Tennessee Appeals Court Says Vanity License Plates Are Likely Protected Speech

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There have been lots of legal battles fought over proprietary blends of numbers and letters. States collecting a premium for vanity plates claim this is government speech, since it’s a state-issued plate. Or, if it’s not quite government speech, it’s the government’s tacit approval of this speech, even if the vanity plate really only contains […]

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US Patent Office Proposes Rule To Make It Much Harder To Kill Bad Patents

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So, this is bad. Over the last few years, we've written plenty about the so-called inter partes review or IPR that came into being about a decade ago as part of the America Invents Act, which was the first major change to the patent system in decades. For much of the first decade of the […]

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