with_Intel_Tiger_Lake_has_6
Ethernet_ports,_supports_pfSense_and_other_networking
software⠀⇛
Looking to add a router or firewall to your
networking lineup and want some gear with
relatively recent specs? A new mini PC with 6
Gigabit Ethernet ports, up to an Intel Core
i5-1135G7 processor and support for open
source router, VPN, and firewall software
like pfSense might fit the bill.
As spotted by the the folks at FanlessTech
and CNX Software, versions of the mini PC are
available from AliExpress or Amazon.
# § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾
# ⚓ KDE_Plasma_Frameworks⠀⇛
The KDE Plasma Frameworks packages have been
updated to 5.90.0. This is a service release
update.
# § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ [Older]_What’s_New_in_elementary_OS_6.1_Jólnir,
Available_Now⠀⇛
Are you looking to make an operating system
change? It might be time to give elementary
OS a chance. Version 6.1 of the OS has
arrived, and it brings with it some really
exciting changes that make it more than worth
a look.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Louis-Philippe_Véronneau_–_Grading_using_the_Wacom_Intuos
S⠀⇛
Unsurprisingly, the Wacom support on Linux is very
good and my tablet worked out of the box. The only
real problem I had was by default, the tablet
sometimes boots up in Android mode, making it
unusable. This is easily solved by pressing down on
the pad’s first and last buttons for a few seconds,
until the LED turns white.
The included stylus came with hard plastic nibs,
but I find them too slippery. I eventually
purchased hard felt nibs, which increase the
friction and makes for a more paper-like
experience. They are a little less durable, but I
wrote quite a fair bit and still haven’t gone
through a single one yet.
# § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Pi_Powered_1:35_Scale_Panther_Tank_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
Tank aficionado [Daniel Zalega] has enjoyed
playing around with armored fighting vehicles
in the digital realm for years, but only
recently realized he had the technology and
skills necessary to take his passion into the
physical world. Albeit on a slightly reduced
scale. So he bought a 1:35 plastic model kit
for the German WWII Panther tank from Tamiya,
and started working on a way to make it move.
Luckily for [Daniel], the assembled model is
essentially hollow. That gave him plenty of
room to install the geared drive motors,
batteries, motor controllers, voltage
regulators, a servo for the turret, and the
Raspberry Pi Zero that controls the whole
show. Those with an aversion to hot glue
would do well not to look too closely at the
construction here, but it gets the job done.
Besides, it’s not like this little Panther is
going to see any front line combat.
# § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Reolink_Go_Plus_4G_review_–_Part_2:_A_Solar-powered
4G_LTE_security_camera_with_person_&_vehicle_detection
–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
# ⚓ ROCK5_Model_B_RK3588_single_board_computer_is_up_for
pre-order_for_$79_and_up_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android_13_Wishlist:_5_Things_We_Want_to_See_in
2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ Sony_joins_the_Android_12_club,_updates_the_Xperia_1
III_and_Xperia_5_III_|_Android_Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ Nokia_Mobile_may_release_Android_12_to_Nokia_3.4_next
–_Nokiapoweruser⠀⇛
# ⚓ Two_Samsung_phones_off_the_beaten_path_are_updated_to
Android_12_with_the_One_UI_4_update_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ Lenovo’s_new_Legion_Y700_makes_a_strong_case_for
Android_gaming_tablets⠀⇛
# ⚓ The_Best_Games_Coming_to_Android_in_2022_–_Droid
Gamers⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Block_Unknown_Numbers_on_Android_Phones_From
Google,_Samsung,_Xiaomi_|_NDTV_Gadgets_360⠀⇛
# ⚓ Google_Maps_tricks_for_Android_users:_From_places_to
music-_Here_is_how_to_do_it⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_use_Do_Not_Disturb_mode_on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Moto_G_Stylus_2022_specs_leak_out_–_and_it_might_run
an_older_version_of_Android_|_TechRadar⠀⇛
# ⚓ Global_Top_10_most_powerful_Android_smartphones_in
december_2021⠀⇛
o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
# ⚓ 12_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_System_Monitoring
Tools⠀⇛
Computer monitoring systems are used to gather data
for the purpose of real-time incident notification,
performance analysis, and system health
verification. Without such a tool, a system
administrator would have to login to each machine
to collect information on a regular basis. This
kind of repetitive task can be automated using a
system monitoring tool.
System monitoring can also help identify problems
before they escalate to emergency status. This type
of software is not only useful for network
administrators. Home users with a small network or
even just a single computer will benefit from
advanced notification provided by system monitoring
tools. Knowing that free space on the hard disk is
running out, or that a particular server/daemon has
gone down can be extremely useful.
# ⚓ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to_Intuit_TurboTax⠀⇛
Intuit Inc. is an American corporation that
specializes in financial software. Specifically,
the company develops personal finance, accounting,
and tax return software.
The company is headquartered in Mountain View,
California. It has more than 10,000 employees.
While Intuit has a GitHub presence with over 100
repositories for numerous open source projects,
none of these repositories offer any substantial
desktop software. Instead, the repositories focus
on tools and libraries for developers. None of
these projects appear to have attracted significant
interest from the open source community.
# § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ Language_Tool_5.6_is_released⠀⇛
Language Tool 5.6 is available now.
Russian, English, Ukrainian, French, German,
Portuguese, Catalan, Dutch and Spain language
checking modules were updated in this
release.
# § FSF⠀➾
# ⚓ New_Hampshire_residents:_make_your_voice_heard_on
January_11th_—_Free_Software_Foundation⠀⇛
To show your support for the bill, and
software freedom in New Hampshire, you must
testify in person at the New Hampshire
Legislative Office building at 33 N. State
St. in Concord, NH at 10:30 AM. For more
information, such as where to park at the
Legislative Office Building, and any COVID-
related precautions to take, please refer to
this Nitter thread written by HB 1273′s
sponsor, NH state representative Eric
Gallager.
As it is likely that representatives of
proprietary software companies will be giving
testimonies of their own, it is imperative
that the free software community in New
Hampshire and surrounding states give a
strong show of support to computer user
freedom.
When giving your testimony, it is important
that you keep your comments concise and
accessible to a nontechnical audience. It
would also be helpful to prepare a rebuttal
of common false claims.
If you can’t make it to the hearing, please
be sure to spread the message on social
media, perhaps by using the #userfreedom or
#SOFTWAREAct hashtags. And if you do plan on
attending the hearing, try and bring a
friend!
# § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Top_5_Most_Liked_and_Hated_Programming_Languages_of
2022 [Ed: This lacks any actual sources, seems to be
based on hearsay and intuition/gut feeling for the most
part, or bribed media]⠀⇛
One cannot deny that programming is super fun
and interesting. It is practically impossible
to think of leading our lives without
programming today. Every sector that we can
think of relies on programming in one way or
the other. Over time, many programming
languages have surged in popularity and some
have fallen from grace. That said, have a
look at the top 5 most liked and hated
programming languages of 2022.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Automated_Mushroom_Cultivation_Yields_Delicious_Fried_Goodies_|
Hackaday⠀⇛
[Kyle Gabriel] knows mushrooms, and his years of
experience really shine through in his thorough
documentation of an automated mushroom cultivation
environment, created with off-the-shelf sensors and
hardware as much as possible. The results speak for
themselves, with some delicious fried oyster mushrooms to
show for it!
o ⚓ 2022_resolution:_become_machine_independent_again_–_toscalix⠀⇛
I change jobs frequently, I travel a lot, I work in the
operating system space so I like to try out new distros,
installers, recovery measures… In addition, even when I
am at home, in Málaga or Los Llanos De Aridane, Canary
Islands, I like to take notes and write at different
places since I find little inspiration at my office…
All these factors together means that I end up having
several machines: laptops, convertibles, tablets, phone,
RPis… and with various machines it comes the information,
configurations and applications hell.
[...]
The pandemic has work against me. Such a long time
without really travelling (beyond my two locations) had
as a consequence that some of my good habits to keep the
“machine independent” challenge under control were gone.
I realized it when, despite carrying 3 machines in my
first business trip since the pandemic started, back in
November 2021. I still could not access to a couple of
places because I did not have the credentials available
or they were not up-to-date. My backpack was ridiculously
heavy and I still could not perform some basic personal
activities.
How could I let my self, a professional, get to this
point?
In addition, I am increasingly worried about data
privacy. I have taken several steps the last couple of
years in this front, but for every step in the right
direction I perform, I end up taking one in the wrong
one. It is so hard to come into good terms with data
privacy nowadays… The effort and knowledge required is
simply too high for a regular citizen. I feel in this
front like I did back in the days I started using Open
Source. Like back then, I feel the world is against me.
But I lack now the same energy level I had. A sign of
getting old, I guess.
o ⚓ Resorbing_Patent_Law’s_Kessler_Cat_–_Request_for_Comments⠀⇛
The cat: We parallel our article alongside a short
parable from Paulo Coelho titled the “Importance of the
Cat in Meditation.” The basic punchline is that once
people started thinking the cat was an important element
of mediation, it was easier for them to scientifically
explain the importance rather than let go of the
meaningless attachment. We argue that the Kessler
Doctrine is following the same pathway, the Federal
Circuit’s explanations do not make sense, and that it is
time to resorb the doctrine into the general law of
preclusion.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Adding_An_Audio_Jack_To_Classic_Headphones_Is_A_Nifty
Upgrade_|_Hackaday⠀⇛
[mauriziomiscio.mm] has a way of dealing with the
problem in a once-and-done fashion, by installing a
female audio jack into his vintage headphones. The
benefit is that if the cable is damaged, it can
simply be unplugged and replaced with a new one,
and is commonly seen on headphones from companies
like KRK.
The hack is simple when applied to a classic pair
of AKG K141 headphones. The little plastic casing
on one earpiece is popped off, and replaced with a
3D-printed version that stoutly holds a female TRS
jack in place. This can then be soldered up to the
wiring inside the headphones.
With everything assembled, the headphones can now
use an easily-replaceable cable, and one needn’t
worry about having to bust out the soldering iron
if the lead is damaged in future. It’s a
particularly useful hack for those who use their
headphones on the road, always throwing them into
backpacks between gigs.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ FDA_Biosimilar_Approval_Recap_–_2021 [Ed: FDA under Trump
and Biden is known for regulatory capture, rubbers-stamping -
- symptom is a dying economy where few people control the
entire system]⠀⇛
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved four
biosimilar drugs in 2021 under the provisions of
the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act
(BPCIA, codified at 42 U.S.C. § 262) as part of the
Affordable Care Act of 2010 (colloquially known as
“Obamacare”). This brings to 33 the total number of
approved biosimilars, although the effects of the
pandemic has been felt in the last two years. From
2015 (when there was only a single approved
biosimilar, Sandoz’s Zarxio®, see chart below), the
rate of approvals rose every year (3 in 2016, 5 in
2017, 7 in 2018, and 10 in 2019), but 2020 saw only
3 approvals.
# ⚓ Corruption_is_The_Easiest_Way_to_Turn_an_Outbreak_Into_a
Disaster⠀⇛
The death of Dr. Li Wenliang (Feb.7.2020) sparks
outrage as he was the first whistleblower for the
current outbreak. Until this moment, many human
rights groups and civil groups worldwide are
demanding an investigation into his alleged
grievance and speech suppression.
[...]
Propaganda and conspiracy lies are a means to
control and keep the people busy in the dark
arguing with each other while the thieves keep
stealing them.
However, they always backfire and when they do,
they will hit the manufacture in the face. The
closes example is Iran, look consequences of that.
[...]
The solution is quite simple: if you want to fight
the epidemic you have to face and fight your
endemic corruption.
o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾
# § Proprietary⠀➾
# § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Dev_corrupts_[Microsdoft]_NPM_libs_‘colors’_and
‘faker’_breaking_thousands_of_apps⠀⇛
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Novak_Djokovic_&_Codes_of_Conduct⠀⇛
Court documents show that Australian Border Force
officials tried to pressure Novak into accepting
deportation after his 25 hour journey. They denied
him access to lawyers and documents. Let us put
that in context: Victoria Police do an excellent
job promoting safety on the roads in our state. One
of their campaigns tells us that lack of sleep is
equivalent to intoxication and drugs. Therefore, if
the border police ask for a traveller to give
consent to a serious topic like deportation after
25 hours without proper sleep, it is not real
consent. Their insistence is on par with date rape.
The Tampa affair in 2001 was just a few weeks
before an election. The next election in Australia
has to be between February and May. Novak Djokovic
is the new Tampa. Around the world, the
incarceration of Novak has provoked ridicule and
anger at Australia’s apartheid-like immigration
system. Yet in Australia, the Government is hoping
to win votes from bullying a foreign athlete.
[...]
The quarantine hotel where Novak is imprisoned is
in the middle of the University precinct
I studied computer science and engineering in
buildings barely 200 meters away from Novak’s
prison, I walked past that hotel almost every day
Novak has conjured an anti-vax mob in the street
barely 500 meters from the Doherty Institute. That
was the first lab in the world to cultivate Covid
and sequence the genome outside China. Their
brilliance in health is on par with Novak’s
brilliance in tennis.
Novak is a leader in sport and Australians have
great respect for that. The best leaders are
willing to listen to all sides of the story. While
Novak is in this unique corner of Melbourne, I hope
he will take the time to seek the opinion and
advice of world leaders on pandemics and
vaccination. In equal measure, I hope to see Novak
playing in the tournament without further excuses
from the Boarder Force officials.
# ⚓ Why_Democrats_Are_So_Bad_at_Defending_Democracy⠀⇛
When it comes to elections, the Republican Party
operates within a carapace of lies. So we rely on
the Democrats to preserve our system of government.
The problem is that Democrats live within their own
insular echo chamber. Within that bubble convenient
falsehoods spread, go unchallenged and make it
harder to focus on the real crisis. So let’s clear
away some of these myths that are distorting
Democratic behavior…
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Google_Fired_A_Black_Leading_AI_Scientist,_But_Now_She’s
Founded_Her_Own_Firm⠀⇛
Timnit Gebru, an Ethiopian with Eritrean heritage,
was a leading artificial intelligence computer
scientist until she was fired from Google. Recently
she launched her firm that was awarded $3.7 million
in funding from the MacArthur Foundation, Ford
Foundation, Kapor Center, Open Society Foundation,
and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Her company is an independent artificial
intelligence research institute that will
concentrate on the harmful outcomes technology has
on marginalized groups who encounter inordinate
effects from AI structures but lack the access to
govern its development, as reported by The
Washington Post.
# ⚓ Protecting_Your_Online_Brand_on_Amazon [Ed: Amazon has fast
become a ‘censorship platform’ for merchandise]⠀⇛
In today’s ever-expanding e-commerce environment,
online brand protection and enforcement has become
a necessary undertaking of paramount importance for
brand owners in efforts to combat the illicit trade
of counterfeit and infringing products. With around
2 million active sellers on Amazon, and
approximately 200 million active Amazon Prime
subscribers, it’s easy to understand why brand
owners choose to offer their products on Amazon.
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Can_amending_the_description_to_summarize_the_prior
art_add_matter_to_the_patent_application_as_filed?_(T
0471/20) [Ed: EPO Guidelines for Examination have
strayed very_far_away_from_what’s_actually_legal,
abusing not just the granting authority but also patent
examiners]⠀⇛
The EPO Guidelines for Examination require
the description of a patent application to
summarise the background art (F-II-4.3). This
requirement usually manifests with a request
from the Examiner for the description to be
amended to identify the closest prior art. In
contrast to other types of description
amendment, amending the description so as to
mention known prior art seems a relatively
innocuous requirement. It is hard to see how
the addition of a simple summary of the prior
art could be detrimental to the patentee.
However, this comfortable assumption was
recently put to the test in T 471/20, in
which the Board of Appeal considered whether
an amendment summarising the prior art could
be considered to change the scope of the
claim, add matter and thereby invalidate the
patent. It will come as a relief to many that
the Board of Appeal disagreed with the
original finding of the Opposition Division,
and found that introducing a prior art
reference cannot add matter. However, the
Board of Appeal did note that description
amendments in general could add matter should
they change the interpretation of the claims.
[...]
The Opposition Division (OD) found the patent
invalid on the grounds that the description
amendment summarising D8 added matter. The OD
was particularly convinced by the Opponent’s
arguments that the filing unit disclosed in
D8, contrary to the amendment in the patent,
would be understood by a skilled person to be
a robot, i.e., “a machine which can be
programmed to perform tasks which involve
manipulative or locomotive actions under
automatic control”. As such, the statement
that D8 did not relate to a robot was a
subjective as opposed to a factual statement.
The Opposition Division further found that by
introducing this subjective statement, the
applicant had effectively introduced a
disclaimer into the description. By stating
that the disclosure in D8 was not a robot,
the applicant had thereby changed the meaning
of “robot” as used in the patent application,
including the claims.
The OD found that the application as filed
did not contain subject matter equivalent to
the disclaimer indirectly provided by the
applicants summary of D8, and as such, the
summary of D8 added matter. The patentee was
unable to delete the disclaimer as this would
have been considered to broaden the scope of
the patent, which is not permitted post-grant
(the so-called “added matter trap”). The
patent was thus revoked in its entirety.
# ⚓ Strict_US_written_description_requirement_applied_to
CAR-T-cell_therapy_(Juno_v_Kite) [Ed: Oddball criteria
for patent eligibility to help fake the actual novelty
and basically rubber-stamp tons of laughable fake
'inventions' in exchange for fees]⠀⇛
In the US, functional antibody claims have
increasingly failed to satisfy the strict
“written description” sufficiency
requirement. The written description
requirement stipulates that a patent
specification should sufficiently describe
the claimed invention such that a skilled
person would be convinced that the inventor
had possession of the claimed subject matter
at the filing date. In a Court Appeal of the
Federal Circuit (CAFC) decision last year,
the same reasoning was applied to a broadly
claimed molecule for CAR-T-cell therapy (Juno
v Kite). The decision in Juno v Kite is not a
surprise in light of the recent CAFC case law
on written description for antibodies, and
represents yet another nail in the coffin of
functional genus claiming for biomolecules in
the US.
[...]
Written description is a type of sufficiency
requirement, derived from the stipulation in
US law that a patent specification “shall
contain a written description of the
invention” (35 US Code § 112(a)). The written
description has been understood by the US
courts as requiring the patent specification
to describe the invention such that it
reasonably conveys to a skilled person that
the inventor had possession of the claimed
subject matter as of the filing date. As
such, “a mere wish or plan” for obtaining the
claimed invention is not sufficient to
satisfy the written description requirement.
Over the years, the US courts have grown
stricter and stricter in their application of
the written description requirement to
functional language or genus claims for
biological inventions such as antibodies. The
written description requirement has been
interpreted as requiring demonstration in the
specification that the patent applicant “has
invented species sufficient to support a
claim to the functionally-defined genus”
(Ariad v Eli Lilly). In practice, the bar for
what constitutes a sufficient number of
species has been set very high. In Abbvie v
Janssen, for example, a claim directed to a
functionally defined anti-Il-12 antibody was
found invalid for lack of written description
despite disclosure in the specification of
300 example antibodies. In this case, the
CAFC found that that 300 examples did not
sufficiently represent all antibodies that
might fall under the scope of the claim.
To this Kat’s knowledge, the decision in Juno
v Kite is the first time the CAFC has applied
the written description case law to a CAR-T-
cell invention.
# ⚓ Europe:_key_patent_issues_counsel_should_monitor_this
year [Ed: Rory O’Neill propping up UPC_delusions; he
knows what patent litigation firms are paying his
salary]⠀⇛
Between AI inventorship, SEPs, and the UPC,
there’s plenty to keep European attorneys
busy in 2022
# ⚓ Patent_Law’s_Fifth_Column:_Motivation_to_Combine_with
Reasonable_Expectation_to_Success [Ed: SCOTUS and
obvious (fake) patents, which should never even be
granted in the first place]⠀⇛
In its petition for writ of certiorari,
Apotex asks the Supreme Court to revisit
motivation to combine, obvious to try and
whether the non-obvious contribution needs to
be an improvement over the prior art. The
petition argues that KSR v. Teleflex (2007)
requires a flexible analysis, but that “over
the ensuing decade-and-a-half, the Federal
Circuit has … reverted to its old rigid
ways.” The petition also complains that the
Federal Circuit has again masked its
jurisprudence via Summary Affirmance without
opinion.
# ⚓ Novartis_Pharmaceuticals_Corp._v._Accord_Healthcare,
Inc._(Fed._Cir._2022)⠀⇛
When does the absence of evidence turn into
evidence of absence, and when does such
absence amount to an adequate written
description of the absence of a step of a
method claim? This is a question that comes
readily to mind when reading the Federal
Circuit’s opinion (and Chief Judge Moore’s
dissent) in Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v.
Accord Healthcare, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2022).
The case arose in ANDA litigation over U.S.
Patent No. 9,187,405, which recites methods
for treating recurring remitting multiple
sclerosis (RRMS), a degenerative disorder of
the myelin surrounding nervous tissue, with
fingolimod (2-amino-2-[2-(4-
octylphenyl)ethyl]propane-1,3-diol) sold by
Novartis under the brand name Gilenya®.
[...]
Chief Judge Moore’s dissent, as foreshadowed
in the majority opinion, focused on the
adequacy vel non of the written description
of the negative limitation regarding the
absence of a loading dose of fingolimod
hydrochloride. Perhaps sensitized to the
issue by the Court’s recent Biogen decision,
the Chief Judge asserted that “[t]he majority
dramatically expands a patentee’s ability to
add, years after filing a patent application,
negative claim limitations that have zero
support in the written description” (emphasis
added), summarizing her position with
appropriate pith as “[s]ilence is not
disclosure.” The dissent illustrates how
readily answers to questions like the one
before the Court can be completely divergent
depending on which “policy lever” (as legal
academics might call them) are considered
most relevant. The Chief focused on
disclosure, which carries with it a
requirement for affirmative statements and
definitions that without question are not
found in the ’405 specification (although it
can be appreciated that there must be a limit
to the requirement for affirmatively
disclosing what an invention does not
comprise, lest a specification become
overburdened with unnecessary verbiage
directed to irrelevancies). The dissent
provided a basis for the Chief’s apprehension
that in this case the question of whether the
absence of an initial loading dose was not so
straightforward when it noted that the
limitation was added in response to an
obviousness rejection asserted against claims
in a co-pending priority application to the
’405 patent. The Chief Judge found support
for her position in many of the same cases
cited by the majority or distinguished them,
to the point that these cases require that a
patent specification must “describe[] a
reason to exclude the relevant limitation,”
citing Sartorius (emphasis in dissent). And
the Chief parsed the specification and the
testimony to support her conclusion that the
District Court’s interpretation of the
adequacy of the written description regarding
the negative limitation concerning a loading
dose, and the majority’s affirmance thereof,
was error. According to the dissent “the
district court (and now the majority)
[engaged in] rewriting the specification with
expert testimony” to arrive at their
conclusion regarding such adequacy.
# ⚓ Strategic_IP_Considerations_of_Batteries_and_Energy
Storage_Solutions [Ed: This patent 'gold rush' is
burning the world because climate issues aren't being
tackled, it's being treated as nothing but "premium"
profiteering and monopolistic opportunity]⠀⇛
The lithium-ion battery, introduced
commercially in 1991, revolutionized the
consumer electronics industry. Compared with
older battery technologies, the lithium-ion
battery was lightweight and compact, had high
energy density, and required little to no
maintenance, making it the ideal battery for
mobile devices. It now powers the world’s
most popular electronics, from smartphones to
laptops to wearable devices. But the lithium-
ion battery has now expanded far beyond the
consumer electronics industry, sparking a
gold rush of research and development aimed
at producing lower-cost, higher-performance
batteries that can be used in a wider range
of applications. Over the past decade,
developments in battery technology have led
to rapid advances in the ubiquity of electric
vehicles (“EVs”) and opened up new
possibilities for energy solutions that will
help reduce dependence on fossil fuels. With
these technical advances comes an increase in
legal activity, including intellectual
property (“IP”) filings and litigation.
# ⚓ Getting_Your_First_Filing_Right [Ed: One paragraph
before last here insinuate that the EPC is still taken
into account, though EPO_violates_it_every_day]⠀⇛
Wherever filing takes place and in whichever
name(s), the making of a priority filing
gives rise to a priority right which is often
imperative to retain. Under Article 87 EPC,
the applicant(s) for claiming priority by the
end of the priority year must be the same,
unless an original applicant A is added to by
an applicant B or an original applicant is
substituted by a successor in title. Priority
entitlement must be correct at the filing
date, but entitlement to a patent can be
sorted later. This is the lesson to be learnt
from the Marrafini priority issue which led
to upholding of revocation of Broad’s CRISPR-
related EP2771468 on opposition appeal (EPO
Appeal T0884/18).
# ⚓ Bolt_introduces_tandem_riding_prevention_system [Ed:
EPO grants_invalid_patents]⠀⇛
Bolt, the European scooter operator, has
become the first company in the world to
introduce a tandem riding prevention system
and is on its way to obtaining a patent for
the feature from the European Patent Office
after its submission was accepted.
# ⚓ IceCure_Medical_CEO_Issues_Letter_to_Shareholders
[Ed: Celebrating patent monopolies from issuer_of_fake
patents]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Oramed_Granted_Key_European_Patent_for_Platform
Technology_in_Oral_Delivery_of_Proteins [Ed: Oramed
seems to be unaware of the_legitimacy_crisis_of
European_Patents; many many be presumed invalid]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Legally_speaking_–_Artificial_Intelligence_is_not
even_close_to_human_intelligence [Ed: Lobbyists against
the integrity of patent law have found a worthless
Microsoft rag, Analytics India Magazine [sic], to
publish some mindless “Hey Hi” fluff]⠀⇛
In public proceedings, the Legal Board of
Appeal of the EPO confirmed that under the
European Patent Convention (EPC), an inventor
designated in a patent application must be a
human being. This was the judgement in
combined cases J 8/20 and J 9/20, where the
board just dismissed the applicant’s appeal.
Here, both the applications were made by a
Missouri physicist Stephen Thaler, whose AI-
system DABUS had made the inventions.
# ⚓ EPO_rejects_patent_application_identifying_AI_system
DABUS_as_inventor [Ed: Bots (“Hey_Hi”) are not
inventors and even the patent maximalists at the EPO
haven’t fallen for this sick ploy]⠀⇛
The Legal Board of Appeal of the European
Patent Office (EPO) has affirmed the decision
of the Receiving Section that a patent
application cannot succeed where the
designated inventor is not a person, but an
AI machine. An auxiliary request had also
been made indicating that a natural person
was to have “the right to the European Patent
by virtue of being the owner and creator of”
the artificial intelligence system DABUS.
This did not meet the provisions of the
European Patent Convention (EPC) either.
# ⚓ High_Growth_SMEs_And_A_Mix_Of_IPRs [Ed: Dehns is a
notorious spreader of lies about the UPC and here it is
citing Europe’s most corrupt, EPO and EUIPO, with lies
in the headline (e.g. “IPR”) ]⠀⇛
Haakon, IP Consultant in the Dehns Oslo
office, shares his thoughts on high growth
SMEs, referring to new reports from IP
Australia, an EUIPO/EPO report and several
papers on collaboration, open innovation and
IP management.
I just read a new report from IP Australia on
high growth SMEs and how they use IPRs.
First, the report finds that SMEs’ use of IPR
is associated with high growth and higher
wages. The conclusions align with what the
EPO and EUIPO reported in their 2019 “High-
growth firms and intellectual property
rights.”
Interestingly, both reports point to how a
mix of IPR – for example of patents,
trademarks and designs – associates even more
with high growth than having only a single
type of rights. My favourite topic: The new
Australian report does not mention how trade
secrets could be a part of the mix – but the
EPO/EUIPO report discusses this (see p. 19).
# ⚓ [Conference_Report]_Patents,_truth,_PCT_and_more_at
the_UIC_School_of_Law_International_IP_Practice_Seminar
[Ed: Some phonies that have managed to conflate patents
with privacy and then promote patent maximalism with
misnomers like "IP"]⠀⇛
Back in October, University of Illinois
Chicago School of Law’s Center for
Intellectual Property (“IP”), Information,
and Privacy Law organized and virtually
hosted its International IP Practice Seminar.
The Seminar, co-organized by the World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and
Kuhnen & Wacker, brought together
international policymakers and practitioners
to discuss the worldwide landscape of the
most cutting-edge IP issues from a
comparative perspective. Each speaker brought
unique national and international
perspectives across industries, technologies,
and IP subject matter to the discussion. Adam
Ernette (UIC) reports on the seminar.
# ⚓ Mazda_Patents_Reveal_RWD_Car_With_Rotary_Engine_and
Hybrid_Tech⠀⇛
Mazda has filed several new patents in
Europe, and they appear to be regarding a new
rotary-engined vehicle. The unnamed model has
a hybrid configuration, along with a
transaxle gearbox. This is just the tip of
the iceberg, though, but that does not
guarantee it will be built.
[...]
As the Mazda aficionado who goes by the name
taku2_4885 found, the rotary engine
configuration that the Japanese marque has
patented in Europe is part of a series of
patents, and if they are put together, it
appears that the company is planning a rear-
wheel-drive sports car with a 48V hybrid
configuration.
The transmission is a transaxle, while the
engine is a three-rotor, which is entirely
new. It is worth noting that not all the
images in the photo gallery are recently
filed, some being as old as 2019, but they do
make sense and form a potential new model.
# ⚓ FOSS_Patents:_Contributed_article_to_Wolters_Kluwer
publication_and_discussed_practical_implications_of
German_patent_‘reform’_on_licensing_negotiations⠀⇛
Only intermittently do I author articles in
German–and it’s more or less unprecedented
for me to adopt a quasi-academic style with
proper citations because it would just slow
me down when adding content to this blog. But
the rare exception has just occurred, and a
German-language Wolters Kluwer publication
very recently published a German-language
article of mine, with various citations in
the footnotes.
A few years ago Wolters Kluwer’s Licensing
Journal asked for permission to reprint a
FOSS Patents post on a Qualcomm-BlackBerry
licensing dispute that was resolved through
binding arbitration. I gladly authorized it.
Now, the November 2021 edition of Wolters
Kluwer’s Zeitschrift für das Recht der
digitalen Wirtschaft (which I would translate
as “law journal for the digital economy”) has
come out with a slight delay, and on pages
407-410 (the content of the November edition
starts with page number 401) subscribers can
find my article entitled
Unterlassungsanspruch bleibt Hebel der
Patentinhaber in Lizenzverhandlungen
(“entitlement to injunctive relief continues
to give patentees leverage in licensing
negotiations”).
The ZdiW’s editors are professors Bernd
Hartmann and Mary-Rose McGuire, both of the
University of Osnabrueck in Northern Germany.
Professor McGuire was a witness at a
parliamentary hearing on patent injunction
reform, frequently comments on patent
enforcement rules, and under her auspices,
Maximilian Schellhorn (now practicing law at
Hoyng Rokh Monegier) authored a doctoral
thesis that took a critical perspective on
the proposal for German patent injunction
reform that was on the table at the time and
subsequently adopted in an almost identical
fashion.
# ⚓ CommWorks_Solutions_reexamination_granted⠀⇛
On December 23, 2021, about one month after
Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the
USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding
substantial new questions of patentability on
the challenged claims of U.S. Patent
6,832,249. The ‘249 patent is owned and
asserted by CommWorks Solutions, LLC, an NPE
and subsidiary of IP Investments Group LLC,
and is generally directed to multi-layered
internet communication systems that allow for
control over quality of service and priority
of information delivery. It is being asserted
against Comcast and RCN Telecom and is at
issue in a declaratory judgment action
brought by Altice USA. It was also previously
asserted against Skybeam, Mediacom, AMG
Technology Investment Group, Consolidated
Communications Holdings, and Cable One, Inc.
# ⚓ Just_1_Judge_Accounted_for_Nearly_25%_of_Patent
Infringement_Filings_in_2021,_New_Report_Says⠀⇛
Patent owners continued to converge on U.S.
District Judge Alan Albright’s Waco courtroom
in 2021, though the number of patent
infringement suits overall was flat,
according to Unified Patents statistics.
[...]
Patent infringement suits boomed in U.S.
District Judge Alan Albright’s courtroom in
2021, but they were flat across federal
courts as a whole, according to Unified
Patents’ annual Patent Dispute Report: Year
in Review, released Monday
America Invents Act (AIA) challenges dropped
by 12 percent at the Patent Trial and Appeal
Board, but ex parte reexaminations were on
the rise. Unified Patents Chief IP Counsel
Jonathan Stroud chalked it up to the PTAB’s
Fintiv framework discouraging some AIA
petitioners, plus a few reexaminations that
led to stay orders in high-profile cases.
# ⚓ USPTO_Announces_Deferred_Subject_Matter_Eligibility
Response_Pilot_Program [Ed: Software patent litigation
profiteer Michael Borella is cheering on paid and
corrupted politicians looking to change the law to
allow bogus patents in defiance of the Supreme Court,
common sense, software professionals and so on]⠀⇛
On January 6, 2022, the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office announced a new program with
the goal of increasing examiner efficiency.
The Deferred Subject Matter Eligibility
Response (DSMER) Pilot Program will launch on
February 1, 2022 and end on July 30, 2022,
unless extended.[1] The Program allows
applicants to, in certain circumstances, not
include a substantive reply to a 35 U.S.C. §
101 rejection in an Office action response.
The USPTO initiated the Program at the
suggestion of Senators Thom Tillis and Tom
Cotton (see “Senators Tillis and Cotton
Propose Sequenced Examination Approach”).
[...]
For a participating application, the
applicant may file a response that defers
“presenting arguments, evidence, or
amendments in response to the SME rejection
(s) until the earlier of final disposition of
the participating application or the
withdrawal or obviation of all other
outstanding rejections.” But, the applicant
must respond to all other objections and
rejections in the Office action. In other
words, if the claims are rejected on the
grounds of subject matter eligibility and
obviousness, the applicant must respond to
the obviousness rejections and can choose
whether to respond to the eligibility
rejections.
The “final disposition” above is when the
earliest of any of the following events
occurs: (i) mailing of a notice of allowance,
(ii) mailing of a final Office action, (iii)
filing of a notice of appeal, (iv) filing of
an RCE, or (v) abandonment of the
application.[3] In the case that the
applicant receives a subsequent non-final
Office action in which only the § 101
rejection remains, the applicant must respond
to this rejection even though the application
has not reached a final disposition.
Further, the applicant’s deferral of § 101
responses can be on a rejection-by-rejection
basis.[4] For instance, if an Office action
contains two different § 101 rejections, the
applicant may defer one, the other, or both.
The USPTO also contemplates removing an
application from the Program in certain rare
situations, such as when a participating
examiner resigns or retires and the
application is not reassigned to another
participating examiner.
# ⚓ Timing_of_CVSG_Briefs:_American_Axle_Coming_Soon [Ed:
This is a lie from Dennis_Crouch. Patents are not
properly. He says “form of” because he knows he’s
dishonest. “Although patents are a form of private
property…]⠀⇛
Although patents are a form of private
property, they are also expressly a tool of
public policy. When a private patent lawsuit
of interest reaches the Supreme Court, the
Court regularly turns to the President’s
administration for its views on how a
decision may impact patent law and innovation
writ large. That request for an amicus brief
from the government is termed a CVSG – Call
for the Views of the Solicitor General. One
problem with CVSGs is that they typically add
several months to the certiorari process
because the DOJ spends substantial time
collecting input from various government
branches and outside interests before
drafting and filing its brief. In patent
cases, a Gov’t amicus brief is often the most
important at the certiorari stage — or at
least the most predictive of the outcome.
# ⚓ The_IPKat_welcomes_new_GuestKats⠀⇛
The dawn of a new year is here, and in the
spirit of renovation, The IPKat welcomes new
GuestKats Gabriele Girardello, Jan Jacobi and
Becky Knott to our family.
# ⚓ In_memoriam:_William_(Bill)_Cornish_(1937_–_2022)
[Ed: Jeremy Phillips back to IP Kat, which he founded
and then left, as his friend has just died]⠀⇛
I first encountered Bill Cornish in 1974
when, as a raw intellectual property doctoral
student, I travelled up from Canterbury to
discuss my chosen topic and seek his advice.
In the 1970s, people who taught IP were
almost as rare as those who studied it. We
must have been a little wary of one another,
since we scarcely spoke about the subject at
all — me because, as a neophyte, I was
unwilling to display my ignorance of it and
Bill because, as I was later to discover, had
so much to talk about that interested him
more than straight IP. But what I did find
out, in that first meeting, was how many
important people he knew and how well he had
assessed their usefulness to me in my chosen
subject.
It was more than a decade later, in 1985,
that I next encountered Bill. He was then
about to succeed the legendary Professor
Friedrich-Karl Beier as President of ATRIP,
the Association for Advancement of Teaching
and Research in Intellectual Property. It
turned out that I had made sufficient of an
impression for him to summon me from the
wilds of Queen Mary College’s Mile End Campus
in order to act as Secretary to ATRIP during
his term of office. It was during Bill’s two-
year presidency that I got to know him much
better. I can testify that he was a pleasure
to work with. His instructions to me were
always brief, relevant and unambiguous. To be
honest, he didn’t really need a secretariat.
I often found that, by the time I came to
carry out his orders, he had already
performed to perfection the administrative
chores with which he had tasked me.
ATRIP conferences displayed Bill at his best.
Here he could share his deep understanding of
IP with colleagues from around the world. A
good and diplomatic listener, he gave his ear
to all who sought it. Quiet and serious by
nature, he was always on duty, though we all
enjoyed watching him let his hair down at
venues where a piano might be found; he would
play though a series of exquisitely executed
pieces with a verve and panache that stood in
stark contrast with the solemnity of his set-
piece speeches.
# ⚓ Counsel_set_out_concerns_about_EPO_after_latest_BoA
move_announcement [Ed: Serious_corruption;_nobody
punished]⠀⇛
In light of the proposal to move the offices
of the EPO Boards of Appeal back to central
Munich, just five years after they were
relocated to the suburb of Haar, counsel told
Managing IP they’d be more than pleased the
see the BoA return.
They noted that the move had given them pause
to reflect on the whole episode and what it
said about the EPO, however.
“From commercial point of view, it’s a
catastrophe,” said Beat Weibel, chief IP
counsel at Siemens in Munich.
# ⚓ Asia_patent_trends_in_2022:_SEP_rates,_court_changes
and_more [Ed: Another think tank manned only by patent
maximalists and profiteers, to be covered by so-called
‘journalists’ they subsidise for propaganda_and
lobbying]⠀⇛
Patent lawyers from China, India, Japan,
South Korea and Singapore talk about SEPs,
pharma patents and other matters they’re
keeping an eye on this year
# § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Access_Advance_licence_is_non-FRAND,_rules
Regional_Court_Düsseldorf [Ed: Software patents
being advanced_into_Europe or creeping into
illegal territories by “HEVC_Advance”]⠀⇛
Four members of the Access Advance
patent pool, formerly known as HEVC
Advance, have been in dispute with
Vestel since summer 2020 over six
patents for the HEVC/H.265 standard.
However, the court has declared the
member licenses to be non-FRAND. The
technology enables the encoding of
video content and images, and is used
in television sets and for streaming on
mobile devices.
Pool members GE Video Compression,
Dolby, IP Bridge and Philips are the
plaintiff accusing Vestel of infringing
patents EP 25 59 245, EP 28 42 318
(both GE), EP 27 77 270, EP 27 77 269
(both Dolby) as well as EP 17 39 973
(IP Bridge) and EP 29 50 544 (Philips).
All patents are SEPs.
[...]
The court’s decision to find the pool
members’ licensing offer non-FRAND
surprised the patent community. In a
similar case, in summer 2020 the same
judge found HEVC Advance’s licenses to
be FRAND in a dispute with MAS
Elektronik. That case involved some of
the same patents as the present case,
namely Dolby’s EP 270 and GE’s EP 245.
Recently, in almost all other major
disputes in which patent pools sued
implementers, German patent chambers
have generally ruled favourably for
patent holders. An example is in the
dispute between Via Licensing against
TCL or in the protracted proceedings
between MPEG LA and Huawei.
# ⚓ $2,000_for_Xperi_Holding_prior_art [Ed:
Software patents again. Use Alice/Section 101
instead of "prior art"]⠀⇛
On January 4, 2022, Unified Patents
added a new PATROLL contest, with a
$2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on
at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent
11,012,720. The patent is owned by
Xperi Holding Corporation, an NPE. The
’720 patent generally relates to
selectively providing a buffer time
prior to deletion of a media content
item.
# ⚓ Another_MicroPairing_patent_challenged⠀⇛
On January 4, 2022, Unified filed a
petition for inter partes review (IPR)
against U.S. Patent 7,178,049, owned by
MicroParing Technologies LLC, an NPE.
The ’049 patent is generally directed
to managing applications in a multi-
processor system in a vehicle and was
asserted against several car companies
in 2021, including Mazda, Kia, Hyundai,
Honda, Toyota, GM, Nissan, Mitsubishi,
FCA, and Volvo.
# ⚓ $2,000_for_HY_LIT_Radio_Tech_prior_art⠀⇛
On January 4, 2022, Unified Patents
added a new PATROLL contest, with a
$2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on
at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent
8,793,330. The patent is owned by HY
LIT Radio Technologies Inc., an NPE.
The ‘330 patent generally relates to a
system and method for displaying
graphics, text, animation, video, and
other content.
# ⚓ Patent_splurging:_how_in-house_would_spend
budget_increases [Ed: Litigation fanatics and
profiteers just want to sue more and more for
profit, say they "would invest in people" (what
people? Patent trolls? Brutal litigators?); they
are destroying companies and people's careers]⠀⇛
Four lawyers tell Managing IP that they
would invest in people, foreign filings
and patent quality if their budgets
went up by 20% or more
# ⚓ UK:_Health-Conscious_IP_Strategies [Ed: When
HGF isn’t too busy spreading lies for the illegal
and unconstitutional UPC it helps the EPO spread
lies and propaganda terms (“MedTech_IP”) as
loophole for unlawful software patents]⠀⇛
As MedTech patent filings grow, so do
the number of rights obtained by
applicants operating in the healthcare
market. In addition to restricting the
actions of new entrants in the
marketplace, patent portfolios can be
monetised to provide licensing income
and returns on R&D investment. The
graph below (based on statistics from
the European Patent Office) shows that
the number of MedTech patents granted
in Europe has vastly increased over the
last ten years, reflecting the
expansion of R&D activities throughout
this industry.
# § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ Board_of_Appeal_sweeps_floor_with_Invalidity
Division:_vacuum_cleaner_bags_do_enjoy_design_right
protection [Ed: Reminder that the EUIPO’s Boards of
Appeal, which are controlled by a_crooked_crony, are
not too concerned about actual novelty]⠀⇛
With the holiday season behind us, the vacuum
cleaner is a valuable ally to get rid of
leftover pine needles or bits of broken
baubles. For those Kats that have a vacuum
cleaner operating with cleaner bags, a
decision by the EUIPO (Third) Board of Appeal
(‘BOA’) may be ofparticular interest. In the
case of Miele v. Green Label (of 23 August
2021), the BOA ruled that vacuum cleaner bags
enjoy design right protection, overturning a
previous decision by the Invalidity Division.
# ⚓ Four_US_trademark_and_copyright_trends_shaping_2022:
lawyers [Ed: A site called Managing IP [sic] conflating
trademark law and copyright law]⠀⇛
Attorneys may finally see the effects of the
CASE Act and the Trademark Modernization Act
in the new year, among other things
# ⚓ The_TTABlog®:_Professor_McCarthy_Criticizes_CAFC’s
Stance_on_Article_III_Standing_in_Brooklyn_Brewery
Case⠀⇛
Professor J. Thomas McCarthy has provided to
me his comments on the CAFC’s October 27,
2021 decision in the Brooklyn Brewery case,
in which the appellate court largely affirmed
the TTAB’s denial of Plaintiff Brooklyn
Brewery’s petition for cancellation of a
registration for the mark BROOKLYN BREW SHOP
(in standard form) for beer-making kits.
However, as to the Board’s dismissal of
Brewery’s opposition to the stylized form of
the mark for “sanitizing preparations for
household use,” the court ruled that Brewery
lacked Article III standing to appeal that
decision because it failed to demonstrate
that it would suffer injury if the
registration were granted, since the Brewery
does not sell sanitizing preparations. That,
in Professor McCarthy’s view, was a serious
error. His comments are set out below.
[...]
In my opinion, the court’s embrace in the
Brooklyn Brewery case of a novel requirement
of a competitive relationship is both
unprecedented and alarming. I can only hope
that it will not be read by this or other
courts to work a sudden and far-reaching
change in the legal test for likelihood of
confusion. A century ago, courts did require
competition between the parties for
infringement by likelihood of confusion to
occur. For example, in 1912 the Seventh
Circuit found no infringement of the
trademark BORDEN for milk by the use of
BORDEN for ice cream because the goods were
non-competitive. Borden Ice Cream Co v.
Borden’s Condensed Milk Co, 201 F. 510, 513
(7th Cir. 1912).
Under that early view of trademark law,
unless there was competition between the
parties, there could not be a diversion of
customers and thus there could be no injury
to the mark owner. Case law in the early 20th
century decisively rejected the earlier
precedent. For many decades since, no court,
including the Federal Circuit, has held that
the parties must be in competition with each
other for a likelihood of confusion to occur.
See McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair
Competition, §24:13 (Competition is Not
Necessary for Confusion to Occur.) The
Federal Circuit itself held that the “related
goods test measures whether a reasonably
prudent consumer would believe that
noncompetitive but related goods sold under
similar marks derive from the same source, or
are affiliated with, connected with, or
sponsored by the same trademark owner.” In re
Save Venice New York, Inc., 259 F.3d 1346,
1355, 59 U.S.P.Q.2d 1778 (Fed. Cir. 2001),
# ⚓ Dairy_good:_Judge_rules_‘gruyere’_is_not_a_term
exclusive_to_Europe [Ed: Monopolies on words and name
never end too well]⠀⇛
A judicial ruling has determined that
“gruyere” is a generic style of cheese that
can come from anywhere.
Senior Judge T. S. Ellis III of the United
States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia upheld the August 5,
2020, precedential decision of the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial
and Appeal Board. The decision reaffirms that
all cheesemakers, not just those in France or
Switzerland, can continue to create and
market cheese under this common name.
In the judicial decision made public
yesterday evening, the Consortium for Common
Food Names,U.S. Dairy Export Council,
National Milk Producers Federation, and a
coalition of other dairy stakeholders
prevailed in their sustained fight to
preserve the ability of all actors in the
U.S. marketplace to use generic terms.
# ⚓ Dairy_scores_key_victory_in_US_fight_for_cheese_names
[Ed: Monopolies on names of cheese]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Why_collaboration_is_crucial_for_trademark_industry
innovation_–_exclusive_IP_office_roundtable [Ed:
Grotesque terms such as "trademark industry" (yes,
industry) show what happened to what was supposed to
exist for one purpose but got corrupted over time]⠀⇛
There have been some major innovation
developments at national offices around the
world in the past 18 months, as new
partnerships have been struck to bring non-
core tools and services to users.
# ⚓ 3D_trade_marks_return_to_equilibrium?_The_end_of_the
Gömböc_saga [Ed: CJEU fires back against #trademark
maximalists?]⠀⇛
In 2020, upon referral by the Supreme Court
of Hungary (Kúria), the CJEU issued a leading
case on the interpretation of Art. 3(1)(e) of
the Trade Mark Directive related to a 3D
shape (Gömböc, C-237/19, Kat post, here). The
Kúria issued its decision following the CJEU
ruling in late 2021 (not yet published online
at the time of writing) and put an end to the
case, ruling that the shape of the Gömböc
cannot be protected under EU trade mark law.
Before delving into the reasoning of the
Court, a refresher in Euclidean solid
geometry will be helpful. Until recently, it
was believed that a three-dimensional body
having only two equilibrium points (one
stable and one unstable) did not exist. This
conjecture was tested by two Hungarian
engineers who not only proved it wrong, but
actually built the three-dimensional body
representing such a shape, naming it the
Gömböc (read more about the etymology of this
word in the Kat post on the CJEU decision).
[...]
The applicant also sought registration of the
Gömböc shape for “decorative items” in class
14 and “decorative crystalware and chinaware”
in class 21. The Court addressed the two
product classes together.
The Court first observed that the relevant
public considers the Gömböc shape to be the
tangible symbol of a mathematical discovery.
Hence, the relevant public wishes to purchase
a Gömböc because of what it represents in
terms of the history of science. The main
objective of trade marks is to distinguish
between products or services of competitors.
The substantial value of the shape of a
Gömböc stems, as the Court put it, “from an
intellectual creation” and not from the
intent to distinguish certain goods from
goods of a competitor.
Trade mark law is not the correct
intellectual property right to protect such
shapes. Accordingly, the Court ruled that the
shape of a Gömböc is excluded from
registration for decorative items in classes
14 and 21, based on Art. 3(1)(e)(iii) of the
Trade Mark Directive (and the Hungarian
statutory provisions implementing it).
# ⚓ TTAB_Sustains_Section_2(d)_Opposition_to_ALZHEIMER’S
NEW_JERSEY_WALK_TO_FIGHT_ALZHEIMER’S_&_Design_for
Charitable_Fundraising⠀⇛
The Board sustained this opposition to
registration of the mark ALZHEIMER’S NEW
JERSEY WALK TO FIGHT ALZHEIMER’S & Design on
the ground of likelihood of confusion with
the common law mark WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S &
Design, both marks for charitable fundraising
services. The Board readily rejected the
applicant’s prior registration (a/k/
a Morehouse ] defense. Alzheimer’s Disease
and Related Disorders Association v.
Alzheimer’s New Jersey, Opposition No.
91245121 (December 31, 2021) [not
precedential] [Opinion by Judge Robert H.
Coggins].
# ⚓ The_TTABlog®:_TTABlog_Test:_How_Did_These_Three
Recent_Section_2(d)_Appeals_Turn_Out?⠀⇛
Here are the first three TTAB decisions of
the new year in appeals from Section 2(d)
refusals. No hints today. How do you think
they turned out? [Answer in first comment].
# ⚓ [Guest_post]_Retromark_Volume_X:_the_last_six_months
in_trade_marks_–_The_IPKat [Ed: What 2021 was like for
trademark maximalists that think shapes are "owned"]⠀⇛
Retromark turns ten volumes, making it about
four and a half human years old. That’s
roughly 30 in dog years and closer to mid-30s
in cat years (apparently). A lot has changed
over that time, but the trade mark cases keep
coming.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ This_Week_in_Linux_180:_Linux_5.16,_Linux_Mint,_elementary
OS,_KDE,_Ubuntu_Gaming,_Pinephone_–_TuxDigital⠀⇛
On this episode of This Week in Linux, Linux Kernel
5.16, Linux Mint 20.3, elementary OS 6.1, Canonical
is rebuilding Snapcraft and Ubuntu might be getting
serious about gaming, KDE Roadmap for 2022,
PinePhone Keyboard Addon, Ubuntu Touch OTA-21,
Heroic Games Launder 2.0.0, SuperTux 0.6.3, Garuda
Linux 220101, and Gecko Linux. All that and much
more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews!
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Video_Conferencing_(LCA)_«_etbe_–_Russell_Coker⠀⇛
I’ve just done a tech check for my LCA lecture. I
had initially planned to do what I had done before
and use my phone for recording audio and video and
my PC for other stuff. The problem is that I wanted
to get an external microphone going and plugging in
a USB microphone turned off the speaker in the
phone (it seemed to direct audio to a non-existent
USB audio output). I tried using bluetooth
headphones with the USB microphone and that didn’t
work. Eventually a viable option seemed to be using
USB headphones on my PC with the phone for camera
and microphone. Then it turned out that my phone
(Huawei Mate 10 Pro) didn’t support resolutions
higher than VGA with Chrome (it didn’t have the
“advanced” settings menu to select resolution),
this is probably an issue of Android build
features. So the best option is to use a webcam on
the PC, I was recommended a Logitech C922 but
OfficeWorks only has a Logitech C920 which is
apparently OK.
# ⚓ How_To_Secure_the_Linux_Kernel_|_LinuxSecurity.com⠀⇛
With the support of the open-source community
behind it and a strict privilege system embedded in
its architecture, Linux has security built into its
design. That being said, gone are the days that
Linux system administrators could get away with
subpar security practices. Cyber criminals have
come to view Linux as a viable attack target due to
its growing popularity, the valuable devices it
powers worldwide, and an array of dangerous new
Linux malware variants that have emerged in recent
years.
It has become apparent that the majority of attacks
on Linux systems can be attributed to
misconfigurations and poor administration – and
failure to properly secure the Linux kernel is
often at least partially to blame. Kernel security
is a key determinant of overall system security, as
the Linux kernel is the foundation of the Linux OS
and the core interface between a computer’s
hardware and its processes.
Luckily, the Linux kernel possesses an assortment
of effective built-in security defenses – namely,
firewalls that use packet filters built into the
kernel, Secure Boot, Linux Kernel Lockdown and
SELinux or AppArmor – that administrators should
take full advantage of. This article will examine
the importance of robust kernel security and
explore various measures that administrators can
take to secure the Linux kernel and protect their
systems from malware and other exploits.
# ⚓ MGLRU_Is_A_Very_Enticing_Enhancement_For_Linux_In_2022_–
Phoronix⠀⇛
Going back a number of months Google engineers have
been working to address the issue of the Linux
kernel’s page reclaim code being too expensive for
which they devised the multi-generational LRU
framework “MGLRU” and it continues being worked on
with mainline ambitions.
MGLRU has yielded very promising results from
servers down through Chrome OS and Android devices
too. MGLRU aims to make better choices than the
current kernel page reclaim code and to do so more
efficiently. Previous numbers punted by Google
engineers were cold start times reduced by up to
16% while enjoying fewer low-memory kills, Chrome
OS saw upwards of 59% fewer out-of-memory kills and
96% fewer low-memory tab discards in its browser,
and server results have been very promising too.
# ⚓ Linux_5.16_Graphics_Performance_In_Great_Shape_For_AMD
Ryzen_APUs_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
Back on Christmas Eve I noted how the Linux 5.16
performance was looking real good for AMD APUs as a
performance improvement not widely noted to that
point with significant uplift over Linux 5.15
stable. The good news is Linux 5.16 is set to debut
as stable today and the benchmark results with AMD
APU graphics is looking very promising after
carrying out tests on additional available systems.
# ⚓ Linux_5.17_To_Introduce_Cirrus_CS35L41_HD_Audio_Codec
Driver_–_Phoronix⠀⇛
Among many other sound driver changes destined for
the upcoming Linux 5.17 cycle, Cirrus Logic has
contributed CS35L41 HD audio codec support in the
form of a new sound driver, cs35l41_hda.
Cirrus Logic announced the CS35L41 back in 2019 as
the “smallest, low-power boosted smart audio
amplifier” and its product page talks it up as “the
industry’s most advanced smart boosted audio
amplifier solution for mobile devices. It features
a top-of-the-line boosted Class D amplifier,
combined with an integrated DSP and 5th generation
enhancement and protection algorithms. A closed-
loop digital input Class D amplifier and an 11 V
Class H envelope-tracking boost maximize output
power and efficiency. The amplifier features the
lowest power consumption, lowest noise, and
smallest package size of any amplifier in its
class.”
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ How_to_Install_VMware_Workstation_Pro_Linux_Mint_20_–
LinuxCapable⠀⇛
VMware Workstation is a virtual machine software
used for x86 and x86-64 computers to run multiple,
isolated operating systems over a single physical
host machine. Each virtual machine can run a single
instance of any operating system such as FreeBSD,
Linux, macOS, or Windows. VMware was established in
1998 with a solid history of producing high-quality
products for virtualization, with VMware
Workstation being launched in 2001.
Widespread use for virtual machines is to run
isolated environments for production or in running
services for services. With VMware for production,
you can swap between settings quickly. If resources
permit the host operating system, you can have
multiple virtualization operating systems running
separately or working together. This is also useful
for Linux users who run numerous copies of
distributions.
In the following tutorial, you will learn how to
install VMware PRO 16 on Linux Mint 20.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_PyCharm_IDE_on_Linux_Mint_20_–
LinuxCapable⠀⇛
PyCharm is a dedicated Python graphical IDE
(Integrated Development Environment) popular
amongst Python developers with its wide range of
essential tools such as analyzing code, debugging,
and integration. The IDE also comes with the
command line, connects to a database, creates a
virtual environment, and manages your version
control system (Git).
IIn the following tutorial, you will learn how to
install PyCharm Community, Professional or
Educational, with Flatpak or Snapcraft (Snap) on
Linux Mint 20.
# ⚓ How_To_Dual_Boot_Your_Raspberry_Pi_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛
Linux users will be familiar with dual booting
their systems. We often have Linux running
alongside Windows, or another Linux distro. The
Raspberry Pi, itself a small $35 Linux computer,
isn’t particularly well known for dual booting, but
it can be done; all we need is a little help.
PINN is a website which creates a custom
installation script tailored to our specific
requirements. With PINN, we can install multiple
OSes to a single micro SD card or USB stick. PINN
doesn’t download an OS to our cards, rather it
creates an installation file that when run on our
Raspberry Pi, will automatically download and
install all of our OS choices. From there all we
need to do is reboot, choose a new OS and we are
ready to create more great Raspberry Pi projects.
# ⚓ Remove_password_from_Bank_Statement⠀⇛
# ⚓ Bash_scripting(II)⠀⇛
This is the second article of a series focused in
Gnu Bash scripting. On the first bash scripting
article we’ve just created the most simple script:
simple commands, one after another. We also saw
some variables use.This article will cover bash
control structures.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_Deepin_Desktop_Environment_(UbuntuDDE)_on
Linux_Mint_20_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛
The Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) is known to be
one of the most excellent aesthetic-looking desktop
environments created by the developers of Deepin
Linux. It is often regarded too as the most
beautiful desktop on Linux. For users of Ubuntu and
Linux Mint, Deepin can be installed by way of
UbuntuDDE and comes with all the features of the
standard Deepin shell with the addition of Linux
Mint/Ubuntu software center and applications
instead of the Deepin application store catalog.
In the following tutorial, you will learn how to
install Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) on Linux
Mint 20.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_Jellyfin_Media_Server_Linux_Mint_20_–
LinuxCapable⠀⇛
Jellyfin is a free, open-source multimedia
application designed to organize, manage, and share
digital media files to networked devices on an
internal network and can be accessed remotely
desired. It is a cross-platform and alternative to
other major players, Plex and Emby. You can access
it from a range of devices such as Mobile, Tablets,
TV, and PCs or popular media devices like Roku or
Nvidia shield. Jellyfin also serves media to DLNA
and Chromecast-enabled devices and can fetch
metadata just like Plex and Emby do so that you can
organize your media into categories in a rich
multimedia experience.
If you would like to test, Jellyfin has created a
demo server to log in and check it out for
yourself.
# ⚓ How_To_Install_YetiForce_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
YetiForce on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who
didn’t know, YetiForce is an open-source and
innovative CRM system. It is built on top of Vtiger
and has hundreds of changes that help to accomplish
even the most challenging tasks in the simplest
way. YetiForce manages relations with customers,
suppliers, partners, and staff. It offers
efficiency, control, multitasking and can integrate
with other applications such as maps, LDAP, DAV
applications, SMS, and social media portals.
This article assumes you have at least basic
knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and
most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes
you are running in the root account, if not you may
need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you through the step-by-
step installation of YetiForce CRM on an Ubuntu
20.04 (Focal Fossa).
o § Distributions⠀➾
# § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ antiX-17.5_point_release_update_–_antiX_Linux⠀⇛
antiX-17.5 is the final point release update
of our 17 series based on Debian Stretch.
As usual we offer the following completely
systemd-free (and for this particular upgrade
– elogind-free) flavours for both 32 and 64
bit architecture.
antiX-full (c1.1GB) – 4 windows managers –
IceWM (default), fluxbox, jwm and
herbstluftwm plus full libreoffice suite.
antiX-base (c750MB) – 4 windows managers –
IceWM (default), fluxbox, jwm and
herbstluftwm.
antiX-core (c360MB) – no X, but should
support most wireless.
antiX-net (c165MB)- no X. Just enough to get
you connected (wired) and ready to build.
# § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Moving_my_repositories_from_Github_to_Codeberg.org_–
WindfluechterNet_Blog⠀⇛
Some weeks ago I moved my repositories from
Github (evil, Microsoft, blabla) to Codeberg.
Codeberg is a non-profit organisation located
in Germany. When you really dislike Microsoft
products it is somewhat a natural reaction
(at least for me) to move away from Github,
which was bought by Microsoft, to some more
independent service provider for hosting
source code.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ FAA_lists_50_airports_that_will_have_5G_buffer_zones_ahead
of_C-band_expansion⠀⇛
The FAA notes that AT&T and Verizon have agreed to
turn off their 5G transmitters at these specific
buffer zones for six months, which should “minimize
potential 5G interference with sensitive aircraft
instruments used in low-visibility landings.” Some
airports — including major hubs like Hartsfield /
Jackson International and Denver International —
didn’t make the list, either because they aren’t in
locations where 5G C-Band deployment will take
place, or they can’t permit low-visibility
landings.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ A_TikToker_Made_$200,000_Farting_In_Jars._Here’s_How_She_Did_It⠀⇛
As a self-described “fartpreneur,” however, Matto may
have girlbossed a little too close to the sun. On
Christmas, she says, she went to the ER with what she
describes as heart attack-esque symptoms, which doctors
promptly diagnosed as severe gas pain as a result of her
diet. Matto’s visit to the ER, which she recounted to a
journalist from the U.K. outlet Jam Press, was aggregated
across news outlets across the globe, prompting fervent
social media debate as to whether Matto’s fart-selling
enterprise was a savvy business move or a cultural death
rattle resounding from the bowels of late-stage
capitalism (pun very much intended). Yet Matto is
unruffled by such critiques, and has harnessed her
newfound virality into promoting her newest venture:
selling fart jar NFTs for 0.05 ETH (a little less than
$200) each, though she has significantly reduced sales of
her physical fart jars following her ER visit.
Eager to learn the inner workings of a thriving fart jar
business, Rolling Stone called Matto up at her home in
northwestern Connecticut to discuss online sex work, the
economics of selling a smell, and whether or not she
plans to pivot to selling her queefs. She also threw in a
plug for what is, in her educated opinion, the best
flatulence-inducing pastry on the market.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Want_to_Restore_Your_Faith_in_Humanity?_Visit_a_Scientific
Conference⠀⇛
But, as in many other areas of life, social media
distorts our perspective, because it signal boosts
the angriest and loudest members of every
subculture. In truth, most scientists are engaged
in apolitical work, which they conduct beneath the
surface of public observation and commentary—as I
reminded myself last month, during an informative
and inspiring visit to the five-day American
Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Convention in New
Orleans.
# ⚓ James_Webb_telescope_finishes_crucial_steps_on_way_to_final
orbit⠀⇛
Over the past 14 days, the observatory’s enormous
gold-coated primary mirror and smaller secondary
mirror were unfurled, and the telescope’s
multilayered sunshield was extended. The
announcement marks the completion one of the
riskiest and most challenging maneuvers since it
launched into space.
Finishing the two-week deployment was a critical
milestone for the mission and involved dozens of
carefully choreographed post-launch maneuvers. The
telescope will now spend roughly two weeks
journeying to its final destination, a stable
position in orbit around the sun that is around 1
million miles away from Earth.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Schools_Need_More_Resources_Before_They_Can_Open_Safely,
Chicago_Teacher_Says⠀⇛
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hidden_Shaft_And_Gears_Make_This_Hollow_Clock_Go_|
Hackaday⠀⇛
[shiura]’s Hollow Clock 3 is a fantastic 3D printed
take on a clock movement that uses a hidden
mechanism to pull off its unusual operation. The
Hollow Clock has no face, just an open space with
an hour and minute hand that move as expected. Only
the longer minute hand has any apparent connection
to the rest of the clock body, with the rest
appearing to hang in the air.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Opinion_|_Activism_Will_Be_Key_to_Overcoming_the_Covid-19
Crisis⠀⇛
As the Omicron surge overwhelms the world, it is
clear to people everywhere that the actions which
leaders so far have taken in response to the Covid-
19 crisis have not been sufficient to overcome it.
# ⚓ Biden_and_GOP_May_Find_Bipartisanship_by_Elevating_Big
Pharma’s_Pick_to_FDA_Head⠀⇛
# ⚓ ‘I_Know_What_the_End_of_the_World_Looks_Like’⠀⇛
So despite him, I looked at buying a little bit of
agricultural land, thinking it was actually a good
hedge to inflation to have a piece of land where I
can grow my own food. And that made me realize how
messed up the agricultural systems around the world
were, and how very little of it made any economic
sense. I didn’t end up investing in the land, but I
ended up investing tons and tons of time learning
everything I could about agriculture, and I just
completely got obsessed.
How is it that we’ve been talking about food
security for decades, and yet every time I ask a
question I’m only getting more questions? Every
time I seek an answer and I’m trying to find the
data, I can’t find what I need? I became really
attached to that problem. And I thought, “What can
I do for Africa?” So when I quit, it was basically
with this very loosey-goosey idea around, “I’m
going to start a company and it’s going to do
something around data and agriculture.”
# ⚓ The_public_health_case_for_decarcerating_America’s_prison
system⠀⇛
But numbers like these only scratch the surface of
the damage incarceration leaves in its wide-
rippling wake. That’s because biomedical and social
conditions are always intertwined, which means that
they implicate not just individuals but
communities. As a result, harms inflicted on
incarcerated individuals undermine the health and
safety of their families, neighborhoods, counties,
and, ultimately, the whole country. America’s mass
incarceration problem is a massive public health
threat to us all.
# ⚓ The_existential_panic_in_“Don’t_Look_Up”_is_real._I_see_it
in_my_clients⠀⇛
These days, I no longer compartmentalize the
climate crisis in therapy sessions as I once did.
My colleagues and I are learning to lead by example
in the hopes of promoting a healthier response of
engagement to our threatened “more-than-human-
world.”
o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾
# § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ 500M_Avira_Antivirus_Users_Introduced_to
Cryptomining⠀⇛
Many readers were surprised to learn recently
that the popular Norton 360 antivirus suite
now ships with a program which lets customers
make money mining virtual currency. But
Norton 360 isn’t alone in this dubious
endeavor: Avira antivirus — which has built a
base of 500 million users worldwide largely
by making the product free — was recently
bought by the same company that owns Norton
360 and is introducing its customers to a
service called Avira Crypto.
# § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ [Older]_Log4j_attacks_remain_low-key_compared
to_infosec_industry_hype⠀⇛
The Log4j vulnerability appears to have
been overhyped by the infosec industry,
with nothing like the scale of attacks
expected materialising.
The flaw, an unauthenticated remote
code exploit, allows the complete
takeover of systems using versions 2.0-
beta9 up to 2.14.1 of the library
Log4j.
Well-known British security researcher
Marcus Hutchins was one of those to
throw cold water on some of the hype,
pointing out that what was rumoured to
be a Log4j worm did not work at all.
“I’ve reverse engineered this supposed
Log4j worm and it doesn’t work at all,”
he said. “There’s also several bugs in
the code that mean even if they did fix
the core failure, it would still be
completely ineffective.”
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Mafia_fugitive_arrested_in_Spain,_spotted
on_Google_Street_View⠀⇛
A Google Street View appearance
led to the arrest of a Gioacchino
Gammino.
# ⚓ Italian_mafia_fugitive_arrested_in_Spain
after_being_spotted_on_Google_Street_View⠀⇛
Nicola Altiero, deputy director
of the Italian anti-mafia police
unit (DIA), said Google Maps had
helped police to “confirm the
investigation we were developing
in traditional ways”.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Opinion_|_Dick_Cheney_Paved_the_Way_for_Trump_and_the
Capitol_Insurrection⠀⇛
Former Vice President Dick Cheney accompanied his
daughter, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), to the Capitol on
Thursday to join the moment of silence in
commemoration of the Jan. 6 insurrection. They were
the only Republicans to attend.
# ⚓ Opinion_|_Desmond_Tutu_Rememberances_Ignore_His_Dedication
to_Palestinians_Rights⠀⇛
Obituaries in the corporate and establishment press
for South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu rightly
celebrated him not only as one of the key leaders
of the struggle against apartheid in his own
country, but as a global advocate against
oppression, including being a fierce Christian
voice against homophobia.
# ⚓ Police_probe_at_Birmingham_mosque_as_visiting_imam_‘praises
murderer’_in_New_Year_sermon⠀⇛
A visiting imam, speaking at Central Jamia Mosque
Ghamkol Sharif in Small Heath, was heard to
allegedly praise murderer Mumtaz Qadri, who gunned
down Pakistani politician Salman Taseer in cold
blood and was later convicted of murder and
executed for the crime.
# ⚓ An_expert_on_civil_war_issues_a_warning_about_America⠀⇛
The well-argued part goes something like this.
Countries are most vulnerable to civil war when
they are somewhere between dictatorship and liberal
democracy. In a functional democracy, people have
no cause to take up arms. In a full-blown
dictatorship, they are likely to be locked up or
killed the moment they do so. The danger zone opens
up when a dictatorship gives way to a looser form
of government, but the new regime has not yet found
its feet. “Given a choice between democracy and
dictatorship, most will gladly take democracy,” Ms
Walter writes. “But the road to democracy is a
dangerous one.”
A second risk factor is factionalism. Since the end
of the cold war, perhaps 75% of civil wars have
been fought between ethnic and religious groups,
rather than political ones. Here what matters is
not how diverse a country is, but whether politics
revolves around identity.
Political leaders who stir up fear of another group
to win support from their own are often especially
dangerous. Consider (as Ms Walter does) the former
Yugoslavia. As the cold war ended, it cast off
communism and began to move towards democracy. It
promptly fell apart, goaded by “ethnic
entrepreneurs” such as Slobodan Milosevic.
# ⚓ Kazakh_president_gives_shoot-to-kill_order_to_quell
protests⠀⇛
Dozens have died and public buildings across
Kazakhstan have been ransacked and torched in the
worst violence the ex-Soviet republic has
experienced in 30 years of independence.
Moscow said more than 70 planes were ferrying
Russian troops into Kazakhstan, and that these were
now helping control Almaty’s main airport,
recaptured on Thursday from protesters.
# ⚓ Far-right_extremists_shift_online_strategies⠀⇛
Domestic extremists are adapting their online
strategies to push disinformation and conspiracies
despite a crackdown by social media platforms in
the year since the attack by a pro-Trump mob on the
Capitol.
Online extremist groups and far-right influencers
are using more coded language to slip through gaps
in mainstream content moderation enforcement and
are still active on alternative platforms that have
risen in popularity since the Jan. 6, 2021,
[insurrection].
Experts say efforts to counter domestic extremism
must adapt as well, or else the spread of
disinformation online poses real world risks
heading into the midterm elections this November
and the 2024 presidential election.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Man_in_lucky_escape_in_Haapsalu_sea_ice_plunge,_vehicle
lost⠀⇛
However, conditions in western Estonia so far this
winter have not proved suitable to open the ice
road yet, with the individual demonstrating exactly
why that is the case as the car plunged through the
weak ice, around 100 meters from the shore,
witnesses said, at around 7.20 p.m. Friday.
# ⚓ Greenland’s_Ice_Sheet_Has_Lost_Mass_for_the_25th_Year_in_a
Row⠀⇛
# ⚓ Opinion_|_Take_It_From_Climate_Scientists:_“Don’t_Look_Up”
Is_Damning—But_Not_Nearly_Damning_Enough⠀⇛
**Spoiler alert.** “Don’t Look Up” is a flawed
movie about everything my climate colleagues and I
hate about the world, and then the world ENDS.
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ Kazakhstan_unrest_takes_down_a_fifth_of_global
bitcoin_mining_network⠀⇛
Nationwide [Internet] outages in Kazakhstan
amid civil unrest have knocked almost a fifth
of the world’s bitcoin miners offline. Vast
numbers of mining groups that had relocated
to the central Asian country after a state
crackdown in China last year now find
themselves once again out of action.
Bitcoin relies on a network of computers
known as miners that solve mathematical
problems to secure the currency, consuming
vast amounts of electricity in the process.
But without a working [Internet] connection,
the process is impossible.
China was once the global powerhouse of
bitcoin mining with a market share of 75.5
per cent, but government restrictions in May
last year caused the entire industry to
relocate and seek friendlier states with
cheap energy. Kazakhstan was an attractive
location for these groups because of abundant
cheap energy, but because fossil fuels,
including coal, make up more than 90 per cent
of the nation’s electricity supply, it did
little to help bitcoin’s already large effect
on the climate.
# ⚓ Why_clean_energy_advocates_are_divided_over
California’s_plan_to_slash_solar_incentives⠀⇛
California has more homes with rooftop PV
panels than any other state. That’s thanks in
part to a history of generous incentives for
people with home solar systems. If someone
doesn’t use up all the solar energy their
panels collect, they can sell it back to the
grid. Under the state’s “net metering”
program, they can sell it at the same retail
rate at which they would buy electricity. The
program is supposed to help people recoup the
costs of installing their solar system. But
if the CPUC ultimately votes to approve its
new proposal, the selling price would drop
dramatically to better reflect the
commission’s estimates of what that energy is
actually worth.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Two_Lawyers_Arguing_Remotely_Against_Vaccine_Mandates
at_Supreme_Court_Had_COVID⠀⇛
# ⚓ Federal_Action_Demanded_After_Endangered_Wolf_Anubis
Illegally_Killed_in_Arizona⠀⇛
Outraged wildlife advocates demanded action
from the U.S. government on Friday after
learning that an endangered Mexican gray
wolf—famous for wandering across the
Southwest and named Anubis by
schoolchildren—was illegally shot and killed
in the Kaibab National Forest near Flagstaff,
Arizona.
“The killing of Anubis… is another tragic
reminder that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service needs to expand the recovery area.”
# ⚓ Wildlife_can_now_be_detected_by_sniffing_DNA_in_the
air⠀⇛
Two of these groups, one led by Christina
Lynggaard of the University of Copenhagen and
the other by Elizabeth Clare of York
University, in Toronto, have used zoos to
test ways of extracting DNA from the
atmosphere. Zoos are ideal for this because
they house known animals. Both groups have
just published preliminary results in Current
Biology. Others, meanwhile, are already
looking in the wild.
Dr Clare’s team adapted an existing sample-
collection method by pumping air through
filters normally employed to extract DNA from
water. Dr Lynggaard’s team tried three
approaches. The first percolated the air to
be analysed through some water, to try to
dissolve any DNA it was carrying and so
permit that DNA to be analysed by
conventional metagenomic methods. The second
and third used fans—in one case large, of the
sort employed to cool big computers in data
centres, and in the other small, used to cool
desktop devices. In both instances these fans
blew air through filters of the type that
air-conditioning systems use to remove
particles of pollution.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ ‘Operating_in_Bad_Faith’:_Manchin_Reportedly_No_Longer
Supports_His_Own_BBB_Counteroffer⠀⇛
U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin came under fire Saturday
after The Washington Post reported that the West
Virginia Democrat “does not currently support”
passing even his own recent $1.8 trillion
counteroffer to President Joe Biden’s Build Back
Better agenda.
“Sen. Manchin is operating in bad faith,” tweeted
Nida Allam, a progressive congressional candidate
in North Carolina. “We need to be electing
Democrats who are accountable to the American
people and working families—not Dems who are
reneging on deals which would support millions.”
o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾
# ⚓ TikTok’s_Highest-Earning_Stars:_Charli_and_Dixie_D’Amelio
Raked_in_$27.5_Million_in_2021⠀⇛
To compile the list, Forbes looked at influencers
who rose to fame on TikTok (excluding celebrities
active on the app like Will Smith and Jason
DeRulo). The most recently ranking estimated what
TikTokers earned from Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2021, from
sponsored content and other income sources.
# ⚓ Firm_Behind_Trump-Backed_Arizona_Election_‘Audit’_Shuts
Down_After_Judge_Orders_$50,000_Daily_Fine⠀⇛
The news comes after Arizona election officials
earlier this week released a point-by-point
rebuttal of nearly 80 claims in the Cyber Ninjas’
review that were misleading or false, and as
Maricopa Superior Court Judge John Hannah found the
company in contempt of court for failing to comply
with an order to turn over audit records to the
Arizona Republic as part of a public records
request. Judge Hannah imposed a $50,000 daily fine
on Cyber Ninjas until the company can produce the
requested records.
Hannah noted that the fine could potentially apply
not only to the company as a whole, but to
individuals, among them former CEO Doug Logan, an
election fraud conspiracy theorist who wrote a
paper on behalf of GOP senators objecting to
Congress certifying Joe Biden’s election win. That
amount was fifty times greater than the $1,000 fine
requested by a lawyer for the Arizona Republic.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ What_a_previous_iconoclastic_period_reveals_about_the
present_one⠀⇛
In the 19th century serious attempts were made to
recover Britain’s artistic heritage. In 1841 John
Neale, an influential antiquarian, advised
churchwardens to conserve any old murals they might
discover: “They are so curious that they ought to
be looked to with great care.” Other images were
imported. The French Revolution had set off a wave
of iconoclasm and thrown much medieval art onto the
international market. Some of the oldest and finest
stained glass in Britain is in the east window of
St James’s church in Twycross, Leicestershire.
Installed in the 1840s, it comes from French
churches including Le Mans cathedral and Ste-
Chapelle in Paris.
# ⚓ MLB_Commissioner_Meets_The_Streisand_Effect_After_Ousting
Ken_Rosenthal_From_The_MLB_Network⠀⇛
We’ve talked a great deal about Major League
Baseball here at Techdirt. Notably, for a long time
those discussions have positive in nature, whether
it was MLB’s interesting pivots once COVID-19 went
global or the expansion of its excellent streaming
services. Now, while the league has also had issues
playing IP enforcer in the past, or the more recent
self-own the league conducted in response to its
players lockout, the fact is that commissioner Rob
Manfred has generally been a fresh voice of
modernity and technological progress for the
league.
o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Three_wise_kings_and_an_offer_to_Assange:_the_week_at_the
morning_press_conferences⠀⇛
The president also gave an offer of asylum to
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is set to be
extradited from the U.K. to the United States. “We
are willing to offer Assange asylum in Mexico, that
is our posture. We believe that the U.S. government
must act with humanity. Assange is sick … before
the end of President Donald Trump’s administration
I sent him a letter asking him to exonerate
[Assange].”
# ⚓ Independent_media_unable_to_cover_protests_in_Kazakhstan⠀⇛
What with arbitrary arrests, police violence,
blocked telecommunications and Internet cuts –
after four days of massive protests triggered by a
fuel price hike and after the declaration of a
state of emergency yesterday evening, journalists
and media outlets trying to cover the protests
continue to be the victims of the regime’s
persecution.
Authorities trying to control news coverage have
stepped up attacks on independent journalists in
the past two days.
# ⚓ Media_Worker_Killed_Covering_Violence_in_Kazakhstan⠀⇛
Muratkhan Bazarbayev, who worked for Almaty TV as a
driver, died when the station’s vehicle was shot at
during clashes in the city of Almaty on Wednesday.
A camera operator for the station was hospitalized
in the same attack, according to the news outlet
and media rights groups.
The news crew was covering protests that began late
last week in response to a fuel price hike and
evolved into mass unrest and violence in the
capital and other cities.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Opinion_|_What’s_Next_for_Corporate_Democrat_Plotters?
Voting_Rights⠀⇛
Remember when the Biden presidency was brand new
and Democrats in the House and Senate proposed a
sweeping, $6 trillion package to rebuild our social
safety net, cut drug prices, upgrade our
infrastructure, rescue our students and elderly,
and save the environment?
# ⚓ I_Worked_for_a_Refugee_Support_Organization_in_Calais.
Here’s_What_I_Saw.⠀⇛
# ⚓ ‘Our_Fight_Is_Not_Over’:_Egyptian-Palestinian_Rights
Activist_Ramy_Shaath_Freed_After_900+_Days⠀⇛
The family of Egyptian-Palestinian rights activist
Ramy Shaath said Saturday that they “are relieved
and overjoyed” to announce he is free after more
than 900 days of “unjust detention under inhumane
conditions” in Egypt.
“Two-and-a-half years later, I still have all my
resolve and my determination to continue.”
# ⚓ Black_Sexual_Violence_Survivors_Are_Telling_Their_Stories_—
Only_to_Be_Punished⠀⇛
# ⚓ Amazon_workers_will_now_get_only_a_week_of_COVID_PTO⠀⇛
Amazon has changed its PTO policy for workers
forced to quarantine, as reported by CNBC and the
Wall Street Journal. The policy has shrunk to one
week (or 40 hours) off, down from its initial
length of 14 days, which is still mentioned on an
Amazon hiring page (via Engadget) but had already
been shortened to ten days. Engadget’s report
includes an excerpt of Amazon’s notice to employees
about the change, citing the CDC’s updated
recommendations that people who have tested
positive for COVID should isolate for five days, as
long as their symptoms are gone.
Amazon isn’t alone in changing its policies along
with the federal government. As Engadget points
out, Walmart has also cut down the number of PTO
hours employees who contract COVID get. There have
also been reports of sick workers across the
country losing protections after the American
Rescue Plan expired on September 30th, leaving
state and local governments (and individual
employers) to decide the rules for themselves.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ My_first_impressions_of_web3⠀⇛
If we do want to change our relationship to
technology, I think we’d have to do it
intentionally. My basic thoughts are roughly:
1. We should accept the premise that people will
not run their own servers by designing systems that
can distribute trust without having to distribute
infrastructure. This means architecture that
anticipates and accepts the inevitable outcome of
relatively centralized client/server relationships,
but uses cryptography (rather than infrastructure)
to distribute trust. One of the surprising things
to me about web3, despite being built on “crypto,”
is how little cryptography seems to be involved!
2. We should try to reduce the burden of building
software. At this point, software projects require
an enormous amount of human effort. Even relatively
simple apps require a group of people to sit in
front of a computer for eight hours a day, every
day, forever. This wasn’t always the case, and
there was a time when 50 people working on a
software project wasn’t considered a “small team.”
As long as software requires such concerted energy
and so much highly specialized human focus, I think
it will have the tendency to serve the interests of
the people sitting in that room every day rather
than what we may consider our broader goals. I
think changing our relationship to technology will
probably require making software easier to create,
but in my lifetime I’ve seen the opposite come to
pass. Unfortunately, I think distributed systems
have a tendency to exacerbate this trend by making
things more complicated and more difficult, not
less complicated and less difficult.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Nasdaq_Ends_First_Week_of_2022_Down_More_Than_4%_as_Roku,
Netflix_Take_Hits⠀⇛
Among the notable companies that took a hit Friday
were Netflix (down 2.21% from where it opened),
Roku (-6.92%), Google parent company Alphabet Inc .
(-0.53%), Amazon (-0.43%) and Comcast (-0.91%).
On the flip side, Apple closed up 0.099%, AT&T up
0.67%, Discovery up 16.87%, Disney up 0.61%,
ViacomCBS up 7.88% and Fox Corp. up 1.54%.
# ⚓ Roku_exec_Scott_Rosenberg,_who_helped_launch_the_Roku
Channel,_is_stepping_down⠀⇛
Rosenberg is currently SVP and general manager of
platform business at Roku, a title he’s held since
2017, according to a press release. In addition to
his role in the development of the Roku Channel,
which is now home to Roku’s original programming,
Rosenberg created and scaled the streamer’s
advertising business, Roku spokesperson Sarah
Novatt confirmed to The Verge.
According to the company, Rosenberg was a key
player in Roku’s 2017 IPO. Other notable oversight
roles listed on Rosenberg’s LinkedIn include
partnerships, revenue, product, analytics,
payments, and operations.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ What’s_ahead_for_the_global_IP_market_in_2022 [Ed: The
latest IAM SPAM with propaganda terms in the headlines]⠀⇛
The IAM team revisits its forecasts for 2021 and
offers a fresh outlook on the narratives we see
shaping up in the twelve months ahead
# ⚓ IPKat_Book_of_the_Year_Awards_2021 [Ed: Open to gaming; Ads
disguised as “awards” in a_site_that_isn’t_even_important
anymore]⠀⇛
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ European_Union:_UPC_Could_Open_Its_Doors_In_2022 [Ed:
And yet more_shameless_fake_news_from_Team_UPC]⠀⇛
With news that the Austrian parliament has
ratified the Protocol on the provisional
application of the Agreement on a Unified
Patent Court on 2 December 2020, the Unified
Patent Court (UPC) opening in 2022 is
becoming more likely. This will be a
significant change to the patent litigation
landscape in Europe and will harmonise patent
litigation across up to 24 EU Member States
(MS). It will also mean that patentees can
choose to validate a Unitary Patent (UP) that
will cover all EU MS who have ratified the
UPC Agreement (R-MS).
When Austria deposits its ratification of the
Protocol this will trigger the provisional
phase of the UPC. During the provisional
phase, secondary legislation will be
finalised, budgets set and Judges appointed
before the UPC opens its doors. It is
estimated that the provisional phase will
take 8-10 months, following which Germany
will deposit its ratification of the UPC
Agreement (UPCA) triggering the launch of the
UPC four months later. Based on current
ratifications of the UPCA, on launch the UPC
and UP will cover 17 EU MS, including
Germany, France, Italy and The Netherlands.
# ⚓ Haar_today,_gone_tomorrow:_EPO’s_brief_BoA_move
raises_queries [Ed: Over 5 years of massive injustice
at the EPO, where tribunals_ruled_under_illegal
conditions, and even some lawyers are expressing
angst]⠀⇛
Lawyers welcomed plans to move the Boards of
Appeal back to the centre of Munich, but
expressed concerns over the level of
accountability at the EPO
# ⚓ Oramed_Pharmaceuticals_Gets_European_Patent_for
Protein-Delivery_Platform [Ed: Oramed seems to be
unaware of the_legitimacy_crisis_of_European_Patents;
many many be presumed invalid]⠀⇛
Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. said the European
Patent Office has granted it a patent
supporting its platform technology in oral
delivery of proteins.
The pharmaceutical company said the platform
technology underlies its lead drug candidate
ORMD-0801, now in pivotal Phase 3 studies and
positioned to potentially be the first oral
insulin capsule on the market.
# ⚓ From_GIs_to_AI:_Four_European_IP_trends_to_watch_in
2022 [Ed: More buzzwords and propaganda terms like “Hey
Hi” and “IP” from Max Walters, who_speaks_the_language
of_malicious_lobbyists_rather_than_journalists]⠀⇛
An expansion of GI laws, potential movement
in the AI inventor debate, social media
concerns and filing farms clampdowns are all
in line for 2022. Here are four key themes.
# ⚓ Video:_JUVE_Patent’s_UK_ranking_2022 [Ed: This is not
ranking; it’s advertising or spam, which they_get_paid
for]⠀⇛
With the UK’s patent court lists busier than
ever, the past twelve months have been an
exciting time for the patent market and those
who work within it. Now, in the video to
accompany JUVE Patent’s UK ranking 2022, Amy
Sandys and Konstanze Richter present the
latest development in the UK patent market.
[...]
The UK judiciary is also solving its staffing
issues, with the appointment of former
barristers James Mellor and Richard Meade to
the High Court judicial bench. Other 8 New
Square barristers Michael Tappin and
Charlotte May have also become deputy judges.
# ⚓ FOSS_Patents:_Still_no_Apple-Ericsson_announcement:
neither_renewal_of_license_nor_renewed_infringement
litigation–key_deadline_may_be_mid-January⠀⇛
There still hasn’t been any announcement by
Ericsson of a renewal of its patent cross-
license agreement with Apple, nor have I
found any filings in the Eastern District of
Texas or with the ITC that indicate renewed
infringement litigation. Whether they are
still negotiating or negotiations have broken
down, Ericsson appears to be precluded from
asserting patents against Apple at this
stage.
There are accusations of FRAND violations
flying both ways in the Eastern District of
Texas, with the first “harbinger” of a new
patent spat having been Ericsson’s complaint
in early October, shortly after which an even
earlier motion for an anti-antisuit
injunction in the Netherlands became known
(the denial of that motion was affirmed in a
December 16 decision following a November 18
hearing). But Ericsson can’t assert patents
as long as a license agreement, or a covenant
not to sue, is in force and effect.
Many license agreements terminate at the end
of a calendar year. Last year, Ericsson’s
patent assertions against Samsung started on
New Year’s Day (and resulted in a settlement
less than five months later). However,
Ericsson sued Apple in mid-January 2015
subsequently to the expiration of a license
agreement. It could be that mid-January is
again the key deadline, either because the
license agreement won’t expire before, or
because of a covenant not to sue precluding
immediate infringement litigation upon
expiration of the license for another two
weeks or so.
# ⚓ UK:_Northern_Lights_Burn_Ever_More_Brightly [Ed:
Patent extremists and profiteers (like litigation
firms) ruin the UK -- not just London -- for the rest
of us]⠀⇛
The trip itself was great. As a lawyer and a
patent attorney turning up for the first time
at a networking event designed to put start-
ups in touch with investors, we wondered
whether attendees would be reluctant to talk
to two professional advisors ostensibly there
to take money off them but we couldn’t have
been more wrong. Everyone we talked to was
happy to expand on their plans and
enthusiastically receptive to any suggestions
we might have had to accelerate them.
# ⚓ Sareum_Share_Price_Surged_10.2%_on_European_Patent
Office_Notice… [Ed: Sareum shareholders likely unaware
that EPO grants tons of fake patents, based_on
insiders]⠀⇛
# ⚓ UKIPO_launches_call_for_views_on_Standard_Essential
Patents_(SEPs) [Ed: UKIPO looking to appease patent
trolls and parasites]⠀⇛
The UK intellectual property office has
launched a call for views on standard
essential patents (SEPs). The call for views
will last for 12 weeks, closing on 01 March
at 11.45pm. Responses to the call for views
will inform how the UK SEPs framework
supports innovation, promotes competition and
whether change is needed.
# ⚓ UK:_Patents_To_Come_Of_Age_For_Nuclear_Fission? [Ed:
Patent extremists (a corrupt firm in this case, Marks &
Clerk; convicted last year, too) excited about
dangerous nuclear stuff because of patents]⠀⇛
Interesting to see that plans are advancing
to build small nuclear reactor power plants
in the UK. As noted in this BBC News article,
these are intended to be in addition to
large-scale nuclear power plants and not as
an alternative to those large-scale power
plants.
Companies that are active in nuclear fission-
based power tend to file relatively few
patent applications. Problems that arise when
designing a nuclear fission power plant, and
the inventions devised to solve those
problems, may be specific to a particular
power plant. As a result, it may not be
commercially worthwhile filing patent
applications for those inventions.
# ⚓ Rothschild_entity_Display_Technologies_patent
challenged⠀⇛
On January 6, 2022, Unified filed a petition
for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S.
Patent 9,300,723. The ‘723 patent is owned by
Display Technologies, LLC, an entity
affiliated with prolific inventor and
frequent plaintiff Leigh M. Rothschild. The
‘723 patent is generally directed to media
systems for transferring a media file from a
local device (e.g., a wireless mobile device)
to another device for display. It has been
asserted in over 60 litigations where some
accused devices rely on Bluetooth
communications for the transfer of files.
# ⚓ EPO_decision_another_setback_in_Dabus_quest_for
inventorship [Ed: Loaded and misleading headline from
JUVE, as usual (as of recent years)]⠀⇛
The EPO’s most recent decision is the result
of an appeal, by Dabus creator Stephen
Thaler, against the dismissal of two patent
applications (case IDs: J 8/20 and J 9/20)
which designate Dabus as the inventor. The
Legal Board of Appeal 3.1.01 heard the appeal
on December 21 2021, dismissing it on the
same day.
Back in January 2020, the Receiving Section
of the EPO refused two patent applications on
the grounds that the application listed
Dabus, and not a human, as the inventor. The
decision is based on Article 81 and Rule 19
(1) of the European Patent Convention. In its
decision, the EPO considered that an
interpretation of the European patent system
framework means only a natural person can
receive a patent for an invention.
In addition, the EPO was of the opinion that
a machine could not transfer any rights to
the applicant.
[...]
The two patents, EP 18 275 163 and EP 182 751
74, concern a fractal beverage container and
fractal light signals respectively. The
fractal light signal embodies a device to
attract attention during search and rescue
operations. Stephen Thaler, a doctor of
physics, created the AI. Its name Dabus
stands for ‘Device for the autonomous
bootstrapping of unified sentience’.
# ⚓ Protecting_a_drug_combining_two_known_active
ingredients_by_patent_:_Is_it_possible_? [Ed: Team UPC
and patent extremists against access to medicines (in
other words, let’s let some people die to keep profits
up)⠀⇛
# ⚓ 2021_Patent_Dispute_Report:_Year_in_Review_—_Unified
Patents⠀⇛
The changing of the guard at the USPTO brings
new changes in the patent dispute landscape.
With the uncertainty of Fintiv, United States
v. Arthrex, Inc., and pandemic recovery,
operating companies have been less
contentious than in years past. Despite this
ambivalence, a new venue has emerged and more
companies are turning to Reexaminations to
find certainty in uncertain times. NPEs have
continued to increase their assertion, with
the TXWD becoming their choice of venue. If
2021 is any indication of what is on the
horizon for 2022, it is clear that patent
policy may face significant changes and NPEs
will continue their assaults.
# ⚓ Witte_Weller_grows_with_two_specialist_mechanical
engineering_partners [Ed: JUVE keeps publishing
marketing spam (like a firm hiring some ‘low-level’
person) disguised as “news”]⠀⇛
Lukas Klement (47) from Cartagena and Dieter
Späth (59) from Abacus joined Witte Weller &
Partner on 1 January 2022 as partners. At the
same time, the firm also appointed patent
attorney Sophia Zielinski as partner. With
the new additions, the team grows to 21
patent attorneys, of whom 18 are partners.
# ⚓ 2021_Patent_Grants [Ed: The USPTO just grants lots
and lots of rubbish patents to raise more money at the
public’s expense (externality)]⠀⇛
Total utility patent grants are down about 7%
for calendar year 2021. Still the total ranks
as the third highest of all time. The Office
has almost eliminated unwanted delay in
examination. Right now the delay is about 17
months from filing to first office-action.
They really don’t want that to go below 14
months in order to capture 102(a)(2) prior
art (former 102(e)).
# ⚓ Nicox_European_Patent_Seals_ZERVIATE_Major_Market
Coverage_to_2030 [Ed: Nicox seems to be totally unaware
of the fact that the EPO, according to insiders, grants
lots_of_fake_patents]⠀⇛
FR0013018124, COX), an international
ophthalmology company, today announced that
patent EP2408453, covering the company’s
product ZERVIATE® (cetirizine ophthalmic
solution), 0.24%, has been issued by the
European Patent Office (EPO). The patent
covers the formulation of ZERVIATE which is
commercialized in the U.S. by our exclusive
U.S. licensee Eyevance Pharmaceuticals, and
its use in the treatment of the symptoms of
allergic conjunctivitis or allergic
rhinoconjunctivitis. The prescription market
for allergic conjunctivitis products in
Europe, Eastern Europe and Turkey was
estimated by IQVIA as around €260 million in
2020. The European Patent grants exclusivity
until 2030, meaning that the ZERVIATE
formulation is protected by granted patents
in the U.S. to 2032, and in Europe, Japan and
Canada to 2030.
# ⚓ AI_inventorship_claim_dismissed_by_EPO_Board_of
Appeal [Ed: "Hey Hi" (AI) and other buzzwords misused;
even the corrupt EPO isn't easily fooled by this
ploy]⠀⇛
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems cannot
be named as an inventor on a patent
application, the European Patent Office Board
of Appeal (EPO BoA) has ruled.
According to a statement issued by the
tribunal, the designated inventor for a
European patent application must be a person
with legal capacity.
The decision concerns ‘DABUS’, an AI system
developed by US scientist and technologist
Dr. Stephen Thaler. Dr Thaler designated
DABUS as the inventor of two patent
applications claiming that the subject matter
of the applications had been created
autonomously by DABUS.
[...]
As part of his appeal, Thaler submitted an
auxiliary request according to which a
natural person was indicated to have “the
right to the European patent by virtue of
being the owner and creator of” an AI system.
However, the EPO BoA said that a statement
indicating the origin of the right to the
European patent had to conform with the
provisions of the EPC and that this was not
the case for the DABUS applications.
Full written reasons behind the EPO BoA’s
decision are to be published in due course.
# § Software Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ A_patent_quietly_filed_by_Shopify_shows_it
edging_closer_to_brick-and-mortar_retail_with_a
type_of_tech_also_used_by_Amazon⠀⇛
# ⚓ European_Union:_Selection_Of_An_Available
Memory_Size:_Technical [Ed: Software patents and
other laughable patents pushed by Bardehle
Pagenberg in the EPO, where the_tribunals_are
patently_rigged]⠀⇛
This decision relates to a European
patent for a method for the selection
of an available memory size of a
circuit. The patent had been revoked as
an outcome of the opposition
proceedings. The proprietor appealed,
but the Board of Appeal has not
overturned the decision of the
Opposition Division. Here are the
practical takeaways from the decision T
2010/17 (Selection of an available
memory size/THALES DIS FRANCE) of
9.6.2021 of Technical Board of Appeal
3.5.07…
# ⚓ Interdigital_EP_patent_challenged_marking_first
in_new_Unified_V2X_Zone⠀⇛
On December 21, 2021, Unified filed an
opposition proceeding against a patent
owned by InterDigital, EP 3497866. The
EP’866 patent relates to wireless
transmission methods for supporting
multiple numerology blocks or bandwidth
parts on a carrier signal, which is
related to 5G wireless technology. This
filing marks the first within Unified’s
new V2X Zone.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ UK_Government’s_Consultation_On_Artificial
Intelligence_And_The_Interaction_With_Copyright_And
Patents [Ed: Peddlers_of_lies,_fake_news,_and
fabrications, Mayer Brown, pushing “Hey Hi” agenda
(basically fiction for policy manipulation) in the UK⠀⇛
The UK Government published its national AI
Strategy last month which highlighted its
intention to make the UK an AI powerhouse. In
its strategy, the Government recognised the
importance of instituting a progressive
regulatory environment which would encourage
the advancement of AI. The UK Government has
now launched a consultation on reforms to
copyright and patent law to incentivise the
development of AI. Whilst the Government aims
to provide adequate protections to AI
technology to encourage further investment
into AI, it is cognisant that those
protections have to be limited so that they
do not stifle innovation and progress in this
field. The UK Government proposes that any
measures introduced must (i) encourage AI
innovation and promote the use of AI for the
public good; (ii) preserve the integral role
of intellectual property, which is to promote
human creativity and innovation; and (iii) be
based on best available economic evidence.
[...]
The UK is not alone in acknowledging the
profound impact AI will have on businesses
worldwide. China has also recently declared
its intention to become “a principal world
centre of artificial intelligence innovation”
by 2030. Other nations that are entering the
race to dominate the AI space include
Germany, the United States and Japan;
countries that are currently leading in AI
research. Implementing legal frameworks that
encourage AI development and investment will
play a fundamental role in achieving
dominance in this field, which is precisely
why the UK Government has published this
consultation. Whilst different nations have
taken different approaches to the protection
of AI created works or inventions (for
instance, see the converging views courts
have taken with respect to identifying AI as
an inventor of a patent in the DABUS cases),
there has been a drive amongst states and
international bodies to collaborate on laws
and regulations governing AI to maximize
advancement for mutual benefit. In fact,
international cooperation is an element in
the AI strategies of most governments.
Whether a consensus can be reached amongst
nation states with respect to legal
frameworks surrounding AI protection remains
to be seen.
# ⚓ Pirate_IPTV_Providers_“Exploit_PayPal,_Mastercard_&
Visa_Branding”⠀⇛
Pirate IPTV providers generally require
payment in exchange for a subscription. In
the majority of cases this involves utilizing
a third-party payment processor such as
PayPal, Mastercard or Visa. According to the
Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Alliance, pirates
exploit these trusted brands to appear
legitimate themselves. But what can be done
to break the association?
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✐ Pluton_Proponents_Working_for_Plutocracy_(and_Pentagon_Agenda)⠀✐
Posted in DRM, Hardware, Microsoft, News_Roundup, Security at 9:13 am by Dr.
Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum e4f546765ee91f39ec73c54d22592984
Self-Described Social Justice Imposters Help Microsoft
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/social-justice-imposters.webm
Summary: We’re meant to think that Pluton is nothing to worry about because it
hasn’t yet been turned on by default (or the ability to turn it off hasn’t been
obstructed yet); this is another massive attack by Microsoft on software
freedom, contrary to what Microsoft apologists try to tell us
“Vendor lock-in moves further up the stack,” an associate warned the other day,
citing Microsoft_operatives_such_as_Paul_Thurrott (he wasn’t alone).
The news was made public after AMD had worked with Microsoft behind the scenes,
looking to salvage x86/Windows monoculture, which is waning_gradually.
“People know too little about this “Pluton” nonsense.”The associate noted the
steps: “UEFI, TPM 2, Pluton…”
People know too little about this “Pluton” nonsense. “That’s been kept out of
the daylight for a reason,” the associate noted. “The XBox served only as a
testbed for DRM which gradually makes its way into the mainstream wintel
market.”
“I have to say that it’s been obvious from the beginning what the XBox is
about,” the associate continued, having warned about this for a very long time.
More than a decade in fact…
“Notice that it is Ars Techica and ZDNet which are among the very few
announcing Pluton,” the associate said, taking note of Microsoft-connected (and
Microsoft-briefed) publications. Looking outside_Microsoft’s_“copypasta
kitchen”, one finds actual details rather than marketing fluff, pretending it’s
about “security” rather than vendor lock-in. “So it only allows the execution
of programs signed by Microsoft itself for the console,” this one says. So
first they try to be the authority responsible for signing Linux kernels and
now they move to the application layer. It’s worse than the TLS/CA monopoly/
oligopoly, which is little/barely different/better than a diploma mill or a
pyramid scheme with a chain of trust or accreditation.
“In the video above I focus on one particularly malicious actor, who has been
pushing this agenda for a decade while threatening to sue his critics.”The so-
called ‘Linux’_Foundation is_moving_in_a_similar_direction_with_applications,
UEFI_‘secure’boot, and even_certificates(Let’s_Encrypt). They’re centralising
everything, so Pentagon contractors get to control the whole stack. Or so they
hope…
In the video above I focus on one particularly malicious actor, who has been
pushing this agenda for a decade while threatening to sue his critics.
While our criticism was technical and legal, this person makes it personal.
It’s a tactic with casualties. Yes, it’s Matthew Garrett, whom we_called_a
"Microsoft_Apologist"_almost_exactly_10_years_ago (in the headline). His misuse
of the term “Social Justice” is an insult to people who actually pursue social
justice rather than 6-figure salaries from a company like Gulag (Google).
Our associate noted that “maybe a good topic [to cover] would be avoiding
vendor lock-in through open standards if not also free and open source
software.”
“While our criticism was technical and legal, this person makes it
personal.”We’ll write a lot more about it later this year.
“Microsoft is using Pluton for its “Linux” servers in Azure too,” psydroid
noted in IRC, “as a kind of counterpart to Google’s Titan, which is an “open”
technology, however the biggest risk is that other companies outside of Intel,
AMD and Qualcomm also jump on the Pluton bandwagon. I’ve read about Mediatek
potentially being onboard.”
“Work back from the data towards the hardware,” the associate noted. “Microsoft
and Apple are working that direction towards lock-in while at the same time
working from the system firmware on up towards lock-in. So far much of it is
mandatorily present but disabled by default, for now. When that crap meets in
the middle, they will start making it active by default. Also, that looks like
the main reasons for the push to “cloud” storage for data. That way they have
control of the data without quibbling over file formats: there are no files, at
least none the public can get at.”
Tell_that to the EPO, which is outsourcing almost everything to Microsoft while
Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos plunder Europe… █
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