Towards a Doctrine of Fair Use in Some of Patent Law
(ipbrief.net): The intellectual property laws are becoming increasingly stressed as their largely time-worn doctrines grapple with problems posed by new technology. In this Article, Professor O'Rourke argues that this pressure has become particularly acute in patent law where policymakers have expanded protection without concomitantly evaluating the impact of that move… Read More
Mobile search engine marketing ‘seeing large growth’
(clickthrough-marketing.com): Retailers looking to improve their internet marketing services may like to consider the possibilities afforded by mobile platforms, as new figures have shown this area is experiencing large growth. According to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), queries from such devices accounted for 11 per cent of all retail searches… Read More
End the wasteful tyranny of reviewer experiments
(nature.com): Peer review of scientific papers in top journals is bogged down by unnecessary demands for extra lab work, argues Hidde Ploegh. Submit a biomedical-research paper to Nature or other high-profile journals, and a common recommendation often comes back from referees: perform additional experiments. Although such extra work can provide… Read More
STM Submission for the Consultation on Amending the Patents Act to Provide for Online Patent Document Inspection
(stm-assoc.org): STM believes that the aims and objectives pursued by the Intellectual Property Office in making documents available for online inspection, could be attained without a need for a copyright exception that would encompass in its present wording harm and prejudice to rightsholders of works already available in print and… Read More
Not With A Bang: The First Wave of Science 2.0 Slowly Whimpers to an End
(scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org): Beyond the lack of community buy-in, monetization of Web 2.0 has proven problematic, even for sites with enormous levels of participation. This last month has seen the dying gasps of some of these corporate-backed attempts to crack this market. As noted elsewhere, the needs of a for-profit corporation are… Read More
Will Tablets Kill E-Readers?
(technewsdaily.com): With the recent Android Froyo update for the Nook Color, Barnes & Noble's device became more of an Android tablet than an e-reader. Apple created its own e-book store to accompany the iPad, and rumor has it that Amazon is working on an Android tablet of its own that… Read More
Information Professionals Playing Expanding Role in Biomedical Research
(sla.org): Biomedical librarians are increasingly acting as researchers and authors as well, according to interviews with over a dozen information professionals who are active in biomedical research projects. Through a research project funded by SLA, Betsy Rolland and Emily Glenn sat down with 14 fellow biomedical librarians to find answers… Read More
E-readers: The Wave Of the Future?
(kmvt.com): It seems like every new technological innovation is called the wave of the future. While lots of people think electronic books are all the rage, in some cases they're harder to get than ordinary ink and paper books. In the last year, people have checked out more than half… Read More
Business Information in the Age of Mobility
(forbes.com): Much has been written about how smartphones and other mobile devices are changing the way people communicate. But little has been done to understand what the impact of this shift is on the executive suite. Are executives willing to use their smartphones for business purposes beyond email? Is the… Read More
Regulators eyeing Apple’s m-publishing strategy
(mobilebusinessbriefing.com): The Wall Street Journal reports that several US regulators have begun looking at the terms Apple is imposing on media companies looking to sell content for iPad users, with the European Union also apparently monitoring the situation. According to the paper, the investigation is still at a preliminary phase,… Read More
