by Andrew Schulman | Mar 20, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
2017/03/15 07:39:43 UTC Teaching Students to Marshal Evidence and Evaluate Claims Higher education can help teach students critical thinking to marshal evidence and evaluate claims, bringing scholarly best practices to the modern web. Jon Udell, hypothes.is 2017/03/14...
by Andrew Schulman | Feb 10, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
2017/02/09 04:44:27 UTC Microsoft Adds Patent Suit Protections For Cloud Customers Offer will help Microsoft distinguish itself from rivals in fast-growing internet-based computing market. “All of our customers are at some level becoming software providers of...
by Andrew Schulman | Jan 24, 2017 | blog, Uncategorized
2017/01/22 08:33:26 UTC Predicting Patent Policy Under the Trump Administration | Publications | Shearman & Sterling LLP The America Invents Act (“AIA”), signed into law by President Obama on September 16, 2011, was the biggest legislative overhaul to...
by Andrew Schulman | Feb 22, 2014 | blog, Uncategorized
An earlier post notes some examples of “deep indexing” of the textual contents of commercial software products: Such deep indexing of binary code files has been done in some limited areas, such as the superb PDP-10 software archive at...
by Andrew Schulman | Feb 22, 2014 | blog, Uncategorized
The White House recently announced the US PTO’s launch of “Ask Patents” (a forum at the “Stack Exchange”) as a crowdsourcing platform to identify prior art. Right now, the forum seems to mostly have general questions and answers. There...
by Andrew Schulman | Feb 15, 2014 | blog, Uncategorized
The previous post discussed the US government’s National Software Reference Library (NSRL), a collection of 15,000 commercial products, currently indexed by files (hash, filename.ext) comprising each product. The post posed the question whether the NSRL could be...