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The phenomena of Virtual Lawyers.

More and more sites are popping up to offer you virtual lawyers’ services. The law firm Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney in Philadelphia has set up a virtual office. They are the firm that handled the infamous “sex bed” case. Kevin Alderman created a virtual bed that allowed avatars to engage in certain behaviors. As the [...]

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How much of an abstraction is patentable?

You’ll have to wait to find out. In 1997 a couple guys including one named Bilski applied for a patent on a particular method of hedging financial risk. In May 2008 the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Bilski’s claim for various reasons, including the partial rejection of a previous test of patentability that [...]

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