VINT CERF
High Court Asks Solicitor General for Views on Genius-Google Copyright Preemption Case
The U.S. Supreme Court today invited the Solicitor General’s views in a copyright case that asks the High Court to grant a petition on the question of whether the Copyright Act’s preemption clause allows a business “to invoke traditional state-law contract remedies to enforce a promise not to copy and use its content?”
Federal patent law preempts unjust enrichment claim | Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Where patent holder Columbia University in New York claimed the defendant was unjustly enriched when it allegedly used confidential information in proposals, but Columbia failed to show a confidential relationship existed as it pertained to the proposals, federal patent law preempted the unjust enrichment claim. Background The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of ...
Vint Cerf: We Knew What We Were Unleashing on the World
Vint Cerf invented the protocol that rules them all: TCP/IP. Most people have never heard of it. But it describes the fundamental architecture of the internet, and it made possible Wi-Fi, Ethernet, LANs, the World Wide Web, e-mail, FTP, 3G/4G -- as well as all of the inventions built upon those inventions. Cerf did that in 1973. For most of you that's probably 20 years before you even knew what the internet was. That's why he's known as the father of the internet and earned himself a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Cerf didn't stop there — he went on to co-found the Internet Society (ISOC) and served as president of ICANN, the organization which operates the domain naming system. So it was pretty much a given that Cerf would be inducted, as he was on Monday, into ISOC's internet Hall of Fame in its inaugural year.
Anthony Levandowski gets 18 months in prison for stealing Google self-driving car files
A U.S. judge on Tuesday sentenced former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski to 18 months in prison for stealing a trade secret from Google related to self-driving cars months before becoming the head of Uber Technologies Inc's rival unit.
COMPLAINT against Otto Trucking LLC, Ottomotto LLC, Uber Technologies, Inc. ( Filing fee $ 400, receipt number 0971-11180330.). Filed byWaymo LLC. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A, # 2 Exhibit B, # 3 Exhibit C, # 4 Civil Cover Sheet)(Verhoeven, Charles) (Filed on 2/23/2017) (Entered: 02/23/2017)
Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf's house in McLean, VA (Google Maps)
Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf's house (Google Maps). Vinton Gray Cerf is an American computer scientist who is the "person most often called 'the father of the Internet'. Cerf has worked for Google as its Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist since September 2005.
Cerf developed the TCP protocoll.
Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison as new $4B lawsuit against Uber is filed
Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer and serial entrepreneur who was at the center of a lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison on one count of stealing trade secrets. Judge Alsup said that home confinement would “[give] a green light to every future br…