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106 AT&T & WiTEL®©
- Forever - Minus a Day! By Mark Anderson,
PSI
106 - Eye4Eye -- i4i Wins $300-Award
AgainstMicrosoft
106 - Viacom vs YouTube -
®© Infringement Ruling
Appeal
106
- Oracle Wins $1.3-Billion in
ServiceMark®© Theft
suit
106is -
Library
of Congres
smart90com/copyrights
106is - The
Federal Communication Commission
(FCC)
106g-
Google
KnowledgeRush
106g - FCC
Approves the Sprint Deal, and
WiTel® - The Clearwire
Merger
106g - FCCSafetyAirwaves
Public Safety Airwaves Up For Sale
2009
106g - WiTEL
Organizations Get Free RF-
Spectrums.
106g - FCC
Approves the Sprint Deal, and the
WiTel®
-Clearwire
106g
- US
Constitution US-5 - Seizure of Personal
Property
106g - FCCSafetyAirwaves
Public Safety Airwaves Up For Sale
2009
106g
- Is
the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Bill of
Rights a dead
law?
106g
- Copyrights:
Walt Disney. Whose Mouse Is It?
#Copyrights:WaltDisney
106g
- The
Library of Congress - A research library
of the US
Congress
106g - New
Fee Structure Scheduled to Begin August
1st.
106g - Definition
of "Berne Convention
Works"
106g - Google
Orphan Book Scan
Settlement
106g - 109OrphanBooksLibraryofC
Debate stirs over
Apple's
role.
106g - June
12th 2009 - U.S.A. AnalogTV RF To Digital
Seizure
Completed
106g - Designing
around Service Mark®© is
popular now
days.
106g - Barbie
vs
Bratz U.S. Matell wins SERVICE MARK
CLAIMS
106g - Barbie
wins:
U.S. District Appelate Judge allows
$-Millions
106g - WiTEL
Organizations Get Free use of Airwaves
from FCC.
116ivg
- About
NBS legal.net - Freebies
Over
106ivg- Monetize
the Certified USPTO is a TrickPony - ®
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106if- P&A
Copyrights: Walt Disney.
Whose
Mouse Is It?
106if- FCC
AUCTION $19-Billion Sales Chart -
2008
106if- Government
/ Courts / Service Marks FCC
Library of Congress
106iiif
- Google
Orphan Book Scan Settlement
/
106iiif
- Library of Congress - OrphanBooks
-
106iiig- AnalogTV
To Digital - June 12th Regulatory RF
Seizure
Completed
106iiif "Should
the Government, - extended patent laws
like copyright
laws?"
106iiif - TVI
Smart Clips - Today's Puzzle?
106cf - Can
Patents be Extended like
Copyrights?
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106FCCRoadMapToWiTEL-VoIPMix
106pa "The Red Flag Rule - Will
it Prevent Phone Number ID
Theft?"
106pa
Gov: FTC: "The Red Flags Rule -
Preventing ID
Theft"
106- Gov:
The
FCC Turf War between Cable &
WiTEL®©
106 HiTech: iPad - "One of FOUR
of the Best Comeback Stories of
2010!"
106
Q&A Session with FCC
Chairman, Julius Genachowski,
"Who Created NBS
WiTEL?
106
- CarbonMonoxideLaw / New law to
require home carbon monoxide
detectors
106
- Gov: Can Arabs get Laws passed
in Israel?
YES!
106
- Gov: FTC: The Google - Smart TV
- NBS WiTEL®© 102
Yr Love
Affair!
106 - Gov: FCC Explains itself at
NAB-Las Vegas & "The
Smart-Daaf
Boys."
106
- Gov: FCC Chairman Q& A -
"Who Created the Wireless
Telephone?"
106
- Gov: The FCC RoadMap To
WiTEL-VoIP
Mix-Up
106pa - Law Suit
Bluetooth
Wireless Sues -- for
ServiceMark®© "IP"
Theft
106pa
Law Suit: Hewlett Packard Co.
settles China ServiceMark "IP"
infringement
suit.
106papa - Law Suit:
Broadcom
Corp. -- for
ServiceMark®© "IP"
Theft
106pa
- Law Suit: Kerkorian Settles
Lawsuit for $8.1-million to
Settle
Lawsuit
106pa - Law Suit:
Apple
Sues - For iPhone Service Mark
®©
Infringement
106pa - Law Suit:
Apple
Inc. -- Settles
"iPad®©
ServicMarks with
Fujitsu.
106pa - Law Suit:
Apple,
Dell, Intel,
Sony
- and
Irvine
based,
Broadcom
Corp.
Named
106pa
- Law Suit: Johnson & Johnson
Wins $1.73-billion, in
®© Service Mark
Claims
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106paViacomappealsYouTube.
106pa-
Viacom vs YouTube - Viacom
Appeals Copyright Infringement
Ruling/ P- 1 / 106pa-
Viacom vs YouTube - Viacom
Appeals Copyright Ruling
P- 1 /
- Owner of Paramount and MTV
asserts that the video site's
founders operated outside legal
bounds to build traffic quickly
so they could sell the site for a
huge sum. YouTube owner Google
vows to fight the appeal.
- Media giant Viacom Inc. has
challenged a June ruling that
video website YouTube did not
violate federal copyright laws
when it allowed users to upload
thousands of pirated clips to the
wildly popular site.
- In a 72-page appeal filed
Friday, Viacom asserted that
YouTube's founders aggressively
operated outside legal bounds in
an effort to build traffic
quickly so they could sell the
site for a huge sum. Google Inc.
bought YouTube in October 2006
for $1.65 billion.
- The stakes are high. Media
industry executives view Viacom's
copyright infringement lawsuit,
filed three years ago, as an
important case to establish
ground rules to protect the
digital distribution of
copyrighted material.
- Viacom, which owns movie studio
Paramount Pictures and popular
cable TV channels including MTV,
Comedy Central and Nickelodeon,
worries that its businesses would
suffer if Internet sites have
little incentive to safeguard
against the use of other
companies' copyrighted
content.
- Viacom maintained that, if
allowed to stand, the district
court ruling would "severely
impair, if not completely
destroy, the value of many
copyrighted creations."
- The media company had demanded
more than $1 billion in damages.
But U.S. District Judge Louis
Stanton of the Southern District
of New York ruled against Viacom
in June, determining that YouTube
operated within a "safe harbor"
provision of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act because
it promptly removed pirated
videos after being notified of a
violation.
- At the time, Internet advocates
hailed Stanton's ruling as an
affirmation of free expression
and the growth of the Internet.
Viacom wanted to enforce a system
in which YouTube and other video
websites would have to determine
who owned the rights to material
before it was posted.
- Viacom believes Stanton
misinterpreted the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, and it
provided internal YouTube e-mails
to illustrate that YouTube's
founders were aware of the
rampant piracy. The media company
alleged that YouTube allowed
clips to be posted from "The
Daily Show," "MTV Cribs," "South
Park" and other professionally
produced shows to help build
interest in the site.
- Viacom offered several e-mails
as examples of YouTube's
practices, including one in which
a YouTube founder instructed
colleagues to "Concentrate all of
our efforts in building up our
numbers as aggressively as we can
through whatever tactics, however
evil." Current owner Google Inc.
has said it has taken steps to
monitor the site and initiated a
content identification system to
more effectively ferret out
copyrighted works.
- "We regret that Viacom
continues to drag out this case,"
Google said in a statement. "The
court here, like every other
court to have considered the
issue, correctly ruled that the
law protects online services like
YouTube, which remove content
when notified by the copyright
holder that it is unauthorized.
We will strongly defend the
court's decision on appeal."
- Google has said it has spent
$100 million to defend against
the suit. Viacom recently hired
former U.S. Solicitor Gen. Ted
Olson to help guide its
appeal.
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106TheEye4EyeVsMicrosoftcase
In The so-called Eye4Eye
law suit against Microsoft, i4i
Wins $300 million in
damages from
Microsoft.
Is
the USPTO issuing Patents that
have not been tested as a
reality? or maybe . . the USPTO
is there to issue Patents to
anyone for any unknown reason? or
as Apple explains it, is the
USPTO issuing Patents that are
not valid?
The
U.S. Supreme Court will consider
making some patens more
vulnerable, (like i4i - "eye4eye"
vs Microsoft) -- to legal
challenge, by agreeing to hear
Microsoft Corp.'s appeal like in
the "i4i" case that forced
changes in ("Microsoft's") --
Word software which may cost
Microsoft -- $300 million in
damages to
"i4i."
"Microsoft
is fighting the $300-Million+
verdict won by the closely held
"i4i" Canadian Company -- "with
vigor," says the Federal appeals
court, in Tyler, Texas. Patent
cases are under the jurisdiction
of The U.S. District Courts.
Courts
that handle cases like the
("eye4eye" vs Microsoft case) --
are said to be hard on those
internet software companies that
are being accused of Service Mark
®@© theft -- like
Microsoft, Apple, and others like
Google, and
Yahoo.
It's
like in the days of the early
1900s, when everyone in
wired-wireless in the U.S. -- was
trying to connect the world to
Marconi's wireless telegraphy,
and NBS's Wireless telephony
systems. The world's largest
software maker has support in its
appeal from more than a dozen
companies, including Apple Inc.
and Google
Inc.
Apple
told the justices that the patent
system "is tilting out of
balance," giving disproportionate
power to people who secure
patents of questionable
legitimacy.
Microsoft
clarifies Apple's legal argument
by stating that such a patent
like "i4i's, should have never
been issued . . . and is invalid.
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106 - Today's
Patent Mess - By - Mark
Anderson
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106pa - ASCAP Wins Federal
Service Mark $Fees Ruling . . .
but!
106pa
- Microsoft Sues Motorola For
Patent THEFT
106pa
- PAUL ALLEN SUES FaceBook for
ServiceMark
Theft.
106pa - "The Red Flag Rule - Will
it Prevent Phone Number ID
Theft?"
106pa
- Google Sues U.S.A to break
Microsofts Monopoly for e-mail
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106OracleVsSAPwinsServiceMarkLawSuit
106
- Oracle awarded $1.3-Billion in
copyright infringement
suit
A federal
jury in Oakland delivers the
judgment against German business
software maker SAP in a case that
began in
2007.
Oracle
Corp. won a $1.3-billion verdict
Tuesday in a lawsuit in which it
alleged that German business
software maker SAP infringed on
the copyright of the Redwood
Shores, Calif.,
company.
The
verdict in the high-profile
federal court case is one of the
largest ever for copyright
infringement. The eight-person
jury in Oakland awarded the
damages one day after the
companies presented closing
arguments.
Oracle
sued SAP in 2007 claiming that
SAP's now-defunct U.S. business
software unit, TomorrowNow,
illegally downloaded Oracle
software and documents to support
Oracle's customers. SAP bought
TomorrowNow in 2005 and closed it
in
2008.
SAP did
not contest that it was liable
for the infringement, but
estimated that it owed $28
million to $41 million to Oracle.
Oracle, however, claimed that SAP
owed as much as $3
billion.
"For more
than three years, SAP stole
thousands of copies of Oracle
software and then resold that
software and related services to
Oracle's own customers," Oracle
President Safra Catz said. The
trial, she said, "made it clear
that SAP's most senior executives
were aware of the illegal
activity from the very
beginning."
An SAP
spokesman said the company was
"disappointed" by the verdict and
"will pursue all available
options."
"This will
unfortunately be a prolonged
process, and we continue to hope
that the matter can be resolved
appropriately without more years
of litigation," spokesman Saswato
Das said.
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106WiTEL-ForeverMinusOneDay
106 WiTEL's Global Assets
®© - Forever -
Minus a Day! By Mark Anderson,
PSI
Since the moment I discovered
N.B. Stubblefield several years
ago, my job required me to
surround myself with his U.S.A.
Wireless
Telephone®©
innovations. His NBS
wired-WiTEL®©
innovation has been either in my
pocket, in my vehicle, or left at
home on table-top surfaces
amongst my wireless PC laptop, a
volume of a Smart-Daaf Boys book
about the effluvia of NBS, and a
stack of Invoices worth
$Billions.
Since the moment I discovered NBS
WiTEL®©? No, not
even. Before I could even call
myself a user of today's
WiTEL®© iPhone,
CellPhone, WiFi, or whatever
you'd like to call it, I needed
to know who was paying for the
various software, and Service
Mark ®© fees that
made the thing work. Also --
was a phone number, and antenna
necessary?
This was to become an essential
part of me . . . like, "as to why
the sky was blue." What were
the components, elements and
effects of wired-wireless.
Are AT&T's, Bell,
Edison, and NBS WiTEL's -- 100
year old service marks
®© really viable
forever - minus a day? . . . It
had to be understood.
It was the late Jack Valenti,
who was Hollywood's
ubiquitous lobbyist that helped
set the record straight. He was
all about protecting the service
marks ®© -- and
licensing fees due to those
"certain 60 year old Show Biz
film related intellectual
property right owners, he was
representing. The proper term,
Valenti would always say is,
"forever, minus a day."
It was free enterprisers Ted
Turner, and Troy
Cory-Stubblefield; and educators
like Dr. Molfield and Dr. Horton
of Murray State University,
(MSU), that helped perfect
Valenti's colorful service marks
Validation; ®© are
"forever, minus a day."
Together, it took the group along
with organizations like MPPA,
SAG, CITA, and even the Kentucky
Colonels, only a couple of years
to convince Congress and
intellectual property asset
owners to fully appreciate and
agree that copyright terms should
be limited. Valenti would always
remind the Pres. Johnson White
House staff, the proper term for
®©, was, and still
is, "forever, minus a day."
Murray State University,
Kentucky
The NBS WiTEL®©
organization got started, in
1902. In 1930 -- the city of
Murray, Kentucky, not only
dedicated a monument, and
journalistic PR structure on the
MSU campus, but they purposely
did so . . . to carry-on, and
sell the NBS
WiTEL®© valuable
Service marks - "forever, minus
three days." One day for
"©," - day two for ","
-- and day three for "®."
Like
Ted Turner, Troy
Cory-Stubblefield followed the
MSU pattern in Hollywood. Turner
bought a million dollar film
library, updated the copyrights
by colorizing his MGM film
product, then digitized the
Classic Film product -- to create
a superior earning power. NBS
WiTEL®©, headed by
Troy and Josie Cory, bought Vine
Street Studio and Rosemont
Studios, founded VRA TelePlay
Pictures, and formed the Cinema
Prize Award organization.
As you can see, within a
four-decade span, not only was a
new HiTech DVD/CD lasar format
born, but a new WITEL smartphone
Service Marks ®©
vContent distribution system
model was created by Sony of
Japan -- for the Film maker.
Those certain trademarks owners
include Hollywood's major
studios, Warner Bros., MGM, Sony,
Disney, Paramont, NBS WiTEL, and
their producers, heirs, writers,
stockholders, and members of the
Motion Picture Producers
Association (MPPA).
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It has been only recently that I
could comfortably sit at my desk
-- and speak knowingly and
intelligently back and forth into
the offices in far away places,
asking those AT&T, Verizon,
T-mobile and Sprint executives
who knew, or should have known
about the; "forever, minus a day"
Validation Theory.
Confirming "How Many WiTEL
customers are users of their
"" was the easy part of
Q&A sessions. So was the
validating of -- "How Many of
their WiTEL users are paying more
than $30.00 per month for
"©" fees. AT&T took the
®© "Validation
Theme" the hardest. Paying $5.00
to $10.00 per month as a
recurring licensing fee for
utilizing the service mark
®© owned by JAVA,
Microsoft, and NBS WiTEL for the
use of their ®©
WiTEL, might be the best
solution, say legal experts.
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(Infringing on existing
intellectual property rights,
wireless phone numbers).
Q&A - Rober Roche. CITA
leading to the best way -- to
Validate
®©
I usually feel the same cinematic
magic resaoning of Valenti, and
Turner when I'm personally
speaking via
WiTEL®© -- to the
educators, and authors of
wireless literature like: Robert
Roche, of the CITA, Prof. Bob
Lochte of MSU, and to author,
Troy Cory-Stubblefield.
My first Question to both -
Robert Roche, and Prof Bob
Lochte, of Murray State U, and to
Troy Cory, the grandson of N.B.
Stubblefield -- went something
like this:
Hi, Mr. Roche, it's always a
pleasure speaking with
you, your quote on this
topic is needed for educational
purposes.
Question 1.
Technologically speaking,
would you say, "the only
components and elements needed to
make a "Wireless
Telephone" would be:
(1) - a Microphone - "to talk";
(2) - an Earphone - "to
listen"; (3) - an Antenna
- "to transmit and receive voice,
music and message"; (4) -
a Battery - "to energize the
trans-receiver apparatus," and
(5) - a Switch,
Switchboard or finger component -
"to dial phone numbers."
Answer: Certainly the
first four items are components
of a wireless phone -- though
wireless-enabled laptops or
netbooks are also wireless
devices, which may or may not
necessarily include a microphone
(though you can often acquire
such accessories).
Wireless devices --
feature phones, or other
wireless-enabled devices, such as
wireless-enabled laptops, PDAs,
netbooks, tablets, and
smartphones -- have effectively
put the power of voice and data
communications in the hands of
millions of users in the U.S. and
billions of people around the
world. These devices have
brought the Internet to people,
rather than places (in other
words, they have given people
mobile Internet access).
The International
Telecommunications Union (ITU)
has reported that there were an
estimated 4.6 billion wireless
subscriptions around the world as
of the end of 2009.
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At that point in time, the U.S.
had 285.6 million active wireless
subscriptions (based on CTIA's
measurements). By June 2010,
wireless subscribership in the
U.S. had risen to 292.8 million.
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Now, not every one of those
subscriptions -- in the world or
in the U.S. -- reflects a
single, unique individual. Some
folks have two or more devices
capable of being simultaneously
active (such as a cellphone and a
wireless-enabled laptop).
The Pew Internet & American
Life Project has measured how
people use and think about their
wireless devices in a number of
reports, looking at both adults
and teens.
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In the U.S. and around the world,
these devices have empowered
people to connect socially and
economically with each other on
many levels and having made
possible political changes in
places like the Philippines where
they helped "people power" change
the government. They have also
made possible heroic actions and
contributions, speeding
assistance in response to
emergencies both large and small,
from roadside rescues to
hurricane and earthquake
responses.
These devices form parts of
systems, to which they are
connected by radio-waves, (EMW).
In ending Bob Roche says:
"I hope this helps." An
explanation of these systems can
be found on CTIA's website in a
brief piece on "how wireless
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LOCHTE'S
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Today's Patent Mess -
"Discoveries" vs. "Inventions,"
-- & SpyKing90.com.
Service Mark Law -- which
includes all service marks, both
unregistered, and U.S.A.
registered (®©),
used to have no problem
distinguishing between -
Patentable - "DISCOVERIES" -- and
the word "INVENTIONS." Today, it
depends how the effects and the
elements of the inventions
"Trademark" and "Copyrights" --
play out.
"DISCOVERIES" -- which used to be
elucidations of the natural
world, were not patentable. The
word "INVENTION" denoted items
that were creations of evident
utility, and were patentable.
Over the last few decades that
distinction has been eroded,
under pressure from commercial
interests.
Today, a company can patent
portions of a DNA molecule,
--
even if it has no idea
what that sequence does;
pharmaceutical companies can
patent natural organisms if they
can claim a new way to isolate
and purify them.
Because of the widespread use of
the effects, elements, and
components of the Wireless
Telephone®© mark,
"the NBS WiTEL Trust organization
just recently filed its secondary
meaning on September 10th and
13th respectfully," said
Stubblefield. "Said action was
necessary to attach itself to the
original Service Marks registered
in same name and mark,
established in 1898 and 1907
respectfully.
This helps to explain as to why,
and how "business methods" - like
"SpyKing.com," "Stubbyte.com" and
"WiTEL Global," can . . . and
have applied for NEW patent and
other new service marks status to
protect its 100 year old batch of
updated WiTEL®©
service marks.
The new service marks includes
its claim to all
WiTEL®© phone
numbers, now valued at several
$Billions of dollars per
month.
The new NBS Trust's "SpyKing.com"
patent, also backs-up the recent
FTC "Red Flags Rule -- the law
enacted by Congress to help out
in the prevention of ID theft, in
the Buy/Sell world of Credit
Cards, used to purchase valid
Goods, Products, Service with
legal title.
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Minus a Day! By Mark Anderson,
PSI
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106govVsBruceKaratztrial
106 Sintrends: Former KB
Home CEO Bruce Karatz
sentenced
The highly watched
Options-Backdating Fraud Case --
brought on an Eight months of
house arrest for the former KB
Home CEO chief, Bruce Karatz.
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U.S.
Federal District Judge Otis D.
Wright II --
also sentenced Karatz
to five years' probation., and
fined the former executive $1
million and ordered him to
perform 2,000 hours of community
service.
After the
former KB Home CEO chief, Bruce
Karatz --
was sentenced in Los
Angeles, Karatz kissed his wife,
Lilly Tartikoff, and embraced
relieved supporters who included
his KB founder and billionaire
Eli Broad, former Los Angeles
Mayor Richard J. Riordan and
Father Greg Boyle, director of
gang intervention program
Homeboy.
The Options-Backdating
Fraud Case --
ruined Karatz.
His 20-year run as chief
executive of home-building giant
KB Home was derailed by
allegations that he manipulated
the value of stock options, was
sentenced on November10, 2010, to
five years' probation, including
the eight months of house
arrest.
- Wright rejected
prosecutors' request for a
lengthy prison sentence, noting
that there was no evidence that
the crimes damaged KB Home or its
shareholders.
- Karatz, 65, was convicted
in April on charges that he lied
about the Westwood-based
company's practice of backdating
options.
- Prosecutors said the
misinformation was given to KB
accountants and also appeared in
a 2006 quarterly report filed
with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
- In a brief statement to
the judge before the sentence was
imposed, Karatz said the criminal
prosecution "has been the most
difficult time of my life." He
did not apologize.
- Karatz is one of the most
prominent corporate executives to
be prosecuted in the government's
long-running crackdown on options
backdating and one of the few to
be convicted.
Only a handful have
received prison sentences.
- A federal probation
officer had recommended the
sentence that Wright imposed,
saying he was swayed by Karatz's
long history of philanthropy,
previously clean record and the
lack of a financial loss.
- "It was distressing to
read the tone of the government's
remarks," Wright said. "I think
it was mean-spirited and it was
beneath this office.
- "I and every other
federal judge took an oath that
we will administer justice and do
equal right to the poor and the
rich.
- Under the sentence,
Karatz will spend eight months
confined to his Bel-Air mansion
while monitored by a global
positioning satellite device.
- He declined to comment
about the sentence. Defense
attorney John Keker said no
decision had been made on
possibly appealing the
conviction.
Karatz served as KB Home's
chief from 1986 to 2006,
guiding the company to
significant growth and
profitability and becoming one of
the highest-paid executives in
the U.S., earning an estimated
$40 million a year.
- During that time, the
company's revenue grew to $11
billion from $491 million and its
workforce swelled to 7,000 from
500.
- He resigned in 2006 under
increasing pressure from
investigations into the company's
handling of stock options, a
common form of compensation.
The Backdating Options
Deal -
gave employees the option to
buy a set amount of stock at a
set price -- usually the closing
price on the date they're
granted.
- If the stock price rises,
employees can exercise their
option to buy at the lower price
and then sell at the current
price for a profit.
- Companies are allowed to
make the options more valuable by
backdating them to dates when the
stock price was lower, as long as
they acknowledge it in public
disclosures.
- KB did not make those
disclosures and ultimately
restated earnings to reflect its
past backdating.
After his resignation,
Karatz paid more than --
$7 million in fines and
restitution to KB to resolve a
lawsuit filed by the SEC. In his
statement to the judge, Karatz
said he planned to continue
working with Homeboy Industries,
helping the financially troubled
organization raise funds.
- Boyle praised the judge
and said he looked forward to a
long relationship with
Karatz.
- "Every single day, he's
there, at Homeboy Industries
helping out," Boyle said.
- "He's a great man, and
this was a just result."
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Google Sues U.S.A to break
Microsofts Monopoly for e-mail
Contract
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Google Inc. - is suing U.S. to
break the Software monopoly,
rival Microsoft Corp, and Adobe
has on the U.S. Government.
Google, the U.S. Department of
the Interior for allegedly
excluding Google's bid to provide
its e-mail system.
-
Google sues U.S. over bidding for
e-mail contract
- The
David Sarno report for the LA
Times reads that: Google's
lawsuit alleges the Interior
Department stacked the deck in
favor of Microsoft's e-mail
system.
-
Google Inc., pushing to expand
its e-mail and cloud computing
business, took the federal
government to court to change a
bidding process that it said
stacks the deck in favor of rival
Microsoft Corp.
-
Google, which has been battling
Microsoft across the country to
gain a foothold in the
$20-billion office software
market, sued the U.S. Department
of the Interior for allegedly
excluding Google's bid to provide
its e-mail system for the
agency's 88,000 employees.
-
According to the lawsuit, the
U.S. Department of the
Interior
specified that it would consider
only systems that used
Microsoft's business e-mail
software, a limitation Google
called "unduly restrictive of
competition.
-
"Based on the risk assessments
and market research," the
Department of the
Interior
wrote in
its specifications, Microsoft's
software was the "only commercial
product that satisfies every
requirement identified by the
department.
-
The suit, filed in the U.S. Court
of Federal Claims, (Nov-2010) 00
alleged that Interior violated a
federal law that mandates
government agencies to use open
and competitive procedures in
soliciting contracts. Google
seeks to halt the department's
process until it complies with
that law.
-
"Google is a proponent of open
competition on the Internet and
in the technology sector in
general," said Google spokesman
Andrew Kovacs. "Here, a fair and
open process could save U.S.
taxpayers tens of millions of
dollars and result in better
services.
-
Kendra Barkoff, a spokeswoman for
the federal agency, said the
department could not comment on
pending litigation.
-
For several years, Google has
been battling to win territory in
the global market for office and
e-mail software, a sector
Microsoft has long dominated with
its Outlook and Office
products.
-
To distinguish its offerings,
Google has long touted its
Internet cloud, an approach that
stores customers' e-mail and
documents in Google's remote data
centers rather than on servers
operated by businesses
themselves. The cloud approach
allows major customers to save
money by outsourcing their own
in-house e-mail systems.
-
But Google has run into
difficulties in its attempts to
loosen the tight grip that
Redmond, Wash., software giant
Microsoft has on the e-mail
market, which includes decades of
relationships with some of the
world's largest businesses and
government agencies.
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Microsoft Sues Motoroloa Patent
THEFTon the handset maker's line
of Android
phones.
Microsoft said Motorola had
infringed nine Microsoft patents
in the Android-based smart
phones, which run on Google Inc.
software. Microsoft makes its own
Windows phone software.
The patents relate to
synchronizing e-mail, calendars
and contacts, scheduling meetings
and notifying applications of
changes in signal strength and
battery power, Microsoft
said.
The Redmond, Wash., company said
it filed actions in the U.S.
District Court for the Western
District of Washington and at the
International Trade
Commission.
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THE LAW SUIT
"The patents at LEGAL ISSUE
relate to a range
of functionality embodied in
Motorola's Android smartphone
devices that are essential to the
smartphone user experience,
including synchronizing e-mail,
calendars and contacts,
scheduling meetings, and
notifying applications of changes
in signal strength and battery
power," said Horacio Gutierrez,
Microsoft's (News - Alert)
corporate vice president and
deputy general counsel.
"We have a responsibility to our
customers, partners, and
shareholders to safeguard the
billions of dollars we invest
each year in bringing innovative
software products and services to
market," he added, "Motorola
needs to stop its infringement of
our patented inventions in its
Android smartphones."
Gutierrez explained that
smartphones have become an
integral part of people's daily
lives and are used for a variety
of tasks beyond making phone
calls; from watching video and
listening to music to staying in
touch with relatives or
friends.
"The Microsoft innovations at
issue in this case help make
smartphones 'smart.' Indeed, our
patents relate to key features
that users have come to expect
from every smartphone. The
ability to send and receive
e-mail on-the-go has driven
smartphone adoption. Nowadays,
everyone expects to receive
e-mail from multiple services in
real time, to read it on their
phones, and to reply or send new
messages out &endash; in
continuous and seamless
synchronization with their e-mail
services. Microsoft's Exchange
ActiveSync, a proprietary
technology that we developed,
makes this possible," Gutierrez
said.
"That Microsoft has important
patents in this area should not
surprise anyone &endash; we've
spent over 30 years developing
cutting-edge computer software,"
Gutierrez added. "The key value
proposition of smartphones has
moved from the radio stack to the
software stack, as people buy
smartphones because they are
fully functional computers that
fit in the palm of your hand.
With this shift, it is imperative
that companies address IP issues
related to the software that
makes possible this new class of
devices. The rules of the road
are long-established in the
software industry, and
fundamental to the industry's
growth and economic impact is
respect for others' intellectual
property rights."
Microsoft's legal action seeks to
ensure its intellectual property
rights, and judging by the recent
actions by Apple and
Oracle (News - Alert),
Microsoft is not alone, Gutierrez
said.
The Wall Street Journal reported
that Apple has sued an Android
phone maker, HTC for alleged
patent infringement, while Oracle
Corp. has sued Google
directly.
If they're successful, the
lawsuits could lead to increased
costs for companies that use the
Android operating system,
according to the Journal.
Motorola said it hadn't received
a copy of the new Microsoft legal
complaint, but added, "The
company will vigorously defend
itself in this matter."
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Paul
Allen sues Apple, Google,
Facebook, AOL, Yahoo --
106smAllenSuesTechCompanies
/ "Like most early day Internet
innovators of service marks
®©, people like --
PC - Microsoft co-founder, Paul
Allen, have filed law suits to
collect service marks
®© revenue now due
and payable," says Mark Anderson,
a member of the
WiTEL®© Quality
Control Authority, in Los
Angeles.
Troy Cory, CEO of the NBS
WiTEL®© RADIO
Trust, and co-author of the book,
'"Bank of America, The
Tortfeasor" -- loves the theft of
service marks suit.
From the phone number / magazine,
and show biz production business
standpoint, our responsibility is
to aggregate our ServiceMarks
®© - and make use
of those intellectual property
rights. At times in the past, we
did loosen up our permissions to
make it easier for the creative
people in the Wireless
Telephone®©
business -- to get them off the
ground, and into the recurring
SmartPhone fee business. Again,
that's a recurring monthly
telephone number fee charge --
now a $Billion per month cash
cow, the highest of its type in
the telecom industry -- something
for Paul Allen to think about."
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FOR MORE nbslegal.net
STORY.
As a WiTEL®© news
publisher, a WiTEL phone number
system-creator, we should never
lose that umbilical thread
connection from my grandfather's
1907 Wireless
Telephone®©
ServiceMarks to the SmartPhone
user. If you take care of your
developers, they will take care
of you. The
NBS"Teléph-on-délgreen"
is now Murray State University,
Kentucky. CLICK
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STORY.
But as you can see in this Paul
Allen case, as well in the Oracle
case, no one was there to help
out either Sun Microsystem's
Scott McNealy or
Allen.
Paul
Allen's Legal action
for SERVICE
MARK®© Theft. THE
LAW SUIT accuses Apple, Google,
Facebook, AOL, Yahoo and others
of infringing on intellectual
property, (SERVICE MARKS
®©) owned by his
firm, "Interval Licensing."
The Paul Allen Legal Complaint
filed in U.S. District Court in
Seattle on August 27, 2010,
alleges that Apple Inc., Google
Inc., Facebook Inc., AOL Inc.,
Yahoo Inc. and "others" have
infringed, and still are using
Interval Licensing intellectual
property without permission.
The "Others" companies named,
includes a virtual list of who's
who of Silicon Valley and those
other biggies the Internet
industry, that have, and still
are violating four of the firm's
patents.
Bill Gates and Allen both founded
Microsoft in 1975. Allen later
left Microsoft to pursue other
InterNet related ventures that
included the investment firm
Vulcan Ventures.
Interval Licensing was founded in
1992 by Allen and David Liddle, a
venture capitalist and New York
Times Co. board member.
The Legal action alleges that the
Interval Licensing, among other
things, provided the initial
research funding for Google
co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry
Page, which "resulted in
Google."
Interval Licensing alleges
infringement of patents issued
between 2000 and 2004, related to
Internet browser technology and
the display of information.
Other named defendants in the
suit include EBay Inc., Netflix
Inc., OfficeMax Inc. and Staples
Inc.
Interval Licensing asks for
unspecified damages and an
injunction preventing the
defendants from further
infringement or "a royalty for
post-judgment infringement."
Allen, who publicly disclosed
that he'd been diagnosed with
non- Hodgkin's lymphoma late last
year, is the owner of the
Portland Trail Blazers basketball
team and the Seattle Seahawks
football team.
He has remained a prolific
inventor in his post-Microsoft
years.
In addition to his work with
Interval Licensing, Allen has
contributed to inventions
patented by Intellectual
Ventures, the intellectual
property firm run by former
Microsoft executive Nathan
Myhrvold.
Intellectual Ventures has churned
out tens of thousands of patents
and has drawn criticism for its
focus on patenting inventions, as
opposed to making or selling
products based on those
inventions. Such "non-practicing"
entities are often blamed for the
rise in patent litigation, though
Intellectual Ventures has not
directly filed litigation over
its intellectual property.
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106OracleSuesGoogleforJavatheft
/ What Do You Do when your
friends steal your Java Assets,
and the WiTEL®©
effects and elements owned by NBS
WiTEL®© ? Java
owner Oracle says. . . "Sue Um."
What Does Java Owner and
WiTEL®© Have In
Common?
Service Marks. In a battle of
Silicon Valley titans, Oracle
claims Google's use of Java
technology is a "Service Mark"
infringement, that includes: our
Java patent and copyright,
purchased from Sun Microsystems
Inc. in January, 2010.
As for the NBS Wireless
Telephone®©
organization, they say their
WiTEL assets are being infringed
by the major Telcoms in an amount
that exceeds $5-Billion Dollars
per month.
106pa-BratzVsBarbieSpy
/ 106-MGA Sues Mattel of
Bratz Dolly
spying
/ MGA made the Federal Court
filing four weeks, (Mid-August
2010) --after the U.S. 9th
Circuit Court of Appeals in San
Francisco said a lower-court
judge had wrongly granted Mattel
ownership of the $1-billion Bratz
franchise. This cleared the way
for a possible Jan. 11, 2010
trial over who can sell the
pouty-lipped, multi-ethnic
dolls.
Mattel Inc. was accused by rival
MGA Entertainment Inc. of spying
on rival toy companies for at
least 15 years, (since 1995) --
and defrauding it out of secret
details on more than 50 products,
in an escalation of the battle
over the popular Bratz dolls.
MGA said the maker of Barbie and
Ken dolls went so far as to print
up fake business cards at Kinko's
to help it gain entry and obtain
a "holy grail" of information
about rivals.
Reuters reported that it was
Mattel who generated, and
distributed secret Bratz doll
information . . . from the Barbie
Doll company forays since 1995,
were widely distributed within
the company and reviewed by
Mattel's Chief Executive Robert
A. Eckert, the filing said.
Mattel allegedly gained access to
the showrooms of other toy
makers, including Hasbro Inc.,
Lego and Sony Corp., the
complaint said.
The Bratz Doll $$$
payoff was big news in
2009.
Troy Cory, CEO of the NBS
WiTEL®© RADIO
Trust, and co-author of the
books, 'Bank of America, The
Tortfeasors' -- loves the
suit.
Troy says, "it might end
up like - the Barbie vs. Bratz
Doll case. Mattel owning MGA
Entertainment, and all of their
Service Marks. As one can see,
the copy-cat'tor, became a
caper. CLICK
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STORY.
Mattel spokeswoman Lisa Marie
Bongiovanni said the company
looked forward to defeating MGA's
allegations in court.
"These eleventh-hour claims are
without merit. They are a cynical
attempt to deflect attention from
MGA's own wrongdoing,"
Bongiovanni said.
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106
Bratz Dolls Wins Stay - Dec
10 MGA
Entertainment Wins Reprieve on
Bratz Dolls Recall
(tviNewsUpdate: Mattel Inc. v.
MGA Entertainment, 09-55673, U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit (San Francisco)
Dec. 10, 2009 -
Bloomberg reported that MGA
Entertainment Inc. won a
temporary halt to the
court-ordered recall of its Bratz
dolls that were found to
infringe the copyrights of rival
toymaker Mattel Inc. and the
companies must try to reach a
settlement.
"The parties are ordered
to attempt to settle the dispute
through expedited participation
in this court's mediation
program," a three-judge panel of
the U.S. Court of Appeals said in
an order yesterday.
Former U.S. District Judge
Stephen Larson had ordered a
recall of MGA's dolls that was to
go into effect next month.
Larson's order followed a jury
verdict last year that a Mattel
designer created the Bratz name
and characters and secretly took
the idea to closely held MGA.
"The court hasn't issued a
decision in the appeal," Mattel
said in an e-mailed statement.
"It has issued an order staying
the equitable relief, and also
ordering expedited participation
in the Circuit's mediation
program. Since the
appeal process is still pending,
we cannot comment further."
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106ObamaWiTELCommitment
The
Obama Wireless
Telephone®©
Commitment
Easily . . . the thrill ride of
the Summer will be the Obama
Commitment Spectrum Increase.
Under the new June - 2010 Obama
Wireless
Telephone®©
Commitment, plans are now in the
works to make over 500 megahertz
of spectrum available to the
highest bidder -- during the next
10 years.
"Mobile phone companies, like
AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint
praise the comment. However,"
says NBS WiTEL®©
spokesman, Mark Anderson says,
"existing Radio-TV broadcasters,
may resist giving up some of
their spectrums for
WiTEL®© broadband
play assigned telephone
numbers."
President Obama signed a
memorandum Monday that was
committed to double the current
amount of airwaves available for
WiTEL®© devices
over the next 10 years, a move
intended to create jobs and boost
investment in the mobile phone
market.
02. "KINGSBURY
COMMITMENT" --
EMW
SPECTRUMS
Q - Where Did
The U.S. Get The Radio Specrums
In The First Place? . . . asked
Radio-TV industry executives.
A - The
availability of the first
wireless EMW spectrums to the
general public was first made
possible by the Kingsbury
Commitment, in 1910. The Specrums
were seized by
U.S.A. Regulatory
Seizure. CLICK
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WiTEL®© RF
Commitment
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106pa
Gov Q
- Did Google's YouTube Really
Infringe on Viacom
Copyrights?
NO,
Says. U.S. District Judge Louis
Stanton in New York ON Jun 24,
2010.
As
U.S.
District Judge Louis L. Stanton
in New York
explained, Congress recognized
that the Internet couldn't
function if broadband providers,
search engines and hosting
services were held liable for
every unauthorized copy made on
their networks. The Digital
Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
protected those companies from
liability as long as they acted
quickly to remove any infringing
material identified by copyright
holders.
Viacom argued that YouTube didn't
qualify for this protection
because infringements were common
and central to the company's
fortunes. Echoing earlier
rulings, however, Judge Stanton
held that the law doesn't require
YouTube to police its network for
bootlegged videos. Instead, it
only has to remove the items
singled out by copyright holders.
That's sensible -- copyright
owners are far better positioned
to know whether a clip was used
legally or not. In fact, many of
the clips cited in the original
lawsuit weren't infringing. At
least 100 had been posted by
marketers employed by Viacom.
Google
Inc.'s YouTube didn't violate
Viacom Inc. copyrights when
content including clips from its
MTV and Comedy Central cable
television channels were posted
on the video-sharing website, the
judge ruled.
Judge
Stanton in New York said YouTube
wasn't liable for infringement.
Viacom, controlled by Sumner
Redstone, had sought at least $1
billion in damages, according to
a revised complaint filed in
April 2008.
Stanton
agreed with YouTube that it was
protected by the safe-harbor
provision of the federal Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, which
says a service provider isn't
liable for infringement if it
removes material from its site
when notified by the copyright
owner.
"The
provider must know of the
particular case before he can
control it," Stanton said in the
ruling. "The provider need not
monitor or seek out facts
indicating such
activity."
More than
24 hours worth of video is
uploaded to the YouTube site
every minute, the judge said.
YouTube had a policy of removing
infringing content from its site
and banning users after three
such offenses, according to the
ruling.
In
the past Hollywood Entertainment
producers, and their Associations
have asked the courts repeatedly
for help in coping with online
piracy, but the results have been
decidedly mixed.
Although judges have come down
hard on numerous file-sharing
networks and search engines that
specialize in bootlegs, they've
ruled in favor of several
websites whose content is
generated by users, even if it
wasn't authorized by the
copyright holders.
The latest may be the most
significant: Judge Stanton
dismissed Viacom allegations that
Google's YouTube had built its
business by turning a blind eye
to widespread copyright
infringements.
Both
companies asked Judge Stanton in
March to decide the case in their
favor without a trial. Viacom
said YouTube benefited
financially by allowing users to
post and share programs including
"The Daily Show With Jon Stewart"
and "South Park" on its website
without authorization. The
ruling, which Viacom plans to
appeal, reaffirmed the crucial
principle that online companies
should be held responsible for
what they do, not what others do
with their
services.
(Source: Bloomberg.
Harris/Jeffrey).
The LA
Times reported that some
analysts assert that the ruling
increases the burden on
entertainment companies, but it
really just rebuffs another
effort to shift copyright
holders' responsibilities onto
the middlemen who have opened new
distribution pathways online.
Those efforts are
understandable, given how quickly
works can spread around the
world, and how many sites can
become unauthorized sources. But
speedy, low-cost distribution is
one of the great advantages of
the Internet, not a flaw.
Many entertainment
companies have come to accept
that reality, striking deals with
YouTube and others to generate
revenue from the material that
fans post online.
Meanwhile, YouTube and
its competitors are adding
filtering technologies that
enable this monetization, as well
as giving copyright holders more
say over what gets posted. That
kind of cooperation in the
marketplace is a more effective
response to online piracy than
years of futile litigation.
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106 - Law Suits / April 9,
2010 / Bluetooth
Wireless sues -- Apple Inc., Dell
Inc., Intel Corp., Broadcom
Corp., LG Electronics Inc.,
Motorola Inc. and Sony Corp. for
ServiceMark®© IP
(Intellectual Property)
Theft.
Wi-Lan Inc., the Canadian owner
of patents for wireless
technology, sued Irvine-based
Broadcom Corp. and 18 other
mobile phone and computer makers,
claiming they're infringing its
Bluetooth patents.
The suit, filed in federal court
in Marshall, Texas, seeks
unspecified damages for the
alleged infringement and an order
to stop the companies from using
the technology.
Bluetooth is used to wirelessly
transmit data and voice between
devices such as computers and
WiTEL®© telephony,
with or without an assigned ID
phone number.
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106 - Gov. /
Q&A-FCC
Genachowski May 13, 2010,
During the noon-time, May 13,
2010, Q&A session with FCC
Chairman, Julius Genachowski, The
first question taken by the
Chairman was posed by
SMART-DAAF-Boys author,
performer, Troy,
Cory-Stubblefield of
TVINews.
"Who created the Wireless
Telephone and its Service Marks
®©" . . . and "How
does one follow and keep up with
the new defines and idioms given
to words such as: iPhones, Cell
Phones, Blackberries. etc,
etc.?"
After the all important
Q&A session was over, Troy,
the grandson of Nathan B.
Stubblefield, the inventor of the
Wireless Telephone® invention
and its ®© Service
Marks, said . . . "Today's
Wireless
Telephone®© has
become a personal broadcast
medium.
"The effects, and elements
of the Wireless
Telephone®© . . .
has turned people into
mini-broadcasters. It has created
them into stars of their own TV
productions. Now all they have to
do, is understand the values of
getting a blanket to produce the
vContent they wish to play on
their show."
Troy points out that his
NBS organization along with
TVInews, Smart90.com, and VRA
TelePlay Pictures offer a
complete line of DVDs and CDs
that offer FREE use of its
Service Marks.
"They can play our
vContent, and have a boost of
confidence, that they are not
infringing on other individuals'
creations. The license is really
worth looking into at
smart90.com," he said. CLICK
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INFORMATION.
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11th:
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- FCC The Google - Smart90 - NBS
WiTEL®© 102 Year
Old
Affair!
/ TODAY It;s the FTC "RED FLAGS
RULE" for ID Theft . . .
yesterday it was the106 FCC
Broadband Plan 2010-05 . . .
what's next, - the FCC "Must
Play" Rule is still effective.
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FOR THE FTC STUDY: "The Red Flag
Rule - Will it Prevent Phone
Number ID
Theft?"
2010-05 May-17: - The Google TV -
Smart90 Affair. receiver -
transmission
As the Google organization turns
13 years old, on September
15,1997, they can't wait to grow
up into a quick, seamlessly
global Smart TV server for its
users.
As for the 102 year old NBS
Wireless
Telephone®©
organization, they too, can't
wait to grow up into a WTQCA
telephone number clearinghouse
for a quick, quirky and a more
profitable Smart90 NBS
WiTEL®© Global
server -- for the mobile user
defined by the FCC.
It was on a January day 102 years
ago, that Nathan B. Stubblefield
pointed his NBS Wireless
Telephone®©
antenna towards his son on the
top floor of the Belmont Mansion
in Philadelphia with a NBS
WiTEL®© in hand --
and hit the dial trans-receiver
button, allowing the
WiTEL®© users to
talk back and forth to each
other.
The resulting 1902 NBS Wireless
Telephone®© call
was not only a great photo-op
news worthy masterpiece, but it
"kick-started" Radio-TV, and
WiTEL®©
broadcasting.
The Philadelphia, Washington,
D.C. were the first of the many
NBS Wireless
Telephone®© public
demos that took place between
1892 and 1908 in the U.S. Not
only that, it was both the State
and Federal regulators attending
the functions that played the
pivotal role in fundamentally
altering how people would utilize
the new voice-music "NBS
WiTEL®© medium.
The part they played would usher
in the beginnings of World War I,
the roaring 20s, the golden era
for both Radio-TV, and
WiTEL®©
broadcasting.
"Prior to the NBS WiTEL-1907
USPTO ®© registry,
there was no way the
WiTEL®© consumer
could talk or watch anything that
wasn't considered a Wireless
Telephone®©," said
Josie Cory-Stubblefield, the
co-author of the book, "Smart
Daaf Boys," and publisher-chief
Editor of TVI magazine. "At the
time their was no radio or TV
programing content."
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http://smartdaafboys.com/
Five years after the Wireless
Telephone®©
service marks were issued, and
granted by the USPTO to the NBS
Wireless
Telephone®©
organization, the EMW spectrums
of the Wireless
Telephone®© were
grabbed by U.S. regulators. First
it was the 1910 -
Mann-Elkins Act then the U.S.
Kingsbury Commitment, of
1913.
106 FCC Click For People Section
Julius
Genachowski
The
Restart Button Was the Effect of
Analog To Digital Set Top Box"
Commitment of
2009.
By June, 2009, the Web world
restarted itself with digital
immortality and the full circle
of NBS WiTEL-1907 was completed.
Hitting the "Analog To Digital
Set Top Box" dial-tone button
restarted the NBS
WiTEL-phenomenon of1902, rocking
the world of analog Wireless
Telephone®© and
on-line digital Smart TV. The
restart button validates
the1902-1908 NBS WiTEL -
Land-line public Telecom
demonstrations.
With the "Analog To Digital Set
Top Box" required in every home
in the U.S. -- by June-2009, it
was easy for anyone to hit the
dial trans-receiver button,
allowing the
WiTEL®© -
land-line user to talk back and
forth to each other over their
Smart TV "Seamlessly."
1910 - The Mann-Elkins Act of
1910 - - was the first vested
federal regulatory authority over
telephone services in the "ICC"
-- (Interstate Commerce
Commission). This followed the
practice of local franchising
initiated by states and
municipalities to control rates
and service quality. The U.S.
Kingsbury Commitment, of 1913
formalized AT&T's monopoly.
The commitment took away EMW
spectrums, that created the
regulatory agency now called, the
"FCC." By June, 2009, the
world of digital immortality hit
the Web and rocked the world of
analog television creating the
full circle of NBS WiTEL-1907.
The king of on-line Internet
WiTEL-1907 vContent is Cable.
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Puzzle?> Using Getty
Service marks ®©
without owners
OK!
NBSvsFCC$-Billion
Claim
<106pa
NBSvsFCCportz108w.jpg
On March 5th, 2006), the NBS
Stubblefield Family Trust filed
its formal intake complaint
against the FCC for $30-billion.
The complaint alleges they
misused their power in a scheme
to avoid the $30-billion payment
to the heirs of Nathan B.
Stubblefield, the inventor and
patent owner of Wireless
Telephone.
Charles Portz, of Houston, the
attorney for both claimants,
NBS100 Family Trust and
NBS100.com, stated the government
never paid the Wireless Telephone
inventor a dime for his property
that was seized, sold and is
still being sold since 1913, for
various reasons that includes,
war time national security and
the Telecommunications Act of
1996. CLICK
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106pa<Today's
Puzzle?>
Using Getty Service marks
®© without owners
OK! Theft of Services" -- on the
Web?
Fines for the misuse
of a copyrighted photo are too
high, critics say. Though
agencies deserve a fair fee,
negotiating with users is
preferable to big penalties.
Oscar
Michelen, a New York attorney
who focuses on damages claims
by Getty and Corbis, called
four-figure fines "a
legalized form of
extortion."
"The
damages they're requesting aren't
equal to the copyright
infringement," he said, adding
that "there's no law that says
definitively what images are
worth in the digital age."
Getty,
the owner, doesn't see it that
way.
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101FCC-NAB
and SpectrumsApr2010 /
April-2010. The Turf War between
Congress, Cable, Radio-TV,
WiTEL®© and the
FCC is explained at NAB-Las
Vegas. Chairman Julius
Genachowski tries to ease NBA
members fears about giving up
airwaves to NBS
WiTEL®© and Cable
operators.
The CEO of
NBS WiTEL®©, Troy
Cory-Stubblefield found serious
problems with the FCC at least
five years ago before the
2006-2008 Auction sales to place
to AT&T, Verizon, and other
Telecoms. The warning showed
little concern - the the problems
of selling Spectrums without
identifying them with
WiTEL®© phone
numbers to identify each phone
assigned a WiTEL®©
phone number.
The lack
of action, exacerbated by a turf
battle between agencies, allowed
the shoddy Financing of the
Auction sales practives and risky
bets based on prior Radio-TV -
Wireless
Telephone®© rules
of law since 1908, continued
until just months before the
Obama adminstration come into
being.
FCC
Chairman Julius Genachowski
called the So-called
retransmission consent disputes
took place in 1990, and have been
a regular occurrence in the
industry since Congress passed a
law almost 20 years ago allowing
broadcasters to seek financial
compensation from cable operators
in return for carrying their
signals. The tiffs have grown
uglier lately as broadcasters
have become more aggressive in
seeking fee
hikes.
Genachowski
said that the marketplace was the
preferred method to resolve these
issues, but that at the same time
he was not too pleased with
"sudden program interruptions"
and the potential for bigger
cable bills. "Some ask, Is 'free
TV' really free when cable rates
go up because of retransmission
fees?" he
said.
Time
Warner Cable Inc. and other
distributors have asked the FCC
to revisit the retransmission
consent rules, and the agency is
soliciting comments on the
topic.
Genachowski,
whose request for spectrum was
compared by NAB President Gordon
Smith to "The Godfather's" Vito
Corleone making people offers
they can't refuse, joked about
the comment when he took the
stage in Las Vegas. "All the good
restaurants have been offering to
comp me."
Battles over Carriage, and
WiTEL®© Phone
Number fees between broadcasters
cable operators, and invioces
from WiTEL®©.
Speaking
candedly to those NBA
broadcasters that the FCC was
going to seize spectrums from
existing broadcaters to sell them
to other telecommunications
companies was a myth. The goal of
the FCC's broadband plan, he
said, is not to "confiscate
broadcasters' spectrum and drive
broadcasters out of
business."
As part of
the FCC's broadband plan, which
was presented to Congress last
month, the agency has said it
would like broadcasters to
voluntarily return 120 megahertz
of spectrum, or airwaves,
allocated to TV stations to allow
for quicker mobile phones and
improved broadband service.
Broadcasters do not want to give
up their spectrum and say they
want to offer their own mobile
services, which could provide a
new revenue stream to prop up the
local TV business hurt by a loss
of advertising to the
Internet.
Although
Genachowski tried to assuage
fears that the FCC would force
broadcasters to cough up
spectrum, he said the situation
could become
dire.
"We're at
serious risk as a country in not
moving quickly enough on our
technology infrastructure and in
other areas to remain the world's
leader in
innovation."
This is
not "theory or idle speculation,"
he added. "It's math and
physics."
Spectrum wasn't the only
issue of concern that Genachowski
broached. He also talked about
recent fights between cable
operators and broadcasters over
fees that in some cases have led
to cable customers losing access
to local TV channels. That
happened in New York in March
when Walt Disney Co. briefly
pulled the signal of its WABC-TV
off Cablevision Systems in a
showdown over carriage
fees.
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106pa WiTEL Google,
Baidu and Yahoo wins Neutrality
FREEBIES over Telcos - AT&T,
etc.
AT&T,
the nation's largest land-line
and wireless carrier, complained
that changing government rules a
year after wireless companies
spent billions of dollars in an
FCC auction to lease what they
thought were unencumbered public
airwaves "creates the impression
of a 'bait and switch.' "
Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Julius Genachowski has
announced the rules and mandates
that he says will keep online
Internet traffic moving freely.
The proposals would also cover
wireless Internet service.
Wireless carriers have given his
proposal a thumbs down.
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FREEBIES over Telcos - AT&T,
etc.
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FCClogo
102.09FCCworkout'netneutrality'rules
/ Oct23,
2009.
During the
NBS WiTEL press conferance held
at Hollywood Digital confab on
October 23, 2009,
FCC
Chairman Julius Genachowski won a
victory on his first major policy
issue at the agency.
The
Federal
Communications
Commission
announced they would begin a
data-gathering process.
Commissioners may consider
whether regulations should apply
to not just Internet access
providers but also those that
feed content to the
Web.
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The
FCC Welcome Page
The
FCC is directed by five
Commissioners appointed by the
President and confirmed by the
Senate for 5-year terms, except
when filling an unexpired term.
The President designates one of
the Commissioners to serve as
Chairperson. Only three
Commissioners may be members of
the same political party. None of
them can have a financial
interest in any
Commission-related business.
FCC
Commissioner Clyburn,
Commissioner Copps, Chairman
Genachowski, Commissioner
McDowell, Commissioner Baker -
October 2009. (Get
print-resolution photos from the
Press
Photos
Page)
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Julius Genachowski
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WiTEL®© Rulings -
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2009 to 2010
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106
Hewlett Packard Co. settles China
ServiceMark infringement suit.
HP, reported on
March 18,
2010 -- that
it had reached settlements with
three companies that have been
accused of infringing on the
printer company's patents for ink
cartridges.
HP filed a complaint with
the U.S. International Trade
Commission in September, seeking
to ban imports of ink cartridges
by 11 companies.
Two of those companies
&emdash; InkPlusToner.com of
Canoga Park, Calif., and Comptree
Inc. of City of Industry, Calif.,
have agreed to stop the imports
and paid HP an undisclosed sum.
HP expects to reach a similar
agreement with Smartone Services
LLC of Hayward,
Calif.
Zhuhai Gree
Magneto-Electric Co. of China has
asked an administrative law judge
to end the commission's
investigation after agreeing to
cease importing these ink
cartridges.
A default judgment was
entered against the remaining
seven companies: Mipo
International Ltd. of Hong Kong,
Mextec Group Inc. of Miami, Fla.,
and five Chinese companies,
Shanghai Angel Printer Supplies
Co. Ltd., Shenzhen Print Media
Co. Ltd., Zhuhai National
Resources & Jingjie Imaging
Products Co. Ltd., Tatrix
International and Ourway Image
Co.
Ltd.
HP said it expects the
commission to rule in favor of
banning the importation of these
goods from the companies.
HP's ink business has long
been a cash cow, only recently
being supplanted as HP's most
profitable business by its
services division. HP's printer
and ink division had 2 1/2 times
the operating profit as the
personal computer division in the
last fiscal year, even though the
PC group's revenue was
higher.
Hewlett-Packard says it has
resolved
several patent
violation complaints filed
against manufacturers of
compatible inkjet
cartridges.panies.Last September,
the tech giant--arguably best
known as a printer maker--had
filed its latest complaint with
the U.S. International Trade
Commission (ITC).
HP at that time roported
that several makers of cartridges
for use in inkjet printers were
infringing on HP patents by
importing and selling their
products in the United States.
Following an investigation by the
ITC, 11 different companies were
found to have violated patents
related to HP's 02 inkjet
cartridges.
Among the 11 companies
charged with patent infringement,
InkPlusToner.com and Comptree Ink
reached settlements with HP. Both
have paid HP an undisclosed
amount in damages and have
promised to stop selling the
compatible 02 cartridges in the
U.S. HP added that it expects to
reach a similar agreement with
SmartOne
Services.
The ITC also approved the
request of another company,
Zhuhai Gree Magneto-Electric, to
stop the investigation into
alleged patent violations as long
as it promises not to import or
sell future compatible inkjet
products in the U.S. Finally, HP
said it expects the remaining
seven companies to receive
notices from the ITC ordering
them to stop importing and
selling the cartridges in
question.
HP is pleased with the
outcome on these matters, and
remains committed to vigorously
pursuing legal enforcement
against practices that do not
respect HP's IP [intellectual
property] rights," said
Stephen Nigro, HP's senior vice
president for Inkjet and Web
Services Business, Imaging and
Printing Group, in a statement
Thursday.
HP has a long and fierce
history of going after makers of
compatible inkjet cartridges,
typically charging them with
patent infringement. Most of
these cases have been settled
with the manufacturers paying HP
damages and promising to stop
selling the cartridges in
question.
/// As for
106Google, and its China problem
will it eventually wear
off?
Google reported -- that it
would delay rolling out in China
mobile applications that run on
Android phones after its Chinese
partners came under government
pressure to pull out of deals
with
Google.
Access to Google's Hong
Kong search site has been spotty.
Google responded to mounting
concerns of business users of
Gmail and other Google services
with a blog post that offered
some technical solutions that
would allow business users in
mainland China to access a
corporate network offshore,
similar to what other businesses
do.
The
company acknowledged that China
could block access to those
services at any time. It has set
up a dashboard on its website
displaying which services are
accessible and which ones are
being blocked or partially
blocked.
"My
concern is that lots of Google's
mobile services are based on
search," said Kevin Wang,
director of China research for
iSuppli Corp. "Now we don't know
if we'll still have their search
engine in
China."
As long as
the search engine is accessible,
Google will be positioned to
capture a growing share of mobile
advertising, analysts said,
noting that the company's
strategy is to get as many
Web-enabled phones as possible
into the hands of
consumers.
That
requires driving costs down for
such devices -- known as smart
phones because they combine the
features of a regular phone and a
computer.
Google
offers its platform for free to
pass savings on to developers and
trump competitors such as
Microsoft, which charges a
licensing fee to adopt its
cellphone
software.
The
company also made Android an
open-source system to allow
manufacturers and mobile
providers to modify the platform
as they see
fit.
China's
leading telecommunications
company, China Mobile Ltd.,
already has outfitted a line of
third-generation, or 3G, signal
devices named
OPhones.
China's
two other state-run
telecommunications companies,
China Unicom and China Telecom,
also have included Android-based
phones in their strategies to
attract users of smart phones,
though to a lesser
extent.
Wireless
data usage continues to rise. The
association counted more than 257
million data-capable devices in
circulation at the end of 2009,
compared with 228 million a year
earlier. Carriers saw revenues
from data services jump 25.7%
year over year, to more than $22
billion.
Total
wireless service revenues
increased slightly, to $77
billion from $75 billion.
Industry analysts have said that
carriers may soon introduce new
pricing plans, including tiered
pricing for data users, because
revenues are not keeping pace
with data consumption.
///
106CarbonMonoxideLaw
/ New law to require home carbon
monoxide
detectors
May 7, 2010 / California
homeowners will be required to
install carbon monoxide detectors
starting in July 2011 under a
bill signed Friday by Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger that is aimed at
preventing deaths and injuries
caused by poisoning from the
odorless, colorless gas.
Up
to 40 California residents die
each year from carbon monoxide
poisoning, according to state
Sen. Alan Lowenthal (D-Long
Beach), whose legislation was
signed by the governor.
"SB 183 will help put an
end to the senseless deaths and
injuries Californians suffer due
to accidental carbon monoxide
poisoning every year," said Kevin
Nida, president of the California
State Firefighters' Assn.
The California Air
Resources Board says an average
of 30 to 40 "avoidable deaths"
occur in California each year
because of unintentional carbon
monoxide poisoning. Lowenthal
said there also are hundreds of
"avoidable" emergency room visits
and hospitalizations in the state
each year.
The bill requires that
alarm devices, which can cost
less than $30, to be installed in
existing single-family homes that
have a fossil-fuel burning
appliance, fireplace or attached
garage, starting in mid-2011. All
other residential units will have
to have the detectors in place by
Jan. 1, 2013.
In addition to the
firefighters association, the
legislation also was supported by
the California Alarm Assn. and
Home Depot.
///
106
- Can an Arab get a bill passed
in
Israel?
During the last Knesset,
Ahmad TiBi passed four
[Israel Kaws]. "Before
that, I passed another four or
five," he said in a recent May
2010 LAtimes interview. ("But
it's very difficult for an Arab
MK to pass even one motion. Mine
were all universal laws that were
good for both Jews and Arabs,
about medical issues,
environment, anti-corruption. But
if I brought a law on the issue
of land allocation or cessation
of discrimination, it would
immediately be brought
down.
I tried it three months
ago with a motion that said
simply the allocation of land by
the state should be equal for all
citizens. I didn't mention
"Jewish" or "Arab" citizens.
Automatically the vast majority
of the Knesset voted against me.
Any motion with the principle or
word "equality" will fail. There
is not one basic law in the
Knesset talking about the value
of equal rights. Every Knesset I
try to pass it.
///
106FCCRoadMapToWiTEL-VoIPMix
/
May 6, 2010 / The Federal
Communications Commission plans
to unveil its road map for
regulating braoadband providers
in response to a feederal court
ruling last month that cast doubt
on the agency's authority over
high-speed Internet
access.
TheFCC is
expected to impose additional
rules on broadband providers to
ensure that the government has
the authority for a plan to bring
high-speed connections to all
Americans and prohibit Internet
providers from discriminating
against some kinds of online
traffic.
The agecy
now treats broadband as a lightly
regulated information service.
But since the ruling, the FCC has
been debating whether to impose
"common carrier" obligations that
make telecom services share their
networks. The agency says it will
seek a third way.
///
106
Kerkorian Settles Lawsuit for
$8.1-million.
/ Tracinda Corp. will pay $8.1
million to former DaimlerChrysler
shareholders who claimed the
billionaire investor sold shares
in 1999 based on inside
information
March 18, 2010 / Kirk
Kerkorian's Tracinda Corp. will
pay $8.1 million to settle a
class-action lawsuit brought by
former DaimlerChrysler
shareholders who claimed the
billionaire investor sold shares
in 1999 based on inside
information.
The shareholders sued
Kerkorian and his Tracinda
investment company in 2003. They
alleged that James Aljian, who
helped manage Tracinda's
investments and served on
DaimlerChrysler's shareholder
committee board, passed
confidential information about
the company's declining cash flow
to Kerkorian in
1999.
Tracinda then sold 7.6
million shares over a three-month
period, avoiding $120 million in
losses at the expense of other
shareholders, according to the
complaint.
Aljian, who was also named
as a defendant in the case, died
in 2007. As part of the
settlement, the shareholders
agreed to dismiss Kerkorian from
the case, leaving Tracinda as the
lone remaining
defendant.
John Kehoe, a lawyer for
the shareholders, declined to
comment on the proposed
settlement. Patricia Glaser, a
lawyer for Kerkorian and
Tracinda, didn't immediately
comment.
///
106 Apple Inc. -- Settles Lawsuit
by Acquiring the
"iPad®©
ServicMarks from Fujitsu
Lts.
/
iPad
plans to go full steam ahead in
selling its newest iPad computor.
According to records with the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,
"the Fujitsu Lts. -- transfer to
Apple" took place on April 3.
Servicemark advisor, Mark
Anderson, of PSI -- pointed out
"How Easy a trademark name can be
utilized by a simple license
agreement."
Fujitsu was approved for a
trademark on the iPad name for
use in hand-held computing
devices. The name was assigned to
Apple by Fujitsu, records made
public Friday
show.
Owning the trademark on
the iPad name allows Apple to
forbid others from using it
without its permission and
eliminates the possbility of a
legal battle over the name
between Apple ana Fujitsu, which
first sought the ttrademar in
2003.
Bloomberg reported that it
was time to "Tip your hat to
Apple today as it has succeeded
at obtaining full rights to the
iPad trademark from Fujitsu. The
trademark was previously owned by
Fujitsu who developed and sold a
handheld scanner with the name
'iPad" in 2002; the mobile device
was used by retailers to track
inventory, check prices, and
complete sales away from a
stationary sales terminal.
Fujitsu applied for the "iPad"
trademark in 2003 and it remained
in limbo until April 2009 when it
fell into "abandoned" status.
Fujitsu re-opened the trademark
application and the USPTO
published it for public review
and comment in September 2009.
This newly re-opened trademark
caught Apple's attention and the
Cupertino company went on the
offensive by objecting to
Fujitsu's application and filing
its own trademark application for
the term iPad."
Over the course of the
past few months, Apple and
Fujitsu have waged a minor
shouting war over the trademark
with Fujitsu claiming ownership
and Apple objecting. With the
Apple iPad slated to launch on
April 3rd, solving the issue
surrounding the iPad name
became imperative for Apple.
Though the details are unknown,
Apple and Fujitsu have worked out
a last minute agreement as a
document uncovered by
PatentAuthority.com reveals that
Fujitsu re-assigned the iPad
trademark in its entirety to
Apple. The transfer was completed
and the trademark was assigned to
Apple on March 17th,
approximately two weeks before
the April 3rd launch date.
What
transpired must have happened
behind tightly closed doors as
nary a word of this agreement has
been made public until now.
Though we don't know with
certainty, we can only presume
that it involved the transfer of
a large lump sum of cash from
Apple to Fujitsu in return for
the rights to the name iPad. Now
with the ownership of the iPad
trademark clearly in its
possession, Apple can relax
comfortably and release the
highly anticipated tablet device
on April 3rd without any legal
form of reprisal from
Fujitsu.
106
- Apple vs. Taiwan - Apple Sues
Taiwan smart-phone maker for
Service Mark
infringement.
Everyone knows when the Wireless
Telephone®©
Service Marks were first
introduced to the world in 1902,"
says WiTEL©©
spokesman, Mark Anderson. "It was
'A First' for anything and
everything that looks like a
telephone using an antenna to
transmit and receive EMW
signals."
Just imagine the surprised look
on the faces of onlookers during
the public demonstrations in
1902. Two NBS
WiTEL®© phones
were linked and connected
together with two WT-phone
numbers. A WiFi187 "hot
spot" was created by his
aerials grounded in the earth.
"No matter if it's a 'Cell
Phone', 'Mobile
Phone', or 'iPhone',
it's still a Wireless
Telephone®©," says
Anderson.
When Apple first introduced its
iPhone in 2007, not only did it
prove up the original NBS
WiTEL®© designs by
its inventor, N.B. Stubblefield,
but according to the numbers from
the Cupertino, Calif., company
Apple has sold more than "40
million units.
Mark Anderson, of PSI
WiTEL©© said,
"the
accused copy-cat'r of the
iPhone was HTC, a Taiwanian
company that produces the
Nexus One phone."
*Take2).
Apple alleges in their
(January 5, 2010) action,
-- that HTC Nexus, had designed
and uses the Android operating
system to deceive consumers.
Google Inc. endorsed the HTC
product and is now selling the
WiTEL®©
Nexus-Android unit directly to
consumers.
The Bratz Doll $$$ payoff was big
news in 2009. Troy Cory, CEO of
the NBS WiTEL®©
Trust, and co-author of the
books, 'Bank of America, The
Tortfeasors' -- and
'Disappointments Are Great --
Follow The Money', loves the
suit. He says, "it might end up
like - the Barbie vs. Bratz Doll
case. Mattel owning MGA
Entertainment, and all of their
Service Marks. As one can see,
the copy-cat'tor, became a
caper.
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2010 - The
WiTEL®© Service
Mark Lawsuit
Explosion /
This Year -- "It's An Mobile
Patent Lawsuit Explosion," writes
Nick Bilton in a New York Times
headline. In today's world of
"Stealing" the Service Marks
®© owned by
100-year old organizations like
NBS WiTEL®© - 1898
and Edison, is a big legal Game.
The best way to stop the
"Stealing" of
WiTEL®©'
intellectual property rights is
to SUE, with a Capital "S."
"And that's exactly what Apple,
along with a few other metaphors
are doing for us right now," says
Anderson. Play a simple melody,
with lovable sexy legal words,
then monetize it by giving the
Suit a 'Look-Listen -- iPhone
WiTEL®© look."
"We can sit by and watch
competitors steal our patented
inventions, or we can do
something about it. We've decided
to do something about it," Apple
Chief Executive Steve Jobs
said in a statement. "We
think competition is healthy, but
competitors should create their
own original technology, not
steal ours."
"The U.S. Government Created
EMW - MONEY FACTORY."
The quotes from Steve Jobs
were about the same words used by
the U.S. attorney general in
the Kinsbury Commitment of
1910. Just before World War I
commenced, "the commitment became
a "Money Factory for AT&T,
GE, and governments."
Not only did the regulatory
seizure take place in the U.S.A.,
but in Europe. The most important
elements of wireless telephony,
were taken from the author, and
inventor of the Service Marks, by
NBS Wireless
Telephone®©.
After the regulatory seisure of
both, the EMW portion of
"Telephony" and "Telegraphy",
they were reassigned to
AT&T, and several other
Telecom monopoly's" -- says
Anderson.
According to the Apple recent
filings, the Taiwan company
violated patents include
unlocking mechanisms, power
conservation efforts,
touch-screen scrolling, scaling
and rotating capabilities. Apple
is seeking monetary damages and
an injunction that would prevent
HTC from using, selling and
marketing products breaching the
patents in the U.S.
Lawsuits - "As An
Investment?"
"It should be pointed out," says
Anderson, "that today's Service
Mark plaintiffs are having a
heyday. Their filings are based
on the words, WiFi-187,
WiMAX-187, and "seamlessly."
Advancing a land line - online
wired system to a wired-wireless
antenna tower system is big
business.
As a result companies that only
buy and sell Service Marks,
(include trademarks, patents, and
copyrights) are taking the
"seamlessly"
WiTEL®©
efforts serious. They plan to win
big bucks from established online
systems.
"But, continues Anderson, "what
most of those online firms, and
Telecom switching to the wireless
industry have foregotten, to
become a real Wireless
Telephone®©
operator, they too must apply,
and receive for a
WiTEL®© license
from NBS
WiTEL®©."
As for "patent trolls," Eric Von
Hippel, a professor of
technological innovation at
M.I.T.'s Sloan School of
Management, says, "if companies
entered a litigious dispute "they
would usually come to an
agreement to simply share each
other's patents." But he said a
new genre of patent lawsuits,
brought on by what he calls
"patent trolls," had changed the
nature of the disputes. These
companies have no interest in
using the patents, Mr. Von Hippel
said, but instead hope to reap
large sums of money from the
lawsuits themselves.
Bilton in his NY Times article,
reported that, "at first it looks
as if we're in the middle of a
patent lawsuit Super Bowl party."
Nearly every large mobile phone
player -- with the exception of
Microsoft, Palm and, so far,
Google -- has recently been
involved in some sort of patent
litigation regarding mobile
technologies.
"Sampling any one of the many
lawsuits now underway, is a great
study," says Troy Cory. Within
the last year, for example,
Cybersitter sued both China,
Taiwan, and Japan based on Berne
Convention standards. Apple was
sued by the Taiwanese company
Elan Microelectronics over
alleged infringement of
touch-screen patents. Nokia went
on a lawsuit spree, suing Apple,
Samsung, LG and a variety of
other mobile handset companies.
Kodak sued several companies over
patents related to its
digital-imaging
technology.
Although Service Mark
®© litigation is
not new in todays hitech world -
"the law-suits surrounding
the WiTEL®©
wired-wireless mobile landscape
are," says Texas attorney,
Charles Portz.
Legal experts have not explained
what the difference between the
effects, elements, and number
code system of a mobile
WiTEL®© Service
Mark. For most, mobile technology
is still in its infancy and these
large Telecom companies are
trying to stake their claim to
the future of computing NBS
WiTEL®© phone
numbers for NBS
WiTEL®© without
telling them. CLICK
FOR MORE PORTZ
STORY.
In March 2010 -- Apple said it
was suing smart-phone maker HTC
Corp., alleging that the Taiwan
company infringed on 20 Apple
patents associated with the
popular iPhone.
(latimes)
The lawsuits were filed with both
the U.S. International Trade
Commission and the U.S. District
Court in Delaware and accuse HTC
of stealing the iPhone's user
interface, underlying
architecture and hardware, Apple
said.
HTC considers it "too premature
to comment," said spokeswoman
Linda Mills.
"HTC values patent rights and
their enforcement but is also
committed to defending its own
technology innovations," the
company said in a statement.
"Until we have had this
opportunity, we are unable to
comment on the validity of the
claims being made against
HTC."
* A
TAKE
TWO FINAL NOTE:
CopyCat
NBS turned that ol' saying --
"The world will beat a path
to your door if you invent a
better mousetrap that could
talk." One day 110 years ago . .
. they did.
One day in 1987, a
TV-monitor was added to the
NBSWiTEL®©
iHandi.
Since that eime, NBS Pub,
tviNews, and smart90.com motto
has been using
-
Television With No Borders -
We
Preserve The
Moment.
///
CopyCat
- CopyCator - Copy Cat'r - Copy
Catort
(evil
doer)
Definition: someone
who copies
Synonyms: ape,
aper, mime duplicate
Part of Speech:
noun
Definition: copy,
reproduction
Synonyms: Xerox,
analogue, carbon, carbon copy,
chip off the old block, clone,
companion, coordinate, copycat,
correlate, counterfeit,
counterpart, counterscript, dead
ringer, ditto*, double, dupe*,
duplication, facsimile, fake,
fellow, germination, imitation,
knockoff, likeness, lookalike,
match, mate, obverse, parallel,
phony, photocopy, photostat,
pirate, reciprocal, recurrence,
repetition, replica, replication,
repro, ringer, second,
similarity, spitting image, stat,
twin
Notes: duplication
may be regarded as an activity
because one duplicates (makes
again) something, but replication
is a process in which something
is replicated (copied)
Antonyms:
archetype, model, original,
prototype imitator
Definition:
copyist
Synonyms: ape,
aper, copy cat, echo, follower,
impersonator, mime, mimic
///
Caper:
1580s, probably from It.
capriolare "jump in the air" (see
cab). Meaning "prank" is from
1840s; that of "crime" is from
1926. To cut capers is c.1600.
ca·per1? ?[key-per]
Show IPA
&endash;verb (used without
object) to leap or skip
about in a sprightly manner;
prance; frisk; gambol.
&endash;noun: a
playful leap or skip. a
prank or trick; harebrained
escapade. a frivolous,
carefree episode or activity.
Slang. a criminal or
illegal act, as a burglary or
robbery.
&emdash;Idiom: cut
a caper. cut (def. 80a).
Origin:
1585&endash;95; fig. use of L
caper he-goat (c. OE hæfer,
ON hafr, OIr caera sheep < a
West IE term *kap-(e)ro- for a
domesticated smaller animal); for
the meaning, cf. dog (v.)
Related forms:
ca·per·er, noun
ca·per·ing·ly,
adverb
un·ca·per·ing,
adjective
Synonyms: 3. stunt,
antic, shenanigans. 4. spree,
frolic.
///
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Copyrights
113.09iiNetNeutralityRule
/ September 21, 2009 / FCC
Ensuring Net neutrality. Julius
Genachowski, the new FCC chairman
is right to want new rules that
would keep service providers from
limiting selected data traveling
through their networks.
The
FCC took a tentative stab at the
issue in 2004, when then-Chairman
Michael Powell announced
four crucial (4
Freebies) "Internet
Freedoms": the ability of
Internet users to access any
legal content, software or
services online, and to connect
to the Net through any compatible
device. Genachowski laid out two
more: Broadband providers
should not
discriminate against particular
websites or applications, nor
conceal how they manage data. He
also said that the commission
should translate these principles
into formal rules rather than
leaving them in legal limbo.
Lobbyists
for phone and cable TV companies
argue that there's little
evidence of ISPs playing unfairly
or violating Powell's four
freedoms. Yet when the FCC moved
to stop Comcast from
surreptitiously interfering with
a legal file-sharing application
last year, Comcast sued, claiming
the commission had no power to
enforce the principles. It's
paradoxical that the government
should have to regulate the
Internet to preserve its
unregulated essence. But with
so little competition in
broadband service, the major
phone and cable companies have
the power and the incentive to
stop worthy but disruptive
innovations in the name of
"managing congestion." The FCC
should set clear rules that
enable ISPs to keep data flowing
from all legal services and
applications, not just favored
ones.
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///
101CTIA-reported
that WiTel Mobile phone usage
keeps
growing
Americans used more than
1.1 trillion minutes in the last
half of 2009, an increase of 38
billion from the same period in
2008.
U.S. mobile phone users
are talking, texting and surfing
the Web more than ever, according
to new data from a wireless
industry trade
group.
CTIA's latest semiannual
industry survey by CTIA -- the
Wireless Assn. showed that in the
last half of 2009, consumers used
more than 1.1 trillion minutes,
up 38 billion from the same
period in 2008.
Consumers sent almost 5
billion text messages per day in
the last half of 2009.
The group did not offer a
comparable figure for text
messaging from 2008, but it did
say that the number of multimedia
messages -- those that contain a
picture or video -- more than
doubled year over year.
As for
106Google, and its China problem
will it eventually wear
off?
Google reported -- that it
would delay rolling out in China
mobile applications that run on
Android phones after its Chinese
partners came under government
pressure to pull out of deals
with
Google.
Access to Google's Hong
Kong search site has been spotty.
Google responded to mounting
concerns of business users of
Gmail and other Google services
with a blog post that offered
some technical solutions that
would allow business users in
mainland China to access a
corporate network offshore,
similar to what other businesses
do.
The company acknowledged
that China could block access to
those services at any time. It
has set up a dashboard on its
website displaying which services
are accessible and which ones are
being blocked or partially
blocked.
"My concern is that lots
of Google's mobile services are
based on search," said Kevin
Wang, director of China research
for iSuppli Corp. "Now we don't
know if we'll still have their
search engine in
China."
As long as the search
engine is accessible, Google will
be positioned to capture a
growing share of mobile
advertising, analysts said,
noting that the company's
strategy is to get as many
Web-enabled phones as possible
into the hands of
consumers.
That requires driving
costs down for such devices --
known as smart phones because
they combine the features of a
regular phone and a
computer.
Google offers its platform
for free to pass savings on to
developers and trump competitors
such as Microsoft, which charges
a licensing fee to adopt its
cellphone
software.
The company also made
Android an open-source system to
allow manufacturers and mobile
providers to modify the platform
as they see
fit.
China's leading
telecommunications company, China
Mobile Ltd., already has
outfitted a line of
third-generation, or 3G, signal
devices named
OPhones.
China's two other
state-run telecommunications
companies, China Unicom and China
Telecom, also have included
Android-based phones in their
strategies to attract users of
smart phones, though to a lesser
extent.
Wireless data usage
continues to rise. The
association counted more than 257
million data-capable devices in
circulation at the end of 2009,
compared with 228 million a year
earlier. Carriers saw revenues
from data services jump 25.7%
year over year, to more than $22
billion.
Total wireless service
revenues increased slightly, to
$77 billion from $75 billion.
Industry analysts have said that
carriers may soon introduce new
pricing plans, including tiered
pricing for data users, because
revenues
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106
Hewlett Packard Co. settles China
ServiceMark infringement suit.
HP, reported on
March 18,
2010 -- that
it had reached settlements with
three companies that have been
accused of infringing on the
printer company's patents for ink
cartridges.
HP filed a complaint with
the U.S. International Trade
Commission in September, seeking
to ban imports of ink cartridges
by 11 companies.
Two of those companies
&emdash; InkPlusToner.com of
Canoga Park, Calif., and Comptree
Inc. of City of Industry, Calif.,
have agreed to stop the imports
and paid HP an undisclosed sum.
HP expects to reach a similar
agreement with Smartone Services
LLC of Hayward,
Calif.
Zhuhai Gree
Magneto-Electric Co. of China has
asked an administrative law judge
to end the commission's
investigation after agreeing to
cease importing these ink
cartridges.
A default judgment was
entered against the remaining
seven companies: Mipo
International Ltd. of Hong Kong,
Mextec Group Inc. of Miami, Fla.,
and five Chinese companies,
Shanghai Angel Printer Supplies
Co. Ltd., Shenzhen Print Media
Co. Ltd., Zhuhai National
Resources & Jingjie Imaging
Products Co. Ltd., Tatrix
International and Ourway Image
Co.
Ltd.
HP said it expects the
commission to rule in favor of
banning the importation of these
goods from the
companies.
HP's ink business has long
been a cash cow, only recently
being supplanted as HP's most
profitable business by its
services division. HP's printer
and ink division had 2 1/2 times
the operating profit as the
personal computer division in the
last fiscal year, even though the
PC group's revenue was
higher.
Hewlett-Packard says it has
resolved
several patent
violation complaints filed
against manufacturers of
compatible inkjet
cartridges.panies.Last September,
the tech giant--arguably best
known as a printer maker--had
filed its latest complaint with
the U.S. International Trade
Commission (ITC).
HP at that time roported
that several makers of cartridges
for use in inkjet printers were
infringing on HP patents by
importing and selling their
products in the United States.
Following an investigation by the
ITC, 11 different companies were
found to have violated patents
related to HP's 02 inkjet
cartridges.
Among the 11 companies
charged with patent infringement,
InkPlusToner.com and Comptree Ink
reached settlements with HP. Both
have paid HP an undisclosed
amount in damages and have
promised to stop selling the
compatible 02 cartridges in the
U.S. HP added that it expects to
reach a similar agreement with
SmartOne
Services.
The ITC also approved the
request of another company,
Zhuhai Gree Magneto-Electric, to
stop the investigation into
alleged patent violations as long
as it promises not to import or
sell future compatible inkjet
products in the U.S. Finally, HP
said it expects the remaining
seven companies to receive
notices from the ITC ordering
them to stop importing and
selling the cartridges in
question.
HP is pleased with the
outcome on these matters, and
remains committed to vigorously
pursuing legal enforcement
against practices that do not
respect HP's IP [intellectual
property] rights," said
Stephen Nigro, HP's senior vice
president for Inkjet and Web
Services Business, Imaging and
Printing Group, in a statement
Thursday.
HP has a long and fierce
history of going after makers of
compatible inkjet cartridges,
typically charging them with
patent infringement. Most of
these cases have been settled
with the manufacturers paying HP
damages and promising to stop
selling the cartridges in
question.
///
102.09iiiFCCRulesInternetNeutrality
(210)
September 21,
2009 / MONDAY FREEBIES - Google,
Yahoo WiTEL vs AT&T, etc.
Internet 'net neutrality' is
endorsed by FCC Chairman Julius
Genachowski proposes formalizing
rules and adding mandates that he
says would keep online traffic
moving freely. The proposals
would also cover wireless
Internet service.
AT&T,
the nation's largest land-line
and wireless carrier, complained
that changing government rules a
year after wireless companies
spent billions of dollars in an
FCC auction to lease what they
thought were unencumbered public
airwaves "creates the impression
of a 'bait and switch.' "
Genachowski
tried to allay some of those
concerns. He said the rules would
be enforced case by case. When
networks are congested, for
example, telecommunications
companies might be allowed to
limit use by "very heavy users"
so other customers would still
have access to the
Internet.
Obama
was a strong supporter of network
neutrality during the
presidential campaign, helping to
draw online support.
The
FCC's four guiding Internet
principles since 2005 assure that
Internet users can access any
legal content, application or
service and allow them to attach
any device to the Internet as
long as it doesn't harm the
network.
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FOR MORE STORY
102.09iiiFCCRulesInternetNeutrality
AT&T
and Cable Telcos Rejects project
But
the telecommunications and the
cable companies that control both
land-line and wireless access to
the Internet argue that some
customers who download large
amounts of data, such as a
continuous flow of movies, can
jam their networks. Regulations
that prevent the companies from
restricting such bandwidth hogs,
they contend, would hamper their
networks, harm innovation and
delay upgrades.
The
debate centers on so-called
network neutrality principles
that the FCC has been using for
four years to prevent telecom
companies, such as AT&T Inc.
and Time Warner Cable Inc., from
restricting access to websites
and other online services.
Genachowski's
proposal would turn those
principles into permanent rules
and expand them to prevent
discrimination against the type
of data flowing through the
networks, such as free Internet
phone services or file-sharing
technology for movies.
The
FCC's four guiding Internet
principles since 2005 assure that
Internet users can access any
legal content, application or
service and allow them to attach
any device to the Internet as
long as it doesn't harm the
network.
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AT&T
and Cable Telcos Rejects
project
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- AT&T and Cable Telcos
Rejects
project
106is - Library
of Congres
smart90com/copyrights
106is - The
Federal Communication Commission
(FCC)
106f-
Google
KnowledgeRush
106f - FCC
Approves the Sprint Deal, and
WiTel® - The Clearwire
Merger
106f - FCCSafetyAirwaves
Public Safety Airwaves Up For
Sale
2009
106f - WiTEL
Organizations Get Free RF-
Spectrums.
106f - FCC
Approves the Sprint Deal, and the
WiTel®
-Clearwire
106f
- US
Constitution US-5 - Seizure of
Personal
Property
106f -
FCCSafetyAirwaves
Public Safety Airwaves Up For
Sale
2009
106f
- Is
the 5th Amendment of the U.S.
Bill of Rights a dead
law?
106f
- Copyrights:
Walt Disney. Whose Mouse Is It?
#Copyrights:WaltDisney
106f
- The
Library of Congress - A research
library of the US
Congress
106f - New
Fee Structure Scheduled to Begin
August
1st
106f - Definition
of "Berne Convention
Works"
106f - Google
Orphan Book Scan
Settlement
106f - Debate
stirs over Apple's
role.
106f - June
12th 2009 - U.S.A. AnalogTV RF To
Digital Seizure
Completed
106f - Designing
around Service
Mark®© is popular
now
days.
106f - Barbie
vs
Bratz U.S. Matell wins
SERVICE MARK
CLAIMS
106f - Barbie
wins:
U.S. District Appelate Judge
allows
$-Millions
106f - WiTEL
Organizations Get Free Use of
Airwaves from FCC.
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106s - WiTEL
Organizations Get Free RF- Spectrums.
In
early November, 2009 -- the U.S. FCC
approved the free Use of Airwaves to WiTEL
high-tech firms such as Google and
Microsoft.
The empty TV
spectrums that will be converted into RF
spectrums for WiTEL Internet use. Users
will be identified by phone numbers and/or
IP addresses.
The RF-187
give-aways are transmitted by existing
DVB-TV antennas, which are sometimes
referred to as: 'White spectrums" or
"Wi-Fi on steroids." CLICK
FOR MORE WiTEL Organizations Get Free RF-
Spectrums.
Google, who just
entered the new generation of WiTEL
organizations with their new G1 WiTEL on
Sept 26th, ( Click
more about Google's World of WiTEL) --
will use the
'white spaces' between channels to go
online with their new Wireless
Telephone®©
devices.
106s - FCC
Approves the Sprint Deal, as it Buys Into
The World of the Wireless
Telephone® - The Clearwire
Merger -
What
make WiMax and WiFi so important in the
world of the Wireless Telephone®
-- and how will Sprint MONETIZE their
entry in the the WiMax 187 world of
antennas?
WiMax is similar to Wi-Fi service
found in coffee shops, airports and many
homes, but it is more powerful and able to
cover whole cities, in some
cases.
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WiMax187
106s
- US
Constitution US-5 - Seizure of Personal
Property
Legal Court Rulings:
106s
-
FCCSafetyAirwaves
Public
Safety Airwaves Up For Sale
2009
FCC
-- Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Kevin J. Martin proposed putting
a nationwide swath of public safety
airwavwes up for sale again after cutting
the minimum price by 42%.
CLICK
FOR MORE STORY
106s
- Is
the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Bill of
Rights a dead law?
If it
is still alive and valid --
then the
property seizure of the effects of NBS
WiTel®©
-- by various world governments -- should
now be paid for.
CLICK FOR
MORE STORY.
Feature
Story / Settling
the USC@5 $Billion WiTEL Controversy. The
NBS100 Wireless Telephone®
organization, like Google, Inc. -- let's
people use the effects of it's goods,
products, and services FREE. For decades,
the WiTEL organization, like Google, pays
itself back for the Freebies it gives out,
by sharing the income derived from its
name branded goods, and services within
radio, movie and web
content.
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FOR MORE
STORY
106s
- Copyrights:
Walt Disney. Whose Mouse Is It?
Copyrights:WaltDisney
Today,
title-card claims are no longer required.
But when courts rule on historical
copyright issues, they follow the laws in
place at the time -- in this case, says
Hedenkamp, the 1909 law requiring that the
word copyright or its symbol be
"accompanied by the name of the copyright
proprietor" -- a rule scholars said means
in the immediate
proximity.
Disney legal
advisors were not amused. General Counsel
Louis Meisinger wrote back that it would
be "inconceivable that any modern court
would find any confusion about the
identity of the proprietor of Mickey Mouse
cartoons."
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STORY
He
even threatened Hedenkamp with legal
action if the young scholar openly
advanced such
claims.
"With respect to
your plans to otherwise promote these as
being in the public domain," Meisinger
added, "please be advised that slander of
title remains actionable under California
law for both compensatory and punitive
damages."
Nonetheless,
Hedenkamp let the genie out of the bottle,
spelling out his arguments in the Virginia
Sports and Entertainment Law Journal, a
publication of the University of
Virginia's law school. It attracted little
attention off-campus. MORE
STORY((See Article 109Copyright 5th
Admendment)
106s
- The
Library of Congress is the research
library of the United States Congress
-- and is the oldest federal institution
in the United
States.
Located
in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it
is the largest library in the world by
shelf space and holds the largest number
of books.[2][3] The head
of the Library is the Librarian of
Congress, currently James H.
Billington.
The
Library of Congress was established by
Congress in 1800, and was housed in the
United States Capitol for most of the 19th
century. After much of the original
collection had been destroyed during the
War of 1812, Thomas Jefferson sold the
library 6487 books, his entire personal
library, in
1815[4][5].
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FOR 2008 TVInews Trick Pony
STORY
After a period of decline during the
mid-19th century the Library of Congress
began to grow rapidly in both size and
importance after the American Civil War,
culminating in the construction of a
separate library building and the
transference of all copyright deposit
holdings to the Library. During the rapid
expansion of the 20th century the Library
of Congress assumed a preeminent public
role, becoming a "library of last resort"
and expanding its mission for the benefit
of scholars and the American people.
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HISTORY.
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/ Courts / Service
Marks
/
Library
of Congres
http://www.smart90.com/106gov/
The
Federal Communication Commission
(FCC)
106s
- New
Fee Structure Scheduled to Begin August
1st.
The U.S. Copyright Office in the Library
of Congress is amending its fees for
copyright services. Thanks to cost-savings
achieved through increased office
automation, some fees will remain the same
or decrease. Other fees&emdash;mostly for
services requiring manual labor--will
rise.
Marybeth Peters, the Register of
Copyrights, submitted a report to Congress
in March analyzing changes in costs
arising from the reengineering of the
Copyright Office in 2007 and the
introduction last year of an electronic
system for processing copyright
applications. The report also considered
general economic factors and the
requirement in copyright law that fees be
fair and equitable and support the
objectives of the copyright system. The
new fees are scheduled to take effect on
Aug. 1, 2009.
The proposed fee for filing a copyright
application online, using the new
electronic Copyright Office known as eCO,
remains $35. The report concluded that the
Copyright Office realizes substantial
savings from eCO as a result of not having
to process a paper form, manually enter
and quality-review data, and process a fee
payment. CLICK
FOR MORE FEE CHANGE File OnLine
STORY.
106s - Definition
of "Berne Convention
Works"
The WIPO Copyright and Performances and
Phonograms Treaties Implementation Act of
1998 deleted the definition of "Berne
Convention work" from section 101.1 Pub.
L. No. 105-304, 112 Stat. 2861. The
definition of Berne Convention work, as
deleted, is as follows:
A work is a "Berne Convention work" if
--
(1) in the case of an unpublished work,
one or more of the authors is a national
of a nation adhering to the Berne
Convention, or in the case of a published
work, one or more of the authors is a
national of a nation adhering to the Berne
Convention on the date of first
publication;
(2) the work was first published in a
nation adhering to the Berne Convention,
or was simultaneously first published in a
nation adhering to the Berne convention
and in a foreign nation that does not
adhere to the Berne Convention;
(3) in the case of an audiovisual work
--
(A) if one or more of the authors is a
legal entity, that author has its
headquarters in a nation adhering to the
Berne Convention; or
(B) if one or more of the authors is an
individual, that author is domiciled, or
has his or her habitual residence in, a
nation adhering to the Berne Convention;
or
(4) in the case of a pictorial, graphic,
or sculptural work that is incorporated in
a building or other structure, the
building or structure is located in a
nation adhering to the Berne Convention;
or
(5) in the case of an architectural work
embodied in a building, such building is
erected in a country adhering to the Berne
Convention. CLICK
FOR MORE BERNE
STORY
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106s - The
Trick Pony theory of "Designing around
Service Mark®© is popular
now days, and
works.
LATime reported
on June 17, 2009 -- that Dish Network
Corp. is one of those seeking ways to
skirt around the TiVo patent. Alternatives
in design-around might possible. They said
it has been trying to work around a patent
owned by TiVo Inc. of Alviso, Calif.,
while challenging a ruling to shut down
its digital-vieo recording service.
Dish "is
investigating other potential
design-around options, but at this stage,
doees not know whether a further
design-around is even possible," the
Englewood, Colo., company said in a filing
in federal court in Marshall, Texas.
MORE
STORY.
106s - Barbie
vs
Bratz
U.S.
District
Court Judge Stephen Larson in Riverside
decision, allows
Matell to win $-Millions in the Barbie vs
Bratz Doll copyright infringment
action.
January
2008
/
Barbie
Doll wins over Bratz Doll. "The Bratz
company lost $-Millions because its owner
used deceptive techniques to skirt around
Mattel's Copyright," says attorney for NBS
Wireless
Telephone®©.
A
federal judge in Riverside, CA has
delivered several potentially fatal blows
to the popular Bratz dolls and their
manufacturer, MGA Entertainment Inc. The
first ruling came in mid-December and the
other on the last day of December. MGA's
archrival Mattel Inc. was ruled as the
legal owner of the Barbie toy line and has
the right to recall all unsold Bratz
dolls, giving notice to any/and all other
edgy dolls look-a-like, with or without
her shoes, glasses or garments on.
106s - Barbie
Updates:
April 28, 2009
U.S.
District Court Judge Stephen Larson in
Riverside decision,
allows Matell to win $-Millions in the
Barbie vs Bratz Doll copyright infringment
action.
The Federal Court order was a sweeping
victory for El Segundo-based Mattel -- the
maker of the Barbie Doll. It was just last
year in July 2008, that a jury found that
the Bratz line, headed by
Isaac Larian of
MGA,
was created by a designer that once worked
for Mattel under exclusive contract when
he came up with the idea for Bratz
dolls.
The LA Times reported on April 28, 2009,
that -
Isaac Larian, the outspoken entrepreneur
of MGA, who has made a fortune off the
popular copyrighted Bratz dolls, was
ordered by
U.S.
District Court Judge Stephen Larson
late Monday, April
27, 2009, to hand control of his company
to a temporary court appointed receiver,
attorney
Patrick Fraioli Jr.. CLICK
FOR MORE Mattel Inc. To Get
Control of Bratz Assets,
and
Court Affirms MGA Must Pay $100-Million
Fine.
In
The December, 2008 Court Order
106s - WiTEL
Organizations Get Free RF-
Spectrums.
In early November,
the U.S.
FCC
approved the free Use of
Airwaves to WiTEL
high-tech firms such as Google and
Microsoft. The empty TV spectrums that
will be converted into RF spectrums for
WiTEL Internet use. Users will be
identified by phone numbers and/or IP
addresses.
The RF-187
give-aways are transmitted by existing
DVB-TV antennas, which are sometimes
referred to as: 'White spectrums" or
"Wi-Fi on steroids." CLICK
FOR MORE WiTEL Organizations Get Free RF-
Spectrums.
Google, who just
entered the new generation of WiTEL
organizations with their new G1 WiTEL on
Sept 26th, ( Click
more about Google's World of WiTEL) --
will use the
'white spaces' between channels to go
online with their new Wireless
Telephone®©
devices.
106s - FCC
Approves the Sprint Deal, as it Buys Into
The World of the Wireless
Telephone® - The Clearwire
Merger -
What
make WiMax and WiFi so important in the
world of the Wireless Telephone®
-- and how will Sprint MONETIZE their
entry in the the WiMax 187 world of
antennas?
WiMax
is similar to Wi-Fi service found in
coffee shops, airports and many homes, but
it is more powerful and able to cover
whole cities, in some
cases.
CLICK FOR MORE SPRING
WiMax187
106s -
FCCSafetyAirwaves
Public
Safety Airwaves Up For Sale
2009
FCC
-- Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Kevin J. Martin proposed putting
a nationwide swath of public safety
airwavwes up for sale again after cutting
the minimum price by 42%. CLICK
FOR MORE STORY
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106ig
- P&A
Copyrights: Walt Disney.
Whose
Mouse Is It?
106ig- FCC
AUCTION $19-Billion Sales Chart -
2008
106ig- Government
/ Courts / Service Marks FCC
Library of Congress
106is - FCC
AUCTION RF300 Sales Chart - 2008.
"Sold" -- said the FCC auctioneer to
the highes bidders at the end of Round 129
- Friday, February 29,
2008.
The winners
walked away paying $19,555,473,900, for 62
MHz of RF-300 spectrums payable to the
U.S. government.
Without
Google, the spectrum auction might not
have attracted the minimum $4.6-Billion
bid required to trigger the openness
rules. But as reports come in, the
government was said to be happy with the
number $19.6 billion.
Some of the
airwaves spectrums abandoned by TV
stations as part of the February 2009
switch from analog to all-digital signals
will be part of VoIP network that will be
combined with land-lines to produce a
joint public - commercial network that
would give priority to police and
firefighters during emergencies.
But that
piece, called the D block, received only
one bid, for $472 million, far below the
$1.3- billion minimum. CLICK
FOR
MORE
106i-
FCC
AUCTION RF300 Sales Chart
Story
/ MORE
FCC STORY.
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106iiig -
Google
Orphan Book Scan Settlement
/
106iiig
- Library of Congress - OrphanBooks
-
106iiig- AnalogTV
To Digital - June 12th Regulatory RF
Seizure Completed
106iiis - Google
Orphan Book Scan
Settlement
106iii s- Debate
stirs over whether Apple should have
disclosed more about Steve Jobs' health |
Main | Celebrities mourn Michael Jackson's
death via
Twitter
-
Authors
Guild defends / MORE
STORY - Library
of Congress Orphan
Books
June
25, 2009 Authors Guild President Roy
Blount Jr. speaks out in favor of the
Google books settlement.
Credit:
The
Authors Guild, which hasn't said much
since last fall after it settled its
lawsuit with Google over the search
company's book scanning project, today
issued a statement defending the
settlement against recent criticism.
Specifically,
the letter by author and Guild President
Roy Blount Jr. addresses the topic of
orphan books, which are works that are
out-of-print and unclaimed by any
copyright holders. You can read the entire
letter here. CLICK
FOR MORE ORPHAN Book
STORY
106iiis
- June
12th 2009
-
U.S.A.
AnalogTV RF To Digital - Regulatory
Seizure Completed /
TVInews - NBS RF Analog Signal Ends June
12, 2009 -- 102 - Digital Signals Only.
Besides the inventors of the RF Wireless
Telephone, NB Stubblefield, Nikola
Tesla, the victims of World I and II, when
their valuable assets were were seized
without payment; Who else is complaining
about the Federal law that's replacing RF
analog transmiting signals with RF digital
ONLY -- on Feb. 18, 2009? MORE
June 12, 2009 STORY
106iiig "What
would happen if the Government, -
extended patent laws equal to copyright
laws?"
106iiig - TVI
Smart Clips - Today's Puzzle?
106cg Can
Patents be Extended like
Copyrights?
106iiis
"What would happen if the Government,
extended patent laws equal to
copyright laws?" 106government/tvismartclips06
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106iiis Can
Patents be extended like
copyrights
- If a 1902 Public Domain Copyright can be
extended by Congress -- Why can't Nathan
Stubblefield's 1888-1908 Patent be
extended? By Scott B. Stubblefield, Esq.
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106is - Ex-FBI
Agent Is Arrested in China Espionage
Case.
Officials say Katrina Leung, 49, was the
cause for his "stealing" the secret U.S.
documents. MORE STORY
Katrina Leung U.S. / China Spy Case Tossed
Out
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Lab Official Quits in Katrina FBI Spy
Probe / MORE katrinafbi - Disclosure
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In her spacious San Marino home,
decorated with Chinese paintings and art
objects, Katrina Leung held numerous
fund-raisers for politicians, including
former Mayor Richard Riordan and
Councilman John Ferraro.
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