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Rachida Dati s’est déclarée favorable aux mesures proposées par la
commission chargée de réviser l’ordonnance de 45, relative à la
justice des mineurs, et notamment à l’idée de ramener à 12 ans
l’âge auquel pourront être appliquées des sanctions pénales, dont
éventuellement une mise en détention dans le cas d’un crime.
L’Affaire des affaires sera un des albums
incontournables de janvier 2009. Et pour cause, tout ce qui parle de près ou loin
l’Affaire Clearstream est décortiqué par la presse, la classe politique sans
oublier les adeptes du “tous pourris”. Surtout que cette adaptation en bande
dessinée de la vie du journaliste d’investigation Denis Robert est
chapeautée directement par l’intéressé, aidé au scénario
par Yan Lindingre.
Les éditions Dargaud viennent de mettre en ligne les 6 premières pages du premier volet qui
en comptera 200, dessinées par Laurent Astier, auteur
d’Aven et Cellule Poison. On y
découvre un Jacques Chirac à 200 à l’heure –
ça nous change – et des personnalités clefs de l’affaire
Clearstream comme un Dominique de Villepin taillé au couteau ou un Nicolas Sarkozy
surexcité – là, ça change pas. À en croire ces
premières pages et la fameuse phrase du “croc de boucher” lancée par le
ministre de l’Intérieur d’alors, le scénario risque d’être
ponctué d’anecdotes, en plus d’un aspect pédagogique mis en avant par
l’éditeur. Les auteurs devraient ainsi s’étendre sur les arcanes des
banques offshores ou des paradis fiscaux.
Avec son côté thriller politique, L’Affaire des
affaires devrait autant séduire les amateurs de polar que les
passionnés de BD reportage. À moins que ce ne soit les fans de Jean-Jacques
Beineix, persuadés d’y voir là une suite à la
mémorable Affaire du siècle.
When a company called EMG Technology filed a patent
lawsuit against Apple last week over “the way the iPhone navigates the Internet,”
it had the stench of a patent troll. The suit was filed a month after the patent was issued in
the Eastern District of Texas, known as troll country among patent attorneys because the courts
there tend to rule favorably for patent owners.
EMG Technology is based in Los Angeles, and appears to have been formed solely for the purpose of
filing this lawsuit. One of the inventors named on the patent and EMG “managing
member” Elliot Gottfurcht is a Los Angeles real estate developer. Apple, of course, is also
based in California.
Then there are the actual claims of patent No. 7,441,196.
With the help of M-CAM, an underwriter of
patent insurance, I uncovered some patents (listed below) that pre-date EMG’s and that
might be considered prior art. Apple’s lawyers should take a look at them. Some of them are
even owned by Apple. Others are owned by IBM, Microsoft, Sony, and Sun Microsystems.
Before we get to those, what about EMG’s patent? The claims in that patent describe the
ability to manipulate, zoom, scroll, and view Web content on devices other than a laptop. But the
central and primary claim has to do with a way to convert HTML Web pages into XML data that can
then be displayed partially on different devices, including mobile phones.
I’m no lawyer or patent expert, but my initial reaction was that these seem like overly
broad claims (they cover everything from TVs to Web appliances to cell phones) with lots of
precedents. It is very difficult to display an entire Webpage on a small screen, so engineers
have figured out various ways to display parts of those pages.
EMG does not specify in its suit which of the patent’s 76 claims it thinks Apple is
infringing on. But in the press release announcing the lawsuit, EMG’s lawyer highlights the
claims covering “the display of Internet content reformatted from HTML to XML on mobile
devices” and “technology for manipulating a region of the screen for zooming and
scrolling.”
I asked M-CAM to run EMG’s patent through its Patently Obvious
database, which compares claims across millions of patents. And they came up with 250 instances
of possible prior art not mentioned in the EMG patent. When an inventor files a patent, he is
required to list all other patents you are aware of that could have an impact on your claims. One
way to get a patent application past an overworked patent examiner is to list a ton of related
prior art, but omit the critical ones that could invalidate the patent.
One key patent omitted by EMG is No 6,535,896:
“Systems, methods and computer program products for tailoring web page content in hypertext
markup language format for display within pervasive computing devices using extensible markup
language tools.” It is owned by IBM and was filed on January 29, 1999, which is prior to
the November 15, 1999 date that is applicable for the EMG patent. The abstract for the IBM patent
describes what it does this way:
Content portions of a requested Web page are converted to an XML format and then modified
using an XML content-tailoring tool. Other content portions of the Web page are masked so as to
be “hidden” and are, thus, not converted to XML format. The masked portions of the
Web page are then unmasked, combined with the modified content portions, and transmitted to a
client device for display therewithin.
That sounds very similar to parts of the first claim of the EMG patent:
1. A method of navigating the Internet, comprising: displaying on-line content accessed via
the Internet, the on-line content reformatted from a webpage in a hypertext markup language
(HTML) format into an extensible markup language (XML) format to generate a sister site, . . .
navigation options to change between layers of the simplified navigation interface from general
to more specific in each deeper layer; receiving a user selection of one of the navigation
options; forwarding the selected navigation option across the internet to a server providing the
simplified navigation interface; receiving a next deeper navigation layer of the simplified
navigation interface corresponding to the selected navigation option
How did EMG’s patent get approved by the U.S. Patent Office? This just illustrates a bigger
problem with the patent system. Since the budget of the Patent Office, which is derived from
filing and maintenance fees, is tied directly to how many patents it approves, it has an economic
incentive to approve as many as possible. This system needs to be changed. (Anyone in on
Obama’s team reading this?).
Below are some other prior art that Apple’s lawyers might want to take a look at (and some
quaint patent art that accompanied EMG’s filing).
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adulation for the song emBraindead/em by a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_(band)Exodus/a.
The intro that song makes me want to jump around the room. It is the pure, unfiltered essence of
thrash metal./p pThe a href=http://www.last.fm/music/Exodus/_/Brain+Deadalbum version/a is
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A friend of mine brought a Iphone on the bay and was told it was unlocked however it will only take
a 02 pay as you go sim, it will not take a 02 contract sim which is weird, It just goes back to te
activation screen when a contract sim is inserted.
My question is.. How do i unlock it?
At the min the Iphone has no sim inserted yet the mobile number of the pay as you go sim is still
in the contact list (my own iphone this dissapears when i take the sim out)
.TEL, one of a stream of new top level domain dames approved by the
quasi-governmental Los Angeles-based ICANN, will go on sale shortly. Like
other domain name types, you’ll be able to buy your .TEL at your favorite domain name
registrar (eNom, Godaddy, Network Solutions, Registrar.com, etc.).
You can start buying the domains in March, for something above the wholesale price of $10.
Here’s what you get: a page hosted by Telnic (the company behind .Tel) that includes your
name, phone number, fax number, email, and other links you
want to add. You can’t add pictures (or, if you are a business, logos) to the site. An
example, with the data from Telnic itself, is here.
The data is public, but you can choose to hide some of the data and show it just to friends,
which must also have a .TEL address. The idea is you don’t need to give out a business card
to people, you just tell them your .TEL address. It sounds official because it’s a
sanctioned domain name. But in reality it’s just another startup that paid a fee to ICANN
for the right to sell you a web page that has all your personal information published on it.
The period from now until March when the domains go on sale in general is a special time that
domain registrars get to shake down trademark holders, who’ll pay $400/year to reserve
their names in the system. Trademark holders don’t want these domains, but they pay to
avoid letting others get them. So Apple, for example, will likely shell out thousands of dollars
to register all their trademarks so that no one else can get them. After this early period,
it’s anything goes, and people can register and use whatever they want.
There is nothing that .TEL does that Facebook and other services don’t do already (and
better). Nor is .TEL somehow more trustworthy because it has ICANN’s backing - ICANN is
notorious for approving just about any new project as long as they get their fees (ICANN was in
favor of creating a special porn domain name until the U.S. Senate suggested it
might be a bad idea). And users will also need to buy the domain names through registrars, which
are
notorious for abusing
user trust.
In other words, these are the last people you want to be holding all of your personal
information.
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After blowing up
baddies in this week's surprisingly entertaining Punisher: War Zone, it looks like Ray Stevenson is now taking aim at Denzel Washington's protagonist in The Book of Eli. In the near future,
Washington's on a mission to deliver a book that may hold the key to nothing less than Our
Salvation (not to mention so very many late fees), with Mila Kunis at his side and
Gary
Oldman on his tail, and now -- according to Variety --
Stevenson (HBO's "Rome") has this makeshift messiah in his sights.
The post-apocalyptic thriller marks the return of the Hughes Brothers behind the camera for the
first time since 2001's From Hell, and
between them and a cast of this talent (yes, that includes Kunis, stop snickering), they might
manage to make this somewhat less derivative than it already sounds, to echo Monika's
sentiments.
Production starts in early 2009 for a release date in early 2010.
Proximic has developed new technology that allows users to point-and-click on a piece of text to
get relevant search results, making it much easier for mobile users to conduct complex queries.
Proximic has developed new technology that allows users to point-and-click on a piece of text to
get relevant search results, making it much easier for mobile users to conduct complex queries.
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vestige of such a thing, a kind of existentially reversed iqibla/i (this one perspectival, the
other metaphysical) that gives us our sense of being at the center of things, the sense that we are
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When the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe gazed into the heavens on November 11, 1572, he
witnessed one of the defining events in the history of his science.
You know, Mother always used to say that dating a Yakuza was a bad idea ... and a good way to get
yourself killed. We wish Sega the best of luck then, as the company has done just that -- Yakuza 3
is set for a Japanese debut on February 26th, 2009. The Gangs of Tokyo epic (with Trophy support!)
will also be included in a limited-run PlayStation 3 bundle sporting an 80GB, Ceramic White console
and a ¥45,980 ($492) price tag.
And before you ask, Sega has yet to confirm a US release for Yakuza 3. We'll let you know when they
do. (See? "When." We're optimistic over here.)
The Speaker of the House of Commons expressed regret over the police raid on Damian Green’s
office yesterday – and blamed officials for failing to tell him that they did
not have a warrant.
Immigrants who make little effort to integrate into society will wait longer before they can become
British citizens under changes to citizenship rules.
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